Show from the same to president resident JP young STAR OFFICE aug 29 1851 it is a source of constant pleasure to me that gives me much strength in my work and in my prayers before the lord that all the elders and presidents of conferences and branches so far as I 1 know without exception are one with me in allabe all the measures adopted or proposed to forward the work I 1 do not know of one discordant string and numbers of the elders eldera are sign signalizing signal aliling izing themselves by their deeds of valor and enterprise enter prize in the glorious cause the spirit and power of the anointing is visibly and i mightily manifest through those generally who have haie received it and those who have not strive to emulate them in noble deeds some of our american brethren were somewhat feeble in health such as bros J W crosby J W young and 0 V spencer but bat they are all in tolerable le health at present and moving inal prosperously in their labors I 1 have been somewhat afflicted also by the close application and confinement necessary to the revision of the hymn book which is now in print I 1 the number of this edition is twenty five thousand about three thousand copies are already sold and I 1 am confident that not less than five thousand will be before the new year the book of mormon is also out oat of print I 1 have contracted with a printer in london to print an edition of that work and stereotype it from ela lirely entirely new type I 1 have corrected and 1 returned I 1 the first pages in this edit edition ionI I 1 c ive ave given the number of the chapter at the 1 I 1 I 1 inner inner corner of each page and also num I 1 aho tae 0 para pang paragraphs graphs ral which I 1 think will render I 1 i S I 1 I 1 1 1 a I 1 L 11 1 1 I 1 the work more convenient for study and reference the doctrine and covenants is now almost exhausted and I 1 think of stereotyping that also when the book of mormon is through so BO that 1851 will be pretty closely occupied in publishing ra the various works of the church for which blessed privilege my heart warms with joy and thanks thanksgiving gi ving I 1 have so arranged my business as to enable me to spend a time among the conferences ascertain more particularly their various wants and also how to arrange my appointments when some of the elders shall leave next winter to return to their homes some of which are E B kelsey john S higbee 0 H wheelock an and george halliday my purpose is to more generally arall employ the native talent in the presidency c 07 of conferences and appoint the american eiders elders over several of the conferences in order that their influence may be more generally felt in all the conferences such a visit will I 1 trust add strength and vivacity to my spirit as well as my body and I 1 hope benefit the saints you have seen if the star reaches you and they have been sent regularly that during daring the first half of the present year members were added to the british churches by baptism the number for the present half year will be considerably larger since the opening of the latter day saints depot at 35 cewin st city london a new and very important degree of astren strength 0 r th and character has been given to our oar holy cause not only in london and vicinity but generally through the kingdom and among the upper classes or perhaps perhaps more properly speake speaking among the better etter informed portion of the people while editors of all religions and none notice us for good and for evil giving us not special strokes of a whole column at a time an abstract of your last general epistle had quite an extensive circulation and in in i one paper it was published entire I 1 regret that I 1 did not procure its insertion in one of the london journals entire it has however been published and circulated exten extensively ively in the french and danish languages on the continent the papers generally are g giving iving i i a nobler estimate of the saints than heretofore ranking yourself as one of three master spirits who stand at the head bead of governments uniting church and state thus admitting most fully the potency of that wisdom which dictates your course while they denounce the same as fanaticism I 1 shall fori ward copies of those papers which have taken important notice of our work to the recorders office by some brother coming out next winter i I 1 have diligently diligent lv sought 11 alf all summer to obtain something favo favorable in the way of shipping ing saints around the horn icorn or across the isthmus to SanD san diego lego I 1 have found no chance of so sending ending any around and it was not until recently that a house in this place agreed to take out a load to san juan a port at the mouth of augua river river and for this they would charge double their present price to new orleans although not so far and nearly on the way vay to that port the following is the only account of passage across the isthmus on that massage route which chic I 1 have received the pacific U S mail steamship pacific with gold dust on freight passengers passenger and san francisco mails of the july I 1 I 1 arrived on the alt and landed her freight at san juan del sud her passengers asse nars took the augua route over the isthmus isthmus travers traversing ing the first fifteen miles by land crossin crossing tr the la lake ke augua in in the steamship t i p director and steaming ll 11 down the river to san juan in the iron steamship iship sir H bulwer on arriving arriving at san juan thirty two hours only havin having ideen been occupied in crossing the isthmus i they embarked on board the splendid U S s steamship team ship prometheus on the morning of the ath dinst and at 5 am of the dinst arrived at new york after a passage from san francisco of about twenty nine days hitherto this route has not been used and thie the result of the experiment was regarded as most favorable this and the enclosed s scrap rap is all I 1 have been able to gather in relation to emik emigration ration from liverpool to san diego I 1 am endeavoring to open 0 communication with bros lyman and agen rich in hopes to elicit something more upon the subject from them I 1 have received nothing from them yet vet the mail which left the valley may arrived here june that of june 1st ast on the of july that of july on the dinst the deseret news arrives arrives generally to either bro levi bro robert or myself sometimes to two of us sometimes each 0 of us get it I 1 havel have not learned whether you receive the star at all although a small nitter matter it is one of nf some importance that the three first volumes of the times and seasons be sent out for the benefit of this office it would prove vastly more beneficial if copies of the same were sent for the french and danish offices also they are supplied with the fourth fifth and sixth volumes even as I 1 would have you remember me so do I 1 fail not to remember you yon in my eions and occasionally allow myself to wonder when I 1 shall again enjoy the precious society in in council and prayer of my brethren in zion my own health is tolerably good and will no doubt be more substantial when I 1 have been I 1 out among the churches a short time I 1 i with love to yourself brothers heber and willard and if you please my dear family I 1 subscribe crite myself ac |