Show THE EAST INDIA MISSION tra travels els from aura A era to Cawn pore Allitha Alla habad bad calcutta and course of lectures at Chin surah baptisms healing bealing chi chii tanty ty miles north of C calcutta alc utta J J june ti lie 27 7 th 1854 5 beloved brother richards I 1 thought I 1 I 1 would ifould pen a few lines to send to you although I 1 am aware in a small degree of the multiplicity of your business yet at the same time I 1 lovo to hear from my old friends and I 1 judge fudge you y ou feel the same I 1 can truly say I 1 love ta to hear from those with whom I 1 was acau acquainted aisted in the city of and still more to associate with them when circumstances will admit of so doing in the first place I 1 will say I 1 am well the blessings of the great I 1 AM as also are all the brethren of this mission as far as I 1 know I 1 am now stopping at the house of brother sankey a queens Dens pensioner ioner he is a good man as also is brother wells who is a pensioner ens ioner too with their wives and stepdaughter these are all of our church who are stationary in this place I 1 wrote you a short letter from kernaul Kur naul and also one from agra in them I 1 gave you a short account of our travels and of our reception by the authorities both military and ecclesiastical when we left agra our next place was Cawn pore when we arrived there I 1 was sick owing to my over exertion of body and mind to try to make an open opening in 0 for a proclamation of the gospel to together g t her with traveling in the dust and inh inhaling a lin g so 0 much of the donkor in my lungs and then t he on 0 n the back of that being out in a rain and bail storm for one nig night t and a day we were in a wagon but it was similar to a riddle these things together with a rather weak constitution brou brought bt the lung fever upon upon MO me but thanks C be to god tb through the anointing with oil in the name of jesus christ and the laying on of brother ginghams ing hams hands it only lasted about three da days we e only preached once in Cawn pore as that was all the people wished to hear at le least ast they did not come any more and only ten or twelve came that time we only stayed their eight days and the man we stopped with told us two davs b cf n i it I 1 tio um itu aut wee afee any use 0 of us staying so long this was a right b broad r oad hint for us lis to leave his house douse but as we had no other place to go to I 1 asked him if we could not stop another day or two said he 11 1 I suppose suppo seone on eor or two days will not hot make much aluch difference the lord opened the way in a marvellous marcellous marv ellous manner for us to get to Alla habad so we went there distant miles and arrived after traveling around in the hot sun for nearly two days and wearing out our feet so that mine are not entirely well yet thit thi was about f four our months ago we obtained a place to stop to preach in but did not preach as no one came to hear bear us ua the persons with whom we stopped and whose bungalow we got the use of were J S collis and E J booth indigo planters the latter from ireland and gentlemen they were too i we stayed there about two weeks doing what we could but accomplished nothing only to warn the people with whom we could get to talk many will not let us wo into their houses I 1 I 1 will here say that brother willes willea tried to get a meeting in Cawn pore but no one conme to hear him from Alla habad we came to calcutta arriving on the ath march last I 1 remained there nearly one month to recruit a little as we were pretty well worn down on our arrival brother N 19 V jones president of the Hin Hindo dosten mission anen told me I 1 might return home if I 1 wished to do so as he be could c do all that was to be done in calcutta and as to this place brother leonard and myself preached as long as any lievers would come to hear us and then he be and brother willes were up again afterwards but I 1 did not wish to be the first to leave the country so I 1 said i t would rather stay until fall at least president jones told me to do just as I 1 pleased and also said 91 wll will be glad of your com company I any I 1 then concluded to come tip 6 here and 1 stop eight or ten days as brotter brother sankey was down and wished me to colne alp ilp up accordingly I 1 went but instead of staying in 1 eight or ten tea days I 1 stopped twenty six and gave a course of eleven or twelve twee lectures stoa to a congregation I 1 of from six to twenty y persons ers ons mostly soldiers as there are s some j recruits recruit here at present I 1 of put out my circular sall all over the station A few civilians di came a time or two but as soon as they f found that mormonism jils as they called it would require them theli to I 1 leave ave off doing evil and to do good they turned away sorrowing I 1 suppose I 1 had some business at calcutta so I 1 had bad to go down but I 1 came back in a few jays days and brother fotheringham with me while I 1 was here the first timea baptised baptized sed two persons one was br otheal otheIR San keys daughter who lives at burdean Bur dwan forty miles distant and who was here on a visit the other was his stepdaughter step daughter T I 1 I 1 will here relate mate a circumstance wherein the power of god was manifested brother San keys daughter