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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 1 Page: 11 (~1830)

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11 be sustained in his mission to Switzerland. That we sustain E. Banta, I. L. Rogers, D. Dancer, J. Scott, and Joseph Smith as the Board of Publication. That we sustain Elder I. Sheen as Church Librarian. Bro. D. P. Young was ordained a high priest under the hands of Elders I. Sheen and E. C. Briggs; I. Sheen being spokesman. (See Saints' Herald , vol. 20, pp. 304-306.)

This was one of the most important conferences ever held by the Reorganization, and marks an epoch in the development of the church, especially as regards quorum organization. Of this conference the editor of the Herald wrote:

The April conference for 1873 is past. Much business of importance to the church was transacted. A more peaceful and pleasant session the church has never hold.

The vote on the most of the questions presented was very unanimous, and the best of feeling prevailed during the discussion of those upon which there was any decided difference of opinion.

Seven were baptized during the session.

Brethren from nearly every quarter were present. Brn. John Gilbert and Francis Sheehy, of Massachusetts; Bro. Elisha Culver, of Vermont; Brn. Robert Davis, Joseph S. Snively, and Duncan Campbell, of Canada; Bro. Wm. H. Kelley, of Indiana; Brn. George Corless and George A. Blakeslee, of Michigan; Thomas W. Smith and George T. Chute, of Alabama; Daniel P. Young and George Adams, of California; Wm. H. Hazzledine, of Missouri; Brn. Frank Reynolds, John H. Lake, William Anderson, of Montrose, Calvin Beebe and Charles Jensen, of Council Bluffs, and a host of others of Iowa; Alexander H. Smith, Joseph R. Lambert, and Thomas Revel and others from Hancock County, Illinois; Thomas P. Green and George Hilliard, of Wayne County, Illinois, with numbers from the various districts of labor in the vineyard, whom we do not now call to mind....

A car-load of nearly fifty Saints, under the charge of Bro. Frank Reynolds, from Nauvoo, Montrose, Vincennes, Burlington, and other places, came in on Saturday, the 5th, and stayed during the session. These Saints held a social meeting after the adjournment of conference, and left on the morning train on Monday, the 14th, for home, rejoicing.

There was less sickness among the Saints during the session than any we have attended for some years.

The weather was of all sorts, rain and clouds, snow and frost, for the first days of the session, clearing up on Saturday, giving us two days of fair weather.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 20, pp. 240, 241.

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