Show GENERAL of the presidency eucy of the clerch of J edus christ of C latter day saints from great salt lake valley i to 10 the w tants saints scattered abroad throughout through oitt the earth BELOVED it la is with peculiar emotions of graU ludu to our heavenly father tami clial we ve addred you at the present tini linic I 1 1 e a period r od 1 ui i the history of this last dispensation when II 11 he leril chief f corner stones of the house of tatt lord c are laid ih id tile the tops of tile the according r to 46 tife the pre of ancient il prophets pro mige bets an mo f ime previously suggested ly lie s while tile movements of the heavens andi the earth ear til andall things connected tile die speedy of abe visions tny and cheb concerning mp ohp letter days Tre preparatory to th A e of the son of alai i i we rejoice that P god dAf of abraham irah wg has prepared a hiding biding place for whap his people e pie y a yh A etli c valleys of ole everlasting hills r rewe 0 o ve I 1 have bave I 1 been b ee q p permuted permit ed for a few years y ars to dal 11 1 ft I 1 b t e from the fire and blood that hai had weir air poured aur out ont upon the saints in former years hy by thosa w who 0 feared red mot biot god neither regarded man mail since our last epistle of oct know of bufer bt c particular s that have transpired arnopp the various laa ba lions of h boutwe but we know thattie th atthe of JOs jeays christ are true and that peace peace is taken from the earth and blat tl al chose who wirl will not receive and obey the gospel of jesus christ when they bedr it will worse and worse cin iii evil passions war and T lood blood until tile wicked s liall have oy the wicked and destroyed themselves ve s from ahe face fac e of tile earth 1 i that jesus J hiis may have the privilege to rei ru cl in the mid it of those that love him hia no mail tes nas been received from the cast since lost last novem Nw ember er and a part of that is still cached in the mountains while the lite remainder was drawn over the snow drifts by hand abild abid as yet we have no certain information who was last elected president of the baited states or who is isnow now president of the nation I 1 I 1 during hii chii long silence froni froin hie east we haveko have two mails irom from calibo nia by the south route containing very little news A few letters from fm va sho w tit an increase to i the ie church and the spread sp reail of the gospel except tile the society Is 1 I 1 lands from the e elders aders havo have been banished byi by i tl anch tF lench authorities and the lie saints forbid to pray 1 even inT their Q own housch ho elder audison addison Pratt and tand i ot hersh returned t tile continent efdig is the of mornier into tao wyli langu languay AV jeider woodard has been beau from italy f cpr pr toach teiichi ipg ng alln truth lind and passa ol 01 over e i r i to tile the comman d of the sa S I 1 vior to his hil I 1 swit forth to ch his big gocpt gospe I 1 I 1 when the they r persecute il benitel you ply th ih one place alicc ilee flee to 4 ta bt ii need bittl bitter ai p per abrl but tic the spreads i 1 in every deverr jirec Si rec ac tlde rid d S J I 1 J 10 has beco meso Alu and our extensive that vy ye catinat and circumstances es lung a elinia at boniols bon ioas hitherto all faithful ta 1 and there I 1 are lawally inacy such ure are filled with y i ath th t espirit P 1 of 1 I 1 peace joy 1 and rejoicing 91 and gon general ertil pr prosperity va 6 rit has Ps 1 attended their labors in ill tha iha valley broj i their 1 car 4 est arrival and ad they have no wish to C Q mango cheif loca idea i tion for foi any other portion of the earth or even to td leave for a temporary absence inuss sent by proper authority tio to preach the gospel crot pel I 1 As it has been in ill all ages ag of the church so it is now nowland kand and so it will continue contin ve while the net gathers all sorts of fish there ure are I 1 enfa unfaithful i ahful in members embers they i have a name to liv live e but are dead and destitute of faith are des t ol 01 f good wor works fault finders ba back hiers evil eidl false alts ts apostates ajl such ar are e fit subjects for the gold mines where proba bly most of them will go we hope all such will go g 0 this spring aprin and all 0 that we ask of them is that they frill I 1 pa pay beir their debts go in peace and choose whatever god they please to worship the saints have been prospered exceedingly in the valley and the that has as been poured out upon them hemi even till they had no room to receive has been made the oe occasion casion of sloth and wastefulness I 1 insop insomuch mell that there will bo be a greater scarcity of flour than has ha a been for years previous with thee things the lord is not well pleased arid unless speedily they will find famine anster instead hd at plenty in their habitations I 1 I 1 domestic manufactures we are improving but not s so 1 0 fast as is desirable av and gram mills have increased rapidly in the various belits me lits burthey but they cannot keep pace with the demand f for or abour and aspeci especially ably for luib tr the canneries tanneries tann eries are gradually improving i ind considerable leather has boen been produced produced our fa factories progress progress slowly A manufactory of coopis has ha commenced comme