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Show - 55 - Johnson and David Williams went to the President's Office and then to the Historian's Office where· all three were set apart to go on missions . ~ ~~t. . to the Southern state s . On the ~~ these bre thren went to the Pr e siQen~ 1a ylor•s Oifice where they received their certi1ic a t es. on Sunday, January 27, 1878, he arose early and went to Dr aper where he had br eakfast a t the home of br other J . B. Stewa rt; then spoke at the Dr aper Sunday Sch ool and in the afte rnoon preached to the people i n S a cramen~ J!eeti ng . While there he learned of the d e a th of Ebene zer Brown , one of the MOrmon Battalion , who had passed away a t 12 minutes to 12 p .m. on ~he preceeding night. He returned home Sunday evening on the n: 40 train . Monday mor ning , January 28, he ~rans ferred con trol of the 14th ward ove r to a brother. ward with many of the people f eeling badly because of the change . · During the f ollowi ng week , he spent c onsiderable time in writing letters to the saints in the South and in making prep a r a tion for · l eavilig: on his newly appointed mission . He at~ended one home missionary meeting a t which, he s ays , there was some pret~y rough t alk f rom which he learned considerable of tne standing of some of t he woula - be f inanciers of the Church . Sunday , February ~rd , he attended Slinday School in t he· 14th ward and in the at ~ e rnoon spoke to a l a r ge congrega ti on in the same wa r d a t which he !'el t a splen<li<l spirit . In the evening of tha t day , he spoke , ~o getner with Elder . G. A tj wood at the evening meeting in ~he 9th ward . John Morgan had been advised by Presi dent John Taylor tha t it was the desire o!' the Church jut hori ties tha t~ pl anning to r e turn to the southern s ~a tes to continue his missiona r y wor k , select men t o be called who would make good missionaries in ca rrying on the |
