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Show 304 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. roof of my mouth, to no avail. Let the Lord extend the hand of benevolence to brother Walker, and he will make you do it by other means than exhortations given in mildness. This very same Indian Walker has a mission upon him, and I do not blame him for what he is now doing; he is helping me do the will of the Lord to this people, he is doing with a chastening rod what I have failed to accomplish with soft words, while I have been handing out my substance, feeding the hungry, comforting the sick. But this has no effect upon this people, at all, my counsel has not been heeded, so the Lord is making brother Walker an instrument to help me, and perhaps the means that he will use will/ have their due effect. Do you suppose I want to kill him ? No. I should be killing the very means that will make this people do what we wanted them to do years ago. There are hundreds of witnesses to bear testimony that I have counselled this people, from the beginning, what to do to save themselves, both temporally and spiritually. In one of our orders issued lately, the southern settlements were advised to send their surplus cattle to this valley. No quicker had the news reached them, than our ears were greeted with one continued whine, which meant, " We are afraid you want them." So we did, to take care of them for you. When Father Alfred was advised to adopt measures to secure themselves and their property, he replied," Oh, I do not think there is the least danger in the world; we are perfectly able to take care of our stock, and protect ourselves against the Indians." All right, I thought, let circumstances prove that. |