Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
Held Sunday the
Elder Speakman was called to preside. The churches were
represented some a[l]terations made and officers ordained in the morning
In the afternoon sacrament was administered and the power of
God rested so abundantly upon the congregation that many were
melted into tears.
This is the Conference brother Kimball speaks
of in his Journal. I do not wonder that he wept when he left
them for I was myself so overwhelmed with the spirit and power
of God and simplicity of the people that I could scarcely speak
They were like little children and as pure minded and inocent as
angels. Many of them bore their testimony to the work of God.
I returned next day to Preston and there met
Elders Holmes and Hardy and preached at night from the CII
Psalm and on the day after I reached Liverpool.
I stayed at home but two days and
then started to attend the Carlisle Conference. I took ^the^ steamer
