Church-wide reformation includes rebaptizing, restructuring and recommitment to principles and covenants. First "home missionaries" introduced (precursor to ministering program).
13th Sunday I spent the fore part of the day at home & the afternoon at
meeting. J M Barlow spoke for a short time was followed By Br
Kimball who dwelt upon a great variety of subjects. President
Young preached spoke upon the sanctification & Holiness of the
saints their final exhaltation & the spirits in the Eternal world
that were to come & take tabernacles the scene of this Earth would
not be wound up untill the last spirit had come & taken a body on
the Earth & inasmuch as the last spirit Gentiles do not wish child[ren]
but use evry exhertion to stop having progeny I pray God they
may be prospered in their desires untill their seed is dryed up
& that those spirits who have not taken bodies may come through
the linage of the Saints. I attended the prayer meeting in the eve[nin]g
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