under the Edict of Gov Boggs and the Missourians
had sworn that if all the other revelations of
Joseph Smith were fulfilled that should not be
as it had a day & date to it and they would see
that it should not be fulfilled. It almost seemed
as though the Lord having a foreknowledge of what
would take place had placed a day & date to
that revelation to see whether the Apostles would
obey that revelation at the risk of their lives
when the time drew near for the fulfillment of
this commandment of the Lord Brigham Young
being then president of the Twelve (As Thomas B.
Marsh had fallen) He called the Twelve together who
were then at Quency Illinois to see what our
Minds would be about going to Far West to
fulfill the revelation Father Joseph Smith the
patriarch and others who were present did not
think it wisdom for us to attempt it as our
lives would be at stake and thought the Lord
would take the will for the deed But when
president Young asked the Twelve what their feelings
were upon the sub[ject] [page torn] We all of us as in the voice

under the Edict of Gov Boggs and the Missourians had sworn that if all the other revelations of Joseph Smith were fulfilled that should not be as it had a day & date to it and they would see that it should not be fulfilled. It almost seemed as though the Lord having a foreknowledge of what would take place had placed a day & date to that revelation to see whether the Apostles would obey that revelation at the risk of their lives when the time drew near for the fulfillment of this commandment of the Lord Brigham Young being then president of the Twelve (As Thomas B. Marsh had fallen) He called the Twelve together into [illegible] then at Quency Illinois to see what our Minds would be about going to Far West to fulfill the revelation Father Joseph Smith the patriarch and others who were present did not think it wisdom for us to attempt it as our lives would be at stake and thought the Lord would take the will for the deed But when president Young asked the Twelve what their feelings were upon the subject page torn We all of us as in the voice