The Brigham Young Center

G. S. L. City, June 11, 1862.

Bishop Thomas J. Thurston,
Upper Ward, Weber Valley, Morgan Co., U. T.,

Dear Brother:

Br. Ole Olson Gaarder feels aggrieved by your course toward him in a steer and fencing trade between you, about your doings in taking a horse from him, or his mother, to send to send to the States, and in cutting him off from the Church, &c.

I wish you, upon receipt of these lines, to appoint the earliest consistent time and place for hearing this matter, notifying thereto Bishop C. S. Peterson and his Counselors and the members of your Ward, and have a full and fair hearing and investigation of br. Gaarder's grievances and let the whole affair be settled upon fatherly, saving, and righteous principles, without bias by passion, selfishness, or prejudice.

Br. Gaarder is but a boy, and I trust that you will, with your age and experience look with all due allowance upon the weakness, ignorance, and foibles of others and ever aim to pursue a saving and fatherly course in all your saying and doings-- a course worthy the position and calling of a Bishop in Israel.

Your early attention to the forgoing will oblige,

Your Brother in the Gospel,
Brigham Young