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Updated: June 20, 2025
In Brigham's own words: "The moment a person decides to leave this people, he is cut off from every object that is desirable in time or eternity. Every possession and object of affection will be taken from those who forsake the truth, and their identity will eventually cease."
Joel Rae had torn open the big blue envelope in a sudden fear, and now he read in Brigham's well-known script: "I was ancus to see more of your daughter, and would of kept her hear at my house if you had not hurried off. I will let you seal her to me when I come to Pine valle next, late this summer or after Oct. conference. If anything happens and I am to bisy will have you bring her hear.
The cut of Brigham's hair led me away from his personal description.
Joel Rae found himself believing that he could now have been a fiercer Lion of the Lord than Brigham was; for he would have fought, while Brigham was stooping to petty strategies as if God were needing to rely upon deceits. He was only a little appeased when, on going to Salt Lake City, he learned Brigham's intentions more fully.
"Let us not," he implored Brigham in a letter sent him from Echo Cañon, "be again dragooned into servile obedience to any one less than the Christ of God!" But Brigham's reply was an order to pass the new governor through Echo Cañon.
Brigham's reply had not lacked the point that sharpened most of his words. "Before we shall suffer what we have in times gone by we will burn and lay waste our improvements, and you will find the desert here again. There will not be left one building, nor one foot of lumber, nor a stick or tree or particle of grass or hay that will burn.
I have officiated in all the different branches, from the highest to the lowest. There were about forty men who attained to that rank in the Priesthood, including the twelve apostles and Brigham, and to them was intrusted the keeping of the records. I was the head clerk; Brother Richards was my assistant clerk. My office was in room number one, of Brigham's apartments.
The reception was overhot and they backed water, glad to get away. Richardson later wore a cloak to conceal his broken arm. These matters were kept a profound secret. I was in Brigham's office about this time.
Brigham's Saints would be down upon us and we would be wiped out in another shake of a lamb's tail. You know it. I know it. We all know it." His words carried conviction to listeners already convinced. What he had told them was old news. They had merely forgotten it in a flurry of excitement and desperate need. "Nobody will fight quicker for what is right than I will," father continued.
He thought of Brigham's home in the Lion House, the score or so of plain, elderly women, hard-working, simple-minded; the few favourites of his later years, women of sightlier exteriors; and he pictured the long dining-room, where, at three o'clock each afternoon, to the sound of a bell, these wives and half a hundred children marched in, while the Prophet sat benignantly at the head of the table and blessed the meal.
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