told me one afternoon that she wished dished to be baptized that evening after meeting I 1 told her I 1 was on hand any time I 1 will here say that she had had bad it show nto her ky by night bufore by a dream or vision that I 1 wits was a i servant of god and that 1 I wits was to baptize her fier this was in answer to my prayer and also hers bers as she told me afterwards that she asked for it after she retired which I 1 did also after af ter she had told me her desire I 1 look for the tank suitable forthe for the purpose after my return I 1 was wal walking kino aiji W the verandah and I 1 felt as if all was wt not right el some way what I 1 it was I 1 could not tell but I 1 thought that perhaps chaps she would get out of the no zion of ung being baptised baptized sed as some have done in this country after saying they were ready but bat in a few minutes the mystery was solved sister sankey came out and said mary is ve you will remember that a few minutes before she was as well as ever and wants you to administer to her I 1 went in in immediately and anointed her with oil in the name of the lord jesus christ and laid hands on her and ahrn thinks ks be to the god of israel before we took our oar hands bands off her head for brother sankey luid laid his hand on also the pain had entirely left her and mostly before I 1 got through with anointing it etwas was a very severe attack similar to the cholera but she was heeled by the power of god and was baptised baptized sed not the same hour as I 1 had bad to pre preach ach to a few af afterwards ter also during my stay here I 1 anointed a native hindmo woman who obo had been afflicted with pains for four years sh she was sister flad haddeus deus jah waiting maid and lives at burdean also and the th e pains left her but she would not leave her caste I 1 I 1 learn that she is telling it all around and says she wishes I 1 would coine up to burd wan and cure all the sick folks ac 81 she ie cannot talk english I 1 would not be sur pi ased if the pains would robain fetui n again for she ought to leave idolatry and be baptis el ed but this does not open the eyes of the people and I 1 guess they will not get them opened until they take a trip to the spirit world there have been other ceases which I 1 might mention but shall not for want of time and room you can see by the foregoing that the lord has not dot left us altho we are in a land of Aar darkness aaroness kness this is the land where some of the apostles of old were killed so we must look for opposition of the strongest kind there are but a few who will ever obey the gospel in this land their circumstances and every thing else forbid their doing it pretty much all have come here to get rich and what can you do with such when you have them at home I 1 I 1 answer but little there and less here so this tells it in a word our meetings are pretty well attended at present that is from fifteen to thirty come to hear but all are soldiers not a single civilian I 1 have baptised baptized sed three since I 1 came up this time and brother fotheringham baptised baptized sed one who had been baptised baptized sed in england by the name of benjanin cubits cubias I 1 give his name so that if you gee see fit to publish this as you are at liberty to do with it as you please the branch to which he belonged may know where he is he is from about manchester I 1 counselled counseller coun selled him to renew hiti bin covenant by baptism as I 1 considered he must have got weak in the faith or el else se he never would have gone gon e to fight the battles of the gentiles in this generation when all the wicked and those serve no not t god will be destroyed from off the face of the land these soldiers soldini s are all in for ten years and only one and a half of it is is g pona on the reason we can preach here to the soldiers is we have sv a house brother San keys close to the barracks and yet outside ot of cantonments canton ments I 1 was told by a sergeant that they had orders while he was in fort william at calcutta that i if f any of us came into the fort to send four men and a corporal to march li us out P B gibson of scotland formerly an elder is in these barracks and has acosta tided torn up his license given up all his books and dont believe in anything scarcely I 1 have had bad conversation with huns fifa uuro OAtS ClICe j a of a G god od the ile first time n now 0 w he says says he believes in some of the first princles principles of the gospel and in baptism for the dead ac but he says he thinks the prophets Prophet 6 joseph and brigham are ba base se impostors ac this is the second or third time he has apostatised so perhaps he be will wish to come back again one of the in men en I 1 baptised baptized sed used to be a bitter in in dublin and he told me that he used to create disturbances iu in our meetings there but he has repented of it and says he be is very sorry he ever did so and one of 0 the elders there and then told him as a prophecy that he would yet I 1 belong to also so he be predicted it and through my instrumentality it has been fulfilled this mans name is james T hurst so go that if any of the brethren ever had bad a feeling against him they will forgive him bim fot for he has been baptised baptized sed for the remission of all his past sins and