protection. After our discharge on the Pacific I went to Oregon, and while there at work with some companions, a man who appeared to be a tramp, dressed in a pair of overalls and shirt, stated that he had been traveling for years hoping to find someone to kill him, that he was one of the mob who murdered the 'Mormons' and little children at the Haun's Mill massacre, that he had never known one minutes peace since, that his life was a burden to him, and he wanted someone to kill him. He asked if there were any Mormons there. Someone told him there was; that a young man was there who was present at the massacre and who had a brother killed at the time under the bellows at the blacksmith shop. The individual muttered a terrible moan and said, 'He was the one who killed him.' He was led into my presence, and as he approached me, he bared his breast and said, 'Shoot me; kill me, that I may be at rest.' I said, 'No sir, I will do no such thing. If you were wicked enough to kill my little innocent brother and others without cause, and are suffering the just penalty of such a horrible crime, I would not stain my hand with your blood, but leave you in the just hands of God.' He trembled from head to foot and went away. I have never heard of him since. I have told you this much of my experience of the Haun's Mill massacre, but I can never tell you all of it. I feel now toward the murderers of Bros. Gibbs and Berry as I did toward the murderers of my brother. Let God deal with them. I do not envy them their feelings. They will never more be happy on the earth. We leave these men in the hands of God. Amen.58 At the September meeting of the priesthood, President Fry said a request had been made by the Presidency of the Church to take up a donation for the benefit of the families of the deceased elders. Directions were given to the bishops on how to proceed.59 Though pressure from the "outside" mounted, life went on and growth continued within the stake. Following a trip to the Logan Temple during the spring of 1885, Brother S. W. Porter was requested to give a report at the March priesthood meeting about the requirements a person must meet before being granted a recommend. He said, "A person must be living as near as possible up to the line of their duties, and obeying counsel from those who have a right to counsel the Saints, they must be tithe payers, none Sabbath breakers, must not profane the name of Deity, sustain the institutions of Zion, and pay their honest debts, must not have hardness of heart, their families must be in order, and attend to their prayers, in fact there is nothing in the revealed will of God that is not required of a person before entering the temple. The Word ofWisdom must be kept strictly, and persons that do not fully believe the law of celestial marriage are requested to withdraw and go back until they do."60 President Smith was excused from the April priesthood meeting because he was in Salt Lake City where he had been called to serve on a committee to draft resolutions to forward to Congress in regard to the grievances of the Saints.61 On4 April 1885 the Fifty-FifthAnnual General Conference of the Church convened in the Logan Tabernacle in Logan, Utah. Elder Franklin D. Richards 32