Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
and turn to wickedness. And while in council on the evening of the 15th
of December the High Council asked President Young for some teaching and
he arose and said that he had no teaching to give at present but to cry
repentance to the people and he would begin with the High Council
They must repent he said and the Camp of Israel must repent or the
Twelve would have to flee out of their midst and go to the Mountains
On the following Sunday I met with my
Ward the 14th for an organization according to the arrangement appointed
and I warned the people to repent before the Lord lest a scourge come
upon them. I was followed by Elders George A Smith and Orson
Pratt and brother Smith reproached the people for their treatment towards
me in not building me an habitation for the Winter as I had been
sick.
We were informed that there was to be a meeting at
the Stand so we dismissed ours and repared to the meeting place where
we found a large congregation assembled and President Young addressing
