the people to sleep & to Hell you are guilty of some great sins either of commission
or omission have committed Adultery or some great sins & you ought to be
droped. Brother Harriman might preach a month then you might put it all
in the Eye of a cambrick Needle & there would be as much room in it as
there would be for a bulfrog in the Atlantic ocean. Albert P Rockwood if
you would preach the people to sleep then to Hell you are asleep dead, & guilty
of committing Adultery or some great sins there is no sap in you you are
as dry as an old musk rat skin & you ought to be droped. And Zerah Pulsipher
if He would preached the people to sleep & to Hell you are guilty of some
abominable sins of commission or omission of committing Adultery or some
great sins & ought to be droped & I will say the same of Benjamin Clapp
& H. S. Edldridge according to the presidents words they are asleep & ought
to be droped. I think that Brother Joseph ought to cut them off & prune
the trees around him how can the body be kept awake & Healthy when
the head is asleep & dead. It has been with great reluctance that I have
voted for the presidents of the seventies for a long time And I will say
to these seventies if your Presidents have gone to sleep dont you go to
sleep. but keep awake. If your Presidency have committed Adultery
& done wrong & committed great sins that will damn them dont you
do it but wake up. Is there any man that ins in that council that
has been ordained a councellor to Joseph Young if so I do not
know it but each man was ordained a president & is under as
much obligation as Joseph Young is to magnify his calling & do his
duty but they never think of such a thing of taking any burthen
upon their shoulders but leave it all for Joseph Young to do & he has to
drag them along when I vote for Rockwood, Pulsipher, Harriman & Levi Hancock I do it vary reluctantly, & I have done so for years &
now I want to have you to wake up & do yor duty. There is no life
spirit sap or Juce in Hancok, Harriman &pulsipher & Rockwood's preaching,
to more than there is in an old mummy. These are the kind of men
that are your presidents. And the seventies as a body are as dry & dead
as an old chip & you are as tight as the bark of a tree. It is the duty
of the seventies to sustain Brother Joseph Young to furnish him with
food fuel & rament that He may give himself to the work of the min-
istry who has esstablished the president to take men who were
in the battallion to be presidents I would take men who were full of
the Holy Ghost I do not care whare the Hell they come from. This
is what I want I say again the Presidents of the seventies are asleep
and if they do not wake up they should be cut off. He spoke in the power
of God & the gift of the Holy Ghost
Levi Hancok followed him & said He had not commit Adultery he never
courted any woman but his wife & she courted him. He justified himself
in a measure. He was followed by Benjamin Clap who said He had
not committed adultery & if he hag [had] gone to sleep he had done it since
he came here for he was not asleep when he came home. He intended
to serve God with all his heart & was willing to go through this territory
with his pack upon his back & preach the gospel. A. P. Rockwood received
the chastizement & ment to repent & go into the waters of Baptism as
soon as He got a chance
J. M. Grant asked me if I had not sumthing to say that the seventies
were under the Twelve. I told him I would like to bear testimony to
what He had said. I Arose & said to the people that I wished them
not to trifle with the teachings of President Grant for what He had
said was true he had shot arrows of the Almighty among the people
and if they did not wake up & take the warning & repent of there
the people to sleep & to Hell you are guilty of some great sins either of commission
or omission have committed Adultery or some great sins & you ought to be
droped. Brother Harriman might preach a month then you might put it all
in the Eye of a Cambrick Needle & there would be as much room in it as
there would be for a bulfrog in the Atlantic ocean. Albert P Rockwood if
you would preach the people to sleep then to Hell you are asleep dead, & guilty
of committing Adultery or some great sins there is no sap in you you are
as dry as an old musk rat skin & you ought to be droped. And Zerah Pulsipher
if He would preach the people to sleep & to Hell you are guilty of some
abominable sins of commission or omission of committing Adultery or some
great sins & ought to be droped & I will say the same of Benjamin Clapp
& H. S. Eldridge according to the presidents words they are asleep & ought
to be droped. I think that Brother Joseph ought to Cut them off & prune
the trees around him how can the body be kept awake & Healthy when
the head is asleep & dead. It has been with great reluctance that I have
voted for the presidents of the seventies for a long time And I will say
to these seventies if your Presidents have gone to sleep dont you go to
sleep. but keep awake. If your Presidency have committed Adultery
& done wrong & committed great sins that will damn them dont you
do it but wake up. Is there any man that is in that council that
has been ordained a councellor to Joseph Young if so I do not
know it but each man was ordained a president & is under as
much obligation as Joseph Young is to magnify his calling & do his
duty but they never think of such a thing of taking any burthen
upon their shoulders but leave it all for Joseph Young to do & he has to
drag them along when I vote for Rockwood, Pulsipher, Harriman &
Levi Hancock I do it vary reluctantly, & I have done so for years &
now I want to have you to wake up & do yor duty. There is no life
spirit sap or Juce in Hancok, Harriman pulsipher, & Rockwood's preaching,
to more than there is in an old mummy. These are the kind of men
that are your presidents. And the seventies as a body are as dry & dead
as an old chip & you are as tight as the bark of a tree. It is the duty
of the seventies to sustain Brother Joseph Young to furnish him with
food fuel & rament that He may give himself to the work of the ministry who has esstablished the president to take men who were
in the battalion to be presidents I would take men who were full of
the Holy Ghost I do not care whare the Hell they come from. This
is what I want I say again the Presidents of the seventies are asleep
and if they do not wake up they should be cut off. He spoke in the power
of God & the gift of the Holy Ghost
Levi Hancok followed him & said He had not commit Adultery he never
courted any woman but his wife & she courted him. He justified himself
in a measure. He was followed by Benjamin Clap who said He had
not committed adultery & if he had gone to sleep he had done it since
he came here for he was not asleep when he came home. He intended
to serve God with all his heart & was willing to go through this territory
with his pack upon his back & preach the gospel. A. P. Rockwood received
the chastizement & ment to repent & go into the waters of Baptism as
soon as He got a chance
J. M. Grant asked me if I had not sumthing to say that the seventies
were under the Twelve. I told him I would like to bear testimony to
what He had said. I Arose & said to the people that I wished them
not to trifle with the teachings of President Grant for what He had
said was true he had shot arrows of the Almighty among the people
and if they did not wake up & take the warning & repent of there
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