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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 26 Page: 460 (~1885)

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460 that said examination began Tuesday, July 8th and was concluded July 17th, 1884.

Wm. H. KELLY, Chairman of Committee. D. J. WHITMER

ALEX H. SMITH. GEO. SCHWEICH

THOS. W. SMITH, Secretary of Committee. JOHN SHORT

JOHN C. WHITMER.

JOSEPH SMITH.

P. A. PAGE.

July 14 there was a discussion at Prices Corners, Ontario, between Elder J. H. How, of the Seventh-day Advents, and Elder James A. McIntosh.

In the Herald for July 19, 1884, appeared the prospectus of a paper to be published in England in the interests of church work. This periodical appeared first under date of August, 1884, under the title of The Vindicator of Truth, and setting forth that it was "the official organ of the English Mission of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and is published by order of mission conference." The name of the editor does not appear, but we notice among the contributors the names of Joseph Dewsnup, G. S. Hyde, John Austin, Joseph Naylor, M. T. James, C. H. Caton, J. Ramsey, G. S. Greenwood, J. C. Foss, Simon Spargo, William Kendrick, Thomas Taylor, Elizabeth Spargo, and T. E. Jenkins. It was published monthly, closing in July, 1885. It was printed in the city of Birmingham.

On August 1 Elder J. R. Lambert, in harmony with a provision made by the General Conference, appointed J. M. Terry to labor in Kansas, and H. A. Stebbins to labor in Decatur District, Iowa, as general .missionaries.

In Herald for August 2, the editor gave an account of a visit and conversation with General Doniphan. It contains some valuable historic references. It is as follows:

General A. W. Doniphan, whom we met at his hotel, the Hudgins House, told us that he knew Oliver Cowdery well, and knew him till his death; he spoke in good terms of him as a man and as a citizen.

We called upon the General the evening before we left Richmond, and had an hour's very interesting chat, in which the General related several incidents which occurred during the days that the Saints were citizens of

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