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family, & the Church, not eat up what is, & then go to
California & dig gold. The higher a man gets in the, Priesthood,
the more he is the servant of God. Cant settle on a price of land,

keep the spirit of God,& be Saviours of men. We must save for
God says nothing shall be lost. We are only commenced. The
Prophet of God on whom the Angel descended would not give
things unto this people until they had the Spirit to receive it.
When we have power & wisdom we are then ready to go forward

& use it. All power in Heaven & on Earth was conferred on Jesus,
& he conferred it on his Apostles, & it is now on Earth,& related to
things both Spiritual & the temporal. A man who goes by Counsel
if he gets into trouble will have the sympathy & prayers of this
People. David had faith to obtain the promise that his Soul
should not be left in Hell, but not sufficient to get over it all.
God can overrule his decrees, if not so it might not be well with
us. Let us not make Covenants unless we intend to keep them.
I mean to keep those I made in the Temple, which, if not kept,
leaves a man liable to be disfellowshipped, & even to lose his life.
Elder O. Hyde, said he wished those who took things upon them
at the conference, to see whether they be carrying it out.they
had better attend it it. The council from the Valley is, that men
who go there, shall go determined to stay there,& not hunt gold.
I dont wish to Prophecy evil, but some will see the time when
they would prefer a loaf of bread to the same size of gold.Let
us build up the Kingdom of god, & then the treasures of gold
will be ours. The poor seek our Council, the rich do not, nor lay
their case before us. I will prophecy that if they had done so,
they would have been richer than they will be. Elder Stoddard
stated that there were six persons cut off from the Church by
the high council on yesterday. to wit Doctor George H. Hoyte,
Josiah Merritt, William F. Hickman, Sarah Van Alstine,
Silas Condit, & Milton F. Barlett. The quorum were requested
to return in ten minutes to transact business, & the general
meeting was then dismissed. The quorum met as requested,
Sung '' Go ye messengers &^c.''Minutes of the two last meetings
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