22nd we spent the fore part of the day in the I took dinner with
the & Twelve & members of the Council I Attended the seventies
meeting in the evening Elder W. Woodruff &
[FIGURES] of the Twelve were present & a house full of the presidents of
the The first business that was Attended to was to
Bring up for Adultery He imphatically Denied it although
the testimony was strong against him. was in the
stand & he did not know twhat to do with him I bore it as long as I
could. I arose in the stand & said George P Stiles I am going to ask
you a question & if you are innocent you should proclaim your innocence
but if you are guilty dont you deny it before God the Holy Ghost & these
witnesses if you do the Judgments of God shall follow your footsteps
from this hour till you go to your Grave & from there to Hell {If I had felt the Spirit of God
I should have said that the man that stand on that [verily] that will follow you to your grave} He did not deny it
nor acknowledge it He was then Cut off from the Church. Elder O Hyde
spoke then I followed & the spirit & power of God rested upon me like a
Burning flame & so it did upon Brother Snow & Brother Richards as they spoke
& we all advised the first presidents of the seventies to go forward &
present a resignation of their Presidency to President & let
some men take the place who could magnify it. & said they would & spoke we had the spirit
& power of God rest upon us like fire shut up in our bones & revealed
many things unto us. I went & I did not feel like going to
bed I felt as though I wanted to set up & pray all night
