Re.: Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball, “Fourteenth General Epistle of the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to the Saints in the Valleys of the Mountains, and those scattered abroad throughout the Earth, greeting,” December 10, 1856:
Remember, brethren, that they are the remnants of Israel
and, although they may apparently continue for a time to waste away and sink deeper
and deeper into the depths of sin, misery and woe, that unto them pertain the
promises made to faithful Abraham, and they will be fulfilled. Be diligent,
therefore, to do them good, and seek in all of your intercourse with them to
bring them back to a knowledge of the Lord God of their fathers. Preserve yourselves
from their savage ferocity; never condescend to their level, but always seek to
elevate them to a higher, purer, and consequently, a more useful and
intelligent existence. (“Fourteenth General Epistle, December 1856,” in Settling
the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel: The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency,
ed. Reid L. Neilson and Nathan N. White [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017],
268)
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