“ NEW PORTAGE CONFERENCE.
This meeting of the elders and brethren was a joyous one—the number of elders I do not recollect, but there were some eighteen or twenty, representing several little branches of the church.
The brethren from a distance were in good spirits, and manifested an unshaken confidence in the gospel which they had embraced. The church at New Portage numbers one hundred and more, many, or the most of whom, were present at the meeting on the Sabbath. ”

“ A thousand things may be conjectured, but when a man declares openly, candidly, and seriously, of what he has seen, hefted and handled with his own hands, and that in the presence of a God who sees and knows the secrets of the heart, no man possessed of common reason and common sense, can doubt, or will be so vain as to dispute. ”

“ Elder Whitmer was followed by several elders, and the meeting closed with a few remarks from elder O. Cowdery upon the further truth of the book of Mormon. The meeting was continued till quite late, after which one more came forward and was baptized.
After evening the elders were called together again in conference, and finished the business before them. This was a solemn time, and the hearts of the servants of the Lord were filled with a joy and consolation, to which those who are unacquainted with the influence of the Holy Spirit, are strangers. ”