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Show and hence we should not"feel"baa-becaus'e"those who'hela thEf'right corrected us. We" heve been sent' here for the' express "purpcse of working in" the" Order, and' should' let 8 feeling that we were getting ahead of' the Twelve hinder us from going eheed , we 'were' only teying to do' what our worthy Prest".·B. toting, who' had left us ;' requested us to do. 'We had "been accused of being bigoted here, Seemed to him but'we are under covenant to sustain each other in the' Order. that the people' of Brighvm City end Sunset'were the happiest people in .Arizona. He spoke encouragingly to the saints to live in the manner they had started in " we were evil spoken of was an evidence to him we were It might yet become neceasa to concentrate together be cause our enemies might come upon us, it we were not diligent in keepingthe commandments of God. Spoke upon tbe troubles the saints had to endure from these settlements. trying to do right. That Related attending en elders their enemies while livingin the states with them. et Neuvoo when a boy where Hyrum Smith spoke upon the principle of He spoke with much force upon the necessity of adopting Celestial marriage. mee'ting the principles of union in midst that our we might do our duty with the Lemsnites. We should Prest. L. Smith testified thbt we had had a good te tugether. pour out our souls in prayer to the Lord, for He would not take the advantage of But how quick we would pour out the secret of our hearts to the strangers. us. The devil would like to see division How strange the Latter-day Saints were. He was glad we had met in our midst, but he trusted the Lord would bless us. for three days, end could sec many of the elders here who could speak with Let us sustain ourselves and not sustain ower and whom he would like to hear. those.who came to BUck ?ur blood, but were not of us •. ., , until Friday, February 28th,1879. Place of meet Conference then adjourned be hereafter. to designated ··ing Choir sang, "The Spirit of God Like a Fire is Burning". Closing preyer by Hiram Judd. , ' Dec., 1878. Received letter from President John Taylor.dBted Salt Lake City Nov. 27, 1878 giving notice of the dividing of" the settlements in eastern .Arizona into two presidencies---the dividing line to be at Barado's ranche on the Little Colorado'river, leaving the settlements lying on the Little Colorado, west of the dividing line, also'those situated between the Little Colorado and Kanab, as well as the scattered saints located in the regions round about the main settle ments t on the Little the San Pedro. February 28th, Celled to oreer by Colorado, 1879. in this Stake, but nt to extend to Salt River Qu&rterly Conference held Lot Prest. at Smith. Sunset, A. T. 10 BrigS.tem Oi ty choir sang, "The Morning Breaks, the Shadol/B Flee" Opening prayer by Wm. O. Allen. Brigham Oi ty choir Bang, "The Glorious Dey is Rolling On". . The clerk read 8 a. nor m. . letter from the Hon. Geo. Q. Cannon at weshinton. at this conference. We s. G. Ladd esteemed it a great privilege to meet have been on this mission some three blessed us. We are has the Lord and years more equal in the enoyment of the comforts of life than the people are in Utah. We desire to cultivate of these blessings world He I . were spoke upon a spirit of union and equality. the cause the principle \ The unequal distribution of much of the contentions that exist in the that the Lord ofunion and of the revelations |
