Show VALI california GAUFO FORNIA HISTIA COU correspondence I 1 extracts of lett rs ra frimin from elder paries F P pratt to pre 01 I 1 I 1 dent young i santa clara cal oct 25 if deitt brother I 1 wirt ergood health and spirits tile sandwich islands miss missionaries lons ries have all suited sailed except two or three who have not tile means as yet lyet alio newspaper colu columns mits have been opened 10 a little and we have laid hid a some ome truth before the public th throng tr them no door has opened as yet to procure lands for a stake inthis in this country nor jiahe lave circumstances yet cal called ledfor or a stake liere here I 1 1 I 1 we have sent brother merr ek ck to sacramento to preach lie he tins lias baptized one man trian a baptist student stude nl IV we e have baptized three new mothers in tile the city of san Franci fr goo one in in biou city some settle twelve or fourteen in ili santa clara and brother horner lins ins d two or throe about his bis place and of his 1 kindred I 1 have been twenty five dins darn on a mission lit in connection with bro liar mc blide bide tit hi santa clara still sail jose city santa arni bunro iro ac court houses 90 schoolhouses school aoi houses aliouse churches and other build ings hit been kindly opened to us and till all our meetings meeting have been well attended judg s lawyers and lending leading spirits sp irilE tind many others have listened fieten d with attention loit mid many are aie reading and ii inquiring in giring with deep tile the cry Is give us u knowledge weare weary with st sectarian nonsense tile the of ind is tremendous ormendo alls in fit oe who receives this his work now owea jhb truth sinks deep fl fla a veil is rent cradit I 1 on flees aee away i raiv trains or a thought expand the srput and ille whole mitt inin seems created anew the pa past st the present the future open to hil h it aston asto n sited shed vision amon and stretch cli away tit in nit an infinitude of light and truth ai and love I 1 it is ignot not the work of H R men tome ome to I 1 a ded dead mand stop are am amii liz zed overwhelmed confounded they ponder I 1 search expect every ever y moment to run against I 1 ft a sh anig g or to fidd some bOu bounds 18 s some ome ii nils some bottomore bot bottom tomor or top to lo tile the ocean or of light liti but t it opens still at length they settle awn xin into tile deep current of thought llie ille revolution I 1 pro progresses aresser within them and ero erf t hey tire nw 11 ale they opel their mouths and streams of light and tr truth uth rush forth foith to their gain gainsaying saying neighbors or the agnor ant around them they exclaim afterwards 11 why what ailes me I 1 I 1 lind no iden idea that I 1 knew anything bat verr thine is is confounded which would gainsay tile the truth 1 I 1 think there site aie trial many 3 s g als here in california 1 who will one d dv ts he be in t the k kingdom j egdom of god but so great a revolution of mind is not the work dorkof of h a moment they see sae and realize that mormonism is is every ever thill thing g if it is arlyth adyth rig ng at all we ari anre so glad of your our mv dinv tation to tile the saints inde indeed eti to come up to utah aber searching di ige i effly for fora a pi ice for I 1 n city of holiness in ill this count V I 1 have found folin dit it not as yet vet hut hive I 1 s since I 1 I 1 ce r receiving ece iving your etter etler told the saints that we would vo lit in santa achta and start for the of tile the lords bonsil froin tills this point on oil the firt of may next tins this nen news a is hailed with a thrill of joy jov slid and I 1 think there will I 1 hah he a host of us ns 1 I feel it in ill my bones dt at a any nv rate rat enough it f for 0 r n guard 1 1 I 1 think I 1 la can n just slip home on oil a v sit then hen miles mile s you yon otherwise thein will lle he lii r others mcbride tan eri I 1 farrar fu arar bigler Cha ticey west dewey and the lie lord knows how mail many others we have six months to pi pare so we shall not go 1 l in haste nor by flight 11 the old members in fit this country who are ilive dive are rejoicing in ili spirit and doig doi g nil all they C cin as well rs Ps r s the new ones I 1 think thero are some fifty active members 6 i i this upper country and th thre rp anro i y icil jp I 1 liea te ti t i engber ship aln p one man w alio F 10 speaks Stin spanish nish and his is wife a spanish jadv have lit income come deeply t sled on oil reading tile the hooks book they hwu leave re sent for me arid and R feel PI bound for the L like the if I 1 will advise thern them to go thare I 1 have sent an appointment I 1 I 1 to see them A learned frenchman Fien climan and liis his soil eon alio w ila ao al lao sp ak spanish have become convinced 1 hv v reading the works mid and heading liea ing they give lip th their t ir catholicism mid and are now the fr french enell book of Mori moemon tion pod god bless you till nil P P PRATT tile the above letter must have got into some eddy as it came to hand in the same mail as the ilie fo lowing ED suit clara cal nov 23 1854 4 dear president Prep ident brigham I 1 received your kind letter dated oct 19 on oil yesterday ako sio ote ono from geo A smith mid five from froin my family also one from frondi brother hommond sandwich sandi w i eh isles asle s nam I 1 have ll 11 l te news front from san B bernardino r aud and edrop En rop all is going well we I 1 1 the new stake or of giov on oil tile the S sandwich T islands 91 ands Is thriving and are increasing i in n spirit I 1 faith fabilli and