journey to attend the Manchester conference
I never before had left a field of labour with as much
satisfaction and I felt to render up unto God the gratitude
of my heart for giving me so many souls as seals to my
ministry and I noted in my journal of that day the remarkable
fact that I had been led by the Spirit (a little over a quarter
of a year before) through a densely populated country for
eighty miles and chose no part of it for my field of labour
until I was led by the Lord to the house of John Benbow
at Froom's Hill where I preached for the first time on the
5th of March. Now on the 22nd of June I was journing
to the Manchester conference where will be represented
this fruitful field of my labours with thirty three organized
churches numbering five hundred and forty one members
three hundred of whom received the ordinance of baptism
under my own hands

Elder Brigham Young laboured with
me in this vineyard about one month from whom I and
the Saints received much benefit for he is mighty
in council and endowed with much wisdom.
Willard Richards had laboured with me two months
and was also a great blessing to us for he had
passed through a great school of experience and learnt
much wisdom and his sound judgement was very manifest
in the councils and conferences in which we had
sat together.

We walked to Ledbury that afternoon
a distance of eight miles where we spent the night and
baptized one.

The next day Elder Willard Richards
and myself took coach to Worcester and thence to
Birmingham. This is the first time I had
visited this great manufacturing town. Birmingham
is the centre of England in its location.

Here Elder Richards and I parted
He took train for Manchester and I the coach for
West Bromich and called at sister Mary Packard
who informed me that Elder Turley was in another

journey to attend the Manchester Conference I never before had left a field of labour with as much satisfaction and I felt to render up unto God the gratitude of my heart for giving me so many souls as seals to my ministry and I noted in my journal of that day the remarkable fact that I had been led by the Spirit (a little over a quarter of a year before) through a densely populated country for eighty miles and chose no part of it for my field of labour until I was led by the Lord to the house of John Benbow at Froom's Hill where I preached for the first time on the 5th of March. Now on the 22nd of June I was journing to the Manchester Conference where will be represented this fruitful field of my labours with thirty three organized Churches numbering five hundred and forty one members three hundred of whom received the ordinance of baptism under my own hands

Elder Brigham Young laboured with me in this vineyard about one month from whom I and the Saints received much benefit for he is mighty in council and endowed with much wisdom. Willard Richards had laboured with me two months and was also a great blessing to us for he had passed through a great school of experience and learnt much wisdom and his sound judgement was very manifest in the Councils and Conferenced in which we had sat together.

We walked to Ledbury that afternoon a distance of eight miles where we spent the night and baptized one.

The next day Elder Willard Richards and myself took coach to Worcester and thence to Birmingham. This is the first time I had visited this great manufacturing town. Birmingham is the centre of England in its location.

Here Elder Richards and I parted He took train for Manchester and I the coach for West Bromich and called at sister Mary Packard who informed me that Elder Turley was in another