to the cause of God. I conjure you, by my hope of salvation, by all I hold most dear in life, to accept the offering,— though poor and useless it may be to you. Brother Joseph, my very soul is bound up in the cause of Jesus Christ,— my highest ambition is to do the will of my Heavenly Father. May I hope for the seal of your approbation that I may be accounted worthy of bearing a humble part in the great work of the last days. If you have anything against me I wish you to forgive me and let th[e] past be forgotten. I know I have act◊◊ rong; but I am not as guilty as I believe you have deemed me. My errors have principally been errors of the head and not of the heart. I have, at times, been very weak in the faith; but I thank my God that I have never lifted my voice or pen in denunciations of Mormonism. <​That​> May this <​it may​> ever be the case that I shall not fight against the cause of Christ is the desire of my heart, that I may at last obtain a rest in the Celestial Kingdom. I close by saying, it is human to err, but magnanimous to forgive.