[Hosea Stout Diary] Tuesday Decr 15th 1846. Cut & drew wood as yesterday & regulated the guard in the evening and at six oclock went to a council at W. Richards house[.] This council was especially called for the benefit of the Bishops who were to make a report of their wards and show the situation that they were in but their reports were not accepted for want of form so they were returned & they instructed how to proceed[.] It appears from President Youngs teaching & the way he is bringing them to their duty that he is determined to have them do business right & not neglect their duty as has been the case too much in days gone by.
He also required of the Council & Bishops to see to getting an out fit for Br George & Joseph Herring the two Mohawks, which the council & Bishops agreed to do.
After the business of the council was over they requested President Young to give them some teaching and he said that unless this people humble themselves & quit their wickedness God would not give them much more teaching and they would continue to slide off & it would not be long before those who hold the Priesthood will be hunted by those who now call themselves saints
President Heber C Kimball also said that unless there was a reformation among us he was afraid that God would send a plague among us.
They both seemed to be well aware of the murmurings of some & the disposition of some to spread the Spirit of insubordination among the people & was also aware that there was danger of them some day trying to overthrow the present organization of the church and drive off the Twelve for said he "I want us to get up a reformation and have the Holy Ghost in our midst & not have the Twelve drove from our midst for if they were it would be the greatest curse that possibly can befall us"President Young said that all that had been said was true but all that will do as he says will be safe and all that will do their duty will be saved in the celestial kingdom. He said he did not care any thing about this people going over the Mountains for it matters not any thing about it[.] But to do the thing that God requires at this moment even to night is what he is ready to do and trust in God for the event.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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