Some say it is better to give to the poor than build the Temple. The building of the Temple has sustained the poor who were driven from Missouri, and kept them from starving; and it has been the best means for this object which could be devised. {59} Oh, all ye rich men of the Latter-day Saints from abroad, I would invite you to bring up some of your money--your gold, your silver, and your precious things, and give to the Temple. We want iron, steel, spades, and quarrying and mechanical tools. It would be a good plan to get up a forge to manufacture iron, and bring in raw materials of every variety, and erect manufacturing establishments of all kinds, and surround the rapids with mills and machinery. I never stole the value of a pin's head, or a picayune in my life; and when you are hungry don't steal. Come to me, and I will feed you. The secret of masonry is to keep a secret. It is good economy to entertain strangers--to entertain sectarians. Come up to Nauvoo, ye sectarian priests of the everlasting Gospel, as they call it, and you shall have my pulpit all day. Woe to ye rich men, who refuse to give to the poor, and then come and ask me for bread. Away with all your meanness, and be liberal. We need purging, purifying and cleansing. You that have little faith in your Elders when you are sick, get some little simple remedy in the first stages. If you send for a doctor at all, send in the first stages. All ye doctors who are fools, not well read, and do not understand the human constitution, stop your practice. And all ye lawyers who have no business, only as you hatch it up, would to God you would go to work or run away!" _Monday, 16.--_At home nearly all day, attending to family concerns. Went to municipal court, and adjourned hearing of the case [1] to the 17th. _Tuesday, 17.--_Went to municipal court. The prosecutor not appearing, court ordered that the prisoner be discharged. _Wednesday, 18.--_Pleasant and comfortable day. Fifteen deaths have occurred during the past week in the city. [Sidenote: The Prophet's Visit to Macedonia.] _Thursday, 19.--_Warm and pleasant day. The water has risen about two feet in the Mississippi, and is still rising. About noon, started for Macedonia, in company with Brother William Clayton. Arrived there about {60} sundown, and I stayed at Brother Benjamin F. Johnson's for the night. _Friday, 20.--_In the evening I gave instructions to Benjamin F. Johnson and others in relation to the blessings of the everlasting covenant and the sealings of the Priesthood. Elder John P. Greene returned from a Mission to the State of New York, with about 100 emigrants, some of them from Pennsylvania, who joined his company on the way. Warm, smoky day, with strong wind, very dark evening. _Saturday, 21.--_We left Macedonia, and arrived home about two p.m. Pleasant cool day.