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Letter to Orson Hyde, 7 April 1834
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assaying to be the church of Christ will not help us when they can do it without sacrifice with those blessings which God has bestowed upon them I proph[es]y I speak the truth I Lie not God shall take away their tallant and give it to those who have no tallant and shall prevent them from ever obtaining a place of reffuge or an in heritance upon the Land of Zion Therefore they may tarry for they might as well be overtaken where they are as to incur the displeasur of God and fall under his wrath by the wayside or to fall into the hands of a merciless mob where there is no God to deliver as salt that has lost its savour and is thenceforth god good for nothing but to be troden undr feet of men I therefor beseech you to conjure them in the name of the Lord by the Love of God to lend us a helping hand and if all this will not sof ten their hearts to administer to our necessity for Zion sake turn your back up on them and return speedily to Kirtland and the blood of Zion be upon their heads even as upon the heads of her enimies and let their rec compence be as the reccompence of her enemes for thus shall it come to pass saith the Lord of hosts who has the cattle upon a thousand hills who has put forth his Almyhty [Almighty] hand to bring to pass his strang[e] act and what man shall put forth his hand to steady the ark of God or be found turning a deaf ear to the voice of his servant God shall speak in due time and all will be declared amen
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JS, Frederick G. Williams, and Oliver Cowdery, letter, Kirtland, OH, to Orson Hyde, NY, 7 Apr. 1834; handwriting of Frederick G. Williams; in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 82–84; JS Collection, CHL.
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