[Brigham Young Sermon] Joseph said and declared that the presidency of high P. must be present to make those decisions legal - after a while the Lord told Joseph the president of stake could preside over high council, - and then the high council had to decide themselves - a bishop must be tried before a high council of stake - if he appeals to first presidency - and a righteous judgment has been given, he gains nothing - a bishop can try a case out of his own ward when you have trails have every thing minuted down, correct - no man has the keys of resurrection until he has passed through - if there is doctrine I can tell the brethren as straight as a chalk line - it is right of bishops to ordain their councilors. I want to see a spirit of punctuality not only of going to meeting but all business - there can be no frolicking, or stealing, without being found out by the bishop, if he is honest, they can fence in my wards - gather up the people and look after them - after harvest I don't want one bishop to apply to another bishop for assistance - get the food - the belly wont trust - we have not much sickness to contend with - every man will be noted who goes after gold - some will go there, and come back right - but many, we will have to support as to going east its wisdom to send word that those who cant come all the way, had better stay there - the more we bring here, the more they will oppress us - if the people will do as I tell them - if there is a curse come on us for not doing more I am the man to bear it - we have got to have supplies or we cant go - we had better send 10 or $20,000 to assist up the poor then send our teams - those who come can bring what we want and we pay them in grain. -- Salt Lake City [bishop must be tried before first presidency - (LDS Doctrine and Covenants.)]
[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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