AN OLD CHURCH HKUUtilt innllzil fu 1S1 Vm One of Ibo iUrmm Hat allnu anil Com tu Utah In 1817 In the Fifth ward of Logan dwells one of the oldeil members of the Church His name Is Sanford Porter Brother Porter was born lu Trumbull county Ohio on Ibo LDlh ot June 1822 his fattier Sanford Porter Ben we baptized lu 182P vn before the Church was crganlzeJ and Sanford Jr was bubtln id ns soon as he reached his eighth Year which was In 1831 Brother Purler doctor claim lo oe the oldest member of the Church unless 1hllo Dibble la I dead as ho bt levels Brother Dibble was baptized first t Ihugb he la I not lure and be ad < mils there may be others ofwhom he and not heard who have been members mem-bers of the Cnurou longer than he has He la I hale aud hearty and when not working for the ailvallou of Ibo dead in Ibe Temple l Tim la I cut on his farm or In his garden rushing temporal salvation for a low of tile living When a repie sensitive of Ibe NEWS ualled lo ate ilm the other day he found him n urnlng borne with a recentlyused horse and plow from some nearby field or garden After slating his 1OIliion tat NEWS mn was coast fully naked Into Ibo house white he afterwards spent one of Ibo most peasant bouM of his Journalistic CAreer ca-reer Brother Porter was personally acquainted ac-quainted with the Prupiet Joseph hard h-ard I him preach and prolbocy UTILITY a time and he stood guard lu Nauvoo for a period of eight weeks pllor to toe Prophets martyrdom HP taw Joseph and Hyrum alter they were shut lie Suffered with the Balm In most of the early persecutes and to I its full Interesting remlulceuc as an 011 la I full of meat He well a member of thai famous band of heroes who loa I their families lu the wilder neia and marched In answer lo their country call lo meet the foe alto was a member 01 the Mom Batalllou booorably dlobrlld in Cl1Ionl and from that place be reached Utau lu 1847