ities &c and what would be the necessity to get up a constitution to govern us when we have all the revelations and laws to govern us, and punish us according to our crimes, We may say we will have a constitution because it is fashionable, but he would rather have the revelations to form a constitution from, than any thing else we can get. What the brethren have written is good, and he wished they could do the thing just right. And what if they should? Why by and by, they would probably take a kick and think they could do so and so independant of the prophet. He would rather have the pure revelations of [p. [175]]