Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
On the , we
held the Frome's Hill Conference, at
which were represented 24 churches,
with 754 members: 14 elders, 51 priests,
9 teachers and 1 deacon. The Bran
Green and Frome's Hill Conferences
were now composed of 40 churches,
1,007 members: 19 elders, 78 priests,
15 teachers and one deacon.
These two conferences, with their
forty branch churches, and over a thou-
sand organized members, under the di-
rection of one hundred and thirteen
ordained officers, had been raised up
within six months and a half. Surely
the work of God had been marvelous,
unparalleled perhaps in the history of
any new religious movement.
I meditated upon these things, and in
my journal of date September 21st,
1840, I wrote thus:
"This has been a busy day with me.
After standing upon my feet from morn-
ing till evening I am called to shake
hands with hundreds of Saints with glad
hearts and cheerful countenances. It is
with no ordinary feelings that I meditate
upon the cheering fact that a thousand
souls have been baptized into the new
and everlasting covenant in about half a
year in one field which God has enabled
me to open. I pray him to accept the
gratitude of my heart for his mercies
and blessings unto me in this thing, and
enable me to stand with these Saints
and all the righteous in His celestial
kingdom."
This day I had stood upon my feet
eight hours in conference, conversed
much of the time in suggesting, speak-
ing, motioning, etc.; ordained about
thirty, confirmed some, healed many
who were sick, shook hands with about
four hundred Saints, walked two miles,
and ended with about four hours chim-
ney corner preaching. I then laid down
to rest and dreamt of catching fish.
The church ministers at this time were
very much stirred up in this region be-
cause of the success of the work of God
in the midst of the people, and every
exertion was made by them to stay its
progress. They were finding that the
Lord was delivering their flocks out of
their hands and giving them unto the
shepherds of the Church of the Saints.
They were alarmed and were holding
conventions and meetings to contrive
plans and adopt means to overthrow the
latter-day work of God, which they un-
derstood not, and believed not, yet
feared its power. And well indeed they
might, for in some instances they did
not have more than ten or fifteen at their
