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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 6 Page: 104 (~1875)

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104 San Francisco, S. M. Hubbard; Alameda, H. H. Morgan; Visalia and San Joaquin, Orrin Smith; Sacramento, Cornelius Bagnall; Alpine (we find no record of a president being appointed for this district); Petaluma, Peter C. Briggs; Yolo, J. B. Price; Humboldt, Bradbury Robinson; Del Norte, Placer, and Shasta, J. M. Parks; Butte, William McLean; Plumas, William Potter. The numerical strength of the Pacific Slope Mission was reported at about 1,072, including 923 in California, 115 in Nevada, and 34 in Oregon. Elder J. C. Clapp was appointed to preside over Oregon and Washington, and Elder George Smith over Nevada. Jeremiah Root and John M. Range were ordained elders. Measures were adopted looking towards a permanent location for the president of Pacific Slope Mission, and the following committee was appointed: John Roberts, D. S. Mills, Simon Stivers, James M. Parks, Moses Meeder, John Joyce, and R. Huntly.

In The Signs of the Times, for April 22, 1875, a paper published by the Seventh-day Advents, in Oakland, California, Elder J. H. Waggoner made an attack on the gifts of the gospel as exercised by the Saints. This was fully examined and answered in a series of articles by President Joseph Smith, that were published in the Herald, commencing June 1, 1875.

On April 25 the Saints at Stockton, California, dedicated their house of worship previously erected, Elders Alexander H. Smith and Daniel S. Mills officiating in their behalf.

The charge of favoritism having been made against the church, Elder Charles Derry replied in the following forceful and characteristic manner:

COLUMBUS, Platt County, Neb., April 27, 1875.

Dear Herald: If I lacked an evidence of the impartiality, justice, and liberality of the Reorganized Church, I could not fail to see an indisputable one in the fact of the publication of the article under the head of "Favoritism." In that act the motives of the church are impugned, and charges grave enough, if true, to sink the church in the depths of obloquy and shame. I have had the privilege to sit in the highest councils of the church, and of observing the secret springs, if there were any, that moved the whole machinery. I have helped to consider plans and measures for

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