On Sunday
the speakers were Anthony W. Ivins, Stake Prest of the Y.M.M.I. Associations;
Counselor D. D. McArthur; Prests McAllister and
Jacob Gates and Apostle Smith and Lyman.
The subjects
dwelt upon by the speakers were: The divinity of the mission of the Prophet
Joseph Smith; the efforts of the self-righteous of this generation to stay the
purposes of the Almighty; the assurances we have of <the> final triumph
of good over evil, of truth over error; the preserving power of God in His
dealings with the Latter-day Saints ever since the Prophet Joseph received
his first vision of the Father and the Son . . . (James Godson Bleak, The
Annals of the Southern Mission, June 12, 1881, in The Annals of the
Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah, ed. Aaron McArthur
and Reid L. Neilson [Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019], 561)
