The following are some of the important words
that flowed from Presidents Youngs lips as He
addressed the people and called upon them
loudly to repent He said you must stop your
swearing, you must stop your cheating, you must
stop your lying, you must stop your stealing
you must stop your Horedoms you must
stop your backbiteings, speaking evil of the
Twelve speaking evil of me, you must stop
these things & put away your wickedness
or you will be damned, you will be destroyed
you will be visited by pestilence and plague
and by the sword, and you will fall to the
ground And I warn you and fore warn
you of these things if you do not repent
yes councellors, High Priest and Elders
Here in the camp of Israel will say I will
de damned if I will pay my tithing or if
I will do this or that, if God was like man
He would Hurl you down to Hell & let
you lie and welter there a thousand
years and his mercy ownly keeps you out
there are many Here that are corrupt and
rotton at the core and I have no more
fellowship for them than I have for John C Bennett if I fellowship these
things it will drag me down to Hell with
you and I will not do it brother Joseph
being a vary merciful man bore with
these things untill it took his life but
I will not do it men get led away by
degrees untill the devil gets possession of
there tabernacle and they are led captive
at the will of the devil And now I say
that those who are calculating to continue
The following are some of the important words
that flowed from President Youngs lips as he
addressed the people and called upon them
loudly to repent he said you must stop your
swearing, you must stop your cheating, you must
stop your lying, you must stop your stealing
you must stop your horedoms you must
stop your back biteings, speaking evil of the
Twelve speaking evil of me, you must stop
these things & put away your wickedness
or you will be damned, you will be destroyed
you will be visited by pestilence and plague
and by the sword, and you will fall to the
ground and I warn you and fore warn
you of these things if you do not repent
yes councellors, High Priest and Elders
here in the Camp of Israel will say I will
de damned if I will pay my tithing or if
I will do this or that, if God was like man
He would hurl you down to Hell & let
you lie and welter there a thousand
years and his mercy ownly keeps you out
there are many here that are corrupt and
rotton at the core and I have no more
fellowship for them than I have for
John C Bennett if I fellowship these
things it will drag me down to Hell with
you and I will not do it brother Joseph
being a vary merciful man bore with
these things untill it took his life but
I will not do it men get led away by
degrees untill the devil gets possession of
there tabernacle and they are led captive
at the will of the devil and now I say
that those who are calculating to continue
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