Joseph Smith explains the need for all living and dead to receive saving ordinances.
Aug 11. I took the parting hand with these Saints and probably for the last time unless they flee to the land of
Zion We bid them farewell & walked to the north end of the Island via Br Crocketts & Merchants but the wrath
of my enemies is great towards me through this Island we called upon Mr James Crocket to convey us across
the thuroughfare to North Island but he partaking of the same spirit would not do it. But the Lord knowing
how to deliver his Saints put int in to the hearts of the sons of our enemies to bring a boat to carry us across
to the north Island. I went to Br Justus Ames & found them in a bad situation, they had been much tem-
pted and tryed because some of their children were against them & would not go with them to Zion
and so they gave it up themselves & concluded to stay in Babylon a while and resk the consequences his
children had a hard spirit but they will all see their folly when it is to late. I walked to Brother Stephen
Luce and spent the night distance 11 miles
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