Show GENEALOGY hint cc Irom Patriarch Samuel Toni U Work I l to the Our friend us tit n Out Our Kindred In iii Our ot or A Ib Not Ml hh Aro ie Alive to It of Temple Voik This depart mint Ii iii prepared by the genealogical committee of tho he tone tors of the lit if IT OS hInt has received a IL letter letterI I I I from hot her father In Arizona There art nonie very ery Interesting to temple In lh thus letter ietter nud hence Its In itt title this department Ii It be stilted Elder and its his daughter lna have havo labored for ci many manyin in Ill for fai dead Special 0 have bean taken to England while every nf of hot hns boon been sought In itt order lo to Secure their A x I is In tiltS letter moir tItan than 1100 of hide dal t have thus thue fur been for end U Is not Ilot yet Does Io the end over Following Is Iho tue lettu iett r Thatcher Arizona June i 1 1507 My Dear Deat DoughtIer Daughter Elizabeth H It Is with touch much Interest that C E veal the genealogical articles by your committee anil published In the Saturday News New And tui aa ait yourself there solIcit all the Items anti Information you tan ran obtain on Ill the lit subject of temple worK ns as well us r thought 3 would send you yott a t few of my itty late Kite ix cc In this direction 1 I have bt been Interested In itt this work now with yourself for over 25 years year rund n as you know I nm am nearly SO years year of age Hut my m Interest in lii temple work vork grown grow keener antI and stronger with every days experience During my visit to you last fall when we tto for or nearly of mv Ott kindred und friends I 1 supposed and said to you that we now non had fin up all the thit names of friend kindred which I i could possibly scenIc or remember For these made up about 1400 we had jolla dono for I thought I had completed till nil my work In that line hit But Dut since mv ny return home 1 I have hate been enlightened by h 11 Spirit and have hind had brought to mv my mind many of my tily own ond auth my lilY fathers friends which I had not e for these ninny many years I t always wake up ill about 2 or 3 l In Ill the morning and HP lie awake for som time In these quiet hours my UI mind Is drawn out In spirit and this winter I havo hato remembered and communed with some of whom I hail had not thought for over 50 bO years Their forms forma ami faces and names would before me ine us its plain find anti distinct us tie when r f knew them In youth and childhood At soon ns na possible after such an Impression sion elon I would take paint pains to record their names and dates and In II this way nearly more of my in friends and kins kinsfolk folk have b 1000 en prepared for future op opportunity opportunity In baptism I have havo word of the tho death of my old Sunday school teacher cachet who was SS IS years ot of otage 1 age and with whom I have correspond corresponded ed for many years He lie has furnished me with many Items Item concerning im toy dead friends and attn kindred some solute of ci whom thom I speak of later In this letter In Itt order to Illustrate how boa in lit interest terest the spirits are in Ill the work we weare tire are doing for them In this and In our temples I wish to relate several Incidents and a dream You lou know that I was wait a local Methodist for some years In our old English horn hom homand anti and father often entertained tin titu tru tn e ministers at hit his Then were two old Methodist preacher whose names r I did not put down la last t fall partly because I did not know they were item But sometIme time since sinco they came to roe rno in a adram antI and put putting putting ting their arms about mo me they Im irn Implored mo me not to forget them and then I know knew they lucy had accepted the gospel on the tho other side fide ansi wished inched their work attended to lucre here Since then I have learned of their death Another of my ml Sunday school schoolteachers teachers for whom wham 1 I had been hap bap baptized appeared to mo nun In a dream and showed to me In a peculiar manner hs ha gratitude for what I had done for him This Thin gives great satisfaction for the tho labors performed for U It of the Joy Jo of those for whom we officiate And now let mo lOut relate one more In Instance instance stance this of very recent occurrence The other night I was engaged as usual In my rn tight night reflections concerning the temple work the manner In which my m mind hind been led of late to dwell upon my old Stud neighbors Several ot of my fiD old friends whom I had conic came before me too at this time In iii a very clear light but latI I asked my myself self sd If I wrIt not going too fust In trying to 0 everybody anti and making fuss tho blessings of tho ho House of the Lord too common being alone much trou troubled coo bled I concluded I would ask tue Lord to manifest Ills his mind lo to me on the tit matter by l dream or at some pome way I r asked