Aug 5. Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning.
Prayed & was mouth. The subject was spoken off about
, & & their party overpowering the Poliece &
court one day during the past week. The
will take the matter up tomorrow.
President Preached in the forenoon a powerful discourse he spoke vary
plain with regard to the Gentiles. He followed Brother &
all of which spoke much to the of the people. I attended the
meeting in the afternoon & herd President Young deliver one of the most Edify-
ing discourses I ever herd in my life. His subject was "what are the
pleasures of life." He spoke of Eating & drinking as being two of the greatest
pleasurs of the worlding but that pleasure ownly lasts while he is swallowing
He nomanated the various pleasures and a person would soon be saciated in
any of them but if a man Enjoyed the spirit & , the
and the it was like a living well of water within him. He was
Happy all the time. I went home with President Young & took supper
with him. I also had a social conversation with . The Twelve
did not meet in the Prayer Circle as there were none of the Quorum
in the Except & myself & Brother Snow did not
come. In conversation with President Young He said in speaking of
the Twelve their business was to preach the gospel and they ought to be
abroad preaching
