| 65 That the Board of Publication be and are hereby empowered to purchase all books as are deemed necessary for church purposes, the same to be paid by the church, and such purchases not to exceed seventy-five dollars per annum.
The following persons were by vote received into the church on their original baptism: Ardilla Taylor, Alfred Guinand, Hyrum K. Drown, David Crider, Sarah Crider, Jesse Seelye, Mary Ann Seelye, Lucinda Updyke, Dimmis Dutcher, and Sarah Weaver.
The annual conference for the Pacific Slope was held at Sacramento, California, April 6 to 9. A. H. Smith presiding; J B. Price and Richard Ferris secretaries. The conference was a successful and pleasant one, closing its sessions by the adoption of the following:
Resolved, That we sustain Joseph Smith as president and W. W. Blair and D. H. Smith as his counselors; also the Quorum of Twelve, and all other quorums of the church in righteousness; also Elder A. H. Smith as president of the Pacific Slope Mission; and Elder H. Green as president of California Mission.
Resolved, That we accept services of Bro. A. Haws, and he is appointed to labor under direction of Pacific Slope Mission.
Resolved, That we heartily indorse [endorse] by our faith, prayers, and energetic actions, the reformatory spirit of the present great temperance movement in the land; praying that it may culminate in a true heaven-born temperance, in all things, and especially in speedily ending the crying evil of intemperance on the earth.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 21, p. 315.
Some time before Elder Charles Derry had temporarily dropped out of the active missionary force and had settled on a homestead in Madison County, Nebraska. He was not idle long, however, but worked locally to establish the church in that frontier region. On April 6, 1874, he wrote a cheery letter from Deer Creek, Nebraska, and closed with the following paragraph regarding the work in his vicinity:
Bro. Spencer Smith, on Cedar Creek, Antelope County, is doing his best; he is a worthy brother, and his family love the cause. Bro. Chauncey Loomis is president of Deer Creek Branch, and has the cause of God at heart. Bro. William Lewis has charge of the Shell Creek Branch, and is a worthy brother; but has been absent in the East all winter. It may be that the wilderness may yet blossom as the rose. In God's name, and by his help, we will do our best to make it so. The
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