[Brigham Young Sermon] If you do not [-] the [-] you will have more losses than you have had. I say enclose a sufficient piece of land to sustain you - we don't know the Indians over there - they will kill a man for the sake of his clothes we came hundreds of miles with less feed that is here and you could have traveled faster than we did '- if you don't learn to be faithful and pray, you will have worse trouble than you have had - if you complain, contend and find fault with the officers you will have displeasure of the Almighty - until we get there perhaps you have? Always been strict - but you've got to be more so - for if one comes to borrow a chain or any thing else and does not return it, such things have got to be stopped - I have got to keep my word or else they will lose confidence in me - if you borrow be punctual and pay - carry it back at the time you promise - and not let the [-] have to run a mile or two after it - and let this be your motto - deal uprightly and do your duty, do all you can - the High Council will have a great difficulty - if one man cuts wood three or four days and hide? It. If you catch a man stealing - see what Moses did - if I catch a man stealing I'll kill him - some of the brethren went and cut down trees and left them in the road. I told another to go and remove that difficulty and build a house of it - if a man steals give him forty lashes save one, well put [-], and if he persists in it [-] him down - lay him away safely they are rigid laws - is there a man, woman or child on the earth who cannot avoid it? No, not one. They all can avoid it - there is not a hones man can live among the gentiles - we are going to a place by ourselves to carry out righteous principles - if we want others do right by you - so do my him - go on in peace - we don't want any complaints against you officers - I should be really happy to see better men that ourselves - we want you to travel ten or fifteen miles a day and in twenty days you will land in the valley - History can't give any account of 143 men traveling 1,100 miles with as much peace as we have done from Winter Quarters to Great Salt Lake City. Men are like percussion caps, be careful or they go off. -- Quaking Aspen Springs, Wyoming [Thomas Bullock Minutes, LJA; Thomas Bullock—LDS Church Reporter, 1844-56.C, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.; GCM, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..; 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), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
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