Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
Next day I sat in council with the
Twelve and many other officers at the Millennial
Star Office and in the evening we all attended a
discussion held at the Carpenter's Hall between a Mr
T [blank space] and Elder Alfred Cordon on the one side
to prove the Book of Mormon not true and baptism
non-essential to salvation. Elder Cordon sustained the
affirmative. The discussion was before 1500 people
In lighting the chandeliers before the meeting 12 of the
glasses bursted. During the day I filled two
mamouth sheets with an account of my travels from
Montrose to the present time to send by the hand of
Elder Mulliner to E. Robinson and Don Carlos Smith
editors of the "Times and Seasons"
In Council with the Twelve next
day at the house of Willard Richards and on the following
Father Peter Melling Patriarch of the Church in England
bestowed a Patriarchal blessing upon my head and also upon
the heads of brother Willard Richards and his wife who two
days after became the mother of as fine a son as I ever
saw. He was named Heber John Richards
