bare feet, he received a bite on his left foot, it
was communicated to me, and I took accasion
to reprove him, and exhorted the brotherin never
to trifle with the promises of God, I told them
it was presumption for any one to provoke
a serpant to bite him, but if a man of God,
was accidentaly bitten by a poisonous serpant
he might have faith or his brotherin might
have faith for him so that the Lord whould
hear his prayer, and he might be healed, but
when a man designedly provokes a serpant to
bite him the principle is the same as when a
man drinks deadly poison knowing it to be
such, in that case no man has claim on
the promises of God to be healed. The citizens of
Clay County (to the number of eight hundred
or a thousand among whom were the brotherin)
assembled at the Court-house in Liberty agree
ably to the request of Judge Rayland in his
letter of the 10^th instant, where they met Judge Raynald
and a deputation from Jackson who presented
the following propositions of the people of Jackson
County to the Mormons,

The undersigned Committee being fully
authorized by the people of Jackson County,
hereby propose to the Mormons that they will

bare feet, he received a bite on his left foot, it was communicated to me, and I took accasion to reprove him, and exhorted the brotherin never to trifle with the promises of God, I told them it was presumption for any one to provoke a serpant to bite him, but if a man of God, was accidentaly bitten by a poisonous serpant he might have faith or his brotherin might have faith for him so that the Lord whould hear his prayer, and he might be healed, but when a man designedly provokes a serpant to bite him the principle is the same as when a man drinks deadly poison knowing it to be such, in that case no man has claim on the promises of God to be healed. The citizens of Clay County (to the number of eight hundred or a thousand among whom were the brotherin) assembled at the Court-house in Liberty agree ably to the request of Judge Rayland in his letter of the 10th instant, where they met Judge Raynald and a deputation from Jackson who presented the following propositions of the people of Jackson County to the Mormons,

The undersigned Committee being fully authorized by the people of Jackson County, hereby propose to the Mormons that they will