--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1842 to 1843. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 4 number: 3 published: 1842-12-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Conference Minutes,” *Times and Seasons* 4, no. 3 (December 15, 1842): 47–48." printed_title: CONFERENCE MINUTES. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-12-15_4_3 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n03.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-12-15_4_3 start_page: 47 end_page: 48 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1842 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-12-15_4_3 publication_year: 1842 --- # Conference Minutes The liberty branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, met in conference at liberty schoolhouse, Cotton township Switzerland county, Indiana, on Saturday Oct. 15th 1842, according to previous appointment. The meeting was called to order by elder Samuel Hewitt, when elder John Bair was called to the chair, and elder Samuel Hewitt appointed to act as clerk. Being duly organized the conference was opened by singing, and prayer by J. M. Grant. The business brought before the conference was then disposed of to the entire satisfaction of all present, and the officers of the branch were chosen without a dissenting vote. The greatest union and harmony prevailed, and all things were done decently and in order, as becometh saints. After several addresses by elders Grant and Bair, the clerk represented the condition of the branch as follows: thirty five members, exclusive of officers; six have removed to the west since our conference in May last, and twenty have been added; a number more are believing, but are still halting between two opinions, whether it is best to serve God or Baal. There is grounds to hope that some of them will make a wise choice and choose that good part which shall not be taken from them. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That elders J. M. and J. Grant receive a vote of thanks of this conference for their labors among us for the last two weeks. Resolved, That elder John Bair receive a letter of commendation for his labors in this branch during the past summer. Resolved, That an abridged copy of the minutes of this conference be forwarded to the editor of the Times and Seasons for publication. Resolved, That this conference adjourn to meet at the same place, on the third Saturday of April next.