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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 12 Page: 182 (~1878)

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182 referred to in the foregoing letter, and. that the description as given is true to the best of our knowledge.

A. C. DEMPSEY.

ELIJAH SPARKS.

M. A. SPARKS.

Since the above was in print we have received a very comprehensive statement from William Clow who is referred to in the above as "the one who persecuted us." See Appendix A.

There was a mission conference held at Waratah, Australia, July 22, 1877; Glaud Rodger, president; C. A. Davis, clerk. Six branches were reported at this conference with a total membership of ninety-six, including ten elders, four priests, two teachers, and one deacon.

On July 26, 1877, Robert T. Burton of Salt Lake City, Utah, was arrested by a United States marshal, charged with the murder of Joseph Morris and John Banks.

The Herald for August 15, 1877, contains the following interesting items:

President W. W. Blair arrived at home from Canada, July 24.

The latest news from Bro. Peter N. Brix, the missionary to Denmark, was dated at Aalborg, July 9. He is laboring to save souls, and he longs for the redemption of the Saints' inheritances, when God shall prepare the way.

Bro. Robert Woodcock writes from Manteno, Iowa, that three have lately been baptized there, and there is a greater desire in that country to hear than there was in the past.

On August 29, 1877, President Brigham Young died in Salt Lake City, Utah. In noticing his death the Herald for September 15 took occasion to make the following summary of his work:

President Brigham Young is dead. He who has so long directed the energies of the church in the Salt Lake Valley, has passed into the great beyond to which all of mortality is tending. We publish elsewhere an obituary notice taken from the daily journal of current events, and shall most probably add to this what may be said of him in the Deseret News their official paper, or so much as we shall have room for. We are anxious, of course, to be made acquainted with the policy which will be pursued by the church there, in the appointment of the successor of President Young.

That one will be found who will rule with the positive sway that he has done, we do not anticipate; but it must be seen that the church in Utah was never met by so grave an emergency as the one now before them.

It has been said that the church never prospered so rapidly as after

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