of the Gospel and united to them by that Spirit which binds the hearts
of the Saints together and seals them in the New and Everlasting Covenant
I felt towards them as a father and shepherd in the Church seperating
from his flock; and it was with a kindred spirit that the Saints and
Branches one after the other gave me their affectionate farewells and
invocations of the Lord's blessing upon me.

Elder July the 1st After preaching at a Mr David Criders myself and
Elder Smoot spent the night at the house of a Baptist Priest by name
Bradford. He was a predestinarian but what was more remarkable
he was also inclined to the faith of a Mr Hunt who claimed
to be Moses. I make record of this because others in these days
of false Christs and false prophets have put forth the extravagent
claim to be Moses the Prophet come again.

On the 14th of July wrote a letter to President O
Cowdery Kirtland, sent him nine subscribers for the Messenger
and Advocate and gave him an account of my proceedings

I rode to Col. Solomon Copeland's on the 19th where I
learnt that Elders David Patten and Warren Parrish had addressed
a letter to the Col., stating that the Sheriff and other officers of
Benton County, Ten. had issued a warrant against them
and myself. The crime alledged against us was that we had
taught that Christ would come in this generation and that we
said that some individuals would receive the Holy Ghost
in twenty-four hours. As I was absent I was not taken
but Elders Patten and Parrish were by an armed mob, in
reality, about fifty in number and bound under a bond
of two thousand dollars for their appearence in Court:
Brothers Seth Utley and Albert Petty were their bondsmen.

On the Tuesday following they appeared at Court to
plead their cause like St. Paul but were deprived of every
privilege which both the laws of God and man accord
Elder Parrish in some degree pled his own cause but no evidence
was allowed to be produced nor lawful hearing granted them
The judges decided this mock trial to suit the ungodly rabble and
condemned them without any cause or guilt being found in
them. And stranger still than this judicial farce was its
sequel. After condemning them they let them go clear though
the mob desired to beat them first but they were not
permitted this outrage.

August 2nd I took Jude the Beast that I had been riding

of the Gospel and united to them by that Spirit which binds the hearts of the Saints together and seals them in the New and Everlasting Covenant I felt towards them as a father and shepherd in the Church seperating from his flock; and it was with a kindred spirit that the Saints and Branches one after the other gave me their affectionate farewells and invocations of the Lord's blessing upon me.

July the 1st After preaching at a Mr David Criders myself and Elder Smoot spent the night at the house of a Baptist Priest by name Bradford. He was a predestinarian but what was more remarkable he was also inclined to the faith of a Mr Hunt who claimed to be Moses. I make record of this because others in these days of false Christs and false prophets have put forth the extravagent claim to be Moses the Prophet come again.

On the 14th of July wrote a letter to President O Cowdery Kirtland, sent him nine subscribers for the Messenger and Advocate and gave him an account of my proceedings

I rode to Col. Solomon Copeland's on the 19th where I learnt that Elders David Patten and Warren Parrish had addressed a letter to the Col., stating that the Sheriff and other officers of Benton County, Ten. had issued a warrant against them and myself. The crime alledged against us was that we had taught that Christ would come in this generation and that we said that some individuals would receive the Holy Ghost in twenty-four hours. As I was absent I was not taken but Elders Patten and Parrish were by an armed mob, in reality, about fifty in number and bound under a bond of two thousand dollars for their appearence in Court: Brothers Seth Utley and Albert Petty were their bondsmen.

On the Tuesday following they appeared at Court to plead their cause like St. Paul but were deprived of every privilege which both the laws of God and man accord Elder Parrish in some degree pled his own cause but no evidence was allowed to be produced nor lawful hearing granted them The judges decided this mock trial to suit the ungodly rabble and condemned them without any cause or guilt being found in them. And stranger still than this judicial farce was its sequel. After condemning them they let them go clear though the mob desired to beat them first but they were not permitted this outrage.

August 2nd I took Jude the Beast that I had been riding