16th Sunday I met with wimy Quorum in the morning for prayer
I attended meeting at the preached in the Morning
in the afternoon followed by & all
spoke well. Brother Wells exhorted the people old & young to put away
the intoxicating cup & scease drinking as it was
intoxicating the brain and destroying their influence he made
a strong appeal to the mothers. He was Followed by President
Kimball who bore testimony to the truth of what D. H. Wells had
said. He also exhorted the people to be united & live their religion
President Young spoke of the sermon of J. D. Ross, who quoted
the scripture that sayes My "I have other sheep which are not of
this Fold &c" [3 Nephi 16:1] He says that is not a correct translation it should
read ["]I have other sheep of this fold" For there is but one Fold
& one shepherd. He allso said that no Elder understood all the first
[FIGURE] principles of the gospel if any man did he knew more than
he did. the gospel was like a cotton Factory or paper Mill a
person must understand the whole machinery in order to know how
cloth or paper is maide He also spoke of the said we
show [should] not have the Celestial law revealed to us untill we get into
the there is a Law belonging to every kingdom
what kingdom are we in, we are not even in a
then let us not talk about keeping a Celestial Law untill we get into
a Celestial Kingdom at least untill we can keep the Law of the gospel
while in a .
weI met with B. Young D. H. Wells ,
for prayers J. Taylor Prayed & G. A. Smith was mouth. L. Snow
& myself visited who has been quite sick he had an
ague shake which shook his system to peaces but we found him better
