| 621 Heman C. Smith, James Caffall, J. C. Crabb, R. C. Elvin, C. G. Lanphear, J. T. Davies, J. F. Burton, H. H. Robinson, A. H. Parsons, E. A. Davies, L. R. Devore, J. Alfred Davies, Peter Anderson, T. J. Beatty, John Smith, O. B. Thomas, J. W. Wight, Arthur Leverton, Thomas Matthews, James Moler, E. M. Wildermuth, J. B. Lytle, Thomas Daly, Thomas Taylor, William Newton, J. Armstrong, J. H. Condit, J. H. Lawn, W. M. Gibson, Andrew Barr, J. R. Evans, Thomas Wellington, James Brown, Albert Haws, F. M. Cooper, Samuel Brown, Levi Phelps, Edward DeLong, D. L. Shinn, U. W. Greene, James A. McIntosh, S. W. L. Scott, Stephen Maloney, J. S. Goodrich, Emsley Curtis, G. E. Deuel, V. D. Baggerly, J. A. Wedlock, James Thomas, Thomas Whiting, J. A. Currie, Jr., J. R. Johnson, A. J. Cato.
The Church Recorder's report showed a net gain of 1,485 for the year, with Alabama, Florida, Eastern Maine, Massachusetts, Nodaway District, and Society Islands not reported.
The Board of Publication submitted a financial report showing a net gain of $3,220.90.
The editor of music reported, and the report was referred to a committee composed of J. T. Kinneman, E. L. Kelley, and W. H. Garrett; this committee reported recommending that the work be referred to the Board of Publication. Subsequently the Board of Publication decided to publish a book which has since been published and known as The Saints' Harmony. A brief account of this movement is as follows:
In 1871 M. H. Forscutt, Norman W. Smith, David H. Smith, J. A. Scott, John T. Kinneman, William Roberts, and Phineas Cadwell, were appointed a committee on music. In 1873 M. H. Forscutt was released on account of being on a mission in Europe, and James McKiernan was added. In 1874 James McKiernan was released on his request and J. V. Roberts appointed to fill the vacancy. In 1875 M. H. Forscutt was again added to the committee. This whole committee was released in 1876 and a new committee appointed consisting of M. H. Forscutt, N. W. Smith, and J. T. Kinneman. At the spring conference of 1878 the work of this committee was turned over to the Bishop. At the fall conference of the
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