[Brigham Young Sermon] I am the person that the lot falls on, but what to do first, or which way to begin I don't know. I want all the brethren to watch the business of this morning. Organize into a traveling body so as to have a military body if necessary, and have men to be watch, guards, etc. Shall we organize by hundreds, fifties, tens? We shall have three captains of fifties. Erastus Snow Journal. [President Young addressed the company on] the necessity of strict organization and standing strictly to our duties, and he promised them, moreover, that if they would abide his counsel and observe his directions, they should go safe, and they and their teams be preserved from the Indians and every enemy. -- 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)]
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