7. Sunday we got the Eastern Mail, this morning I attended meeting at
the Tabernacle Lorenzo Snow H C. Kimball & B Young spoke in the forenoon

In the afternoon President Brigham Young spoke to the people in the
spirit & power of God upon Principle He spoke upon the subject of
the Patriarchal Marriage He said if a man took more than one
wife upon the principle of passion instead of principle it will prove
a curse instead of a Blessing if a woman is sealed to a good man
she should be satisfied & attend to her own business & let her husband
alone & not be watching him all the time women are sealed to men
to bring forth children & not to gratify passion & much was said upon
this subject when he closed, He called upon Capt Jefferson Hunt to
speak He made a good deal of music for the people. I met with the
all the Presidency & O. Hyde, G. A. Smith L Snow & W Woodruff of the Twelve
in the Prayer circle. L. Snow Prayed & G A Smith was Mouth at
the close of Prayers Joseph A. Young came into the room & informed
President Young that what remains could be found of George A Smith jr
had Just arived by Jacob Hamblin consisting of a part of the scull ^&^ thigh
bones, they were brought into George A. Smiths House Before leaving the
circle room President Young said I want to say a few words to Brother
Orson Hyde At the opening of this general conference I was there
one minute before the time, & Brother Hyde had opened the conference
had prayers & singing & I must say I was mortified I am the presid[en]t
of the whole Church & it is my place to preside at a general
conference. did you ever know me [to] step foreward in the days of Joseph
& take his place & open a General Conference without he directed me
to do it, or did you ever know me interfere with the rights of any
man No you have not. I should have waited an hour after the
time before I should have opened the conference but Brother Hyde
opened it before the time & he has served me the same several
times and I dont want to see it any more. Elder Orson Hiyde
said it never Entered my heart that I was doing wrong several
who were president [present] said it was 10 oclok & asked me to open the conference
& I ownly done it to open the way for you. Brother George asked me this
Noon to open the conference & I told him No for I had heard that
you was not pleased about it G A Smith said I did ask him & it
did not Enter into my heart but what all was right. Brother Hyde
said He would remember it for the future, I do not think any
one of the Twelve thought of it. President Young said Now I will

ask all of you, how would you feel if you had a work to do which
God & the heavens held you responsible for & just as you was about to
step forth to do it another man should rise up & take it out of your hands
Before the people as though you was not qualifyed to Do it or& was neg-
lecting your duty you would not like it you would feel schagrined
and so did I. Now we can see by this how easy it is for a man
to walk into a mud hole when they think they are walking on solid ground
then let us all profit by this example & be careful that we do not
interfere with the rights of others. We then went over to Presid[en]t
Youngs and spent the evening we heard the Poney from the East read it
was up to the 1^st of April