15 [FIGURE] Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning and attended
meeting at the . Preached upon the subject of
the Revelations of St John spoke of the sealed with seven seals, the
opening of the seals, the Blowing of the trumps, and pouring out of the plagues
upon the wicked. He was followed By President who said the
Book that John sayw in the Hands of the angel was the Book containing
the record of the Events of the children of men upon this Earth
the scribes keep a record in of the acts of men as they trans-
pire upon the & they will be Judged out of the Books. The Beasts
there spoken of By John were actual Beasts that were raised from
the dead A true speaks of things which are true they do not
prophesy falsly. "we shall see the of God poured out
upon the wicked untill it will make us weep He said many interesting
things and the & was upon him. Erastus
spoke in the afternoon also Elder . met at the
for Prayer President met with us
Prayed Lorenzo Snow was mouth at the close President
[FIGURE] Young said he had received over Eleven thousand dollars in gold
for the telegraph polls which he had set up, or delivered on the lines
He said I did not tuch that gold with my fingers or flesh untill it was
all paid in. I then put it in a vessel of water & clensed it and
said what words I wished over it I then delivered evry dime of
it over for tithing I have not used one farthing of it for my own
use. this is what I have done knowone knows any thing about it Except
my clerks and I dont want you to say any thing about it.
It has been said that we have sold tithing wheat to the armey we
have done no such thing. made a contract to let them
have some wheat. We loaned him some wheat, to Fill that contract which
he has paid. Again Mr made us a proposal that if we would
deliver our southern wheat at He would deliver as
much at the so Brother left his loads of wheat
there & Bell left the same amount at the tithing office for us you can
tell the people this & let them understand how it is. We then went
below into the when presented to the
President an Act to provide for calling a convention. President
Young said that is right and let the convention ask the General
Government to admid us as a state and if they dont do it tell
them that we will organize a state government and controll
if we do not do sumthing to head this military operation
they will afflict us the whole country will soon be a mil-
itary despotism. we must soon take care of ourselves we must
soon organize a government for ourselves and take care of
ourselves. I administered to the of who was in labor
