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Show Ill person. If a people do the best they know how, they have the power to ask and receive, and no power can prevent it. And if the Lord wants me to make a mistake, I would as soon be mistaken as anything else if that will save the lives of the people and give us the victory. If you get such feelings in your hearts, think of what my conclusion on the subject is, and do not come to my office to ask me whether I am mistaken, for I want to tell you now, perhaps I am. This fascinating policy speech was closed by saying, "I have opened the subject and will now sit down and let others unfold a little more. My mind is too full this morning to come to close points. May God bless you. Amen." The meeting was a long one. Heber C. Kimball, Daniel H. Well, John Young, and Wilford Woodruff all took to the pulpit. Kimball said that in "ten days or two weeks he and his brethren would start a company for the desert, and told the brethren what course he intended to pursue. Apostle Woodruff chided the people for their lack of faith and obedience, blaming them for the reversal in policy: How often have we been told by those men who lead us that if we would live so as to see eye to eye, we should never be moved out of our inheritances. If this people had the light of Christ in them, and could see and understand, I know there would be faith enough to hold that army at bay. Just as long as our hearts are on our gold and silver, our farms and our possessions, just so long will the Almighty scourge us, until we learn the important lesson that our religion is supreme aver all things.... What is the value of our houses and lands compared to the Holy Priesthood and the Gospel of Jesus Christ? We are placed here, to maintain and establish the Kingdom of God, and with us it is that kingdom or nothing. This is the way I feel this morning.22 |