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 Aposltes Benson and Snow addressed the Saints. The remarks were interpreted by Elder Joseph F. SMith.

On the seventh, there was a meetin gin the forenoon. A Priesthood meeting was ppointed of rhteveing, and the conference adjourned.

The meeting of the Priesthood in the eveing was well attended, as it was understood that Mr. Gibosn's course would be investigated. The complaints that were made by the native Elders, in the communication that led to our present mission, were read, and Mr. Gibson was called on to make answer to the charges.

In addition to nearly a repetition of his harangue at the meeting on the day previous, his reply consisted of a bomastic display of some letters of appointment and recommendations from President Young, to which he attached large seals, bedecked with a variety of colored ribbons, to give them and air of importance and officail significance, in the eyes of the unsophisticated natives. These paper he held up before the people, and, pointing to them, siad, with great emphasis, "HEre is my auhtority, which I received direct from President Brigham Young. I don't hold myself accountable to these men!" meaning the Apostles and those who come with them. Had there been no other proof of the wrong course of Mr. Gibson, that remark was sufficient to satisfy the brethren what their plain duty was, and they acted promptly in the matter.

Apsotle E.T. Benson followed Mr. Gibosn. He reviewed Mr. Gibson's pas cours, and showed that, in making merchandise of the offices of the Priesthood, for the purpose of obtaining power, and his idean of establishing a temporal and independent kingdom on the Pacific isles, were all in antagonism to the plan laid down in the Gospel for the redemption of man. The spirit manifested by Mr. Gibson proved that he was ignorant of the powers of the Priesthoo, or that he ignored [p. 285]