and abroad among the nations of the earth amid the
Judgments of God which are laying waste the people & while
you have to dodge between wind & water to save your head
in the midst of persecution a[f]ter persecution & mobs while
you are offering salvation to the people. I have meditated
much of late concerning the responsibility we are to God
under to God inasmuch as we bear the priesthood & are
numbered among the Lords Anointed As Angels are
watching us & bearing a report of us daily to God should
the Lord come down to see us, to see for himself if the
report of [us] was correct, what would the Lord think of
us & how would we like to hear the record read in the morning
of the resurrection containing an account of An assembly
of the Lords Anointed At winter Quarters, upon whom
all heaven leaned & depended upon in carrying out the
purposes of the Lord in the Lord last dispensation & fulness
of times And fulfilling the epectations of Abraham, Isaac
& Jacob & all the Holy Prophets & Apostles since the world
began in gathering the Jews & rebuilding Jerrusalem gathering
the Saints & rebuilding up Zion preparing the way for the
endowment of the ten tribes of Israel in the north country
& the covertion of the Lamanites in the west, & the
warning of all the gentile world that they may be left
without excuse when the Judgments of God cleanse the earth
from sin, wickedness, & pollution, And that our prayers
should ascend into the heavens for the Lord to avenge the
Blood of the Prophet Joseph & other Saints who have been
martered & slain by gentile mobs in the last days, while
there is so much depending upon us & our prayers should
we be satisfyed with the record of this city of the Saints in the
eternal world kept by the Angels of Heaven If we should
hear read before an assembled world that the inhabitants
of winter Quarters who were the Lords Anointed during
the winter of 1847 & 8 spent nine days of their time
in fiddleing & dancing whare they did one in prayer &
praise to Almighty God, I say would we be satisfyed
with such record? No we would not, then let us turn from
such scenes of folly & spend more time in meetings
for preaching, exhortation, & prayer before the Lord
Br Joseph exhorted the Elders "not to defile their Priesthood."
I will here say If any man wants to feel the pangs of
Hell let him Have the Priesthood & let him have
immortal glory, eternal life, Thrones power domin-
ions exhaltations with all the blessings of Abraham,
Isaac & Jacob in view, then let him break the
law of God & defile his Priesthood And in a moment
He falls from his high esstate And all of his exhalted
hopes vanish in a moment & when his eyes are open
to see things as they are He sinks in darkness & wo
& the vary sight of the blessings which he has lost causes
A hotter Hell through his soul than fire and brimestone
many other remarks were made by the speaker After which
Br Cumings addressed the meetings & spoke of his mission to England
made some vary appropriate remarks after which the meeting closed

and abroad among the nations of the earth amid the Judgments of God which are laying waste the people & while you have to dodge between wind & water to save your head in the midst of persecution & mobs while you are offering salvation to the people. I have meditated much of late concerning the responsibility we are under to God inasmuch as we bear the priesthood & are numbered among the Lords Anointed as Angels are watching us & bearing a report of us daily to God should the Lord come down to see us to see for himself if the reports of us was correct, what would the Lord think of us & how would we like to hear the record read in the morning of the resurrection containing an account of an assembly of the Lords Anointed at Winter Quarters, upon whom all heaven leaned & depended upon in carrying out the purposes of the Lord in the last dispensation & fulness of times and fulfilling the expectations of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob & all the Holy Prophets & Apostles since the world began in gathering the Jews & rebuilding Jerrusalem gathering the saints &building up Zion preparing the way for the endowment of the ten tribes of Israel in the north country & the covertion of the Lamanites in the west, & the warning of all the gentile world that they may be left without excuse when the Judgments of God cleanse the earth from sin, wickedness, & pollution, and that our prayers should ascend into the heavens for the Lord to avenge the Blood of the Prophet Joseph & other saints who have been martered & slain by gentile mobs in the last days, while there is so much depending upon us & our prayers should we be satisfyed with the record of this city of the Saints in the eternal world kept by the Angels of Heaven If we should hear read before an assembled world that the inhabitants of Winter Quarters who were the Lords Anointed during the winter of 1847 & 8 spent nine days of their time in fiddleing & dancing whare they did one in prayer & praise to almighty God, I say would we be satisfyed with such record? No we would not, then let us turn from such seenes of folly & spend more time in meetings for preaching, exhortation, & prayer before the Lord Br Joseph exhorted the Elders "not to defile their Priesthood." I will here say If any man wants to feel the pangs of Hell let him have the Priesthood & let him have immortal glory, eternal life, Thrones power dominions, exhaltations with all the blessings of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob in view, then let him break the law of God & defile his Priesthood and in a moment he falls from his high esstate and all of his exhalted hopes vanish in a moment & when his eyes are open to see things as they are he sinks in darkness & wo & the vary sight of the blessings which he has lost causes a hotter Hell through his soul than fire and brimestone many other remarks were made by the speaker after which Br Cumings addressed the meetings & spoke of his mission to England made some vary appropriate remarks after which the meeting closed