energy I 1 i 1 I 1 am generally well and in good spirits mis dis R onalea art am now lip laboring sn in san francisco Francis cn union cit city y santa glara clara anta jeruis to and in ii various parts of af tha mines und and in ili other towns in ili the vicinity of the places above named we it laidve a ve iso ilso sent a 11 to oregon and territories I 1 ilso algo learo learn that the suil sn sell sent t to the southern states lo 10 various pur edits ts of the lower coup coultry cou try and to oregon we continue to inhere t a fey few ii heie hefle parts i a d some aro an being baptized pd every week aiu among athers ot liers on one spanish family have obeyed the go gospel iel I 1 have ve plenty of homes now how and lack IA for I 1 hohing no 10 h hing I 1 1 9 IV we e hav sonic some good saints here and tile llie spirit of tha L lord oril is upon is ifs us we number in ili all tills this upper country some 60 to 80 in members embers in ill F pod good I 1 I 1 standing I 1 we have appointed santa sanan clara near the end of the bry and 50 mies south of san sair froncisco as a fb for asprin a spring camp to td start by bv the southern route light wagons and I 1 m ulo for silt salt tk T I alm k 0 tho ady aday 11 or aly 1855 1 I will be a good goodly I 1 y company pany I 1 may come with them on oil a if the lord will vill I 1 1 I 1 the first stake of zion in this upper country wi I 1 be on tle tile sea COB coast near mear cartta cruz mo lerey 1 1 the spi it for or salt like lae L ike ae is so prevalent here at present i thit that we must be indulged im ia tile privilege of emigrating there though some bowware oro boundford bound for san Bern ardigo 1 I nta arn busy 4 nii the ilia in writing mv listi korv and in ill corresponding with the be various interests zin in the flip pacific 1 I 1 have I 1 a supply of books coming round the horn from liverpool and expect to receive them tit in myo or sooner I 1 give my y love to brother X in ball and all the khe council audap assured you have bitio my warmest oest dest I 1 I 1 remain n as ever p your brother brulor in ill all the gospel I 1 F P P PRATT V R A TT PS P S brother ezra chase ciche came to my meeting in sa sant law claira aaril a week leek br jwo since lit lie jives ten lien off afia asvery is verv ta to gel to fo silt salt lake he valis was iff good aliff spirits fis f t expect to vis visit it hina soon P V P P i i az I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 i 11 A AC hUege 60 e Ei iToi I 1 by the the it press desai that moralists mora lists and religionists I 1 a are re in trouble about istah avid polygamy wl rj wart X blood ima 0 tio i 40 the ym heathen cormons mormons Mor mons el bill thanks to the pious methodists the mormons cormons Mor mons ire are going to be converted c first missionaries are a i going gogg ito liobe sent ilium I 1 I 1 i it is js the right of the president ortha afi united states bates tu to appoint a governor rove and to send sed troops to stait tho citizens of ahat terri territory know this and have no objections objection sf but suppose 1 i I govenor and troops went weal 46 I 1 I 1 i 1 I 1 I 1 with tile the rights and liberties of the people and trample on the tafv 1 abc bof of which by the by there bisno is no danger why then of or course tb the ie aggressors in common wik wi k 11 others are a ine barnable n able to to the deiv courts tand t r re e liwe lialis 1 0 to fine i m rit mt or execution accor n v r to their crimes even if they only threaten thos hy m gait tie be bound i over to keep tile the peace jeaa th the courts of utah have never yet been faund remiss remiss in the he execution of the lavi what is the colar crime alleged against the llie governor and citizens of utah for which ahey abey are threatened wit st ruction or conver conversion ision 41 we afe will be told it is polygamy well sin bays says is the transgression of law we should greatly gready prefer er conver conversion siou to murder and here permit me to suggest a plan for a wholesale conversion without a arp ol of blood or even the trouble of a journey to utah I 1 am here in cafa california I 1 n ia as member and I 1 representative of the church in utah for which I 1 can produce credentials I 1 I 1 am agi willing to wet vitel a convention of the ablest lawyers and clergy to be found in ofir country I 1 and I 1 hereby pledge mv horlor honor that I 1 will publicly renounce p and that tile the church I 1 represent will do tit ohp same op on the following conditions viz the old ani and new testaments ments the c constitution I 1 ind laws of th united unite states slates and the laws of butali territory shall be the standard and if in all this wide range one item of 0 law aw can be found wherein grid angels mn m n s ties the son of god or the holy spirit have m mide ande ide a plurality of wives a crime a tra transgress ion of law oran or an immorality then on these conditions dit ions we will reno renounce utice p polygamy but till this is done we shall hold the law of godon tile the sit subject eject of ine including ludig a pl plurality y of I 1 ives as a most sacred in st i tua ona binding on 0 our ur consciences in the free exec exercise ise of which we claim the protection ao freely and fully guar by the constitution n of our dour comm oommen fin caun fy 1 i if editto edit r in gereral throughout the he country will please publish this ernay tend to invests gatien and enlightenment either of the poor 13 or ignorant cormons mormons tins arof or of those who think chem so much out 0 of f the way I 1 P P TA ATT santa clara json 29 1854 |