in the wilderness. If we do not carry out the
plan Joseph has laid and the pattern he has given
for us to work by we cannot get any further
endowment I want it to sink deep into your heart
that you may remember it. I repeat it, let me
reason with you. If you stir up the flame of dissent
will you get an endowment No, you get a party
to run here and another there, and divide our
strength, and weaken our hands and we will be
left and our enemies will flock around us and destroy
us in that case you will not get your endowment
but will sink and not rise, go to hell and not to
the bosom of Abraham. do the people leave here
because they are afraid? what are you cowards?
do you fear those that have power to kill the body?
and have no other power more than him that has
power to cast both soul and body in hell. If you
leave this place for fear of the mob before God
tells you to go you will have no place of rest
but you will flee from place to place and go
like the jews, untill God raises up some other
people to redeem you, for if the devil scares
you from this place he will scare you from
all other places. Let no man go from this place
but the pine country brethren but stay here, sow
plant, build, put your plow shares into the prairies
one plow share will do more to drive off the mob
than two guns. let us stay here with ^where^ the bones
of Joseph and Hiram Samuel ^Don^ Carloss and father
Smith, ^are^ Joseph has said if I ^&c^ am slain in battle
or fall any way I want my body laind in Nauvoo
I had rather have the dead body of the prophet
than some men who are alive, and I should rather
have the clothes of the prophet stuffed with straw
for President ^of the U S^ than any man whose name is now
before the nation for a candidate, for he would

in the wilderness. If we do not carry out the plan Joseph has laid and the pattern he has given for us to work by we cannot get any further endowment I want it to sink deep into your heart that you may remember it. I repeat it, let me reason with you. If you stir up the flame of dissent will you get an endowment No, you get a party to run here and another there, and divide our strength, and weaken our hands and we will be left and our enemies will flock around us and destroy us in that case you will not get your endowment but will sink and not rise go to hell and not to the bosom of Abraham. do the people leave here because they are afraid? are you Cowards,? do you fear those that have power to kill the body and have no other power more than him that has power to cast both soul and body in hell. If you leave this place for fear of the mob before God tells you to go you will have no place of rest but you will flee from place to place and go like the jews untill God raises up some other people to redeem you for if the devil scares you from this place he will scare you from all other places. Let no man go from this place but the pine country brethren but stay here, sow plant, build, put your plow shares into the prairie one plow share will do more to drive off the mob than two guns. let us stay here where the bones of Joseph and Hiram Samuel Don Carloss and father Smith are, Joseph has said if I am slain in battle or fall any way I want my body lain in Nauvoo I had rather have the dead body of the prophet than some men who are alive, and I should rather have the clothes of the prophet stuffed with straw for President of the US than any man whose name is now before the nation for a candidate for he would