[Brigham Young Sermon] President Young then remarked that we had proceeded thus far without much commanding or scolding & it would not be necessary, especially the scolding if all men were disposed to do right but it was necessary that the rules & regulations of the camp be observed strictly from this time forth & they should be read to the camp every 2 or 3 days & especially on Sundays but this is not the time for preaching but for doing & it [is] necessary for every man to be vigilant & seek his neighbors welfare as much as his own; it must be so in this camp, it must be so in the whole church & not a man would find admittance into the Kingdom of God who did not act upon this principle. it is necessary to carry this principle just so far as not to indulge people in negligence & idleness. some men, & there [are] those in this camp, who if you take care of their cattle & Teams, will sit down & do nothing'"but the time has come that if men violate the rules & regulations of the camp they must be punished, the captains of tens are required to organize their companies & see that no man leaves his Ten at any time unless he is directed to by their proper officers for if men will persist in straggling away from the camp with out orders they will be robbed and abused by the Indians, he required that the Captains keep with [their] companies & the men stay with their wagons or they would be chastised severely. he now asked if the camp would sanction this proposition when it [was] unanimously approved. -- Elm Creek, Nebraska [Norton Jacob Diary, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.. Also The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847, Ronald Barney, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. 125-126]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
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