28th I spent the forepart of the day in the giving
Endowments the evening I spent in the
[FIGURE] The present signs of the times show that we as a people
as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints & the
Kingdom of God are approaching the most important period &
Craices [crisis] that we have ever seen since the organization of the
Church, their is a solemnity & anxiety resting upon all Israel.
The Government of the United States have now entered the
field as our persecuters & are determined in their harts to destr-
oy us from off the Earth as far as it is in their power
The President & the of the Nation
containing 35000000 people have sent an of men
of numbering some 3000 armed with all instruments of
death to destroy us as a people they are now marching towards
us upon the plains & one or two month from this date must
decide the case with us whether we have to go out to war and
meet in deadly combat this winter or not. The Gentiles are vary
wicked & the cup of the United States as a Nation is full & they
are enemies to God & his kingdom & people they are determined
in their hearts that God & his Christ shall have no kingdom on
the Earth & they are now about to make war upon his
the time is at the door that will try mens souls the Lord has
