Sir, These Mormons <​are​> a go-ahead people, and he who woled [would] keep up with them must skip over many things, even, in observation. The prophet closed his millenium on the date of my last, not stopping to attend to all the little business, & minute affairs of the kingdom, but leaving them to the ;— The twelve apostles, or next big lions of the . There is nothing very peculiar about them <​these​> <​men,​> & you would not know them from any body else who behaved themselves well if you should happen to meet them; yet they seem to be a match for any thing when “Jo” is not p[r]esent, so These big lions <​,​> got together on the monday follo[w]ing the close of the millenium, & had a consultation with 6 or 800 — about having another day of probation, or having the old one prolonged for a Season, and it was quickly decided that there were many poor So in the course of a two days Souls yet ignorant of the truth,— and that it was necessay that they should have the gospel preached to them before the final end could come.

At it they went & <​Manafaturd [manufactured]​> a score or two of new Elders; not as many Soceities<​of the Sects​> make them, by schools & academies & colleges & Books <​& p[r]ofessors​> & 10 years study, <​at dead Languages​> <​No,​> but <​they [do?] it by​> by prayer & the . & by the power of the Holy Ghost, <​(​> as they term it,<​)​> and a man is ready for his business, & Elders thus made are [p. [1]]