Him to show mo tao It my toy labors by Him iny my were in lii the tho following manner nut let mo 1110 explain n it little tn In my youth there very well educated Metho diet who tito hind had charge of tat eit tieso gentlemen war my tt friends until I 1 joined the ftc Mar Mor Mormon tutor mon Church then th they y turned against nits un Hut But they tIle tere good How I loss over I never put their on my itt list foi UI 1 was n II ill tb against them on account of ty 13 In my fly myself and three Methodist preachers were having u and luSh there lucre wore a grett lout fly ren In I it a a In building hail I to to the children ns I did iid so 1 I caw can two Itts apostles apostle t I knew thorn to 10 be plains the children to lii honor these men t I out to 10 Inviting them tu lit forward Hut BItt otic of thorn them nione In Ills itis suit and said that he iwi do ilo nt at that meeting but A little later I would bo be ti a thanksgiving I ansi and then they meet nit ow anil that there would bP be tins law of at As t he I r perceived that these two men 1111 were too of my old Methodist fi friendson lends or enemies of whom I spoke Just now tiow The Tite spirit of tha tho dream which awakened with me one of at pure P Ie happiness And Artil Its Interpretation was siren giten lo to mr mc as 1114 fol lows howe Thusy y were tere two I apostles In Itt thy Methodist church but they were ns na lit littie tie children now they ItO had HC DC the tho gospel on the othor side and nut had not yet received ot of Its life givIng ordinances This dream was to show me that desired mo Ie to at attend attend tend to their trail and atul then Indeed would there be a and then should I inept them nd to together together gether we would carry cern out the law lau of They with alt all the others of Or our und kindred will trIll surely make n Il true thanksgiving meeting And the answer to my prayer further this not only would my friends ami of my father rejoice in receiving the tite gospel ordinances but also t hosts whom I had belIed upon in ill my youth as my lily enemies because hey thoy could not see as I did at that tinto sow Now my daughter this thin work you antI and the lie committee ot of the he Daughters of the PIoneers me engaged in Is connecting the earthly with the heavenly things but It grieves me to know that many of tile the SaInts Paints do tie not hiot realize tile tho obligations we Grit are under in looking Inciting the tho Interests of our dead kindred anti and friends If my old Methodist frIends atc are so anxious to be bored what must be the feelings oc ot our kindred and relations Some ot or our people are ara letting tho thu years slip away and excusing themselves because they cannot get names as easily as no they might One Coo of or my Iny next door neighbors came near dying n a four few months ngo ogo I visited him enquired ns as to his temple work He lie told me he had looked after his father and attil mother and two or thien thren others but as ic we to gather ho remembered 20 more This man Is a relative of Gen Lee the fam famous out ous Confederate general This man has hasa a large to do as all the tho saints have If they will only throw off the tho cItrus cares of the world u Ii little anti let thou their minds dwell upon heaven beaten and heavenly things The fite visitation of Moroni lo to the Prophet Joseph Smith was of Import to tha dead Ills quotation of proved that this whole lat work ork rests resti on the redemption of 1 ill hs dead deaul quite as much us as It does the tho salvation of tie the living Our life before wo ivo camo here and associations titus our friends In eternity tot for thousands of white the tho few ears of our earthly lives separate u tie from our old friends anti kindred in heaven All things must be gathered together both In heaven and on earth slId our temple work wont is one of the he great forces which will this mighty ruts res to puss pass passI I am mu nearly SO years of ago and my greatest Joy Is to reflect upon thesa glorious principles and to picture to myself what my meeting with truth nil all I have helped here will bo when triton I 1 am ant amon on oIl the hut side My constant prayer Is that hInt you OU aunt and Sister Gates Cate will he directed aright In It this arduous work you ou hove have undertaken The Tha saints sure suro ly appreciate your labors May Ills peace attend you all Is the prater of your father SAMUEL CLARIDGE WANTED The following letter luttier Is tory The parties should re rut reply ply direct to the tho writer Dublin Mexico May 21 1907 1107 President of the hue Salt Luke LOke Temple Dent Brother Will joil yen kindly In itt form vie sue If hue Iho work lor br my ancestors has been done i desiro all the Information mation possible concerning my gene getie Tho Ilio names are er Shirley Sharp Ail unit und Inform on who did tho tite work if ft such has ha been done clone oblige ETHEL A CLARK |