was intrusted with a verbal request to the Commanders of the to avoid all military display or any other movement calculated to produce excitement during the ’s visit. <​He was specially charged to use all the influence he possessed to have the brethren & friends of Joseph remain perfectly calm and quite <​quiet​> and bear every indignity that might be heaped upon them inasmuch as they respected the feelings and well being of their Prophet and ​>.

Said Joseph; “our lives have already become jeopardized by revealing the wicked and blood thirsty purposes of our enemies; and for the future we must cease to do so; all we have said about them is truth, but it is not always wise to relate such <​all the​> truth. Even Jesus the Son of God had to refrain from doing so, and to restrain his feelings many times for the safety of his own person <​himself​> and those of his followers, and had to conceal the righteous purposes of his heart in relation to many things pertaining to his father’s Kingdom. When quite a boy he had all the intelligence necessary to <​enable him to​> rule and govern the Kingdom of the Jews, and could reason with the wisest and most profound doctors

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