| 550 The following ministers preached the word to large throngs of people during the reunion: Joseph Luff, Joseph Smith, Charles Derry, John A. McIntosh, W. H. Garrett, J. S. Roth, Duncan Campbell, M. T. Short, W. T. Bozarth, David Chambers, J. F. McDowell, E. C. Brand, W. W. Blair, J. C. Crabb, George A. Blakeslee, George S. Hyde. Forty-two persons were baptized during the reunion. It was estimated that from five to six thousand people were on the grounds the last Sunday of the reunion.
October 10 the Oakland Branch, California, resolved to incorporate the branch. Articles of incorporation were adopted, and George Bartholomew, H. P. Brown, and William Anderson were elected directors.
October 17 the new church edifice erected at Omaha, Nebraska, was dedicated. The opening prayer was offered by Elder James Caffall, the dedicatory prayer by President Joseph Smith, who also preached the dedicatory sermon.
October 24, James Sloan who was in 1842 and 1843 Church Recorder at Nauvoo, Illinois, died at Sacramento, California.
The Saints' Herald of November 20 contains the following account of a remarkable case of healing, given by Thomas Harris:
I wish to say what God has done for one in our family. My daughter-in-law was deaf in one ear since she was a child, from the effect of measles. When our beloved Bro. R. J. Anthony was here she wished to be administered to. Brn. Anthony and J. E. Reese were called; she was administered to, and on Sunday following she received her hearing perfectly, for which we praise the name of our Redeemer. Brn. L. B. and Loren Gaulter were in the house at the time; the Spirit's influence was felt by all in such power that tears of joy flowed from all present.
Elder R. C. Evans held a debate at Vanessa, Ontario, the night of December 5, with Reverend Sims, presumably of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Elder Evans affirmed the following proposition: "Resolved, That baptism is essential to salvation." The debate was followed by lectures delivered by Reverend Sims, who made a
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