Mormon History, Nov 19, 1848 (Council Meeting)

[Brigham Young Sermon] When we get a place where we can meet we shall have a great many meetings - we have been a mixed up people - we never could know a righteous man from an unrighteous - God - Angels men and devils all hail well met - I am going to separate them - my children shall not go with any, but true piety shall be the test - I look upon an extortioner very much like a thief - I mean to have a select circle - and those who are most righteous shall be there - and I would sooner sit on a dirt floor than on a carpeted floor of an unrighteous man. -- 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, 18-22]

[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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