| 63 The following missions were sustained or appointed: C. W. Wandell and Glaud Rodger Australia; J. L. Bear and John Avondet to Germany, Italy, and Switzerland; J. T Davies in charge of Wales; J. C. Clapp and J. H. Hansen to the Southeastern Mission; D. H. Bays to Texas; James Caffall in charge of Spring River District; J. R. Lambert Southwestern Iowa, Eastern Nebraska, and Northeastern Kansas; W. H. Kelley, J H Lake, J. W. Briggs, E C. Briggs, C. G. Lanphear, Robert Davis, Duncan Campbell, E. C. Brand, George Hatt, James McKiernan, F. Ursenbach, Reuben Newkirk, D. B. Rasy, Gilbert Watson, S. B. Reeves, G. E. Deuel, J. W. Gillen, and J. S. Snively were sustained in fields to which they had been formerly appointed; Z. H. Gurley and Robert Warnock to Utah Mission; B. V. Springer and A. J. Fields Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky; E. L. Kelley Minnesota and Michigan; George Shaw Nova Scotia; I. A. Bogue Michigan; Thomas Taylor in charge of European Mission; Benjamin Hughs in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin; M. H. Forscutt as circumstances permit; Robert Evans Wales; Nicholas Stamm in Central Iowa; Charles Derry Western Iowa and Nebraska, and S. J. Stone Eastern States. The following missionaries were released from former appointments: J. S. Patterson (after latter part of summer), William Redfield, G. T Chute, and Frank Reynolds.
The First Presidency and Bishopric were appointed a committee to appeal to the church for tithes and free-will offerings, to assist the missions, and for other legitimate purposes.
The following missions were made and described as follows: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, with T. W. Smith in charge; Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Nova Scotia, the Provinces, and New Brunswick, with J. C. Foss in charge, and Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
soldier of the cross, and an able advocate of the cause of scattered Israel. And be it
Resolved, That as a conference we sincerely and sorrowfully sympathize with his family in their loss of a husband and father, and offer them whatsoever consolation Christian affection and earnest prayer for divine strength to bear their loss, with patience, can afford, feeling to "weep with them that weep."-The Saints' Herald, vol. 21, p. 266.
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