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not but I will warn you that if you do not go to and raise
up means to assist in sending these Elders abroad and build up the
Kingdom of God The Lord will raise up other people to do the
work which you and this people are called to do. any man who
holds the priesthood of God that commits sin and does not
magnify that priesthood He will have to pay the penalty and He
cannot escape it. Now if the Bishops want to do their duty let
them go to work & raise means enough to help the poor Saints that
are going away. Orson Pratt, Erastus Snow are poor. Brother Bywater
& John L Smith & some others want some help to get away, and their
families will want help after they are gone and the Bishops must see
to them such men as Ormus Bates can take care of himself &
others can, but those who cannot must be provided for. you may
think that I am hard. But all I would ask would be for the Bishops
and this people to see the things of God & his Kingdom as I do. But
when I think of the situation of the Earth, and the price of the Earth
which is no less than the life & Blood of the Lamb of God, and when
I think what the cost will be of the neglect of this people, their
worldly mindedness and unbelif it causes me pain. what is the
cost it is this Jesus Christ the Son of God our Elder Brother is at the
door and wants to come in and take possession of the kingdom
and reign triumphant over his foes and you wont let him.
this people are shutting up every avenue so that Jesus Christ
cannot come to the Earth. Can you see what it costs. it makes
my heart ake (while in this part of his speach he walked the floor
and his voice was like the voice of God) "all I will ask of this people is
to see things as I do then they would act & not sleep. Now what
do the Bishops know about their wards or what is going on in
there wards Nothing. Let me ask a Bishop how many grog shops
have you in your wards I dont know How many Hore Houses I
dont know How many gambling shops &c I dont know, and so it
goes all through the Church sompe poor woman will call upon a Bishop
or some man upon business in the morning the Bishop says O dont trouble
me I must go to the canyon for wood I dont want to be trouble though
I am your Bishop. Bishops do not magnify there calling in thes things Now
many Bishops are there here to night out of the 20 wards in this city not many

13, 1860 not but I will warn you that if you do not go to and raise up means to assist in sending these Elders abroad and build up the Kingdom of God. The Lord will raise up other people to do the work which you and this people are called to do. any man who holds the priesthood of God that commits sin and does not magnify that priesthood He will have to pay the penalty and He cannot Escape it. Now if the Bishops want to do their duty let them go to work & raise means enough to help the poor Saints that are going away. Orson Pratt, Erastus Snow, are poor. Brother Bywater & John L Smith & some others want some help to get away, and their families will want help after they are gone and the Bishops must see to them such men as Ormus Bates can take care of himself & others can, but those who cannot must be provided for, you may think that I am hard. But all I would ask would be for the Bishops and this people to see the things of God & his Kingdom as I do. But when I think of the situation of the Earth, and the price of the Earth which is no less than the life & Blood of the Lamb of God, and when I think what the cost will be of the neglect of this people, their worldly mindedness and unbelif it causes me pain. what is the cost it is this Jesus Christ the Son of God our Elder Brother is at the door and wants to come in and take possession of the kingdom and reign triumphant over his foes and you wont let him, this people are shutting up every avenue so that Jesus Christ cannot come to the Earth. Can you see what it costs, it makes my heart ake (while in this part of his speach he walked the floor and his voice was like the voice of God) "all I will ask of this people is to see things as I do then they would act & not sleep. Now what do the Bishops know about their wards or what is going on in there wards Nothing. Let me ask a Bishop how many grog shops have you in your ward I dont know. How many Hore Houses I dont know. How many gambling shops &c I dont know, and so it goes all through the Church some poor woman will call upon a Bishop or some man upon business in the morning the Bishop says O dont trouble me I must go to the canyon for wood I dont want to be trouble though I am your Bishop. Bishops do not magnify there calling in thes things Now many Bishops are there here to night out of the 20 wards in this city not many