30 Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning, And attended
Meeting all day in the Bowery. Elders John Vancott H. S. Eldridge
Brigham Young Jr & John W Young spoke in the forenoon & Wm
C Stains, also spoke & in the Afternoon G. D. Watt & H C Kimball
spoke. I met with President Young, J. Taylor, C. C. Rich & F. D. Richards
Sunday
in the prayer circle. C. C. Rich was ^prayed^ Mouth & President Young
was Mouth. In the Evening I went down to see James Furguson
who was near his end, with hard drinking he wished me to
administer to him which I did he did not have any realizing
sens that he was going to die. I told hims family that he would not
live much past midnight He died about 1 oclok at night
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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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