Discourse 1863-04-18
Elder W. Woodruff said "you brethren have got
good counsel, in relation to keeping yourselves pure, yourselves
and from women, also from tobacco, drink &c. Get
journals & if not ink get a pencil, and begin to
keep a journal; write a little every day; it will
be worth gold to you some day, you will value it
highly and it will preserve history in this church.
We in the historian's office ransack creation to get
historical matter. Attend your prayers; read the
bible and our sacred books; show them from the
Bible their never was a church without apostles.
you shew it from the Bible. Look out for pick-
pockets, they steal your watch, and your purse
and you will never realize they have touched you.
change your paper money at New York for
Sovereigns. Have your meetings at night & in the morning.
