we should keep the Sabbath it is not right to spend this day in Hunting cattle & labouring but should spend the time in the worship of God

President Young though feble addressed for a few moments and Informed the brethren [FIGURE] they must not work on Sunday that they would loose five times as much as they would gain by it & they must not hunt or fish on that day and there should not any man dwell among us who would not observe these roles

God having finished his work of Creation in six days, ceased or rested therefrom on the seventh, & set it apart for the more solemn worship of him self by men.

When Gods ancient people were fed with manna from Heaven, in the wilderness, they were told that a double portion would fall on the day previous to the Sabbath which should be gathered & that none should be gathered on the sabbath for the Sabbath was the LORDs. Exodus. 16.23

Thus it appears that the Sabbath was most sacredly re- garded, before the moral law was given from Sinai. But to mark the perpetual & universal obligation of the observance of the Sabbath, God proclaimed the law of it from Sinais wrote it in a table of stone, along with the rest which are allowed to be moral; Exodus XX 8-11 Injuntions to keep it & threatenings for the breach of it, are every where found in the law & the prophets. The Sabbath is therefore of universal obligation—

To honour his own resurrection, Jesus the LORD of the Sabbath, changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the First day of the week.

there is an alarming laxness among christians pro- fessors in keeping the christian Sabbath. O that we might all awake to righteousness, on this subject.

In some places the custom has arisen to consider it a fast to omit eating breakfast. This is not in accordance with the views and practice of the past. When fasts were observed in the early days, it was the rule to not partake of food from the previous day until af- ter the meeting in the afternoon of the fast day. In making donations to the poor also it has been the understanding that the food that would be necessary for the two meals should be donated to the poor, and as much more as those who are liberally inclined and have the means may feel disposed to give.

we feel led to say that if there should be sickness or any evil resting upon or threatening the people, these meetings furnish an excellent opportunity to bring such afflictions and troubles before the Lord. By approaching Him in the spirit of humil- ity and union, we can supplicate Him to remove these afflictions or evils from the individuals or from the people. Our past experience has proved to us how willing our Father in Heaven is to hear our cries in the hours of extremity and difficulty, when we approach Him in a proper spirit and with proper faith. He is quick to hear the cries of His people, and He has prom- ised us that if we will draw near unto Him, He will draw near unto us. Such occasions as these, therefore, ought to be taken advantage of by the afflicted, whether in an individual or in a collective capacity