"The Prophet's teaching of love"

was not to work upon the sympathies and sensibilities of the people But by his great example and self sacrifice and in showing us that while all the world were against us, our only hope was in our union, and that union was only possible as the fruit of our love. for Each other. and in teaching us the "Fatherhood of God & the Brotherhood of Man," we could begin to see why we should "love God supremely, and our Brother as ourselves." He taught us that God was the great head of human procreation was really & truly the father of both our Spirits & our Boddies; that we were but parts of a great whole, mutually & equally dependent upon each other, according to our conditions. and in our love of God we show as do the members of our Boddies, naturally a greater love and protection for our head. But this reasoning could not be fully understood by all, and as I have said before, in the infancy of the church, our minds and views ware <more> narrow, and we were more petulant, resentful and perhaps more vindictive then than now, that the principles of charity and love are seen to be the life spring and core principle of our gospel. and now that we see the temple of charity, union and love, reared above its foundation, once guarded by the "Nauvoo Legion," commanded by the Traitor, "Joab General in Israel," we are led to feel that those were the days of childhood's mistakes, yet all leading to great purposes as was the call of Judas to the apostleship. And we are as a people today, in wisdom, stature and power with God, just what we have grown to be through accumulating experience in the Father's care.