President Woodruff dear brother will you
please to al low me to ask you for a little
in formation con cerning one little item
the unpardnable sin brother is lazyness
the un pardnable sin dear brother why I
ask you this question is this Bishop Cottam
Bishop of fourth Ward st george sent me a
little less than two years ago to stay with
a man in his ward I went willingly done and
still as I am toled soon after I got to staying
with this man something toled me what my
deuty is here it is to study his ailments and
the causes of them I am a greeing with the
Priest hood of stgeorg when I say the causes
of his troubles ^is^ lazyness brother if this man
ever had a desire to work for salvation he has
lost it brother he will cry sometimes
like a whip child and he would like to get
out of his troubles he has been out of work so
long he has lost and looseing all his strength
it seams he has refused to obey the voice of
the Priest hood and has been checking his self from
work for if I remember right about twenty years
we hav offered him work and tried to get him
to show a will to work heis refuseing to try to work
am I justified when I tell him no man can stay
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with this people and refuse to work brother is lazyness
the unpardnable sin after we hav carried five hun
dred names threw the Temple in giving endower
ments and hav be long to the High Priest quorum
five or six years and this time give our
will and desire for work for salvation a
way will God with draw his spirit from us
I would be glad to receive an answer from you
on this is lazyness the unpardnable sin
no more at present from your
brother in the Gospel
Russell Chandler
Laziness is certainly unpardonable,
No man has any excuse for laziness; idlers
are forbidden by the Lord to eat the bread
of the laborer. We can hardly say
"laziness is the unpardonable sin." but
it will lead to it if persisted in long
enough. Laziness is a very grievous
Sin in Latter day saints especially
for they know (or should know,) better
than to be lazy, or idle. J. F. S.