Show the east easl india mission extract of a letter from elder william willis to elder lorenzo snow 2 21 JVAN JUAN BAZAAR STREET CALCUTTA may 1852 5 BELOVED PRESIDENT SNOW the church in and within forty miles of calcutta consists of one hundred a and ad eighty nine members one hundred and seventy of whom are byots or native husbandmen who previously were nearly all probes sing christians and whose secession has caused a great stir among the addre sahib missionaries paries the children of t the lie native brethren ai aie e more numerous th ihan in themselves and as soon as we can visit them there are many more desirous of being baptized da but they aliey are scattered over an immense district of sloughed ploughed plou ghea hed fields arid and very bad or no regular roads but bill you know kno W what anmon Mn Mm morill mon perseverance will accomplish com cm we look upon these things as the droppings before the shower there is a great work preparing among the europeans here much of earn et e t and polite inquiry meetings are well attended many coming in their carriages and balkees pal kees and at ai 1 the end 0 of f th 01 lectures the people are very unwilling to leave the room until they have had the friendly shake of the hand and the long debate after affer the lecture is over many prolonging it till past ten at night ni ac at 1 have just heard from elder findlay at bombay who has commenced sowed bowed the good seed has beer beai attacked b by a pious scribbler and has had the privilege of re replying prying twice in a masterly ma style in the bombay papers which replies hae ba e been also almo inserted insert d in tile calcutta and otlie othe papers about seven or ei eight ht rabid articles letters ac have been leveled at m me e and the truth and they have inserted three of my replies which have caused many to inquire and pd visit me and read the tracts I 1 brought out tile public library has been furnished with a copy of a all it our works through the recommendation of major marshall who attended my lectures and presented me his card I 1 have my eye on levei al new stations when the brethren here have learned their drill I 1 am so circum circumstanced s tan ce d as to be able to do something every day and night for rolling on the work of god if IE we had many more they the would all get curry and rice and souls for their lre hire your tract ane only way to be sved has just been translated by brother Brig hiim am a m Pran kislo kisto one of my children in m the faith a priest and I 1 trust it will soon be printed in bennalee Ben and hindustani ile he has commenced translating childs ladder and remarkable visions 3 I 1 have just concluded a course of twelve lectures which have been well and respectably attended ojie pile night four missionaries were present two arose I 1 i 11 the meeting and violently opened their mouths but as I 1 promised to hear beat them at the conclusion of the lecture they waited and at tile the end of the lecture they questioned me and were silenced being self condemned out of the scriptures for neither of them had been baptized according to their requirements and they sat down saying they did not corns come to arpe argue 11 to the great amusement or oft tie ie audience the following day they were shown up in the newspapers by an anti mormon writer who expressed his Istir surprise prise at their demeaning themselves by interfering with the delusions of mormonism any of the brethren from the valley ahey are on their th air way and on the right track eu news new should be sent here in in future tile the route b by means of the california snips would be a very quiz quick and favorable one especially as captains pay high wages OP on account of the scarcity of seamen at san francisco behave we have been blessed with the gift of healing in cases of croup fever cholera the last was that of a hindmo groom gi oom who was in a dying ayin a state t 1 1 ite with asiatic cholera ch oleia I 1 if t anointed him with 0 oil arid and was assisted ass isted in the laying on of hands bands by B bios fols milach I 1 lin in and boynton when the man soon recovered although he was in in great agony turning up his ev eyes and was frightfully affected afflec ted to god the eternal amen father son arid and holy ghost t be all the glory the saints with on one heart eheart sustain inthe the authorities of the church presidents young kimball and richards richardg the twelve the seventies the hi high council and all the organization of the church in deseret and elsewhere and pray that heavens blessings may continue to be poured out on them I 1 am p sparing seeds for the valley the flower inz shrubs here are very numerous and beautiful I 1 have ordained oraa ined two elders J P meik and M cune cane I 1 stand the effects of the climate much better than I 1 ex expected ti e c 1 ted but no europeans do any work of a manual kind n neither can they it is is all done by natives who are mostly very lazy owing to the heat the the divisions and coldness among the sects here augur well for the spread of the truth A short time I 1 ago two IWO pro prominent eminent sectarians sect arians were very iery intimate with me to t ane ie great consternation of the 11 gentle mm inen in blade I 1 I 1 I 1 trust to be favored with a ship letter when you I 1 reach ahe valley and to hear bear what the presidency think about the success of this liis mission ac in the future I 1 the presidency thinks all right eight go ahead ed news I 1 hope soon to have an Orie oriental star as literature here is at a low ebb anti and high price I 1 have faith to ask if you will sanction yes ed news june last night I 1 baptized two males and one female in a household slid and one of the same family a few days ago and expect the mother very shortly she is the owner of several large hous houses in calcutta is of a noble sp spirit rit and fully be believes ieves t the e gospel sel I 1 we now numb number r one hundred and ninety two many any are on the waters edge love to elders woodward stenhouse griffith Man magistre istre squires ac ac and all inquiring friends and brethren in london and vicinity and to elders john banks orson spencer thomas bradshaw ard and thimas bigg bige dan jones and john durcan duncan in the valley ac ae I 1 have not vet heard from my family since last year it grieves my spirit the saints unite with your most affectionate brother and fellow servant in prayers and best wishes for your health happ ness and success in the gospel of jebus WILLIAM WILLIS willas |