[Brigham Young Sermon] Those who are to remain behind were called together this evening to receive some instruction from President Young relative to their duties '" I did not attend in time to hear it but arrived just as Bro. Bullock was reading to them a document containing rules for their guidance & conduct, in which they were exhorted to take care of their health, & not expose themselves to the cold & wet, as they had now, a good boat to use '" that they should build themselves a small house on a gentle eminence on the other side the river both to live in & to secure them & their effects from the Indians in case a war party should come this way. That they should attend strictly to their duty of ferrying over the emigrants & not be around hunting, etc., but implicitly obey the instructions given them by their captain or foreman, Thos. Grover. That in case that general emigration should cease, they were to return to Ft. John & there remain till their families came up in the next company that is expected on soon, & then come on with them to our place of destination. Bro. Eric Glines wished to stay here with them but finally gave up the idea as he was otherwise advised. In conclusion, President Young remarked to them that if they would obey the counsel given above, they should all be blessed '"for'", said he, '"I promise you that in the name of the Lord.'" -- Greasewood Creek, Wyoming [Horace K. Whitney Journal, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
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