<​December 1​> and will not repent shall be cast out.” The broad law of God is “Thou shalt not steal.” and thieves together with “liars and whoremongers” will eventually be found without the , with dogs and sorcerers. We need only say that if we find such characters engaged in their nefarious practices, whether in or out of the church, we shall take them up and deal with them according to the law of God, and man: and we wish the church to inform us of such delinquents, or the sin will lay at their own door. As there are gangs of robbers up and down this , from whom we have suffered much, having had many horses, cattle and other property stolen; we purpose instituting a police for the protection of our property, and the vigorous enforcement of the laws of our ; and should any, who call themselves Latter Day Saints, be found in their midst they will be cut off from the Church and handed over to the law of the land. We hope that what we have written may suffice, and take this opportunity of expressing our decided and unqualified disapprobation of any thing like theft, in all its bearings, as being calculated to destroy the peace of society, to injure the Church of Jesus Christ, to wound the character of the people of God, and to stamp with eternal infamy all [HC 4:465] who follow such diabolical practices; to blast their character on earth, and to consign them to eternal perdition.”