27^th Sunday I attended meeting President Brigham Yg
preached & he presented some of the most interesting &
deepest principles ever presented to man on the earth
I had not paper & did not write them the following are
some of the items given in speaking of the privileges of this peop[le]
He said the people should first perform evry known duty
& not neglect them to enjoy any pleasure in speaking of
danceing he said when the saints were taken up with the
spirit of the fiddle & dancing & had not the spirit of God
they were wrong & in the wrong road a man should
never go to a dan[c]e to the neglect of other Duties neith
should he unless he could have the spirit of God as well
as in a prayer meeting. He said some Elders would
threaten to curse their wives if they did not obey him
because he had the priesthood He said the curses of such men
wer of no force & the women need have no fears of it
He said again some men had a desire to stick to the
work because it made them kings & priest so they could
sway a great septer & rule with a rod of Iron & damn men
here & curse them there &sc and had not in view the
principles of Justice Jud[g]ment mercy truth &c but they cou[l]d
not arise upon such principle even God himself should
He act upon this principle He would scease to be God for
the principls that sustain him & his Throne would
forsake him & he would scease to be God for light &
truth & evry other good principle cleaves unto itself

And these all sustain the throne of God & He sustains them
He & all righteous men love the truth for the truth sake
& embrace it & maintain it because it is just & true
not because it gives them power to rule with a rod of
Iron Some men want women sealed to them at the
same time they will steel my property I want such
men to go to Calafornia as soon as possible for they will
go to Hell any how who should have women sealed to
them those men who have proved to God Angels & man
that they are willing to do any thing that God requires of them
at the sacrafice of all their own private interest or
feelings & have been faithful all the day long such should
have women sealed to them for they will be saved. I ha[v]e
told the brethren that all good men might have this privilge
but they must be their own Judges if men ask for this
privilege & abuse it they sell their birth right like Esau they
cannot never regain it in all eternity men that have wom[en]
sealed to them & abuse them & turn them out doors & treat
lightly those sacred things given unto them it will prove a
curse unto them then beware O ye people how ye treat the thi[n]gs
of God that are committed unto you. for many will wake up
from an awful dream & find themselves wifeless & childless
in the morning of the resurrection who thought they had
possessions, for they will sceace to increase & when they
scease to increase they will decrease the diff[ere]n[c]e between Christ
& the devil is Christ will increase & the devil will decrese
untill Christ will have power to destroy death & him that
hath the power of death which is the devil yes the devil
will finally be destroyed & disorganized & will scease
to exhist as a devil & the elements of which he is composed will
go back into its mother element & the Devil will scease to be
& so will his Angels & evry thing that does not increase will
decreas untill it will be disorganzd & he expressed it as his
opinions that there were many who had a tabernacle on
Earth that would never have a resurrection many other
interesting remarks were made by the speaker