B. H. Roberts and Seymour B. Young of the First Council of Seventy also visited Morgan. Some of these brethren came many times over the years to teach and bless the Saints. Quarterly conference of the Morgan Stake was held at the new school- house in Morgan City located at 1st North and 1st West. Stake conferences were held there until the stake meetinghouse was completed. When the weather permitted, conferences were held in the bowery because the schoolhouse could not contain the crowd that would assemble. The first quarterly conference was held 17 and 18 November 1877. After the invocation, the Morgan City Choir sang, "The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee." President Smith then addressed the congregation, followed by President Francis who had just begun his remarks when President Fry arrived in company with Joseph F. Smith and Franklin D. Richards and escorted them to the stand. As recorded in the minutes of the conference, Elder Richards' remarks dwelt upon subjects both temporal and spiritual-marriage, tithing, building of tanneries, and the storing of grain. "He gave some very good instruction to the Relief Society. Spoke of the powerful persuasive qualities that the sisters possessed. Counselled them to continue in laying up grain for the men would not do it. Advised the brethren if there were any grog shops in the place to do away with them by petitioning the court to have them dispensed with."11 It was during this conference that the Saints supported a decision to build a stake meetinghouse. Also, in this first stake conference, a pattern was set for calling home missionaries to preach the gospel throughout the stake. This practice would continue through the M. Howard Randall administration. A period of over sixty years. In thejuly 1877 epistle from the First Presidency, priesthood leaders were instructed to hold a monthly stake priesthood meeting. Monthly priesthood meetings were conducted by the stake presidency. The bishops and their counselors were specifically asked to attend these meetings. The business of the meeting was to receive reports of the conditions and activities in the wards. These were to be oral and presented by each bishop. They were to include a financial report, a statistical report, a brief summary of conditions and activities in the ward which included the priesthood quorums and auxiliaries. The remainder of the meeting was given to items of general importance to the stake. This meeting was to be held on the first Saturday of each month; however, the first meeting in Morgan was not held until 31 September 1877. This was followed by similar meetings on 3 November and 1 December.12 Some of the topics discussed at the first priesthood meetings were the construction of a tithing house, the organization of a library in each ward and in the stake, and the organization of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association in Milton. At one meeting, "the question as to how dances