President Brigham Young preached & he presented some of the most interesting & deepest principles ever presented to man on the earth. ...
In speaking of the privileges of this people He said the people should first perform evry known duty & not neglect them to enjoy any pleasure.
In speaking of danceing he said when the saints were taken up with the spirit of the fiddle & dancing & had not the spirit of God they were wrong & in the wrong road. A man should never go to a dance to the neglect of other Duties neither should he unless he Could have the spirit of God as well as in a prayer meeting.
He said some Elders would threaten to curse their wives if they did not obey him because he had the priesthood. He said the Curses of such men wer of no force & the women need have no fears of it.
He said again some men had a desire to stick to the work because it made them kings & priest so they Could sway a great septer & rule with a rod of Iron & damn men here & curse them there &c and had not in view the principles of Justice Jud[ge]ment mercy truth &c but they can not arise upon such principle. Even God himself should He act upon this principle He would scease to be God ...
Some men want women sealed to them at the same time they will steal my property. I want such men to go to Calafornia as soon as possible for they will go to Hell any how.
Who should have women sealed to them? Those men who have proved to God Angels & m[a/e?]n that they are willing to do any thing that God requires of them ... Men that have women sealed to them & abuse them & turn them out doors & treat lightly those sacred things given unto them it will prove a Curse unto them. ...
The difference between Christ & the devil is Christ will increase & the devil will decrase untill Christ will have power to destroy death & him that hath the power of death which is the devil. Yes the devil will finally be destroyed & disorganized & will scease to exhist as a devil & the Elements of which he is composed will go back into its mother Element ...
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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