19th Sunday The people Assembled in a vast Body the
Twelve & Seventies were in their place. The meeting was opened
as usual by singing & Prayer was Addressed by
was followed By president
who informed the Saints the time had now come
to begin to prepare to build A & the people must pay
their tithing & He requested the presidents of evry Quorum
to take the names of evry member of their Quorum &
they should sign a paper & covenant to pay their tithing &
they who would not do it should be cut off from the
Church. The ground wants to be laid off for a Temple
& garden & materials prepared this season A font wants
to be built & the Endowments commence As soon as possible
those who went through the at know but
vary little about the endowments their was no time to learn
them & what little they did learn they have most of them
forgotton it many other interesting remarks were made
by the president And He called upon the congregation to raise
their right hand towards Heaven as A token & covenant
that they would help him build a Temple And it was one
unanimous vote. President next spoke & backed
up the testimony of president Young & spoke much to our
Edifycation He was followed by Elder who
spoke lengthy & to edifycation. After An intermission of one hour
the meeting was Addressed By & W. Woodruff
& the spirit of God rested upon us through the day And A referm
ation Appeared to present itself among all the saints At the close
of the meeting the Presidency & Twelve met in concil & herd all
the ordinances redad over that had been passed during the present
Legislature during the day presented A draft
or plan of the about to be built in the before the congregation if it is built
according to the plan it will be an ornament to the city
there was also about 30 others ordained to the seventies
today this two days meeting has been of much interest
to the saints in this place
