Autobiography 1858 Deseret News
Canada]], and attended a conference, ,
with Elders John E. Page and James Blakesly,
in the township of Bastard, Leeds Co. There
were eight branches represented, containing
300 members, 13 elders, 5 priests, 8 teachers
and 6 deacons. Elder Wm. Draper and my-
self ordained 7 elders, 9 priests, 11 teachers
and 5 deacons: five were baptized by Elder
Page at the close of the conference.
A woman was possessed of the devil and
greatly afflicted, much of the time was dumb;
four of us laid hands upon her, and cast the
devil out in the name of Jesus Christ, and she
was made whole, and gave thanks unto God,
and went on her way rejoicing.
We visited several other branches and
preached the word of God, and several of the
sick were healed.
We returned to Kingston, took steamer for
Oswego, and canal for Albany; bros. John
Goodson, Isaac Russell and John Snider ac-
companied us from Canada, and left us at
Schenectady, to join Elders Kimball, Hyde
and Richards at New York, to go to England.
We walked from Albany to Farmington,
Conn.; attended a conference of the Saints in
Canaan; arrived at my father's house July
6th. This was the first time I had seen my
father or relatives in Conn., since I joined the
church; they received me kindly. On the 10th,
I preached in the City Hall in Colinsville, and
a mob gathered and attempted to break up the
meeting, with fife and drum, hollowing and
yelling; they were urged on by a Presbyterian
priest. At the close of the meeting the priest
came to me with his rabble, and asked many
questions; he said I had no right to my opinion,
and no man had a right to preach the gospel
unless he had a collegiate education. I told
him I would admit that point when he would
tell me at what college Jesus Christ and his
apostles obtained their education: the priest
and rabble then left.
