wants a gown that one a Bonnet the next one shoes & their children
clothing & one thinks she Has to do more than her part & this one will
not do what she should &c & the man has got to stand in the midst
of his family like a God in order to calm the troubled waters & safe
them. A man may Go to a ward meeting & preach & the power of God
is upon him he comes home he finds one woman scolding & freting
another one in tearess, another one complaining & the children
fighting & by the time he gets well in the midst of it hith [his] faith
courage & patience almost fails him, & he has to rise up in the majesty
of a God as it were & have Great wisdom faith & patience & exercise
much Generalship & show himself a master spirit & a savior & a
Fatherly care & kind ness in order to save his wives & children. Here
is a mission for you ye Elders of Israel. Look for instance at the example
of president Young go into his house & take lessons see him with his
great family of wives & children & se the God like character & exam-
ple of that man & the order which he manifests in his family I
tell you if it was not so you would see a stampede suddenly in that
House but He is a great master spirit & manifests great wisdom
in the perfect order of Government with his numerous family of
wives & children. they all respect him & obey his law for the wisdom
of God is with him. Now brethren strive to bring yourselves to the same
standard become a patriarch over your own Household & seek to
save them connected with order you have to become a financere
& you have to support your wives & children & you want to live
so that you can call upon God to increase your flock heards &
crops this brethren is the greater work which you have to prepare
your minds for almost any fool can go & preach the gospel but
it requires a vary wise man to be a patriarch & save his own
household. Many other interesting remarks were made which I
have not room here to record

W Woodruff followed & said I have been much instructed with the word
of Elder Snow his words are true as the gospel & I bear testimony of its truth
I am watching the spirits of men we come & meet with the seventies and
with all other Quorums of the Church from the 12 down & watch the spirits &
give instruction as the spirit dictates this is not ownly our right &but duty
Here is before me a vast body of 70^sSeventies the minds of this body of men
must be fed your presidents should be filled with the spirit & power of God
so that they can attend all the meetings & feed them & give unto them the
mind & will of God if they do not do this they will die & cannot stand
for the minds of these Seventies must be fed but many of them who
have been ordained into these Quorums have not prized the priesthood
which they have had sealed upon them. many times they have been so
anxious to go & attend to some trifling thing that they could not stop
long enough to be ordained at least as soon as the hands were off
they would run & not stop to give their genealogy many of the Elders
of this Church have trifled with the priesthood. there is now a
call made to gather up all the Elders priests Teachers & Deacons that are
^not^ esspecially ingaged as teachers with the Bishops to come forward & be
ordained into the seventies now it does appear to me that the Lesser
priesthood is necessary in the Church otherwise the Lord would not have
esstablished it. the Head cannot say to the feet we have no need of you
no more than the feet can say to the head we have no need of you. [1 Corinthians 12:21] almost
all the Lesser priesthood are striveing to become ordained into the seventies
while the bishops wish them to officiate in the Lesser priesthood. * see the star on the other page

wants a gown that one a Bonnet the next one shoes & their children clothing & one thinks she Has to do more than her part & this one will not do what she should &c & the man has got to stand in the midst of his family like a God in order to calm the troubled waters & safe them. A man may Go to a ward meeting & preach & the power of God is upon him he comes home he finds one woman scolding & freting another one in tears, another one complaining & the children fighting & by the time he gets well in the midst of it hith faith courage & patience almost fails him, & he has to rise up in the majesty of a God as it were & have Great wisdom faith & patience & exercise much Generalship & show himself a master spirit & a savior & a Fatherly care & kind ness in order to save his wives & children. Here is a mission for you ye Elders of Israel. Look for instance at the example of president Young go into his house & take lessons see him with his great family of wives & children & se the God like character & example of that man & the order which he manifests in his family I tell you if it was not so you would see a stampede suddenly in that House but He is a great master spirit & manifests great wisdom in the perfect order of Government with his numerous family of wives & children, they all respect him & obey his law for the wisdom of God is with him. Now brethren strive to bring yourselves to the same standard become a patriarch over your own Household & seek to save them connected with order you have to become a financere & you have to support your wives & children & you want to live so that you can call upon God to increase your flock heards & crops this brethren is the greater work which you have to prepare your minds for almost any fool can go & preach the gospel but it requires a vary wise man to be a patriarch & save his own household. Many other interesting remarks were made which I have not room here to record

W Woodruff followed & said I have been much instructed with the word of Elder Snow his words are true as the gospel & I bear testimony of its truth I am watching the spirits of men we come & meet with the seventies and with all other Quorums of the church from the 12 down & watch the spirits & give instruction as the spirit dictates this is not ownly our rightbut duty Here is before me a vast body ofseventies the minds of this body of men must be fed your presidents should be filled with the spirit & power of God so that they can attend all the meetings & feed them & give unto them the mind & will of God if they do not do this they will die & cannot stand for the minds of these seventies must be fed but many of them who have been ordained into these Quorms have not prized the prieshhood which they have had sealed upon them many times they have been so anxious to go & attend to some trifling thing that they could not stop long enough to be ordained at least as soon as the hands were off they would run & not stop to give their genealogy many of the Elders of this Church have trifled with the priesthood. there is now a call made to gather up all the Elders priests Teachers & Deacons that are not esspecially ingaged as teachers with the Bishops to come forward & be ordained into the seventies now it does appear to me that the Lesser priesthood is necessary in the church otherwise the Lord would not have esstablished it. the Headd cannot say to the feet we have no need of you no more than the feet can say to the head we have no need of you. almost all the Lesser priesthood are striveing to become ordained into the seventies while the bishops wish them to officiate in the Lesser priesthood. * see the star on the other page