its interests too important to remain with it. On Monday evening, December 17, I went into my room in college, intending to remain until light came. I fell on my knees in prayer. Then came to my mind these words: "Not to-night, but in the morning. " I accepted it as from God. I at once went home, and the next morning went to my study and sought to know the Lord's mind. While in prayer, my mind settled down in this conviction, that I ought not to hold a position of which I could not perform the duties. I arose and went over the considerations pro and con. Again I sought light; again my mind settled down in the same conviction. I then went over and talked with Bro. Ure. I asked him if he had any thing additional to say. He said not ; but remarked, that I ought not to remain, if I felt my health was too unreliable to perform college work. I went home again and again threw myself- on my knees, and besought the Lord to show me His will, let it be what it might. Again my mind settled down in the conviction that my health was too unre- liable to justify me in continuing in the presidency. I sought the Lord for some token from Him that this was His mind that I was right and not deceived. I then went up to my room, when there came on a feeling of faintness, which I accepted as a "sign from God " that I was too nearly worn out to continue