Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
Sunday th
This conference had not met before for 4 years and
as it was somewhat a special meeting now Elder Woodruff was called to
the chair and Joseph Maughen clerk.
The representation showed the conference to consist
of the Branches of Carlisle Brampton Alston New Castle Sunderland and
Dunfries and containing 165 members
The necessary business in putting the Churches
in order was attended to sacrament partaken of and in the evening
the president of the meeting preached to a crowded house upon the rise
and progress of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
which closed the Conference
I parted from the Saints of Carlisle and
returned to Liverpool by the same steamer in which I came. It had
on board 400 sheep and some horses and cattle which nearly covered the entire
deck yet the sailors found space large enough to fight on. About
a dozen of them got at it which left many bloody noses and sore heads
We had a very good passage however.
