June 25 I spent the day in with the Twelve there being six of the quorum present. was one of the number, & a more humble & penitant man I never saw, & well he might be for
in the time of the persecution in Zion or , he deserted the cause, denyed the faith & betrayed
his brethren, & assisted (the presiden[t] of the Twelve Apostles) in jeperdizing the
lives of & his council & the whole church in Zion & the blood of the whole of them would
have been shed if they had not been spared by the immediate hand of God. Brother Hide for several
months past has had a deep scense of his high handed wickedness & the horrors of hell has roll'd
oer his soul even to the wasting of his flesh & he has now humbled himself in the dust desire
ing to return to the Church. The manner that O. Hide & T. B Marsh Jeopardized the Church
was by bearing fals testimony against the & the Church before the authorities of the
state of which was a leading cause of the calling out thirty thousand
of the Militia against the Church of Jesus Christ of & when the Militia came
out against the Church Col (an Elder in church & the one that led the Saints as
they went out to stand in their own defence) sold the presidency & the whole Church into the hands
of the Malitia which were determined on taking our lives. yea Hinkle proved one of the worst of
traitors that ever occupied a standing on earth yet the Lord deliverd his Saints & Blessed be his name
