The Missourians are untiring in their persecutions of Joseph and the Church; but their wicked plots & designs are always baffled & frustrated, and it inposes them tenfold more to the execrations of an insulted community and when they are ripe in iniquity, and their cut is full; Then wrath will come upon them to the uttermost, and terrible vengeance will not linger nor slumber & the day is not far off. Several relations of great utility & uncommon interest have been lately communicated to Joseph & the Church; but where you all are you cannot obey them; one is, that all Marriage contracts, or covenants are to be Everlasting, that is: The parties (if the belong to the church) and will obey the will of God in this relationship to each other are to be married for both Time & Eternity, and as respects those whose partners were dead, before this Revelation was given to the Church, they have the privilege to be married to their deceased husbands, or wives (as the case may be) for eternity and if it is a man who desires to be married to his deceased wife, a Sister in the Church stands as Proxy or as a representative of the deceased in attending to the marriage ceremony and so in the case of a widow who desires to be joined in an everlasting covenant to her dead husband. and if they are not thus married for Eternity they must remain in a state of celebacy & be as the angels, ministring spirits, or servants to the married to all eternity and can never rise to any greater degree of glory. Many of the members of the Church, have already availed themselves of this privilege & have been married to their deceased partners, & in some cases where a man has been married to 2 or three wives and they are dead he has been married to them all, in the order, in which he was married to them while living & also widows have been married to their dead husbands, but only to one husband. & I intend to be married to the wife of my youth, before I go to Ireland, I would be unspeakably glad to have you all here to witness our second nuptials. The work of Generation is not to ceace for ever with the Saints in this present life. There are many things connected with this subject which I am not at liberty to communicate to you where you are living which would make the matter plainer to your minds & more satisfactory therefore beware how you treat this subject for no doubt it is of God other revelations intimately connected with this momentous dispensation and which are almost ready to unfold themselves to us, I cannot communicate to you at present altho I know them in part for you could not bear them now. you were living with the Church your spiritual advantages would be much greater than they now are, but to inform you of all that is made known to the church here, it would go abroad from you & likely cause you much persecution at any rate much more than you have