| 696 who are recommended to be ordained, to withdraw and receive an ordination into the seventies, which was done.
President B. Young then appeared and proceeded to select men from the high priest's quorum, to go abroad in all the congressional districts of the United States, to preside over the branches of the church, as follows:
David Evans Levi Gifford Joseph Holbrook R. McBride
A. O. Smoot Elijah Fordham John Lawson W. D. Pratt
Edson Whipple Edward Fisher Abel Lamb Martin H. Peck
Harvey Green Franklin D. Richards J. H. Hale Morris Phelps
J. S. Fulmer Isaac Clark G. D. Watt D. McArthur
J. G. Divine J. S. Holman J. W. Johnson Archibald Patten
J. H. Johnson Wandell Mace L. T. Coons L. H. Perry
Lester Brooks Charles Thompson J. L. Robinson Charles Crisman
J. B. Nobles John Murdock Howard Corey Lyman Stoddard
Rufus Fisher John Chase M. Serrine Arnold Stevens
D. B. Huntington A. L. Lamoreaux Pelatiah Brown David Fulmer
Jefferson Hunt E. T. Benson E. H. Groves Joseph Allen
Lorenzo Snow Thomas Grover G. P. Dykes Andrew Perkins
William Snow C. L. Whitney Willard Snow Daniel Carter
Noah Packard Addison Everett Wm. Felshaw Wm. G. Perkins
A. L. Tippets Moses Clawson Winslow Farr Graham Coltrin
J. C. Kingsbury William Parks Shadrach Roundy D. H. Redfield
Jacob Foutz George Colson S. B. Stoddard Titus Billings
Peter Haws H. W. Miller E. D. Wolley Harvey Olumstead
Thomas Gates Isaac Higbee Solomon Hancock Daniel Stanton
Simeon Carter Daniel Carns Abraham Palmer
Albert Brown James Brown
President Young explained the object for which these high priests were being sent out, and informed them that it was not the design to go out snd [and] tarry six months and then return, but to go and settle down, where they can take their families and tarry until the Temple is built, and then come and get their endowment, and return to their families and build up a stake as large as this.
President Young then selected from the elder's quorum some to be ordained high priests, whose names for the want of room are omitted for the present.
He also selected a number more to go into the seventies' after which the remainder of the morning was spent in calling out the several quorums of seventies, and giving charges to the several presidents.
Brother Joseph L. Heywood was ordained under the hands of Elder B. Young, H. C. Kimball and P. P. Pratt, to be a bishop to the church in Quincy, Illinois.
Previous to adjournment the presidents of the seventies, ordained upwards of 400 into the quorums of the seventies, and the president of the high priests' quorum ordained 40 into their quorum.
The meeting then adjourned until 2 o'clock, P. M.
TWO O'CLOCK, P. M.
Conference resumed business. Those presidents of the seventies who were present and had not received an ordination to the presidency over the seventies, were called out and ordained, under the hands of President Joseph Young and others.
The remainder of the afternoon was spent in filling up the quorums of seventies, and at the close, 11 quorums were filled and properly organized, and about 40 elders organized as a part of the twelfth quorum.
President B. Young then said that the elders, young men who are capable of preaching, will be ordained; but do not be anxious. You must now magnify your calling. Elders who go to borrowing horses or money, and running away with it, will be cut off from the church without any ceremony. They will not have as much lenity as heretofore. The seventies will have to be subject to their presidents and council. We do not want any man to go to preaching until he is sent. If an elder wants to go to preaching, let him go into the seventies. You are all apostles to the nations, to carry the gospel; and when we send you to build up the kingdom, we will give you the keys, and power and authority. If the people will let us alone we will convert the world, and if they persecute us we will do it the quicker. I would exort [exhort] all who go from this place to do right and be an honor to the cause. Inasmuch as you will go forth and do right you shall have more of the spirit than you have heretofore.-We have had a good conference; we have had beautiful weather and no accidents; and if you
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