21^st I met in council with the quorum of the Twelve we herd
the epistle read & corrected we then went into council with the
Presidency of the Seventies And Milo Andrews was brought up o[n] [page covered]
trial for Abusing his wife turning her away & marrying anoth[er] [page covered]
Br H. C. Kimball Addressed the council & said that He had been to
the mountains & got an endowment & felt it in his bones & w[ant] [page covered]
ed to talk a little, He said the day had come when iniquity coul[d] [page covered]
not be harboured in the Church, And men because they belong to my fa[mily] [page covered]
or Br Brigham Youngs family will not be screened in wickedness I w[o]- [page covered]
uld even turn over to the law of God sons out of my own loins if they
done wrong, will I suffer iniquity to go unpunished in others more th[an] [page covered]
in my own sons? I tell you nay. Br Andrews has been adopted into
family but let the law of God have its demand upon him if it takes hi[s] [page covered]
head off for A man had better ienter into life maimed than into
Hell with all his members. The Accusations Against Br Andrews
were then read some He Acknowledged to & some were proven
against him After which President Young Addressed the

meeting in an interesting manner & gave good teaching He said A
man by seeking that which did not belong to him would loose
that which He seemeth to have As in this case Br Andrews by
unlawfully marrying this woman is now left without any wife
there is no Elder in this Church [who has] any right to marry A woman to
a man who has A living wife, many men act like fools as soon as
they get an idea that women should obey their husbands & be passive in
their hands they will go to the woods & get a bundle of sticks & com-
mence whiping their wives to make them obey them in the first
place A Husband should be a righteous man A man of God & rule his
houshold in righteousness & govern his wife with kindness & love & not
with A rod, club, or his fist, his conduct to his wife should be such
that she will love him with all of her heart And He should pray to
God that his wife & children which are jewels given him might be
saved & not taken from him that not any thing need be lost which
the father hath given him. He said that many men through their con-
duct would have taken from them that which they had & given to another
He said that when A man had A jewel given to him he ought to prize it &
treasure it up & take good care of it & in process of time other jewels
might be given him of the Lord, but He should not undertake to
steal them for He could not keep them, And A man should not
be in a hurry to obtain any blessing or exhaltation that is not for
him & when he has proved himself faithful in all things before
God there is no good thing that will be withheld from him in
time or eternity & many other good instructions were given

President Joseph Young followed with interesting remarks
& gave it as his opinion that Br Andrews ought to be cut off from
the Church for Adultery, most of the quorum of the Twelve
spoke upon the subject Also the presidents of the Seventies After
which it was moved & carried that Milo Andrews be cut off
from the Church for Adultery. it was Also moved And carried
that the woman be cut off from the Church fromor Adultery. It
was moved & carried that they both be left in the hands of the
Presidents of the Seventies meeting then Adjurned And the
Twelve went into the recorders office & met in council