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 least dwel in
our midst; they did forgive him, and permitted him to be baptized, and he remains a member,
a living, palsied, limping spectacle of the fruits of apostacy, had you have been in the midst of
Zion, he would have asked you, as he did all the Saints, to forgive him.

You remind us that in Jackson C^o., in Zion's camp, and in Caldwell, you were
called upon to lead the Armies of Israel, when they were surrounded by their enemies, the
hosts of hell; the reason you was called upon was, you was at your post, then, you was there
in the midst of Israel, valiant in the testimony of Jesus and the defence of Israel; but when the
tremendous power of one great man James Buchanan goaded on by the clamor of the people, was hurling his legions
upon the Children of Zion, ^to crush from the Earth, the Priesthood;^ and when the nerve of every faint hearted member trembled to the center,
and the bloody war cry was reiterated from every corner of Christendom "wipe out Mormonism",
where was its old defender? was he in the midst of the trouble; was he the foremost to
defend the innocent; to lift the Standard of Zion; to face the monster; fearless, and
determined to encourage the Saints in the dread encounter? or was he reclining at his
ease in the sunny plains of the far famed Elysium of bliss, Texas, writing to me and
my Brethren the Twelve, as if in bitter irony "I thought you was too popular to think
of an old codger like me."

You was cut off from the Church in the latter part of 1848, the subject
was brought up on the receipt of a pamphlet which you published against the
Authorities of the Church.

Brother Lyman come home to Zion, mingle in our midst, confess
and forsake your sins, and do right, as we and all men have to do, in order to enjoy
the favor of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and have fellowship with the Saints,
then, and not 'till then, will your path be lit up so that you can walk in safety,

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 fauks for more a score of years, and finally wandered a miserable object of pity, poor, naked, destitute and disconsolate, and appeared before a congregation of 8000 Saints, and humbly asked them to forgive him, and let him at least dwel in our midst; they did forgive him, and permitted him to be baptized, and he remains a member, a living, palsied, limping spectacle of the fruits of apostacy, had you have been in the midst of Zion, he would have asked you, as he did all the Saints, to forgive him.

You remind us that in Jackson Co., in Zion's camp, and in Caldwell, you were called upon to lead the Armies of Israel, when they were surrounded by their enemies, the hosts of hell; the reason you was called upon was, you was at your post, then, you was there in the midst of Israel, valiant in the testimony of Jesus and the defence of Israel; but when the tremendous power of one great man James Buchanan goaded on by the clamor of the people, was hurling his legions upon the Children of Zion, to crush from the Earth, the Priesthood; and when the nerve of every faint hearted member trembled to the center, and the bloody war cry was reiterated from every corner of Christendom "wipe out Mormonism", where was its old defender? was he in the midst of the trouble; was he the foremost to defend the innocent; to lift the Standard of Zion; to face the monster; fearless, and determined to encourage the Saints in the dread encounter? or was he reclining at his ease in the sunny plains of the far famed Elysium of bliss, Texas, writing to me and my Brethren the Twelve, as if in bitter irony "I thought you was too popular to think of an old codger like me."

You was cut off from the Church in the latter part of 1848, the subject was brought up on the receipt of a pamphlet which you published against the Authorities of the Church.

Brother Lyman come home to Zion, mingle in our midst, confess and forsake your sins, and do right, as we and all men have to do, in order to enjoy the favor of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, and have fellowship with the Saints, then, and not 'till then, will your path be lit up so that you can walk in safety,