(A unanimous vote was passed by the immense assembly for Joseph to be the next President) <​Candidate for the next president​>

Elder Heber C. Kimball arose and said:—

. . . We are going to arrange a plan for Conferences, and we design to send Elders to all the different States to get up meetings and protracted meetings, and electioneer for Joseph to be the next President. A great many of the Elders will necessarily have to leave their families and the mothers will have to assume the responsibility of governing and taking care of the children to a much greater extent than when their husbands were at home. I therefore exhort them to be humble faithful and diligent seeking to the Lord for wisdom to rear up their children in righteousness and prepare them to roll on the work of the Lord when their father shall have been worn out in the ministry. The mothers therefore are the persons who will more or less have to train the children.

20 min. to 11 a call was made for the Volunteers to go preaching to pass out to the green, a great Company moved out and returned to the right of the stand, and were numbered 244.