Minutes, 27 February 1835–A

Here is another important item. If you assemble from  time to time, and proceed to discuss important questions,  and pass decisions upon the same, and fail to note them  down, by & by you will be driven to straits, from which,  you will not be able to extricate yourselves. because  you may be in a situation not to bring your faith to  bear with sufficient perfection or power to obtain the desired  information, or perhaps, for neglecting to write these things, when  God revealed them, not esteeming them of sufficient worth  the spirit may withdraw and God may be angry, and here  is or was a vast knowledge of infinite importance, which  is now lost. What was the cause of this? It came in conse quence of Slothfulness, or a neglect to appoint a man to occupy  a few moments in writing all these decisions. Here let  me prophesy. The time will come, when, if you neglect to  do this thing, you will fall by the hands of unrighteous men.  Were you to be brought before the authorities, and, be accused  of any crime or Misdemeanor, and be as innocent as [p. 87]