But, brethren, with all these considerations before you, in relation to your afflictions, we think it expedient to admonish you, that you bear, and forbear, as becometh Saints, and having done all that is lawful and right, to obtain justice of those that injure you, wherein you come short of obtaining it, commit the residue to the just judgment of God, and shake off the dust of your feet as a testimony of having done so. Finally, brethren, as it is reported unto us, that there be some who have not done that which is lawful and right, but have designedly done injury to their neighbor or creditor by fraud, or otherwise, thinking to find protection with us in such iniquity; let all such be warned and certified, that with them we have no fellowship, when known to be such, until all reasonable measures are taken to make just restitution to those unjustly injured. Now, therefore, let this epistle be read in all the branches of the Church, as testimony, that as representatives thereof, we have taken righteousness for the girdle of our loins, and faithfulness for the girdle of our reins, "and that for Zion's sake we will not rest; and for Jerusalem's sake we will not hold our peace, until the {17} righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof, as a lamp that burneth." Your brethren and servants in the kingdom and patience of Jesus. WILLIAM MARKS, AUSTIN COWLES, CHARLES C. RICH, Presidents. JAMES ALLRED, ELIAS HIGBEE, GEORGE W. HARRIS, AARON JOHNSON, WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, SEN., HENRY G. SHERWOOD, SAMUEL E. BENT, LEWIS D. WILSON, DAVID FULLMER, THOMAS GROVER, NEWEL KNIGHT, LEONARD SOBY. Attest: HOSEA STOUT, Clerk. May 22, 1842. {18} CHAPTER II. ACTIONS IN RELATION TO JOHN C. BENNETT ET AL.--THE PROPHET'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE RELIEF SOCIETY--TREATISE ON THE "HOLY GHOST"--WILLIAM LAW'S DEFENSE OF THE SAINTS--THE PROPHET'S ADDRESS TO THE CHURCH. _Monday, May 23, 1842_.--I called a special session of the city council, at which Dimick B. Huntington was elected coroner of the city of Nauvoo. [Sidenote: The Fall of Chauncey L. Higbee.] _Tuesday, 24_.--Chauncey L. Higbee was cut off from the Church by the High Council, for unchaste and unvirtuous conduct towards certain females, and for teaching it was right, if kept secret, &c. He was also put under $200 bonds to keep the peace, on my complaint against him for slander, before Ebenezer Robinson, justice of the peace. _Wednesday, 25_.--I spent the day in counseling the Bishops, and assisting them to expose iniquity.