the fino fine comb from our mountain maho mahogany gully bids fair to supercede supersede super cede the necessity hit 7 of ivory manufacturers of all al kinds are wanted alore extensively abild clyor saving savi tio machi machii her nery k particularly iyar ticul arly for the husban husbandman danan so sa that the alii farmers cabi can raise the 9 grain rahl and ana wery overy mechanic ravel laniz work athis at his trade r A J I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i tile the prospect is flattering that many of these thesa evis evils imay soba ftp uy by a s supply ol of iron wave waner ja its various forms from aiom iron county one brief llast blast I 1 of the fa furnace anc produced twenty five hundred of excellent alg diw ir n whan the blast for want af pf peal the sn ow ov slaving been unusually I 1 deep on the mountains tae pst wit winter i ter IMS hus prevented bring bringing kig r wood and coal an A ii of hand haild irons was inhibited at conference a the first gruits of theiron foundry I 1 I 1 1 the large addition to the lords store house hosee is ie completed and storehouses store houses generally in tile the various anery has been added to the temple shop the extensive blaak amith joiners and Ina machine chilie sho shop pare are on the temple block nowhere so where all the labor of the temple p s to be performed r fori ea within the walls the stone work of which abic Js is about abai tit 1 one ane bourth four th completed tho social hall was so completed ur far f 7 as as tobe oc occupy by social parties lid and fi for entertainment the past winter inter it was w as dami dedic dedicated atea january I 1 our oar sugar app apparatus aratus arrived too alte for use last fall A a portion ol of it is itt ached I 1 goibe lo 10 he water works of f the public mach machine shop and isen is engaged in mald making fig Di Blasses experiments i lav have pi wed J that tle saccharine barine ringer atef of the be beet et is su tor in in the valley aley and we ic ye ta the apparatus apparius appa ius and mean to taake make the various fofiu molses molasses ta to rt r al fined ted ba tugar p gild and the joac factory vall be located on big kabon ku uy 11 beek J dik ready for or 1 fell DAL I 1 f I 1 use neu neju 3 andary alst the Legi karuse from an aau arduous au si seSsi isiola of widalys lays and ere chewed cheered with a social aw tid happy nt arta etoen by th the i e Goi einor the same evening eni r lariff laws of the country are gener generady aUy observed v bidaut andia courts at aie seldom ti publeo bleil with a IW ait suit RI avet pis quarrel juanel with each aeh other sand and tetU ement otherwise our oar courts are neaily ly eless llie ii heins no t 0 o use them tile the indians have preserved presed veil their pe peaceful i a iee relations ech ek ch other othel anti and tile the crt iti zens generally no ar 01 lasting 1 out outbreak breaW have occurred the past ketison se eabon tison and a disposition feir for p peace bace find and y raising i s e bread is increasing the T 1 e last accounts croul the elders who went out last fau fall wate was their arrival an aval at bt bit louis in in bo 60 days from their departure those ind blind for for china chiaia hui i doostan asti the island left on the 2 oth of 0 Ote bei and at our latest date dates neaily all had shipped froin Sail FraneiSCO L 1 the arst ye y e las fall ww was ion on the ath of november bei and the first snow to cover the ground in I 1 the city was od on the lonec ahree inches deep and I 1 tino on the from A to tb 2 feet the winter has beava cold and stormy willi miny many strong str winds february F was vary mad abid mm ch gora ly very peasant and much farming and ald gardening addenin done i i 0 many young yoong fruit alp ticey have been beell A this 1 r j and air could id lie he a let the ever l to bung bring with I 1 them all chome choice seeds frob fi om au all of the earth elders agnata amaka lyman and charles C rich arrived on the ot of december je ember end ad the quorum of df tile the twelve have spent the winter in in the valley iw with ith tile the exception of orson pratt piatt who is is at wilsa inston february in in the presence of an imi immense pense concourse oi of people assisted by the apostles and others other we broke aroki the tha ground for foi tile the foundation of the I 1 temple and the day follo following preparations titus were for the election of an arsenal A diedra the alth 0 january ary sail aud her har m uart ii a few days previous yand and sister thomaa rhoads chads ozithe alth or february we ve recollect no ahac deaths ia in the families af 6 the minion elders theitis eis some sick irr inthe inbe t valley but it ar arises isel s poa fata tm the seeds of old disease brought from foreign countries sad and ance than th binny awl thin thing unhealthy unVeil thy in iiona ofir climate 0 OT location itle apiou the block k of stone desis lied by emis 9 lature toi or ace the W a been cje d b i asli this is pouter anfe et antt and 4 will wil ill I 1 V t the sixth ol of apt annl d daw lawn wd pit upon our city cit in in all the effulgence oi of a lo 10 loel ely vernal morn inor D as though the 1 bright luminais y of day was typical of the sun still of 1 and about to open up tip a new dispel sahwn iou on oil the file lace face ot of ow our bow mow covered lock