Mormon History, Aug 19, 1849 (Afternoon)

[Brigham Young Sermon] If we every have a police these are the men - if we swell this body, all right - it is the duty of every individual to see what is going on - at every meeting and see every nook and corner and when a thing has to be done - go and do it without orders - because we live by the living oracles and others go by the dead letter - Horace is the Marshal - the deputies are nothing but the name the power is same as his - these men should set an example worthy of imitation - in word and action - and if not, they are not fit for a Marshal - they ought to have their eyes open and show themselves approved - be peace makers - your warrants and writs are always in your power. -- Salt Lake City [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.) 9-13-3, 83; General Church Minutes. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 1 (2002)]

[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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