| 304 wickedness, bring evil on our own heads, the Lord will let us bear it till we get weary and hate iniquity.
"We conclude by giving our heartiest approbation to every measure calculated for the spread of the truth, in these last days; and our strongest desires, and sincerest prayers for the prosperity of Zion. Say to all the brethren and sisters in Zion, that they have our hearts, our best wishes, and the strongest desires of our spirits, for their welfare, temporal, spiritual, and eternal. And we salute you in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen
"Sidney Rigdon.
"Joseph Smith, Jr.
"F. G. Williams."
-Times and Seasons, vol. 6, pp. 802, 803
Early in July the mob in Missouri again renewed their hostilities, of which Joseph Smith writes:-
"July, which once dawned upon the virtue and independence of the United States, now dawned upon the savage barbarity and mobocracy of Missouri. Most of the clergy, acting as missionaries to the Indians, or to the frontier inhabitants, were among the most prominent characters that rose up and rushed on to destroy the rights of the church, as well as the lives of her members. One Pixley, who had been sent by the Missionary Society, to civilize and christianize the heathen of the West, was a black rod in the hand of Satan, as well as a poisoned shaft in the power of our foes, to spread lies and falsehoods.
"He followed writing horrible accounts to the religious papers in the East, to sour the public mind from time to time, besides using his influence among Indians and whites to overthrow the church. On the first of July he wrote a slanderous article entitled, 'Beware of false Prophets,' which he actually carried from house to house to incense the inhabitants against the church to mob them and drive them away.
"The July number of the Evening and Morning Star pursued a mild and pacific course, the first article therein, entitled 'Beware of false Prophets,' was calculated to disabuse the honest public mind from Pixley's falsehoods; and
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