has received the feol boly spirit so he be has told me since white whish aal all will who will go forth with a contrite spirit and be baptized baptised sed and have hands bands bayed on them for the gift of the holy ghost all those who have been baptised baptized sed are rejoicing in the glorious gospel of our lord and savior jesus christ the devil sawed sowed his teeth some when I 1 was up here bh bufore fore and also at the first discourse after I 1 ane up this time men would get up and tr try j to stop me by commencing commencing to talk and if U I 1 testified that joseph smith and brighta I 1 young were prophets of the most high god which I 1 always do and would like to do so to all the world if I 1 had the chance they would tell me I 1 was a liar with all the rest of the epithets comagon in the mouths of such su ch men and would have their hands full of newspapers dings works ac to prove it but I 1 checked it in the bud by telling themi them I 1 would biot allow it so they theli I 1 have quit coming to hear as to disturb was all they came for and some of them have since since in in the cundy cungy prison solitary confinement house for three months ac i this was the best beat sign I 1 had seen in india I 1 and told brother sank sankey ea so at the tinie time I 1 was pretty sure that there were sheep close by when the wolves commence to howl I 1 exact to baptise three oi of four more before long if their officers do ao not stop it which I 1 do not noi think they can I 1 brother ni h has as n not pt been able I 1 i to get a ship for your ws parta arts as he wrote ex pecking to do so he be will I 1 not be there very soon if he comes at all the lord seems to hedge the way some come might think we made a short stay of it in the upper country but I 1 will say that brother willes was bip up there nearly a year before we went up and preached in I 1 agra and delhi as s long as they would come to hear him and in in marat as long qs as he would have been allowed so BO the brigadier randsome and some others told us he was allowed to preach w in cantonment when he first went up bu bufa the authorities said they saw that that would not ido do fot for the soldiers would think nore more of deseret than chelsea hospital tal this was vas put in their papers and we kea read d it yet we aee were not dis heartened at all but thought it of no use to stop when we I 1 were not allowed to preach when we I 1 got a place outside of cantonment no one I 1 would come to hear the soldiers were not allowed where we staid the people as a general thing thine boldus tol told dus us they saw no use of us staying as much as to say 11 1 I am tired of hoarding boarding you 5 ac in calcutta brother jones has baptised baptized sed t three aree or f four out persons since I 1 came cama up here her e this time but I 1 must close tor for the presen present t praying 9 god to bless you in in your responsible station and give you strength as your day may demand I 1 rem aber ber me to brothers D spencer neer 0 A harper 0 A foster and all the brethren in the office also when you write to presidents young kimball and richards and to in my y good wife an ana family and your esteemed wife brother fotheringham j joins in love to you arid and all the S saints I 1 subscribe myself us ever your brother affectionately in christ S 9 A PS this regiment will leave here in in september or october next for the upper provinces but it will be of no use for any of us to go with it for we would not be allowed to preach to the soldiers there but we can ordain some of them and they can do their own preaching if their officers will allow it I 1 expect I 1 shall leave for the states about Sept september Septem embAr bw or Oe october tober SAW scandinavian mission extracts Extract li of oan a letter from elder job john n van cott t to 0 elder R cambbell Cam Can ibell irbell city recorder 28 and 29 Gothers gade copenhagen sept 1 1854 5 while in in utah eja 3 ing geach and p asperity awl and blessed above every other people of the ea earth jtb e dying i lying in in a great degree that liberty which a wise creator designs for his hia covenant ove nant children would we but reflect upon almost innumerable opportunities I 1 that we vie have 0 trea suring up doctori doctrine he and prin aiple and improve upon the same saine as we ought of what lasting benefit it would could be unto us then when abroad we will not have to reflect back upon the time which is id passed unimproved in tin thi land there are hundreds of thousands that know not the swee sweets osof of liberty neither can they conceive conceive liow how great a blessing it is is lan guage is is inadequate to portray it so that they can understand it as they could if irthy thy had ex peri ence on oil the other hand those who have been born in in a land of liberty and always privileged to enjoy it know not what aliat liat it is is to be deprived ved of liberty libert v consequently they do not khow how to appreciate it t as they ought the blessings of the american people how great they have been far above any other nation of the earth would to god that they would appreciate them that they might in in a measure avert the cala cities that appear to await them there is is no other people that appreciate the 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