[Brigham Young Sermon] Bro Young preached on various subjects relative to our going West. He said it had been said by many that it was not necessary to take so much provision this year' as last but said he' I should not feel willing to start with one pound less provision this year then those who went last year for their Crops were destroyed last year through carelessness and although they have got 2 thousand Acres plowed they have got no Fences. and what know we but they will be destroyed. I tell you I have no confidence in them that they will preserve their Crops. John Taylor himself would lay in bed and let his Cattle destroy his crops, and if they do watch the Indians might ride through and destroy it. for we know not but there are thousands of them in the Neighborhood He then said that a brother who had written back from the Valley said they had not left all the Thieves back in Winter Quarters. for some of them had found their way to the Valley. he then swore with up lifted hands. that a thief should not live in the Valley after he got there if he knew it for he would cut off their heads or be the means of having it done as the Lord lived. for they had tormented this People long enough. He then called upon Br McCord who had just returned from the Valley' to give some account of that place. which he did. said the Brother and Sisters were generally well had not had more than 10 deaths since they had been there and he thought they had Averaged 3 Births in a day. had gotten considerable wheat planted. and about 1500 Acres of land plowed. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [MRJ 211-12]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[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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