Show correspondence LETTER FROM ELDER E T BENSON TO HIS FAMILY LONDON june 23 1857 since I 1 wrote to you last I 1 have been traveling 1 ing as usual preaching to the saints and arid sinners lifting airing up rny my voice long and loud while the devil is raging it is not terrible things in the ilia red sea nor in the land of hain ham but it is weful things in utah we are aro informed through the periodicals that uncle sam is about to send an army to the tha valley to take care of you kind old uncle how grateful we ought to feel for his benevolence to think that he is COM coming ing to relieve all tile the adulterers and iniquitous character characters that wont leave without his help for I 1 understand that the first proclamation that is to be issued oil on their arrival is for all those wish I 1 h to leave for the he states or california to go and they shall be assisted assi sted sled in their expenses by the government all who wish are to go especially the women does this frighten me any not atall at al for 1 am used to it and I 1 know that they have no power to harm us if we do right and keep the commandments comman dents of god all the fear I 1 have llave about myself or my family if I 1 have any at all is that we a shall not be able to keep the faith if well do that it shall all be right and I 1 will promise it to you in tile the name of israels god got I 1 have had more persecution during 11 the last six weeks than during 0 the whole of my stay in the european mission the whole ni wod od seems stirred up against the truth and if you tahe take their testimony all the sin and iniquity done dons in the world is don done by the mormons cormons in utah and there is none only a mong among them hern I 1 am now you see in london the greatest city I 1 id the world the stronghold of christianity where there are more churches and parsons than in any other place and where the greatest of the christian preachers hold bold forth their doctrines yet here hero you will find iniquity so great thit hit language fails falls to describe scriba de it in iri the evening the streets are paraded by thousands and boyes soles scores of if thousands of females who gain their living by frostl tiit tilt in I 1 was going to fay kheir their virtue but that is a thing tiling unknown by them or at any rate lon lou lons ions forgotten and lost forever foi ever thieves and murderers ers exist here by thousands and beggars throng the thoroughfares I 1 gh fares too I 1 lazy azy toworu to work they live upon the charity of a few who are benevolently disposed the theory cry of the widow and the tile orphan for bread is heard and many die of starvation while the banks are full of gold the tiie shops are full of bread and tile the pretended ministers mi niters diters of jesus roll roil rolla along longin in their gilded coaches husbands and wives parents and arid children quarrel nearly pearly all their time and crime and christianity go hand lu in land hand parsons and prisons bishops and bee ishop deans and devils lawyers and liars princes and prigs brigs to give ilive you a little idea of the spirit manifested I 1 will vill give you one out of the anally many instances that have occurred oil on my mission I 1 was preaching a few days ago in the city of worcester I 1 was wall inspired by the Spi ritto tell the people of heir their wickedness and to expose their abominations when I 1 had done a crowd gathered round the door full fall of rage and the devil they bawled out cw heres wheres your brother parle parie parley y and wheres joe smith well serve you the same as they are served 1 then verily they thirst for the blood of gods cervantis eer and the cup of their iniquity is lf well nigh full it is not yet decided whether or not I 1 shall go to denmark this season I 1 soon expect to tahe tale a tour through scotland with preg Prec president ident pratt brother thomas bullock is laboria laboring here in this place with good success he ie is well and f feeling e ea in well brother Brot lier ller john scott ie ila over fl aiom 0 I 1 n ireland on a visit and is here with me he feels well also brother john kay is ie doing fir strate aud and I 1 believe that all the missionaries as far as I 1 know that have been sent from the valley are well in health malth and are kire doln doin I 1 the biest beet they can in many places tile the persecution ie is eo so great the peoples hearts being hardened harden pd against the truth aud and their consciences seared with a bot hot iron that the brethren have been compelled to leave off preaching in the open air I 1 have just received a letter from br R F wih with au an account of the work in bristol a mob attacked atteck ed the saints there last week with stones aud and ad sticks several breth broth brethren ren reu were injured oae one or two sisters had their eves eyes almost knocked out and come were nearly s tr angled to death in the he streets thelast the list news about tile tiie l electrifies the whole world and they feel fee I 1 to arise and slay every mor mon from frow the face of the earth EGGS eggs can it is said be better preserved in corn meal than in any other preparation yet known lay them with tile the small coall end dowl down and if it undisturbed they will be beas as good at the end 0 of a year as when packed pack tid I 1 1 |