Mormon History, Nov 14, 1847

[Brigham Young Sermon] Last 6 April I told you we should be back in fall. I am perfectly contented with the mission. I rejoice in it - Many of the saints are witnesses to what I told them in Nauvoo that I would lead them to a healthy country - it has been highly extolled. It is the will of the Lord for us to repair to the [-] - after traveling for months through grease, wood and sage - mountains and rocks terrain the place than [-] beautiful to me - it would require fifty tons of salt to supply the immigrants until they could get more - and would assist 10,000 their country is but fit for any but Mormons - the immigrants curse each other and come would return to the States if it were not for Leon? Of the Indians. It is the feelings of the Twelve that we vacate this place next spring and go on to the other side of the river - those who cant go west had better go over the river. This place shows the industry of the Latter-day Saints and I am glad of it - when we leave it, the lightning will strike it. Do you feel willing to leave your cottages here and vacate this place? -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [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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