| 67 and W. W. Blair, The True Latter Day Saint' Herald. His connection with the Herald continued until 1872.
"On April 6, 1860, he was selected as the president of the High Priests' Quorum, which office he filled with ability and acceptance till his death. He was appointed Church Recorder, and also held that office at the time of his decease."-The Saints' Herald, vol. 21, pp. 240, 241.
The following items concerning the elders in the field are from the Herald of May 15:
Elder John T. Davies left Plano on the 16th of April for his field of labor in Wales. He was at Pittsburg [Pittsburgh] when we last heard from him.
Bro. T. W. Smith left for Amanda, Ohio, and the East on the 30th of April.
Brn. J. W. Briggs and Z. H. Gurley are still at Plano, Bro. Briggs recovering from illness, and Bro. Gurley doing local labor with excellent promise of success. He has filled an appointment near Courtland, Dekalb County, with great apparent good.
Bro. J. C. Clapp writes more and more encouragingly of the mission of himself and Bro. J. H. Hansen in Kentucky.
Bro. H. A. Stebbins was still at Pecatonira on the 2d, and would remain there preaching during that week, perhaps longer.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 21, pp. 307, 308.
On April 21 the First Presidency and the Bishopric in compliance with a resolution adopted by the General Conference made an urgent appeal for financial aid, and published their appeal in the Herald for May 1, 1874. 2
2 Brothers, Sisters, in Christ: The vastly inadequate help that the chief officers of the church, including the Bishopric, have been able to give to the various missions assigned by the church was never more strikingly and painfully made apparent than at our spring conference, when the reports of Brn. John S. Patterson, from England, John Avondet and John L. Bear, from Switzerland, were given.
The conference, taking into consideration the great necessity for present and direct aid, by resolution duly presented and adopted, authorized the Presidency and the Bishopric to make an appeal to the Saints for help.
We therefore, hereby present the fact, that our brethren who are in the field should be sustained there by the church; and that in order to do this it is imperatively necessary that means be forthcoming. And, as we know of but two methods by which such means can be legitimately raised, one by tithing, the other by free-will offering, or consecration, we, as officers of the church, as servants of Christ, and as coworkers for the upbuilding of Zion, do earnestly request you to set apart so much of your earthly substance as you feel willing to devote to the promulgation of the gospel, and place it in the hands of the Bishopric, as at the "apostles' feet," that it may be applied to the proper sustaining the missions which have been asked and taken.
There are tracts authorized for the missions-they must be paid for when printed. Our brethren abroad have not the means to pay for them; some, indeed, can only stay in the field by sustaining themselves there by manual labor, and labor is difficult to obtain in the old country. We must no longer be sluggards in this matter.
We believe any man can "consecrate of his substance" if he will; and we think he will if he has the love of God shed abroad in his heart.
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