13th Sunday It is the most beautiful & warm weather that
[FIGURE] I ever saw in the winter time. The Camp of of the
Saints met at the stand for a meeting to day meeting opened
by singing, & prayer by W. Woodruff, the meeting was then
addressed by President then addressed the meeting
and said that he wanted to give an exhertation and a word of
caution and after reproving the saints said many flattered
themselves that they were going to lean upon others to save
them without doing any thing themselves but they will
get disappointed, for to bring up a figure he said you migh[t]
graft ever so many sproughts into a tree if they did not adhear
to the tree they would remain there dead sticks stick-
ing out of the tree they would be dead themselves, not
bring forth fruit, & do the tree no good but ownly scar
it up, & those scars would remain untill the dead sticks
were broakke off & the skcar healed over or other grafts
put in that would bring forth fruit. So it was with all
who leaned upon others to save them & would not
harken to their council & take their advice & no man
can save them if do not save themselves and many
other remarks of Interest he made.
then read the V chapter of Math V chapter of Math as he
had translated it from the greek
W Woodruff advised the people who were going to
settle on the east side of the not to settle on the
bank or in the bottoms so that the first flood need
not wash them into the Mo river.
Meeting was dismissed
after which in company with Mrs I went to
Br and soon Presidents & Kimball came
& attended to sealing four couple in matrimony, we had
a feast of spruice beer & cakes on the occasion
