_July 17th_.--The Twelve met in conference, agreeably to previous appointment, at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. _Resolved_:--That this State be within the limits of this conference, and include the branches in Littleton, Dalton, and Landaff, in New Hampshire, to be called the Vermont Conference. The St. Johnsbury branch numbered forty-one members; Danville, twenty-three; Charlton, twenty-one; Jay, eleven; Dalton, fifteen; Landaff, four; Littleton, ten; Andover, Vermont, fifteen; Beneeon, seven; and Lewis, New York, seventeen. Six of the council addressed the conference on principles of faith and action. Adjourned to the 18th, when the remaining six members of the council enforced the necessity of sending up wise men, and purchasing lands, according to the commandments--which the Saints readily agreed to do. _Sunday, 19th_.--Our public meeting was attended by more than a thousand people, and during our conference nine were baptized. Orson Hyde, Wm. E. M'Lellin, Clerks. [Sidenote: The Prophet at work on the Book of Abraham.] The remainder of this month, I was continually engaged in translating an alphabet to the Book of Abraham, and arranging a grammar of the Egyptian language as practiced by the ancients. August 2nd, being the Sabbath, I preached a part of the day. {239} _Minutes of the High Council at Kirtland_. Kirtland, August 4th, 1835, a High Council of the Church of Christ of Latter day Saints assembled in conference, consisting of Presidents Joseph Smith, Jun., Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, Hyrum Smith, David Whitmer, John Whitmer, and W. W. Phelps, and others, to take into consideration certain items contained in letters from abroad--one from Warren A. Cowdery, Presiding Elder of the Freedom Conference, and one from Elder William E. M'Lellin. The first reads as follows: Freedom, July 29th, 1835.