[Brigham Young Sermon] Attention, the Camp of Israel. We should have a stated number for guard all the route - and be faithful to their post - and ten sleep in the wagons in day time this evening call out a sufficient guard - and request all horses, mules, oxen and cows tied up - and use the utmost care possible - we must have faith, be humble reverence the Almighty and act in the name of the Savior all the way through - we have often heard of people being robbed by the Indians - all the influence that agents and missionaries and traders have is exercised over the Indians to our injury - the savages are not yet grafted in the olive tree. They are now as a withered branch before the Lord - those who have receive the work are puffed up and only assist us to benefit themselves, this is the first time we have been assembled together since our start - in our traveling and organization we shall have laws and regulations to protect ourselves and our property - we are driven from civilization, and people who call themselves Christians - we go as Abram of old '" where we stop we now know not, we want the brethren to cease every hard speech, levity, nonsense, and childish notions, and act as servants of God. Are we not capable of improvement? Are we not susceptible of receiving more intelligence? We shall arise at the sound of the horn. We shall pray at the sound of the horn - guards set at night - and the rest retire to their beds - we shall not travel on the Sabbath. We shall go so as to claim the blessings of the Almighty - we are hunted and driven by the civilized people and the savages of the wilderness, but we should go and build temples, and I shall labor diligently to see thousands of the elders of Israel go to preach to the world leave every thing behind - hand them over into the hands of the Lord - and then pray - come back to your families and embrace them with cheerfulness - I have information that word has gone to the Pawnee Indians to rob and plunder and I promise you in the name of Israel's God that the time will come that it will revert double upon their own heads. What they do against us tomorrow at seven or half past seven we want every man to be here - just as quick as we find a man will not attend to his duty, we shall punish him, severely, I had rather go alone that go along with a company of slothful, negligent, lazy people who will not pray or attend to their duties. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [General Church Minutes. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 1 (2002)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
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