be published under the Superintendance & direction of the Twelve for caried the benefit and information of the church as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers shall be obtained. Carried Mooved & Second. that Brother John Bleagard of Lambsbury be Ordained to the Office of a priest. Carried Mooved & Secd that bro James Corbridge of Thornly be Ordained to the Office of a priest. Carried Elder Kimble then lade before the Conference the ...

The Conference met pursuant to adjournment. Opened by Prayer Scattering members were then represented consisting of near 50 not included in any of the Above branches The President then proceded to make some remarks on the Office of Patriarch and concluded by moving that Elder Albertson be ordained to that Office. This was seconded by Elder Kimball and carried unanimou- sly. Resolved that D. Watt Thomas Richardson G. J. Adams James ...

Elder Adams took a text in Obadiah 17 vers upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance &c He spoke lengthy concerning Zion that was to be built up in the last days & pointed out Joseph from the scriptures and brought much testimony to prove the subject. At the close of the discourse President Joseph Smith turned over the confer- ence into the hands of the Twelve And Adjourned untill 2 oclok. Met at 2 oclok & President Hiram Smith arose & spent most of the Afternoon in scoreing ...

called the quorums of the seventies into the upper part of the house that they might be by themselves for awhile as there was some business to be attended to in these quorums before they could procede to the business of the day below. In the first place six of the presidents of the seventies were to leave the seventies & take a station in the quorum of the travling high priest hood and six other Presidents chosen in their stead I shall not here give the particulars of this change of councillers Suffice ...

Elder Zerah Pulsipher I was ordained a Teacher under his hands on the 2nd of Jan 1834, in Richland Oswego Co NY. On the 5th of Nov 1834, I was ordained a Priest under the hands of Elder Simeon Carter by the direction of the High Council in Clay County Missouri. On the 28th of June 1835 I was ordained an Elder in the church of Latter Day Saints under the hands of Elder Warren Parrish at Eagle Creek Benton County ...

dead the High Priest would rise up and with the keys of the Kingdom build up the kingdom let men go to a healthy country and get a foot hold, so as to be sustained in the midst of our persecution. The Saints will still be tithed untill the temple is done all that is in favor of being tithed untill the temple is finished make it manifest with the usual sign it was a universal vote. Would it be the feelings of the people to support the Twelve in all the world in ...

July 1, 1838 ~ Sunday JULY 1st 1838. On this seventh month the first day of the month and the first day of the week which is called Sunday some of the most important events transpired with me that I ever witness- ed since I had a being, events worthy to be recorded upon the ARCHIEVES OF HEAVEN o or to be engraven with an iron pen & laid in a rock forever upon the EARTH. For I know that my Redeemer liveth & he hath this day given me with my friends a victory ...

April 23, 1845 ~ Sunday 23rd [FIGURES] I spent the day at the office I looked over Elder Lorenzo D. Barnes Trunk I examined his corressponding letters from Miss Susan Conrad and other friends I carefully filed them all with his own composit- ions & Journals Patriarchal Blessings &c Also A dozen or more Peaces of choice coin of ancient Date & characters which he probably collected for the British Museum Nauvoo Museum also one weight as a Standard for sovreigns and his gold finger ring ...

October 7, 1840 ~ Wednesday Oct 7th ^John Burry^ I sat in council with the Twelv & many other Saints at the Star Office, we all attending A discussion in the evening held at the Carpenters Hall Garrett Road Manchester. A Mr [B◊rrett] attempted to Prove the Book of Mormon fals & water Baptism or Baptism by immersion not esse- ntial to Salvation he was answered by Elder Corden who proved the Book of mormon true & Baptism ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. in the book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time." Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were Patriarchs, and blessed their posterity. All that Jacob said and scaled upon the heads of his twelve sons has been fulfilled to the very letter, as far as time has permitted. We also have Patriarchs in our day. Father Joseph Smith, the father of the Prophet Joseph Smith, was the first ...