The Nearer A Person Approaches The Lord,

Blessed Be The Memory Of Those Few Brethren Who Contended So Strenuously For Their Constitutional Rights And Religious Freedom, Against Such An Overwhelming Force Of Desperadoes!

Great Blessings Await Us At This Time, And Will Soon Be Poured Out Upon Us, If We Are Faithful In All Things, For We Are Even Entitled To Greater Spiritual Blessings Than They [the Faithful At The Time Of Christ] Were, Because They Had Christ In Person With Them, To Instruct Them In The Great Plan Of Salvation. His Personal Presence We Have Not, Therefore We Have Need Of Greater Faith.

I Told The Brethren That The Book Of Mormon Was The Most Correct Of Any Book On Earth, And The Keystone Of Our Religion, And A Man Would Get Nearer To God By Abiding By Its Precepts, Than By Any Other Book.

Come, All Ye Lovers Of Liberty, Break The Oppressor's Rod, Loose The Iron Grasp Of Mobocracy, And Bring To Condign Punishment All Those Who Trample Under Foot The Glorious Constitution And The People's Rights.

Nothing Is So Much Calculated To Lead People To Forsake Sin As To Take Them By The Hand And To Watch Over Them In Tenderness. When Persons Manifest The Least Kindness And Love To Me, O What Pow'r It Has Over My Mind.