ARRIVE IN LIVERPOOL.

Our company consisted of 109 souls, composed of Ameri-
cans, English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh and Dutch.

We arrived in Liverpool dock on the 11th day of January,
1840, having made the voyage from New York in twenty-three
days.

CHAPTER XXIII.

OUR VISIT TO PRESTON—OUR FIRST COUNCIL IN ENGLAND,
IN 1840—WE TAKE DIFFERENT FIELDS OF LABOR—A
WOMAN POSSESSED OF THE DEVIL—ATTEMPT TO CAST IT
OUT AND FAIL—TURN OUT THE UNBELIEVERS, AND THEN
SUCCEED—THE EVIL SPIRIT ENTERS HER CHILD—COM-
MENCE BAPTIZING—THE LORD MAKES KNOWN HIS WILL
TO ME.

ON January 13th, 1840, after visiting Mr. George Cannon,
the father of President George Q. Cannon, and his
family, we took cars in the evening, and arrived in the
midst of the Preston branch of the Saints, built up in 1837,
by Elder Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde and Willard
Richards.

We very soon had a pleasant interview with Elder Willard
Richards, who had remained in Preston to take care of the
Church, while the rest had returned home to America.

We spent three days at Preston in visiting the Saints, and
on the 17th we held a council at Elder Richards' home in
that place.

After consulting upon the best course for us to pursue, it
was finally resolved that Elder John Taylor and Joseph
Fielding go to Liverpool, Elder Woodruff to Staffordshire
Potteries, Theodore Turley to Birmingham, Elder Richards
wherever the Spirit might direct him, and that Wm. Clayton
preside over the branch in Manchester.

After various principles of the Church had been expounded
by the Apostles present, the council adjourned.

ARRIVE IN LIVERPOOL.

Our company consisted of 109 souls, composed of Americans, English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh and Dutch.

We arrived in Liverpool dock on the 11th day of January, 1840, having made the voyage from New York in twenty-three days.

CHAPTER XXIII.

OUR VISIT TO PRESTON—OUR FIRST COUNCIL IN ENGLAND, IN 1840—WE TAKE DIFFERENT FIELDS OF LABOR—A WOMAN POSSESSED OF THE DEVIL—ATTEMPT TO CAST IT OUT AND FAIL—TURN OUT THE UNBELIEVERS, AND THEN SUCCEED—THE EVIL SPIRIT ENTERS HER CHILD—COMMENCE BAPTIZING—THE LORD MAKES KNOWN HIS WILL TO ME.

ON January 13th, 1840, after visiting Mr. George Cannon, the father of President George Q. Cannon, and his family, we took cars in the evening, and arrived in the midst of the Preston branch of the Saints, built up in 1837, by Elder Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde and Willard Richards.

We very soon had a pleasant interview with Elder Willard Richards, who had remained in Preston to take care of the Church, while the rest had returned home to America.

We spent three days at Preston in visiting the Saints, and on the 17th we held a council at Elder Richards' home in that place.

After consulting upon the best course for us to pursue, it was finally resolved that Elder John Taylor and Joseph Fielding go to Liverpool, Elder Woodruff to Staffordshire Potteries, Theodore Turley to Birmingham, Elder Richards wherever the Spirit might direct him, and that Wm. Clayton preside over the branch in Manchester.

After various principles of the Church had been expounded by the Apostles present, the council adjourned.