Show EXTRACTS or of a letter from front lader toan john 0 angus to thomas bullock I 1 I 1 england oct 6 1853 dear bro bullock and brethren of thi the quorum inake I 1 take the opportunity of 0 bending you on a few lines and hope they may find you all I 1 in good health and enjoying the blemings ble sings of god I 1 am truly happy to huar hear from time to time of the prosperity of my brethren of the same quorum who are on foreign missions and of their success in in the spread ad of the gospel in distant lands and although I 1 am f far ar from the bosom of the church yet I 1 consider that I 1 am at home in a measure compared to those who have to contend with those of other languages of the earth and I 1 often say that we in england know nothing about difficulties compared to those endured by those brethren although we sometimes think them hard enough to bare even here we held our quarterly conference here in shrewsbury on sunday the september and had a sacred time much of the spirit of the lord was in our midst and the saints all re joicey that were met together on that occasion elder earl ear pastor of uie the dis district tAct was present with us the business of a conference in this country at the present time has got so complicated that unless onless a person having chaw charge be on the watch tower all the time be is in sure to let something go go out of its plane there are emigration fund locations lo donations nations temple offerings tract societies donk dona eions to seek up all who can raise means sufficient c with ith which to emigrate preach the gospel and see that those who are entrusted to your care do the things that the gospel requires of them ac so that it keeps the mind on a stretch from day today and from week to week and I 1 oftentimes timea wonder to myself how president young toung gets along with all that he be has on his bis mind when ahen our small conference takes so BO much care but brethren I 1 feel to thank the ard L rd that I 1 have been enabled thus far to do everything to the satisfaction of those who are placed over me and in doing so eo I 1 feel that le the lord is well pleased also we are not adding so many to the church as I 1 should wish to see but the saints are generally increasing in faith and good works a better spir spirit it is manifested by them more so than a few months ago the devil rages more than he e did among the children of men and persecution is more prevalent of late this has a 4 tendency to unite the saints more closely together than when all to is peace and sunshine and I 1 believe this to be the case from my experience both in zion awn and abroad in the world when all 11 ls is peace me men n begin to forget that god has haa anything to do with us but let the devil begin to rage a little then they begin to think what are we and feel to live more ue saints ought to live and to love lava one another and draw near unto god you will we see that europe has again been visited with cholera and it has got into england and in those places where it has broken out that it has hab been making grier greater ravages than on any former occasion you also see that that long expiated struggle has now commenced in the east and peradventure pr adventure will continue until the whole of oj europe feel the effects thereof and england is also in a dreadful state tr t all the branches of oj trade men are striking kint for an advance of to 10 that the country is in perfectly panic stricken I 1 was in scotland a short time ago and made a short stay with bro campbell Cana he was well well in health at that time and I 1 believe is now and still pressing ossed caward in the work of god remember me in love to presidents young kimball Kio iball and Wic richards hards with all the brethren of the quorum and all my acquaintances tance and the nine to you and your mi family amily |