| 398 Adjourned until 11 o'clock the following day.
Conference met pursuant to adjournment, and was opened by the president.
C. Dunn then addressed the meeting on the subject of the priesthood, and was followed by elder Grant.
Adjourn for 1-2 hour.
Met pursuant to adjournment; opened by brother Loveland, after which Samuel Willard, Edward Willard, Jeremiah Crumm, were ordained elders by the voice of the conference, under the hands of elders Gamut and Webb;-Jonathan Willard and John R. Gilbert to the office of priests by the same.
Adjourned till 1-2 past 6 P.M.
Met pursuant to adjournment, opened by brother Loveland.
J. Bottom spoke on the literal fulfilment [fulfillment] of prophesy.
Adjourned until 9 o'clock next day A.M.
Met pursuant to adjournment.
Brother S. Willard opened the meeting by singing and prayer. Elder Gamut then addressed the meeting on the subject of the marriage supper of the Lamb. Elder Webb then spoke on the gospel.
Conference adjourned to meet at Albion, Calhoun county, Mich., on Friday preceding the second Sunday in March next, 1844. The elders bring us cheering news from abroad, of the speed [spread ?] of the gospel, truly the harvest is plenty but the laborers are few. E. M. Webb, Prest.
E. C. Dunn, Clk.
At a special conference held at Macedonia, December 26th, 1843, J. M. Benson was arraigned on a charge of seduction and adultery.
Upon defendants plea of guilt,
Resolved, That Elder J. M. Benson be cut off from the church, and published in the Times and Seasons.
After some very appropriate remarks by the president, conference adjourned sine die. JOHN SMITH, Prest. pro tem.
J. E. Johnson, Recorder.
POETRY.
For the Times and Seasons
QUEEN VICTORIA.
BY MISS E. R. SNOW.
Before leaving London, Elder Lorenzo Snow presented to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert; through the politeness of Sir Henry Wheatly, two neatly bound copies of the Book of Mormon, which had been donated by president Brigham Young, and left in the care of elder Snow for that purpose; which circumstance suggested the following lines:
Of all the monarchs of the earth A herald of salvation bore
That wear the robes of royalty To her, the words of endless life.
She has inherited by birth
The broadest wreath of majesty. That GIFT, however fools deride,
Is worthy of her royal care;
From her wide territorial wing She'd better lay her crown aside
The sun does not withdraw it's light; Than spurn the light reflected there.
While earth's diurnal motions bring
To other nations day and night. O would she now her influence bend-
The influence of royalty,
All earthly thrones are tottering things, Messiah's kingdom to extend,
Where lights and shadows intervene; And Zion's "nursing mother" be;
And regal honor often brings
The scaffold or the guillotine. Thus with the glory of her name
Inscrib'd on Zion's lofty spire,
But still her scepter is approv'd- She'd win a wreath of endless fame,
All nations deck the wreath she wears; To last when other wreaths expire.
Yet, like the youth whom Jesus lov'd,
On [One] thing is lacking, even there. Though over millions call'd to reign-
Herself a powerful nation's boast;
But lo! a prize possessing more 'Twould be her everlasting gain
Of worth, than gems with honor rife- To serve the king, the Lord of Hosts.
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