Oct 9. Conference met at 10 oclok. E D Woolley prayed
G Q Cannon presented the Authorities of the Church
all of which were received last evening the 12 met
at President Youngs and after Discussing the subject the
Presidency & Twelve voted to drop John Smith from
the Patriarchal Office & put in his place Joseph F Smith

but during the day John & Joseph F Smith had seen
President Brigham and pled vary hard to try John
another six month to see if he would magnify his
calling any better than he had done in the past.

President Joseph Young then spoke 50 M[inutes]. Near 6100
Missionaries were then called. President Young spoke
25 Minuts (The foregoing minutes of this 9 day was in the
Afternoon the fore noon Minuts were as follows) EC DC Rich
Prayed, John Taylor then offered up the dedication prayer
which was printed in the Deseret News and Herald. The
Tabernacle was then Dedicated, it took 40 Minuts to read
it. O Pratt spoke 2012 Minuts, O Hyde spoke 20 M,
G Q Cannon 30 M. we met with the priesthood in the
Oct 10, Sunday Old Tabernacle in the Evening with 2500
Bishops & Elders and the rules of the United Order was
read to them in the power of God, and they were addressed
in the power of God by G. Q. Cannon J. Taylor W
Woodruff & D H Wells W. Woodruff said I feel
to bear my testimony to what the Apostles Have said to
you I have had vary peculier feelings for the last 3 months
of my life. I view in the vision of my mind Forty thousand
men in these mountains bearing the Holy and Everlasting
Priesthood of the Son of God and these men were fore-
ordained before the world was created to come here
on the Earth in this dispensation on purpose to labor
with the Lord to build up his kingdom on the Earth, and
then I view in the vision of my mind forty Million
Devels, fallen spirits gathered to gether to make war against

These forty thousand priest of the Lord and strive
to hender their building up the kingdom of God,
and we have fulfilled as a people that part of the
Saviours parable of the Ten Virgins whare He says
that while the Bridegroom tarried they all slumbered
and slep. [Matthew 25:5] We have all slumbered ^and slept^ and the word of
the Lord to me is that it is time for this kingdom
of Priest to arise and trim their lamps and to
take oil in their vessels with their lamps & prepare
to go forth to meet the Bridegroom for He is at
the door. It is time for Zion to arise and let her
light shine I do hope that this body of Bishops
and Elders will carry out the council of president
Brigham Young to go to & organize our wards
into the United Order. Some Bishop say they cannot
see it, then let all such resign their office & let some
other man take it who has the light of Christ in
him and can see it. let no Bishop stand in the way
of the Kingdom of God. O ye Elders of Israel it
is time for us to set our Houses in order & prepare
for that which is to come. It is time for us to teach
our wives & children to lay aside the New York
Ledger and all other novels and store up ^in^ our minds
with the revelations of God, And we should stop
sending thousands of Dollars out of the country to buy
Novels to teach our children ^vanity^ and sustain our own
press and Evry family in Zion should take the
Juvinile Instructor, and our owne papers.

I will also say we have many Bishops & Elders who
have but one wife who are abundantly able to support more
but their wives will not let them do it, any man who
will permit a woman to lead him and bind him down
is of but little account in the Church o& kingdom of God
this law of the patriarchal order of marriage & pluraliy
of wives is a revelation & commandment of God to us
and we should obey it. But one says if you do judge
MCKane will be after you. But who cares for Judge
McKain or any of the wicked world. This warefare
is between God & the Devil, Christ & Balial, Saint & Sinner
light & Darkness good & Evil. Do right and let the
consequences follow, Jesus Christ & his Saints will
overcome & gain the victory. What has given us the
victory since we have been in these vallies of the Mountains
The Lord hath done it because we have obeyed that part of
the Celestial Law of God, and it is by this principle that
our Delegate in Congress has been sustained there so
long because He has sustained this law. Then ye Bishops
& Elders arise & keep this law that you may inherit
its glory. Again I wished to say to the Bishops go
to & obey President Youngs council in storeing up the
grain of your wards, for I tell you in the name of
Jesus Christ that Famine is among the judgments of God
which are at the Door of this generation, and judgments
will begin at the House of God and to befor many years have
Have or els the Lord never spake by my mouth Amen