[Brigham Young Sermon] The brethren were called into the circle. The Captains of tens called their men into rank. President Young enquired if every man was going to gad round the Fort on our arrival there without any regularity, or shall we go like respectable men?'- President Young said you have all seen all that is to be seen and I don't want 40, 100, or 5 men to get our horses that have been stolen. It will cost us something. It is not wisdom to take them by force. If they are Gentlemen at the Fort they will use their influence to get them for us and then enquired, Who is there that will obey your officers? and Who will revolt?'- I want you to do as you are told. I want the Officers to keep better order after leaving the Fort. I don't want a man to take his Gun to the right or left without orders. If my Council will be adhered to, we can travel 1000 years without any accident. Not one accident has occurred since we left Winter Quarters by the persons following our Council. When we lost our horses it was the only night that I did not go and see after the Guard. That night we had the Mail to make up, the Epistle to finish, my family, and provisions and changing teams to look after and then every Officer and every man went to sleep and it was every man take care of his own horses. E.T. Benson tied his own, all were perfectly unconcerned about it. Did I ever manifest such a Spirit? We are now going to the States, there are men now before me when they get to the States will turn round and damn B. Young, 1'm free from you now. If there is a man who has been wronged, now tell me of it, that I may rectify it. If there is another man that murmurs about the Guard, he shall take 39 lashes well put on and you shall carry the marks on your backs and I'll do it when I get to W. Quarters and you may run and tell of it and I ask no favors. John Crow is one of them that dams the orders and Benjamin Stewart is another. You shall receive civility and good treatment while you are with us, but keep your Slack until you get away from us and we'll feed you and tote your things you poor Devils you. I tell you would be made slaves of yet, you won't be worthy to black the shoes of those who you now curse. Monroe French lost his horses. Dr. Richards let him have his riding pony and Sharpe being sick, French won't let him ride. Now the Wagon and every thing else don't belong to him. Stop your growling and whining. G. R. Grant sings out going past a Wagon, why dam you, if you don't take care of that horse, I'll take it out of the harness. George, I know you did say so and I do know you took my Saddle without leave; the next morning I told Markham, take his horse and put it in the harness. If Grant refuses, show him his way. This was to learn him a lesson not to take any thing again without asking for it. Away with your snarlish and petulant Spirits; why take a course to make yourselves obnoxious? Never do it! Ingratiate your- selves with your superiors: be mild and learn to be ruled before you rule. Practice that which you know. It's our business to administer Salvation to the children of men. Now begin to go in order. Captains set the Examples yourselves. I say may the Lord bless you all... I feel to bless you in the name of the Lord. We are kicked and cuffed by our enemies. There are great and glorious things in store for the faithful and the Saints can see them by the Spirit. We have an eye on futurity after dissolution of our bodies, then is the time for man to enjoy; that's what we are Mormons for; all Creation is against us now, but all Israel will know who are their friends. They are now ignorant and dark-some, but we shall approximate to the Station from which we have fallen: even the Elders of Israel can swallow up all the religion in the world and yet they have not peeped into the things of futurity. There never was a Company of men on the face of the Earth from Enoch till now that have gone on as easily as we have. Moses could not find them even in Israel. There is nothing so obnoxious to an Holy Being as a nasty, little, petulant, fault finding Spirit. It has been said of old, all the world is a Goose and a man is a fool who has not some picking of the Feathers. I ask, can an honest man go and live in the world? No! They would fleece him of all he has. Every man must have benevolence and do as you would be done by and I know by the God of Abram, Isaac and Jacob that that people is destined to be rich. I never have put my hand to any thing since I've been in the Church but I've prospered. All the men in this Camp know more than they practice. Many manifest a heedless careless Spirit. Every man's interest is the temporal and spiritual salvation to the Four Quarters of the Earth. I have an interest for all of you. I want you all to have an interest one for another. No man was more sorry than I was when Joseph was taken away. The Savior and the Apostles were plagued with dishonest men same as we are. He then blest the brethren in the name of the Lord. -- Warm Spring, Wyoming [Pioneer Camp of the Saints, Journals of Thomas Bullock. Will Bagley, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. 292-295; 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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