we mourn for the loss of our friends when they die but if
they die in the Lord they are better off than the living for they
have gained one victory which the living have not they are
beyound the reach of pain, sorrow, wicked men, devils, and
devlish spirits which we are not, for we are daily in the
midst of all the suffering that mortal man is heir to &
when will this suffering end, when we die & not before,
unless we should live untill Satan is bound but all must
pass through death. Yet I would be glad to live to assist in
binding Satan As to the Saints we are being worn out
according to the workd of the Lord we have been driven &
persecuted in such a manner that there are but few constit-
utions among us except such as are broaken to peaces &
ready to fall into the grave & we are burying up the Saints
vary fast whareever we go over four Hundred are laid
in the grave in this place & many in all places whare we
have stoped, but all of this pain, sorrow, death & affliction
will work to gether for the good of the Saints for these
things must needs Be in order to work out the purposes of
the Almighty & give the Saints there exhaltation and Glory in
the eternal world. the sectarian wourld with the knowledge
they have would if it was in their power sweep the fall
of man, death, pain, sorrow & Afflictions with all their
attendant evils into oblivion & caused man to have lived
eternally as he was before the fall that he might never
have seen death, But such a course would in the end have
been the greatest curse that could have been heaped upon man
for by so doing it would entirely have frustrated the design
of the Almighty in the creation of man & blocked up the way
for his exhaltation glory & greatness & the Lord understood
the subject so well before either the world or man was formed
that A Saviour was provided in the Lamb slain from before the
foundation of the world to redeem man from Eternal dead
so that by man paying the deabt of the fall by passing through
the temporal death, they recieve the power & glory of the
resurrection by Jesus Christ which gives them an Immortal
body which will recieve A far greater glory and power than
the mortal body ever could have obtained unto had it not
have been for the fall. And I suppose If I had power IWith
the limited Knowledge I have I should sweep from the midst
of this people sickness, pain, sorrow, poverty & persecution & mobings
I dont suppose I should ever have suffered this people to have
been driven at all by a mob but as the Lord knows so much
more than we do He has suffered it so to be & it is for a wise
purpose in God, it is for our good & will finally prove for
our exhaltation & glory in the eternal world, & gives us experi
ence in this life which we otherwise should not have had. "Adam
fell that men might be, men are that they may have Joy, but if
they knew no Joy they would have no sorrow, And if they did not
know misery they would not know happiness" [2 Nephi 2:23-25] for man must
experience one in order to comprehend & know the other Jesus
had to descend below all things in order to ascend above all things,
I am fully convinced that all our sorrows & troubles will work
out for us a far more exceding & eternal wait of glory, Hence we
ought nought to murmer or complain at our fate It is true
we mourn at the loss of friends but not as those without hope

we mourn for the loss of our friends when they die but if they die in the Lord they are better off than the living for they have gained one victory which the living have not they are beyound the reach of pain, sorrow, wicked men, devils, and devlish spirits which we are not, for we are daily in the midst of all the suffering that mortal man is heir to & when will this suffering end, when we die & not before, unless we should live untill Satan is bound but all must pass through death. Yet I would be glad to live to assist in binding Satan as to the Saints we are being worn out according to the word of the Lord we have been driven & persecuted in such a manner that there are but few constitutions among us except such as are broaken to peaces & ready to fall into the grave & we are burying up the Saints vary fast whareever we go over four hundred are laid in the grave in this place & many in all places whare we have stoped, but all of this pain, sorrow, death & affliction will work to gether for the good of the Saints for these things must needs be in order to work out the purposes of the Almighty & give the Saints there exhaltation and Glory in the Eternal World. the sectarian wourld with the knowledge they have would if it was in their power sweep the fall of man, death, pain, sorrow & afflictions with all their attendant evils into oblivion & caused man to have lived eternally as he was before the fall that he might never have seen death, but such a course would in the end have been the greatest curse that could have been heaped upon man for by so doing it would entirely have frustrated the design of the Almighty in the Creation of man & blocked up the way for his exhaltation glory & greatness & the Lord understood the subject so well before either the world or man was formed that a Saviour was provided in the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world to redeem man from Eternal dead so that by man paying the deabt of the fall by passing through the temporal death, they recieve the power & glory of the resurrection by Jesus Christ which gives them an Immortal body which will recieve a far greater glory and power than the mortal body ever could have obtained unto had it not have been for the fall. And I suppose If I had powerWith the limited Knowledge I have I should sweep from the midst of this people sickness, pain, sorrow, poverty & persecution & mobings I dont suppose I should ever have suffered this people to have been driven at all by a mob but as the Lord knows so much more than we do He has suffered it so to be & it is for a wise purpose in God, it is for our good & will finally prove for our exhaltation & glory in the eternal world, & gives us experi ence in this life which we otherwise should not have had. "Adam fell that men might be, men are that they may have Joy, but if they knew no Joy they would have no sorrow, and if they did not know misery they would not know happiness" for man must experience one in order to comprehend & know the other Jesus had to descend below all things in order to ascend above all things, I am fully convinced that all our sorrows & troubles will work out for us a far more exeeding & eternal wait of glory, hence we ought nought to murmer or complain at our fate. It is true we mourn at the loss of friends but not as those with out hope