[Hosea Stout Diary] Monday Nov. the 23rd 1846. Drew a load of cotton-wood limbs for the horses. The bark of which is good food for them. If they have plenty of it they will not need more than half the amount of hay and corn and do as well.
This evening after regulating the guard as usual I went to the Council at H. S. Eldridges at Six oclock. This council was convened more particularly for the purpose of ascertaining who among them were willing to do their duty & stand in their place and magnify their calling and take their portion of the burden of the people off of the Twelve for this was their calling and duty & also to make some regulation about the disposition of Church property & find out what to dispose of and what not to &c.
President B. Young then taught & said that he did not study the revelations more than to get the spirit of the thing & he would look it up and when he varied from the written word we may say that he has lost the Spirit
He also taught the council to call the Bishops to an account and see that they also done their duty & for the council to lay plans to take care of the poor & see that the Bishops also did the same.and cause the poor to be put in a way to sustain themselves and not to make the rich hand out all they have. About the mill he said he had plans to pay every dollar of the expense of building it & it would do good for years to come to this people. Also that Major Harvey the Superintendant of indian affairs now contemplated building a fort at this place.
Also that this Council was not stationary & could not handle property of the Church only for present purposesthat Bishops Whitney & Miller was the lawful Trustees in Trust for the church in all the world & Wm Clayton was the Clerk.
That if we follow council it will not be long before we will have no poor among us and there would be thousands and tens of thousands to write, preach the gospel & build temples
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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