Show LETTER FROM manchester editor news it is a source of be able to report that the traveling elders in this conference are in excellent health this is more remarkable from the tact fact that a terrible amount of illness prevails at present in england la grippe and its ita attendant evils are making shocking ravages in many communities but so far comparatively few of the elders elden have been attacked and none seriously it is true that climatic influences have a more or less trying effect upon the lungs and chests cheste of some of us and occasionally casio nally one finds it necessary to return to the s atmosphere of our beautiful mountain cou country this has been the case w with ith one of our number recently elder P W chappell Cb appell who has just left us for his home in nephi utah elder Cb chappell appell leaves an excellent record for faithfulness and diligence behind him as a missionary and we are sorry he be had to leave us the reports made by the elders at the usual monthly council meetings indicate a desire on the part of the saints to do their duty generally and in the distribution of tracts and seeking opportunities to talk to the people the elders eiders use every plan that suggests itself to effect the greatest good A stolid indifference to the larnid warning voice fever they raise is painfully apparent nevertheless th eless elese the knowledge that thai our heavenly father is cognizant of the labors his servants perform is quite comforting to them and urges them to continue their and combat with the error and superstition of the age leaving the final result with god A miraculous case of healing came under my personal observation on sunday the of april which has added strength if possible to my faith in the divine power delegated to the servants of god in the great and last dispensation in which we live brother geo da davis vis who resides in the boope from which I 1 am writing is employed employ ved as a grinder of iron castings the stone he works upon stands in the current of a continuous draught and for some time he has complained of lack of cincu circulation latigu of blood in his left side this culminated in actual paralysis of the body on that side from the shoulder to the hip and no amount of artificial heat could produce warmth in the affected part I 1 saw him subject himself to a severe test before a fire with no result under these cooki eions he be desired the priesthood to anoint him with oil and pray over I 1 him which was affue aud in a moment the numbness lett left him circulation resumed its usual duty and from that time until the present be feels no symptoms of the trouble Je A fellow laborer of his who worked at the next atone is now a hope hopeless bedridden bed ridden object of charitable pity A short time since elders cutler and myself had the pleas pleasure of visiting the wonderful works or of the platt bron brom co C cotton and woolen machinery manufacturers it Is if the largest concern of the kind in the world employing in the turing department which covers forty five acres of ground about hands bands besides 2000 in their coat coal and iron irn mines they are represented in almost every part of the world by their machines mr ainley one of the management informed me that they had recently shipped a complete cotton mill with a capacity of 1000 looms to china and they were filling a large abarge order for jerusalem itier it is a grand sight to witness the precision which tit displayed in the manipulation odthe of the delicate machinery used in many parts of the works As art an instance in the testing room is a machine for determining the curve of the cards machines are used which will cut plane and corrugate iron and steel as easily as am the softest woods can be operated upon they employ engines to the extent of horse power and there seems to be no limit to lo their productions duct ions W 0 BICKLEY 62 CHAPMAN ST off oldham old ham road manchester enamay Eng May |