JS, Discourse, , Geauga Co., OH, early Dec. 1837. Featured version copied [ca. 1882] in Ezra Strong Jr., Notebook, ca. 1882–1884, pp. [51]–[53]; handwriting of Ezra Strong Jr.; CHL.
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the wheat. And of the Saints So living, that the teares seeing their good works; might be led to Glorify God. Joseph Said, “The duty of the Saints is to bind— to-gether Humanity. To throw round all the arm of Love. Not to be to zelous; fore “There is a way that seameth right unto man but the end thereof is death”. Many take the influence of zeal to be the Spirit of God, but it is not. The evol Spirits often decieve; and lead man astray. They are trying to divide the Saints.
But we are cal[le]d-upon to hunt for the one that is mising from the fold, whether Saint or Siner. And now Bretheren I wish to Say something about the and Noris [Moses Norris] Brothers [p. [52]]