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Show Here we met Pres. Gardner and his first counselor, Elder W. W. Graham Pres. Gardner and myself took our departure de-parture for Maine to visit the elders there, taking a steamer and having a very enjoyable ride along the Atlantic for 100 miles. I will not weary your readers with any further details of ray labors and travels: will simply say that my health is good, and thus far I have enjoyed myself and have not experienced experienc-ed any homesickness as yet. One of my objects in writing; this letter let-ter is to ask my friends and any of your readers that have any relations or friends residing; in the New England i states, that would like to have the elders visit them, to send, me their names and addresses if possible, and I will either try to visit them personally, or put their names in the hands of the elders laboring; in their vicinity. It would be well to enclose a letter of introduction in-troduction with the address. I shall be pleased to hear from any of my friends that feel like writing to me. but I may not be able to answer all of their letters as my time will be pretty well occupied if I do my duty. With kind love to all and best wishes for their success, and praying the Lord to bless the land of Di.xie with all her inhabitants. T am your brother in the Gospel. George F. Whitehead. C5 Lester street, Providence, R. I. FROM RHODE ISLAND. I.ETTEK FKOM EI.lF.li GEORI.E F. WinTKIIF.AJ, OF ST. GFOI'.GF. NOW OX A MISSION" THERE. To the Editor of the Washington County Xfavs. and all my dear friends at home: I shall not attempt to give a detailed account of ray journey from St. George to New York, and of the many interesting sights I witnessed, but, suffice it to say that Sister Bunker. Miss Mary E. Cook, (my last school teacher), many of your readers will remember re-member her, Elders John E. Baird, Robert C. Wilkins and myself had a very nice trip; and the verdure was at its best, there having been a nice rain a day or two before we came along. Through Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and the western part of Illinois one's eyes almost wearied in viewing the vast fields of green, but it was indeed a pretty sight to one who had just left "Dixie," parched up and dry as it was when I left home on the Kith of June: and I have decided to forgive Pres. Mc-Arthur Mc-Arthur for all the boisterous language he has used in the pulpit when speaking speak-ing of the Saints being driven from Illinois, Missouri, and other places if they looked then anything like they do now. At Brooklyn I met our brother elder E. H. Snow, and remained there four days taking in the sights of New York. While there I visited the two extremes in life, one being Hester street, the Jewish quarters, where human hu-man life is seen in the lowest depths of degradation and poverty: the other being be-ing Coney Island, where high life exists in all its vile corruption. Oh, if Mr. Owens, the noble representative of the New York Journal, would only transfer his field of labor and his efforts to purify society from Utah to New York, and commence operations at Coney Island instead of Salt Lake City he might be able to report progress every clay by word of mouth to the Journal he represents, and save them the telegraphic tele-graphic expense now attached to the business. . It may be true that he would not be able to find such men as Angus M. Cannon and Heber J. Grant to vent his spite on, but I do not think it would be necessary for him to run off to some surrounding state to take a lay off after having secured two victims, unless he is troubled very severely with lethargy. leth-argy. Pardon me for digressing from . my narrative. I was appointed by President Smart to labor in the New England Conference under the direction of Pres. Clarence Gardner, a cousin of the Gardners of Pine Valley: and they may be proud of the relationship, for he is a God-fearing man. I left New York for Providence, R. I., on the steamer Plymouth, and enjoyed immensely my first ride on the water up the Long Island Sound- and Narraganset Bay, a distance of about 180 miles, arriving at Providence July 1st. 1 was obliged to wait a few days for Pres. Gardner to arrive, as it was so near the time set for a more complete organisation of the Conference and some changes would be made. I was set to work in the city of Providence until after the organisation was effected, and one of my first experiences ex-periences in missionary life was sawing away at the air on the pedestal of a monument in the centre of one of the streets in Providence. My friends at home can perhaps imagine my surprise when Pres. Smart announced that I had been selected as one of the aids to the Presidency of the Conference, the duties of which would be to travel with one of the Presidency, visiting the elders in their various fields of labor, laboring with them, encouraging' and instructing them in their duties. I cannot can-not describe my feelings at having this responsibility placed on me without having hail any missionary experience whatever, but. had come out here to try auil do what was required of nie and I determined to do my best. I left Providence in company with Elder E. ri. Green, one of the Presidency for Worcester. Ma.-s., remaining there Jive days with the elders, visiting 'heir friends and doing some trading. Prom there we went to Eo-ton, and I here let me say that Boston is one of the S great ci! ies of the United States and 1 lias tin only underground system of ; roo; railway in America, and it iss.mie- thing wonderful, the tunnel being wide ' enough to admit of four cars running 'ahrca-t. being -mnorted by aniw f iron post- and 'races running- down t be centre: hiuun'"es of e.o-s pa-s eU 'h other every hour in this s.,bvnv. railw.iv une r ikN o'v wiin-h is ealVe (. t'.ivva;.. and when the e:..e;.;- ed K. R. i-e.ne;;-;ed it wil! Ui.i'e- fe .r ground! In on- in-:ance 1 ro.e ; ---1 |