. The autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, embracing his life, ministry and travels, with extracts, in prose and verse, from his miscellaneous writings. xpress Company, of which I was a member. Saturday, 26thj and from thence to February 14th Avasspent with my family, and in preaching occasionally inthe Tabernacle and in the different wards in the in the of&ce of juryman on the Grand Jury of theUnited States Court. Tuesday, March 4^/t.—Attended at the Presidents officein the duty as a Eegent of the Univer
. The autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, embracing his life, ministry and travels, with extracts, in prose and verse, from his miscellaneous writings. xpress Company, of which I was a member. Saturday, 26thj and from thence to February 14th Avasspent with my family, and in preaching occasionally inthe Tabernacle and in the different wards in the in the of&ce of juryman on the Grand Jury of theUnited States Court. Tuesday, March 4^/t.—Attended at the Presidents officein the duty as a Eegent of the University. Next day attended at the Presidents office as a Com-mittee of the Eegency in raising school books. Thursday, Gth.—Myself and family fasted and attendedmeeting in the fourteenth ward school-house, and at even-ing visited at brother Southworths, and attended anothermeeting in the ward. Having been elected a delegate of Salt Lake County toa Convention called by the people of the Territory of Utah,to form a Constitution for the State, of Deseret, I at-tended the daily sessions of the Convention for ten days,ending March 27, 1856. My time, after the adjournmentof said Convention, was devoted to laboring on the farm,. CO W H o cc 5O o1^ AUTOBIOaKAPHY OF PARLEY P. PRATT. 483 garden, and administerin;; in the various duties of mycalling, writing history, etc., until the Semi-annual Confer-ence, which (convened April 6th and closed on the Conference was held under a bowery adjoining theTabernacle, and was attended by six or eight thousandpeople. At this Conference several hundred persons werecalled to go on missions to the United States,. England,Australia, the Sandwich Islands and other parts of theearth. The Presidency enjoined upon me the duty ofsettmg apart and ordaining those who were called fortheir several missions, in which I was assisted by the restof the Twelve and some of the Presidents of Seventies. About this period, or immediately after Conference, Iwas
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