160 years ago today - Apr 8, 1855 (Evening, Conference)

[General Conference] Prest. Young asked: Is there a person called that has not been baptized? Joseph Hollingshead, is it not time that your were baptized, ordained, and sent on a mission? ... By and by they [Chief Walker & his tribe] will be the Lord's battle ax in good earnest'- ... Those [missionaries] who go among the Pottawatomies must marry or they will be driven out by the Indian Agent

[Source: Thomas Bullock Minutes as quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]

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