27th [FIGURE] I wrote 23 Letters to of Monmouth Co N. J.
and Clark Co. V.a. concerning sheep
I spent the day in the reading letters I wrote 1 Letter to
of I met at Presidents
for A Meeting whare gaven an Account of the Death
of who was killed by riding down the mountain on a snow
slide on the 25th Jan 27 186[0] He would ^be^ 26 years old 29th Jan 1860 He was born
in He was Found with his face on the ground & feet doubled back over his head
Minutes of A meeting of the Twelve Presidents of Seventies
and others assembled in President Council Room at 6 oclok
Thare were Present, President Young President ( sick)
All of the Twelve except & who was sick
The Presidency of the Seventies Bishop & many others
A Hymn was sung O Happy Souls who pray Prayer By
President Young stated the object of the meeting was to convers
upon Doctrinal Points to see if we see alike & think alike I Pray
that we may have the spirit of God to rest upon us that our minds
may be upon the subject & that we may speak by the Holy spirit
He then called upon to read a sermon he read
it before the company a peace prepared for the press written by
upon the Godhead He claimed that it was the
atributes of God that He worshiped and not the person &
that He worshiped those Atributes whether He found them in
God, Jesus Christ , , The Apostles , Brigham
or in any body Els after the document was read President
Young then called upon the Twelve to express their feelings upon
the subject He called upon O Hyde to speak & he called upon
T to speak He spoke a short time No one knew at
the time (except the President & Carrington) who was the auth[or]
of the document read. Brother Taylor said he did not see
it in that light He worshiped a personage and not the Atributes
he thought God was Located and could not worship the Atributes
in any body. President Young then called a vote of the assembly
and said if you understand this to be a correct doctrin as here
written I wish you manifested it by saying yes No one spoke
President Young then said do I worship Atributes or the
dispenser of those Atributes I worship the Disspencer of those
of those atributes, and Not the Atributes. This is O Pratts sermon
prepared for the Press I do not want to have it published if it is
not right. Brother Orson worships the Atributes of God but not
God I worship not the Atributes but that God who holds and
dispenses if Eternity was full of atributes and No one to dispens
them they would not be worth a feather. Suppose an Angels comes
to us to Night with a message From God and he tels the angels
not to make himself known He comes to us with a message
