Show > A GitAiD BEGUaI ii The action of the Mormon church in conference yesterday morning w < s a glorious beginning for the year of jubilee We refer specially to the forgiving of 800000 due from poor persons to the Perpetual Emi graUon Fond and the resolution to present to the honest and worthy poor cow < sheep etc to the Extent several thousands of dolare The caucellatieu of eo large a portion of the P E Fund dues will bring joy I and gladness to many a bumble home for while we understand the oburch has never been oppressive in i its demands for the repayment of money loaned to bring people from the Old World honest poor persons felt the debt was a heavy burden upon them Their relief cannot fail to fill their hearts with thankfulness Amore A-more generous aot haa seldom been recorded than this virtual distribution of about a million dollars among the poor It is doubly noble and grand bacause coming at a time when those to be benefitted are most in need of relief a long hard winter with little work for the laboring man having just broken up Their little stores have dwindled away and as they leak around and count theirreeourcee they feel unusually poor and depressed inspirit in-spirit The lifting of this load from their shoulders will have the oflect of encouraging and buoying them up The church will lose nothing by this generous donation The people who first contributed the money to the fund have had the pleasure of seeing it do much good in bringing thousands worthy people cut of poverty pov-erty if not actual want and establishing estab-lishing them in comfortable homes and now thero is a double pleasure in releasing from their obligations those who have not prospered as some of their neighbors have done and J whom it would sorely distress were they forced to pay |