Provo, Utah Co, Utah Territory June 30 1858 Brother Lyman Wight Your letter dated Mountain Valley Augt. 4 [18]57 has just arrived, it has been detained from us by the Army of the United States, and it has very fortunately survived the almost universal destruction of all our Mail matter, we regret that we could not have received your history in season for publication; a sketch which had been prepared you will see in the Deseret News, which is now published at

whichwhich appears to us to be evidently wanting, when you declared in Nauvoo that you would not turn your hand over to be one of the Twelve, and it seems to us impossible that you should forget the caution of the Lord in the Book of Covenants in June 1831 "let my servant Lyman Wight beware for Satan ^Brother Lyman^ desireth to sift him as chaff". Brother Lyman we ask you, to think for a moment of the great promises made to men in ^an^ the foundation of Jany 1841 who ...

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You complain that Orson Hyde, W. W. Phelps and T. B. Marsh have been received into the Church. Hyde and Phelps were received and endowed by Joseph Smith, and we have yet to learn that even you objected to it in his life time. Marsh lived upon [illegible] for [more] a sco[r]e of years, and finally wandered a miserable object of pity, poor, naked, destitute and disconsolate, and appeared befo[re] a congregation of 8000 Saints, and humbly asked them to forgive him, and let him at ...

and be filled with the power of God, and the fire of Zion burn in your bosom, until that time you will not be in a situation to build up Zion & defend her interests. We all feel interested in your welfare; you have no enemies here; the longer you stay away from us, the more alienated your feelings become; the Lord dwells in Zion; His Spirit and power is in our midst: He has delivered us and given us the victory up to the present day, and we acknowledge his hand in all these ...