27 [FIGURE] Telegram say their is more hope of Br Rich to day
Brigham T Young son of Joseph A Young died at 2 oclok
this Morning with drunkenness & Morphene I attended council
[FIGURES] In our council today we ordained Francis
M Lyman (son of A mason Lyman) to the
Apostleship as one of the Twelve Apostles. John Taylor was
Mouth in ordaining. We also ordained John Henry Smith
(son of George A Smith) To the Apostleship A member of
the Twelve Apostles. W Woodruff ordained him it was the
first Apostle I Ever ordained

The following is the blessing sealed upon the Head of John Henry Smith

Ordination of John Henry Smith to the Apostleship to be one of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ordained under the hands of
President John Taylor, George Q. Cannon, & Joseph F Smith
of the Presidency, and Wilford Woodruff who was Mouth in
ordaining, also Orson Pratt, Erastus Snow, Franklin D
Richards, & Brigham Young of the Quorum of the Twelve and
D H Wells councillor to the Twelve

Brother John Henry Smith in the name of the Lord Juesus Christ
and by the Authority of the Holy Priesthood And Apostleship confered
upon us we lay our hands upon your head, and we ordain you
an Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
and as A member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, And
we seal upon you all the power And Authority to Administer
in all the Ordinances of the House of God agreeable to this office
Even the Apostleship which is the Highest Authority Ever confered
and sealed upon the sons of men in the flesh. And we pray God
to cloth you with the power of this Apostleship, with the power
of God, That your mind may be open to comprehend &
understand your relationship to God, your relationship
to your Brethren, your relationship to the Church and Kingdom
of God, in relation to this world, and in relation to the responsibility
which now rest upon you. And we say unto you The Eyes of
God & his Son Jesus Christ isand of the Heavenly Hosts, and of
Joseph Smith and the Apostles, And the Eyes of your Father who
are behingd the veil are upon you, and there is rejoicing in
Heaven becaus you are one of the Sons of the Prophets & Apostles and
have come forth to take upon yourself the Holy Apostleship and
we say unto you be humble before God and seek for the Holy spirit

For you need this power to guide and direct you in this Apostleship
and inasmuch as you walk in faithfulness and humility before
God and seek and obyey the council of your Brethren you will
become a Mighty man in the Earth, and you shall stand in the
flesh to behold the great work fullfilled, and the promises of God
concerning the great last dispensation of the fullness of times.
We pray God to cloth you with his power, with the spirit and
power of the Holy Ghost and the Revelation of Jesus Christ
which Belongs to the Apostleship which is your right to claim
which is your right to claim exercise, & which is your right to
Enjoy. lift up your voice as with the sound of a trumpet
long & loud as far as you have an opportunity in you day
and declare the work of life & salvation unto the inhabitants
of the Earth. [Doctrine and Covenants 34:6] you are unordained unto this power you hold the
Isuessues of of life & death as far as the salvation or condemnation
of the world is concerned, you are called to stand in the defence
of the truth and to bear your record of the Kingdom of God
on the Earth and your Testimony will rise in judgment
against the wicked in the day of Judgments in the day when all
men will give an account of the deeds done in the body
your words shall be a savior of life unto life to those who
believe and obey, or of Death unto Death to those who
reject your testimony. Therefore we say unto you go
forth in peace & the power of God to b[e]ar a record of the words
of Ch veerlasting life, And take upon you and feel in your
spirit this Apostleship, and the blessings of God will attend your
labors we seal again your Evry Blessing, and evry Key and
Endowment of the New and Everlasting Covenant

Even the Blessing of Abraham Isaac & Jacob in
the name of Jesus Christ our Redeemer Amen

The spirit of God rested upon us while we was ordaining
thes two Brethren to the Apostleship. The Blessing of Br
Lyman I have not God [got] therefore I cannot record it