one do you ever consider or contemplate any thing
about the number of evil spirits that occupy the
Earth who are at war against God and Christ and
the saints of God and against all good & seek to destroy
all the Children of men in ery age of the world, let us
reason together a moment upon this subject, it may
be impossible for any man without derct revelation
from God to get to know the exact number but we
may approximate to wards it. The Lord has said by revel-
ation that Lucifer an Angel in authority rebelled against
God & drew away one third part of the Hosts of heaven that
were cast down to the Earth & the Heavens wept over him how
many were cast out of heaven down to the Earth [Doctrine and Covenants 29:36] [Revelation 12] We suppose
that the inhabitants of heaven here refered to were the spirits
of our Father in heaven who were to come down to the Earth &
tak[e] tabernacles on the Earth how many were there to come
down & take tabernacles this again may be sufficient to
take yet perhaps we may come near enough for purpose
it has generally been conceded that there is about 1000 000000
one thousand Million on the earth at a time though the late
statisticians make out fourteen hundred Million at the present
time but we will say 1000 000 000 one thousand Milloin

one do you ever consider or contemplate any thing about the number of evil spirits that occupy the Earth who are at war against God and Christ and the saints of God and against all good & seek to destroy all the Children of men in ery age of the world, let us reason together a moment upon this subject, it may be impossible for any man without derct revelation from God to get to know the exact number but we may approximate to wards it. The Lord has said by revelation that Lucifer an Angel in authority rebelled against God & drew away one third part of the Hosts of heaven that were cast down to the Earth & the Heavens wept over him how many were cast out of heaven down to the Earth We suppose that the inhabitants of heaven here refered to were the spirits of our Father in heaven who were to come down to the Earth & take tabernacles how many were there to come down & take tabernacles this again may be sufficient to take yet perhaps we may come near enough for purpose it has generally been conceded that there is about 1000 000000 one thousand Million on the earth at a time though the late statisticians make out fourteen hundred Million at the present time but we will say 1000 000 000 one thousand Milloin