se it we have the Head ake we cannot se that (yet it exist) because we are
in the body but if we were out of the body we could se it we should advanc[e]
in the phylosophy of eternal things and learn as we live when
we go to the House of feasting we go to feast our bodies when we go to the
house of mourning we mourn as it were in spirit and our minds
are called to serious truths but what would really be a case of
mourning it would be to follow a person to the grave who had not
improved their day of salvation had an oppertunity of being saved
& ehxalted & had neglected it that would be a case of mourning but
a person that had done the best they could & improved their oppor-
tunities of salvation we have no cause to mourn for such I would
say to the children dont mourn for your mother I would to God you was
as sure of salvation as your mother is If I was to mourn for any thing
in this case it would be because we have not more power to
cast the devil out of the house and out of the Neighborhood. Can we
realize that sister Rhodes is not dead she lives now more
than she did before it is the sinner that will die not the righteous
when the spirit of this woman left the body it was ushered into
a flood of light but her body is as any other clay but her spirit
is in open day she saw a little light in the body so as not to put her eye
out when she came to the full light

I wish to give a little counsel to the children here Brother Snow will
take charge of the place I want the children to go to school And
want an inventory of things here taken for the benefit of
Brother Rhodes & brother Snow both I request the children to do
as well as your mother has done according to the light you have &
I will warrant you salvation & eternal life & I would say
the same to all who are here but upon no other principle
can I warrant anybody salvation exsept upon the principle
of doing good & obeying the Lord do good to your families & to
each other. I want to say to all present there is no blame to be
attached to any of the sisters who waited upon Sister Rhodes they
have all done as well as they could for I have enquired into
the whole affair & her time had come to die & so will [yours]
in its turn.

February 13, 1853 ~ Sunday

13^th Sunday Meeting was Addressed in the morning By Brother Joseph
Young He spoke of the blessings of the people it was not wealth &
riches that made men happy but it was by having the truth & obey-
ing if this people are called a happy people well they are in a great
measure yet many of the saints have disappointment in their path
yet we should trust all our affairs in the hands of god we should
do right & follow the counsel of those that are set over us & carry
out their views & the blessing of God will attend us & we shall be happy

J. M. Grant followed and said he hoped all would
attend to their prayers it takes as much to damn a man as it
does to save him some wonder why we dont have revelation
now in our day as well as in the days of Joseph. in his day the bretn
would not build a log cabin till they went to Joseph to ask counsel
how they should set it whare they should put the door &c but at
the present day men have learned to do sumthing themselves without
troubling the president or the Lord about it some have thought if they
could get to Jackson Co Mo or in this valley they would be Holy & amdng [among]
a Holy people but I do not know of any soil that will make men

se it we have the Head ake we cannot se that (yet it exist) because we are in the body but if we were out of the body we could se it we should advance in the phylosophy of Eternal things and learn as we live when we go to the House of feasting we go to feast our bodies when we go to the house of mourning we mourn as it were in spirit and our minds are called to serious truths but what would really be a case of mourning it would be to follow a person to the grave who had not improved their day of salvation had an oppertunity of being saved & exhalted & had neglected it that would be a case of mourning but a person that had done the best they could & improved their opportunities of salvation we have no cause to mourn for such I would say to the children dont mourn for your mother I would to God you was as sure of salvation as your mother is If I was to mourn for any thing in this case it would be because we have not more power to cast the devil out of the house and out of the Neighborhood. Can we realize that sister Rhodes is not dead she lives now more than she did before it is the sinner that will die not the Righteous when the spirit of this woman left the body it was ushered into a flood of light but her body is as any other clay but her spirit is in open day she saw a little light in the body so as not to put her eye out when she came to the full light

I wish to give a little counsel to the children here Brother Snow will take charge of the place I want the children to go to school and want an inventory of things here taken for the benefit of Brother Rhodes & brother Snow both I request the children to do as well as your mother has done according to the light you have & I will warrant you salvation & Eternal life & I would say the same to all who are here but upon no other principle can I warrant anybody salvation exsept upon the principle of doing good & obeying the Lord do good to your families & to each other. I want to say to all present there is no blame to be attached to any of the sisters who waited upon Sister Rhodes they have all done as well as they could for I have enquired into the whole affair & her time had come to die & so will yours in its turn.

February 13, 1853 ~ Sunday

13th Sunday Meeting was addressed in the morning By Brother Joseph Young He spoke of the blessings of the people it was not wealth & riches that made men happy but it was by having the truth & obeying if this people are called a happy people well they are in a great measure yet many of the saints have disappointment in their path yet we should trust all our affairs in the hands of god we should do right & follow the counsel of those that are set over us & carry out their views & the blessing of God will attend us & we shall be happy

J. M. Grant followed and said he hoped all would attend to their prayers it takes as much to damn a man as it does to save him some wonder why we dont have revelation now in our day as well as in the days of Joseph. in his day the bretn would not build a log cabin till they went to Joseph to ask counsel how they should set it whare they should put the door &c but at the present day men have learned to do sumthing themselves without troubling the president or the Lord about it some have thought if they could get to Jackson Co Mo or in this valley they would be Holy & amdng and among a Holy people but I do not know of any soil that will make men