were rebellious to you I told them it was none of their Business
He asked if that would take away any of my glory I said No it will
not. If your wives are rebellious against you let them go away
if they want to it will not take away my glory for my wives to leave
me. If I do my Duty & do not have women that will obey me
I will go to heaven & the Lord will give me all that I want. I
would like to raise up a good Posterity on Earth if I could but
I dont want to fight in order to do it. many other remarks was
made which I have not written
4th I spent the day at home writing I wrote one Letter to Br
Covington. I met with the Regency at President Young's
room at candle light it held till 10 oclok the main subject
that was dwelt upon was the getting up of a first & 2nd Reader
for our children in this Territory. A committee of three
was appointed to get up those Books & present them to the board for
exceptance the committy were G. D. Watt Samuel Richards &
W Woodruff. we adjourned for one week
5th I walked down into the big field with Brother Whittle in the fore
part of the day & in the afternoon I met with the committee at
the Governors room we commenced upon the first reader
to
6th th & 9th I spent nearly all my time through this week till 9 or
10 oclok at night in President Youngs office in company with Brothers
Watt & Richards in making the manuscript for the first reader
to be published in the Deserett Alphabet. I spent some time in
searching other Books for matter to make up our Books with but
my mind was dark in that channel & the spirit that was upon
me lead me to make up our Books out of our one experience, travels
incidents, History, doctrin, & location mostly my mind was clear free
& open upon these subjects, & we commenced to write upon such subjects
as the Pioneers, Mormon Battalion, Salt Lake valley & Utah Territory
Griserly Bear & Buffalo Bull fights &c &c
10th Sunday A hard snow storm a great number of cattle
are dying through the Territory. the snow is two feet dep in
Davis & Webber counties. I attended meeting at the Tabernacle
and herd Elder Orson Pratt Preach to the people upon our
evry day duties. He thought the Saints ought to be more faithful
& interested in the spiritual things of the kingdom of
God. He said that Allan Huntington whowas appointed a
missionary to the Indians had been guilty of swareing a
great deal. He had herd him. it was then Moved & carried
that He be cut off from the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day sSaints it was carried unanimously. I
attended the prayer circle in the evening. the candidate ticket for
the convention was made out by the council. Arropene the Utah Chief
attended meeting & sat in the stand with me to day. Brother P. P. Pratt
said to me that He thought the three Nephites could not vary well visit
the Lamanites yet & tell them to believe what the Mormon Missionaries
told them lest there might be occasionally a bad man among them
who would sware as Huntington did or would take the advantage
of them in some way so that it would cause the Lamanites to loose
confidence even in the Holy Messengers
were rebellious to you I told them it was none of their Business He asked if that would take away any of my glory I said No it will not. If your wives are rebellious against you let them go away if they want to it will not take away my glory for my wives to leave me. If I do my Duty & do not have women that will obey me I will go to heaven & the Lord will give me all that I want. I would like to raise up a good Posterity on Earth if I could but I dont want to fight in order to do it. many other remarks was made which I have not written
4th I spent the day at home writing I wrote one Letter to Br [FIGURE] Covington I met with the Regency at President Young's Room at candle light it held till 10 oclok the main subject that was dwelt upon was the getting up of a first & 2nd Reader for our children in this Territory. A committee of three was appointed to get up those Books & present them to the board for exceptance the committy were G. D. Watt Samuel Richards & W Woodruff. we adjourned for one week
5th I walked down into the big field with Brother Whittle in the fore part of the day & in the afternoon I met with the committee at the Governors Room we commenced upon the first reader
to
6th 7th 8 & 9th I spent nearly all my time through this week till 9 or 10 oclok at night in President Youngs office in company with Brothers Watt & Richards in making the manuscript for the first Reader to be published in the Deserett Alphabet. I spent some time in searching other Books for matter to make up our Books with but my mind was dark in that channel & the spirit that was upon me lead me to make up our Books out of our one experience, travels incidents, History, doctrin & location mostly my mind was clear free & open upon these subjects, & we commenced to write upon such subjects as the Pioneers, Mormon Battalion, salt Lake valley & Utah Territory Griserly Bear & Buffalo Bull fights &c &c
10th Sunday A hard snow storm a great number of cattle are dying through the Territory. the snow is two feet dep in Davis & Webber counties. I attended meeting at the Tabernacle and herd Elder Orson Pratt Preach to the people upon our evry day duties. He thought the saints ought to be more faithful & interested in the spiritual things of the kingdom of God. He said that Allan Huntington whowas appointed a missionary to the Indians had been guilty of swareing a great deal. He had herd him. it was then Moved & carried that He be cut off from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints it was carried unanimously. I attended the prayer circle in the evening. the candidate ticket for the convention was made out by the council. Arropene the Utah Chief attended meeting & sat in the stand with me to day. Brother P. P. Pratt said to me that He thought the three Nephites could not vary well visit the Lamanites yet & tell them to believe what the Mormon Missionaries told them lest there might be occasionally a bad man among them who would sware as Huntington did or would take the advantage of them in some way so that it would cause the Lamanites to loose confidence even in the Holy Messengers
