Joseph uttered the feelings of his soul in pain while viewing the poverty & afflictions of Ephraim or the Saints in Kirtland at least that fals brethren should be whited walls & bring perrils upon the Saints. Joseph is as a father to Ephraim & to all Israel in these last days, he mourns because of unbelief & the negligence manifest with ma ny who have receieved the gospel in obeying the commands of God he fears lest ^but^ few be left to receieve an inheritance. There is ...

May 14, 1837 ~ Sunday May 14th we wrote two Letters to our friends in the state of Maine May 23, 1837 ~ Tuesday 23rd Spent several of the Last weeks in labour- ing with my hands for Elder Joseph Young. Spent the fore part of this day in attending a Patriarch- al meeting I wrote a Patriarchal Blessing for Brother Henry Harmon May 25, 1837 ~ Thursday ^25th I comenced boarding with Elder

By this we see he put the people on their guard, that they be not deceived by usurpers. Yet we know L. D. S. who have accepted and published to the broad world, Revelations from men that had no more right to get or give reve- lations than Ben Butler or Gen. Sheridan, yet these saints feast on the false tales of usurpers, and call it good. As many as four times during his ministry, he called the attention of his people to his death, and the appointing of another in his stead. In 1830 ...

I cannot help reflecting upon by gone times when I hear of the enemys surrounding you. When the enemy was prowling around Jackson Co I was ever called upon to take the lead in quelling insurrections and when Barukale called upon the strength of the Lords house and 200 men turned out I was ordered to take the command of the same and done so. And again when the mob militia infested Far West they sent 35 mile for me in the dead of the night by this means I ...

the marriage carrimony was performed by Frederick G Williams ^Esqr^ and we were blessed by the Patriarch Joseph Smith sen The Prophet Joseph was expecting to marry us but his life was sought by a mob and he had to flee from his house and hide himself us his house was guarded day and night by his brethren Elder Johnathan Homes was married at the same time to Mariet Carter daughter of John S Carter On the 15 of April I ...

Sunday April the 9th I attended service in the House of the Lord. In the afternoon Elders Heber C. Kimble^all^ and Orson Pratt was followed by Sidney Rigdon. He laid before them their situation as to temporal things said that the Gentiles were besieging the Saints and would gladly starve them to death; that the Presidency had used every means for the deliverance of the Church; but that as many of the Church had refused Kirtland currency which was designed for our ...