extracts of a letter from a gent gentle e man to liis his friend in utah dated london sept 19 when I 1 last wi ote you I 1 expected to have been in germany before now but business with which I 1 am associated me to stay in liverpool and as I 1 should either rave have had to have done my business now or to have returned from germany soon I 1 attended to it first and thus left me in an opportunity of staying a there longer loeffer I 1 afterwards elder T commenced the translation of the german book of mormon and will try if possible to have it printed and stereotyped before lie he leaves whether he will have time or not I 1 dont know I 1 leavo leave today to day for paris and thence to hamburg elder franklin D richards goes on a visit to paris he is well elder lorenzo snow is here he is getting the book of mormon printed panted in italian in london after which ho he guipo soa ses going to malta calcutta and some other eastern distri districts ats he takes several elders with him elder dykes is just here from denmark Den maik he may perhaps go go to jermany I 1 dont knott yet but I 1 feel that I 1 am engaged in the work of the lord and all will be well if I 1 go alone it will be all right if I 1 have company more pleasant this is a strange sort of life but I 1 am getting accustomed to it the european nations are in a lamentable position both as regards religion morals and polities politics the first is is either catholic or protestant generally the former you know what that is when unchecked if protestant low as protestantism is in england and america it ib of that kind that they would out of then mouths morality is at a very low ebb the sabbath in france is almost entirely disregarded and people sick of have go generally brally turned infidel and when man is left without god to be guided alone by his own reason and passions he is a poor sunken degraded creature such is the situation of the U people 0 O p 1 i so far as I 1 have seen their freedom heie i e is i mockery in and theia liberty but a name the rulers seem to be exert exerting all their powers to keep donn a mighty struggle 9 1 bior or 1 ico e luion and ch change ange every artifice is resorted to to keep down the elaine but thib is momentary it seems to me that the days of the present ansti aie a ceril ilea deb ony liny awaits the inhabitants of these countries hahe they y seem to set see it and dread the comin coming conflict and yet rush impetuously forwards io to it men a hearts indeed tail fail them for tear fear of things that are coming on the earth them shrink at the consequences and yet et by a fu fat il 1 seem to court the encounter they are full of blood A gentleman told me th t seems seams to be well acquainted with things that in france if they did not obtain their ends the red bed republican pait paita y had determined to rise and their calou calculation lation was to organize themselves into companies and instead of building ba ners is as formerly for forni meily eily to go b by companies i and an shoot down tho thousands upon y t thousands of victims in their houses and ainone among n the brebt sime sixty thousand priests vt viere ere doomed doo meil I 1 am not prepared to say howl how far the whole of this may be correct but I 1 know it is the spirit A song that I 1 lecent ly saw saw had this chorus to it we have long h hid td more than enough of love but now tor for eternal hit hatred hz tred I 1 pity the people I 1 feel sorry for their rulers and would S sn ive them ethem 0 th that tt god would be merciful toi to them for there are thousands ds of good sincere honorable people who would do right if they knew how but they are arc blinded and afraid of everything they have forsaken I 1 i N MOM god d an and d it he e has a controversy with them I 1 I 1 feel a adli desire I 1 to do them what good I 1 JL can eleko soa bo body can boino realize eal the blessings th that at we enjoy I 1 witt without seeing 0 the contrast 1 I 1 rejoice th that t yu bod are all safe in in the valley and while we mutual ly have to experience difficulties on account of or i our separation yet you have a sufficiency of bread a wholesome atmosphere a peaceful habitation a virtuous people the fear and blessings jessings of godbe associate with noble spirits saints and the benefactors of mankind if there as is anything good on earth we have it and the promise or of thrones principalities powers and dominions in the eternal world I 1 would not of the earth I 1 feel happy in god fod and a desire to benefit my fel fellow lowman man that I 1 may obtain not only satisfaction here but an exaltation hereafter that I 1 may also do justice to you as your friend and that you may obtain that exaltation w which hi c h you justly merit As I 1 am just on the eve of departure I 1 must hastily conclude I 1 will write you again soon I 1 expect to be in the valley as e early r as it is possible to get next spring