are men coming to him almost every day. They want labor but he has not any thing to pay them with. They come in here and are almost distracted because they have nothing to do. Shall we send our men away among the gentiles. Shall we send our women away to work for the gentiles? No. We have sent men to collect money means to carry on these works and it will come in here by thousands of dollars if we go on with them. God will help us if we stretch ourselves, but if we go to curtailing this work he will not do it.
Coun. said that the kingdom of heaven is compared to leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal untill the whole was leavened. This had always been referred to the priesthood but he could see no impropritey in comparing it to the subjects now [p. [178]]