Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845

said when the committees were appointed it was understood by him that they carry out the thing in full, and if they could not do it within themselves to get help where they could. He agreed with the in regard to preaching the gospel any longer to the gentiles. They have rejected the gospel, and severed from us every tie, and the greatest thing now before us is the western mission. He is in favor of stopping this side the for a time, or this side . He thinks this is the most important thing we can do except it is to finish the and the , and his feelings are for every man in this to give all he has to build the , and it would be his feelings to begin the immediately. We are abundantly able now to have the stone setters [p. [85]]