| 78 home from a visit in Indiana and Illinois; they availed themselves in their return trip across the plains of the services of Bro. J. C. Clapp, formerly of Los Angeles, California, but now returned from Kentucky and the South; Bro. Clapp expects to spend a year in labor in Oregon. Brn. Joseph R. and Daniel F. Lambert, late of the Nauvoo and String Prairie District, now located in Harrison County, Iowa. These brothers honor the cause both with their labor and their lives; we congratulate the community where they shall labor. Bro. James Caffall, resident at Council Bluffs, an efficient coworker, now looking to the work of the ministry in Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. Bro. John H. Lake, now living at Farmington, Iowa, and laboring in Western Illinois, Southern Iowa, and Northern Missouri. Bro. Lake has been and is a good faithful laborer. Bro. Hugh Lytle, of St. Joseph, Missouri; an old-time Saint, and still an anxious servant of the Master. Bro. Thomas Dobson, of Deloit, Iowa, also an old-time Saint; Brn. Charles and George Derry, of Nebraska. Bro. Charles is well known to the Saints as the first missionary of the Reorganization to England. Brn. Z. S. Martin and Steven Butler, of De Soto, Nebraska; Brn. J. M. Harvey and Magnus Fyrando, of Magnolia, Iowa; Bro. Harvey is best known in his locality as Judge Harvey, he has made the latter-day work a study and is a staunch defender of the truth. Bro, Fyrando is a Scandinavian, an able man; and the conference authorized Bro. Fyrando and Bro. H. Hansen, of Crescent City, Iowa, a young man of good ability, to speed the gospel plow in Denmark. There was an excellent manifestation of the Spirit when Bro. Fyrando' s name was presented. Brn. R. C. B. and R. M. Elvin, of Nebraska City, Nebraska. Bro. R. C. B. Elvin is one of the early Scotch believers, and his son R. M. is a young man of excellent promise. Both feel the importance of the work. Bro. Mark H. Forscutt, the first and only active incumbent of the office of secretary that the church has had, lately of St. Louis, now laboring in a series of lectures in towns of Western Iowa. Bro. Forscutt saw much of Western life, during some years spent in Utah, and is by conviction and choice a defender of the truth; and as such he is second to but few in ability. Bro. H. C. Bronson, of Princeville, Illinois, a young man, now presiding over the Kewanee, Illinois, District; a man of fair ability. Bro. John S. Patterson, of Kewanee, Illinois, known to the Saints by reason of his connection with Bro. Forscutt in the English Mission. Bro. Patterson is a middle-aged man of dignified presence in council and one of the best of friends and companions, a man of no mean capabilities and a ready advocate of the cause; he was ordained to the office of seventy at this session. Bro. E. C. Brand, an excellent, eccentric man of middle age, impulsive and pushing; he has achieved celebrity in the church by his labors in California and Utah. Bro. Frank Reynolds, of Harlan, Shelby County, Iowa, secretary of the seventy; Bro. Jonas W. Chatburn, also of Harlan; Thomas Chatburn of Dowville; Colby Downs, Isaac Ellison, of Twelve Mile Grove, Harrison County. Iowa; S. S. Wilcox,
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