Afternoon
meeting: Bp. Lorenzo D. Young expressed himself pleased to meet with the Saints
and complimented the people upon what they had accomplished. He felt that he
was honored to be associated with the Latter-day Saints in a work which was
foreseen by ancient Prophets and Apostles. Alluded the teachings receiving on
Tithing this morning and endorsed them. Spoke of the mercy of God to His
children, and the salvation which all will obtain except the sons of perdition.
Contrasted the condition and purposes of the world with those of the Latter-day
Saints—that while the Saints were trying to regenerate the human race, the
world are pulling down and trying to destroy that which God designs should be
built up. (James Godson Bleak, The Annals of the Southern Mission, November 1,
1872, in The Annals of the Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the
Settlement of Southern Utah, ed. Aaron McArthur and Reid L. Neilson [Salt Lake City:
Greg Kofford Books, 2019], 265)