Church-wide reformation includes rebaptizing, restructuring and recommitment to principles and covenants. First "home missionaries" introduced (precursor to ministering program).
27th I spent most of the day preparing my waggon & team to go
into the mountain to assist the poor saints who are in the snow & on
the road with hand Carts I also put up a new boiler to day
to make Beet Molasses. I met with President Grant & all the Mission-
aries at Brother F. D. Richards
President Grant said Elders Woodruff & F. D. Richards would preside
over the missionaries & direct them in their work
W. Woodruff called upon President Grant to pray who opened the meeting
by prayer. W. Woodruff then gave an account of the procedings
of the former missionaries & what course he thought we ought
to persue. J M Grant then said we should do as though there
was no missionaries before. I want you to go through this Territory
& I want you to do as God wants you go prepared for Battle when
it is nessary. Jirk men up by there names wake up the bishops &
all presiding officers & then the people. The Church at Grantsvill on
the 4th of July lifted up an independant flag organized themselves &
appointed a president which was Brother Coolley He came to me
to know if he should except it I told him I would not & If
he wanted to get into a scrape He might do it otherwise He had
better let it alone I told them to go back & preach the gospel to them
& tell them to clean up &c.
Now we want to know what all men
are doing through this Territory the people are dirty & filthy &
they want to reform in this thing. many do not treat their
children right but use them roughly now if a man has the spirit
of God he will use his Children well & treat them kindly
I can tell you that Children are very sensitive & the treatment
they meet with has a great Effect upon them we want to
see to that the people are imployed the reason why we prosper in
this city more than any other we labour. I went to Taylorsville
with Joseph Young and the people ware so dead & so bad that Brother
Joseph wanted to go home & not stop I told him I would not
go untill I converted that people & I staid untill I done it th[ey]
got the spirit of God before I left them I conquered the people
so at the city Bountiful I preached there untill the spirit stoped with
us for days but at first the bishop was asleep & when you go to a
place treat the people right get the spirit of God then you will
know all that is going on & when gyou go to a place preach to that
people dont get into Noah ark or into the city of Jerruselem
but just tell the people what you want them to do other remarks
were made by Brother Grant
F D Richards followed was glad to get home & when abroad was
in the preaching mood but not so much in this City but wished to
get into the spirit of it
President Grant wished all the Missionaries to meet at social Hall
on Friday night at the Theological Meeting
Daniel Spencer, James Furguson, Dan Jones E Elsworth Brother
Smith Vancott & D Grant all spoke in ther turn & spoke well
W Woodruff spoke upon the subject of Journal keeping & & wished
the people to do it
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Consequence of some who were in Authority not obeying Council but rather blocked up the way.
I spent most of the day preparing my waggon & team to go into the mountain to assist the poor saints who are in the snow & on the road with hand Carts
I met President Grant He told me that there had come an express from the 1st Hand Cart Company & that there was bad news they were Caught in a snow storm & dying vary fast I went with him to the presidents office & saw the messengers who were Gideon H. Gibs & Horace Newel they went out to meet the hand cart companies when they met the Hand cart company there had been some 25 death 20 were men they were caught in a snow storm & the people became Chilled would draw all day & die at night those who would dig a grave for ther brethren would die the same day there were 5 deaths the day before we met them. Ther were
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