[Brigham Young Sermon] Keep still and I want you to hear - we want to look upon you and you upon us - since the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS never was a time of greater events and consequences than at this present moment, if you will open you eyes you may see the importance, the items that are to be laid before the conference are indispensable - we cant talk that you call all hear - we will show you the propriety of those tarrying here who are here - a many will go from this side - it must not be done to forsake the poor and needy - or we shall find a tide against us that will cause us to sink - we must recommend ourselves as a people to the Lord, we will show you the propriety - all voices exclaim we will do as you advise us to do - if we cant prove what we ask we will yield the point - but we require it in the name of the Lord God Almighty - or we shall cleanse our garments of your blood some as we have done of the nation that has driven you out - give us a chance and we will give you understanding but not according to the mind of men that is contracted - we don't expect to convince them - but we can enlighten the saints - if you will stop here Brother Pratt was going to give you a synopsis of our journey but it is so inconvenient and miserable that I would rather go and cut down a big tree and haul it myself. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [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..; Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-12-3, 155-156]
[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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