14 Sunday at 8 oclok in the morning a large Assembly of
the saints assembled in the & the clerks spent 4 Hours
in reading the trash & nonsens of the publications of the day on
Mormonism the Heathen rage & the people imaging vain things
& the whole world seems exceding mad against the Latter Day Saints
the After noon was spent in preaching I Attended the prayer circle
the presidency & W. W. & of the Twelve were
present there was much confersation upon various subject President
said I shall not seal the people as I have done Old Father
brough[t] three young girls 12 & 13 years old I would not seal them
to them him they would not be equally yoked together. The devel can
get as many recommends as He can back many get their who are not worthy but this is the way devils are made there
will be some needed in the next world.
&
was sent out to obtain cattle to help pay a Church Debt in few
days they returned Little from the North & SouthHardy from the South their
was cattle gathered so the presidency paid sixteen thousand Dollars
debts with them. The subject of was brought up it
was said that Prophesied that He would become
a good man when He became an old man the brethren thought
that He said if He ever did become good it would be when was
an old man. President Young then said "whether Joseph
said it or not I will say in the name of the Lord that if Wm
Smith lives untill He is 65 or 70 years old He will become
a good humble man he will do the best He can He will have
to Answer for his sins" write this Brother Woodruff & put
it into the Church History" when a man give way to the power
of the Devil He finds it hard to recover himself again
If the {United States send their troops here} they will have to behave themselves {If
volunteers start to come here they will soon get notice not to enter this . If they do they must
take what follows. They do not know what to do with us. They are} determined to make
us conspicuous in all the world
President asked Brother if He had any thing He wished
to lay before that council brother Rich then said that concer[ni]ng
their debts in that place that they were paying 3 per cent per
Month for their mony had now got it for 2 1/2 per cent. they we have
Now reduced our debt to $20,000 & our city is released & all
good lands as fast as we pay we think we shall negociate a loan
of mor for less interest & nearer home. Their is a few men
in that place who have turned mob & is at the Head of it
I told them if they began it their should not be a man of them
left alive
