25 I was quite poorly this morning. I rode with the company
to Ogden, we had a meeting I attended it, it was A vary inter-
esting meeting. President Young spoke with great Plainness and
Power He called upon thHis councillors & the Twelve to wake up &
get rid of there selfishness & get the spirit of God & edify the
people He called upon the whole people to covenant with upli-
fted hands to Heaven to obey his council which we all did. He
told the people to go to & build graneries & continue to lay up grain
untill they had bread to last them seven years & not sell their
grain to any body untill they had done this & stop sending their
bread stuff to the gold mines & stop going to the gold mines to stay
at home & attend to there own business. Stop carrying grain to the
distilleries to be made into whiskey, stop making whiskey & stop
drinking whiskey, and if you will do this I promise you in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that you will suffer no famine
He made other interesting remarks. He said some opp[ose]d
our admission into the family of states upon the ground that we
would be uniting with a corrupt Body we would not be as
much united with them than as we are now we would then be
free from their govornor & Judges & be more Free than we
are now but we are the kingdom of God & I do not care
what they do about it
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President Young spoke with great Plainness and Power. He called upon thHis councillors & the Twelve to wake up & get rid of there selfishness & get the spirit of God & Edify the people He called upon the whole people to covenant with upli- fted hands to Heaven to obey his council which we all did.He told the people to go to & build graneries & continue to lay up grain untill they had bread to last them seven years & not sell their grain to any body untill they had done this & stop sending their bread stuff to the gold mines & stop going to the gold mines to stay at home & attend to there own business, stop carrying grain to the distilleries to be made into whiskey, stop making whiskey & stop drinking whiskey, and if you will do this I promise you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that you will suffer no famine
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