bound I 1 valley vailey A more lovely lovecky day A nei ei downed on earth tile the tui still lite sky kythe tile almo phere the earth eaith appeared appealed neither loo cold cola or too loo thol bol or lukewarm but all seemed filled with byj REAL LII L U adapted 11 in til all then their several rempei dine its lo 10 tich each soul to ellder rid nd make happy eveia y indu lof it the many tholand thou and ol of aged ini huddle aged aed and youth boulli who lia adi I 1 1 bumbled bem bled brofn the near and remote parts af this iii 4 ahilea val leijo lev jo tile gerit gent ral annual condei elice ind and withes wi the faiia dayios the be comet I 1 of the houe hou e of the th lord jord that for ages agea the prophets ha have hd e foretold be erected motile to be name of the god of jacobo jacobi in in the tops odthe of the 11 so immense was the assemblage of th the e saints on oil the opening of the conference at 10 a m that the ingress or egress of twenty tanky live five li hundred undred at the tabernacle Tabei nacle were scarce scarcely lv missed or noticed by the multitude without after tile the opening of the conference Gon ference by sing singing in and prayer in in the tabernacle Taber nacie the general Au authority thorit ig es oil the church chuich surrounded by escorts ec decoi orts guards and police martial must music in I 1 5 t rumen tul bands and chiou with tile the nat rational imal c flag 11 uit turied gried fola its ils topmost 1 edff aff the ensigns of tile the various bands and escorts floating rio atin in in the breeze and the bauer ba of 41 zions toweling towering V ablott in to lo the temple gicand dafid anil ater sili bingin r by t ka C ho i n I 1 I 1 the he first laid the tha I 1 S juth eidt corner stone of the Tt temple bollom followed ed by an oi alion fram prest pres t young 1 grayer by preal pes t kimball and biving singing by he ch choir air 1 the h presiding aing bishop and council with the pi presidents esi dents of the lesser priesthood and council laid the south west corner stone the president and council of the high t priests quorum quo ruin with the president of this stake of zion and higa Coul council cil laid the 16 rth west cohien stone the quorum of the twelve apostles with the first presidency of the seventies and the afie president and col council inci of the elders Quo laid the north east corner stone ane laying bf each corner stone was followed by an oration prayer and singing jat hisam order as at the south fast east corner ston S tont aud and all th ose prayers and hymns elymm are iii in pajula pe p fi jula f part ol of the minta minuses qs att ot the confere conference flee abil j will this his epistle in in 14 he next number of the I 1 S I 1 f I 1 jow raan thi J cyeral positions sixteen t i x i anet eib below 16 wilie alie surface s of 4 tile the eastern yanka bho beneath tile llie re ackoff mountain floods when lie edice shall be completed comple led and so sa de deep ep beneath tw tie fuddle tha will cos cost t robber bera and j mobs no bs too ciuch it ito aits ils leaving not athey st hey aid tae temple at jerusalem I 1 n ar 3 I 1 the for th ib r deTT tion and salvation of israel 14 c 41 its as 1 it were anelon n thit earth epich belk p i ia f satan di anad in ad and causes devils to how but I 1 their i ir r adi ule if f fuT ti I 1 moans are hot lidded by the saints in hinline inline the abe i r hearts hears ed to press forward with all their aillem orgies eti Of gies to complete tile the lorils L use as speedily as possible I 1 wid said all tile th saints abroad who want ailt to become p partakers par takers dpn in blessing in ill the house of the lord i with the saints in the hafley and who conot cannot come J immediately t Q woj k kin in person can by one process and an only rap tue blessings they desire and that is by beins humble keeping g all th abe e com commandments mandin befits being aling 0 diligent ril igent gather up the good things of the e earth arifi as fast as they chev possibly possie 17 cabi can in uprightness Gess and send bend your gold and silver and fe citius stones and every thing that you caud can he be useful to ui iti forwarding the work we have commenced ami let all ag who c can all come home without bithon t delay and pa put t then r pavil hairls to the work it 1 tile the kings of the eai th would become pursing nursing 0 fathers and queens would become acome nursing guiam s to the israel of god and the nobles and the gi gibat eat I 1 ones ot bf the euith would secure abiding place the sooim and the tempest and ind the plagues and the fire fai e a and tile sword kwoi d that god will cause to pass through 11 all lands to io depopulate the nations on account of of their great ill in his let them witti the from every clime forwand their rich treasures ti eastres ea to beautify and adorn the house of the lor loid d that he may tidied have a pleasant place to lo lay his head 0 on n the earth e those ta K 1 1 9 and queens Qu eelis and nto cables 6 i may deli delight glit I 1 to visit and 1 1 1 where they may iest rest i in n peace and learn the will of heaven concerning them by etl enquiring quirin of the servants of the most high god concer concerning i ping their kingdoms tue the tuat emigrating 9 funds are in in a prosperous condition 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