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822 IMPROVEMENT ERA

of the priesthood would rise and the members voting would raise their right hands, and then be quickly seated, so that the business of voting might be done as expeditiously as possible. Those wishing to vote in the negative, would vote in like manner. The order of voting was as follows: 1. First Presidency. 2.Apostles. 3.Patriarchs. 4. The Presidents of Stakes, their Counselors, and High Councilors. 5. High priests. 6. Seventies. 7. Elders. 8. Bishops and their Counselors. 9. The Lesser Priesthood (priests, teachers, deacons). 10. All members of the Church present. Practically the whole body of the hall was occupied completely by the priesthood, and the scene from the stand, as the many thousands of men stood up, quorum by quorum, to vote, their right hands raised to the square, was the most impressive, stately and dignified religious solemnity that the eye of man ever beheld, not to speak of the scene when the whole audience, upwards of ten thousand in number, covenanted unanimously in like manner to sustain their chosen leaders. The following are the officers voted upon, and the introductory statement by President Heber J. Grant: We will now present to the congregation, the General Authorities of the Church, those holding the priesthood only. Inasmuch as there will be ten votes called, comprising the different orders of the priesthood, and the assembly as a whole, and it will take so much time, only the General Authorities will be presented at this conference: It was then proposed that we sustain: Heber J. Grant, as Prophet, Seer and Revelator and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Anthon H. Lund, as First Couneslor in the First Presidency. Charles W. Penrose, as Second Counselor in the First Presidency. Rudger Clawson, as acting President of the Twelve Apostles. As members of the Council of Twelve Apostles: Rudger Clawson, Reed Smoot, George Albert Smith, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony W. Ivins,