Show from the millennial star stir GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY MORE BAPTISMS IS IN ITALY LA TOUR toun VALLEE vanlee DC dic PIEDMONT ITALY february 26 1851 DEAR SNOW I 1 am happy to inform you that the brethren and sisters in italy are all well and send their salutations to you with the request that you will also salute the churches in england for them on the of february two young men presented themselves for baptism it raided and snowed and the atmosphere was ao xo dense that we could not see distinctly a little way ahead a head but as we descended towards the anarco Ang rogna na river a singular scene was presented th the clouds suddenly rent asunder as if they had been a piece of paper and the side of mount brigham was visible in a moment from the top to the bottom I 1 exclaimed the veil over italy has burst and ind yet at the instant I 1 knew not what I 1 was saying I 1 stood paralyzed with the magnificent ent view which opened on every side then with a prayer to israels god we entered the stream in the evening evening a congregation assembled and I 1 com commenced fenced preaching but hut the devil entered into some who had been resisting the truth and I 1 saw that he had got firm hold and my words seemed to be wasted on on the assembly through the presence of such a deadening deadening dea denin and deiling defiling influence I 1 therefore topped stopped lort short and sat down after giving an that every body might go where they liked by this means I 1 kot jot got rid of the haaf hamm chafe haff while the good grain remained I 1 then commenced recommenced re preaching and the power of god rested upon us many a tear rolled down those weather beaten faces the next day I 1 baptized ten persons they are not the rich and noble but you shall judge them by their own language as they have each given me a line to send sena to their fore foreign irn lyn brethren they are as follows 1 may we meet when the earth is renovated 2 pray for a young sister who wishes to grow in grace 3 absent in body but united in spirit 4 hallelujah for the lord hath remembered his people 5 if we do not meet in these bodies may we embrace each other in the resurrection this thia is from a brother who is sixty jwo iwo years old 6 in the midst of weakness I 1 hope for strength 7 pray for a poor brother 8 may inlay we be crowned with glory when the world is 13 judged the other brethren and sisters have sent tha he the following we thin kour lour our heavenly father that thit we have begun began to walk in the pathway of a anew new and endless life oae brother who is a firm believer in the 41 voice of joseph I 1 have hive advanced as an elder five month hoath amo ago ago lie he wig WAS requested to ike like the debe osbe of eiser elser in the 4 hurch which ha he refused please address aldress my letters ai usual but udd add poste posts Ra tante I 1 do nat see an 0 at the present TOon but bat I 1 believe ta t a lyrd will enable enible ms me to ba be independent of tha hotel hatel and by thit tint ming uwins I 1 shill know mire wire ai as ta th ibs trae true ch character fracter of the inhabitants remember meto moto sister woodard and all friends whom you see in in your travels all kinds of calumny and petty persecution are brought into use the devil 13 is not idle here and sometimes he tells the truth yours in the new and e everlasting verl veri astin n covenant JABEZ WOODARD |