ORDAINED TO THE APOSTLESHIP.

fulfilled this day should not be, and notwithstanding that ten
thousand of the Saints had been driven out of the State by
the edict of the governor, and though the Prophet Joseph
and his brother, Hyrum Smith, with other leading men were
in the hands of our enemies, in chains and in prison, we
moved on to the temple grounds in the city of Far West, and
held a council, and fulfilled the revelation and commandments
given unto us, and we performed many other things at this
council.

We excommunicated from the Church thirty-one persons,
who had apostatized and become its enemies.

The "Mission of the Twelve" was sung, and we then
repaired to the south-east corner of the temple ground, and,
with the assistance of Elder Alpheus Cutler, the master work-
man of the building committee, laid the south-east chief
corner stone of the temple, according to revelation.

There were present of the Twelve Apostles: Brigham
Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John E. Page and
John Taylor, who proceeded to ordain Wilford Woodruff and
Geo. A. Smith, to the apostleship, and as members of the
quorum of the Twelve, in the places of those who had fallen,
as they had been called by revelation.

Darwin Chase and Norman Shearer, who had just been
liberated from Richmond prison, were also ordained to the
office of Seventies. The Twelve then offered up vocal prayer
in the following order: Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball,
Orson Pratt, John E. Page, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff
and George A. Smith, after which we sang "Adam-ondi-
Ahman.”

The Twelve then took their leave of, and gave the parting
hand to, the following Saints, agreeable to revelation: A.
Butler, Elias Smith, Norman Shearer, Wm. Burton, Stephen
Markham, Shadrach Roundy, Wm. O. Clark, John W. Clark,
Hezekiah Peck, Darwin Chase, Richard Howard, Mary Ann
Peck, Artimesia Granger, Martha Peck, Sarah Granger,
Theodore Turley, Hiram Clark, and Daniel Shearer.

Bidding good-by to the small remnant of the Saints who
remained on the temple ground to see us fulfill the revelation
and commandments of God, we turned our backs on Far West

ORDAINED TO THE APOSTLESHIP.

fulfilled this day should not be, and notwithstanding that ten thousand of the Saints had been driven out of the State by the edict of the governor, and though the Prophet Joseph and his brother, Hyrum Smith, with other leading men were in the hands of our enemies, in chains and in prison, we moved on to the temple grounds in the city of Far West, and held a council, and fulfilled the revelation and commandments given unto us, and we performed many other things at this council.

We excommunicated from the Church thirty-one persons, who had apostatized and become its enemies.

The "Mission of the Twelve" was sung, and we then repaired to the south-east corner of the temple ground, and, with the assistance of Elder Alpheus Cutler, the master workman of the building committee, laid the south-east chief corner stone of the temple, according to revelation.

There were present of the Twelve Apostles: Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John E. Page and John Taylor, who proceeded to ordain Wilford Woodruff and Geo. A. Smith, to the apostleship, and as members of the quorum of the Twelve, in the places of those who had fallen, as they had been called by revelation.

Darwin Chase and Norman Shearer, who had just been liberated from Richmond prison, were also ordained to the office of Seventies. The Twelve then offered up vocal prayer in the following order: Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John E. Page, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith, after which we sang "Adam-ondiAhman.”

The Twelve then took their leave of, and gave the parting hand to, the following Saints, agreeable to revelation: A. Butler, Elias Smith, Norman Shearer, Wm. Burton, Stephen Markham, Shadrach Roundy, Wm. O. Clark, John W. Clark, Hezekiah Peck, Darwin Chase, Richard Howard, Mary Ann Peck, Artimesia Granger, Martha Peck, Sarah Granger, Theodore Turley, Hiram Clark, and Daniel Shearer.

Bidding good-by to the small remnant of the Saints who remained on the temple ground to see us fulfill the revelation and commandments of God, we turned our backs on Far West