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For I am determine to [thras[h] ]you untill you will do your Duty in this thing
if your Hearts are set upon your farm more than building up the kingdom
of God you have not the Spirit of your office & are in a dangerous position if all
would go to & be determined to build up the Kingdom of God all would soon be right for
God would pour out his Blessings untill there would not be room enough to recieve it

If any man says He will not Pay his tithing Let him go without but charge it
to him on Book & you will soon see that that man will go down. Many will say
even Bishop Hunter Here that I am not a financere & do not know how to Handle
temporal things but I will say that after I came to this vally our business
increased to that extent that we increased from one to a dozen clerks & I found that
the clerks would soon swallow up all the tithing, & I have now so many it
that 3 clerks do 4 times more business than a Dozen did a year ago &
what cost us $40,000 for clerk hire now costs us $2500. the Bishops
should be a business man & do his duty Regardless of all conseque[nce]s
some me[n] are afraid to do their Duty for fear they will Lose their influence
but a Bishop should do his duty without any regard to this & tell them
I do not care any thing about influ[enc]e but I want to know if you
are Doing your Duty go to Now & make out a schedule of ev[er]y mans
property & see that the tithing is paid. Bishops should appo[in]t teachers in all
their ward to visit each family & know clearly what every man is
doing & to Notify his bishop so He may be able to make a good report &
a true one a Bishop should be a Father to the ward & [cou]ncil there [illegible]
not want & let them to work & tell them what to do & not have Idlers
in your ward & there woman & girls that want to spend their time spinning should
years should be made to work or cut out of the ward. when any of the poor
are to be assisted the Bishop should know whether that woman is baking
bread buns a thick crust to be flung away or is making a Pudding
will waste one half of it when this is the case their food should
be stayed & untill their Belly is pinched enough so as to learn them to
be prudent

and a Bishop should know any strangers that comes into his ward & know
all that they are about. some Bishops will say O Brother you have not got
but Little I would not pay tithing I mean to live well & then if I have
any thing Els left then I will pay tithing

Love the truth and shun evil susan
C Woodruff
Love the truth and shun evil Susan C Woodruff
Love the truth and shun l evil Susan C Woodr-
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Love the truth and shun evil Susan C. Wood-
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