Prest. Young and Council of the Twelve met at the Historians Office and had O. Pratt's sermon read as revised by the Twelve, which was satisfactory to Prest. Young . . . Prest. Young then made the following remarks.

I have attended the fast meeting to day in the Tabernacle, and I have seen the best spirit manifested. I have <heard> 15 or 16 of the brethren speak, all running in the same stream. Tomorrow the Church will be 30 years old, about the age that Jesus was when he commenced his mission.

We are improving and I just know it, my path is like the noon day sun, and I could cry out hallelujah! hallelujah! Praise to God who has been merciful to us and confered on us his Holy Spirit. a private member in this church is brighter than the power of Kings and Princes of the world, to secure and eternal existence; the wicked have to be blotted out of existence, and the greatest gift is to have eternal existence forever written in the Lamb's book of life.

Bro. Orson Pratt I want you to do just as you have done in your apostleship, but when you want to teach new doctrine, write your ideas, and submit them to me and if they are correct, I will tell you. There is no man's sermons that I like read, when you understand your subject, better than yours—but you are not perfect, neither am I.