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110 THE STORY OF MORMONISM.

printed in the Times mid Seasons, which ends here. It is taken up in the Millennial Star, in diary form, beginning with volume xv. and continuing to the day of his death.

information could be given to editors, authors, publishers, and any or all classes of inquirers that might apply, and he undertook with his clerks, re- corder, and all available aid from private journals, correspondence, and his own indelible memory, and made it a labor to get his own history, which was indeed that of the church in all the stages of its growth, while he remained

with his people, compiled and written up to date, which with his own cur- rent journal enabled the historian to complete the history to the time of his assassination, with the utmost fidelity to facts as they occurred. Our method of verification, after compilation and rough draft, was to read the same be- fore a session of the council, composed of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles, and there scan everything under consideration.' Richards' Bibliog- raphy of Utah, MS., 2-6.