OCR Text |
Show 314 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. ed and perhaps so much that yon will not know what to with it. I know what yon ought to do with it; you ought to say to your poor brethren-" Come and help take care of my grain, and share with me, and feed yourselves and your families. " If you have so much that you cannot take care of it, and your neighbor is not without bread, tell Bishop Hunter that you have got so many hundred bushels to lay over in the store, and you will have the benefit of it on your tithing. That is what I recommend you to do with your blessings, when you have more than you can take care of yourselves. I say, hand it over and let your neighbors take care of it for you. This makes me think of what I saw the first year#I came into this valley, the same year I moved my family, which was the next season after the pioneers arrived here. It was late in the season when I arrived, but from the ground where this house now stands, there had been two crops of wheat. They had harvested the first crop very early, and the water being flooded over, it again started from the roots, and produced a fair crop, say from ten to twelve bushels to the acre. That was harvested, and it was coming up again. I said to the brethren, " Let these my brethren who have come with me gather up this wheat," but they would not suffer them to do it. Some of the brethren had gathered their crops of grain, and left a great deal wasting on the fields, I said, "Let the poor brethren, who have come in from abroad, glean in your fields." You can bear me witness that a great many widows and poor men came here, and brought but very little with them, and there never was a man, to my knowledge, ever expressed a desire to let them glean in his field. " All right, " I said, " we |