Show P OMAHA omana NEBRASKA aug IS 18 GO president brigham young dear brother by advice of elder wm C staines I 1 have notified all the saints in my field of labor who can possibly emier emigrate te this season to acco accompany m me home with the next company from great britain said to be due at new york on or about the ath of september I 1 have been assisting bro staines in the emigration at omaha so far everything thin works well weil brother dusenberry condl conducts acts the companies through from blew ew york to omaha and can do all in future that is required here when he comes up with each company thus liberating me to go home with the saints as above stated brother dusenberry says that the railroad men all along the route of travel are disposed to do what is right by our emigrants at this point C G hammond gen supt bupt U P K R K R and mr clark dark superintendent of the platte division of the railroad are doing all in their power to make our people comfortable and to speed them on their journey to utah the mission in bhe the united states in my opinion is like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is over the elders who are laboring for the salvation of souls enjoy the spirit of their calling they find here and there in their travels a cluster of honest souls who receive the word of god with gladness and are gathering to the home of the saints as fast as circumstances will admit of their doing so but as a general thing our labors in the states remind me of preaching in the streets of a large city to a traveling congregation we labor unheard and unheeded by the great masses of the people whose minds are all absorbed by the cares of life and the vanities and frivolities of the world without any fixed aim of heaven like driftwood floating on an overflowing ever flowing stream some pause to t inquire what we believe in and while we are endeavoring to lay jay before them the plan of salvat salvation on they hurry on in pursuit of some bauble in the prospective that ever eludes their grasp but is ever before them like a phantom luring its victims on from disappointment to disappointment until death closes the scene there is another class who pause to inquire with an air of affected piety flety very befitting their character and abd calling whether there ia is any money to be made in Morn monn mormonism they find no fault with our religion and would willingly join the church if they could do dd a lucrative business in utah at their respective spec tive callings the most of these are doctors lawyers and merchants ministers seldom enquire knowing that our elders travel without purse or scrip I 1 have received since I 1 came on this mission an unlimited number of letters from this class interrogating me what they should do to be saved in case that they became members of our church I 1 tell them to go to work plow chop wood in the li kanyon anyon drive a team or anything to get an honest living they almost all turn away very sorrowfully there is another class of honorable men who wish to td accord to us the right to worship god agreeable to the dictates of our consciences they freely admit that we have the best governed community in the united states that our people are the most industrious the most roost united and that our social system comes up to ta the highest moral standard and say they if you mormons cormons would only do away with plural marriage and return to monogamy in a short time you would rank the first among the states and territories of this great republic I 1 answer were we to adopt your our social system we would have to M descend bend to where you are in social degeneracy gene racy that we can never do without abandoning our religion which has made us all you admire in mormonism 11 and lifts woman to her highest social social and moral calling to be the helpmate of her husband the honored wife and mother of legitimate children religious Belig ious lous bigots belonging to stereotyped dogmas still cry I 1 delusion Delu alon aion and band propose mobbing us as thu the strongest argument to put down ai mormonism Mormon iem lem 1 I but as a general thing the people are becoming more moie libe raland that wicked spirit of persecution so rampant inthe in the states twenty years ago is giving way and we are allowed the freedom of speech accorded to all other denominations in many places especially in the rural districts but in the large cities wickedness is on the increase the people are baat fast degenerating As in the days of noah so it is now but notwithstanding this state of thing swe have found many honest souls wh who 0 received the truth into good and honest hearts obeyed the requirements of the gospel and can bear testimonies for themselves that the work is of god the elders are laboring at present throughout the mission as follows elders david holliday and mathews bia SIa are doing a good work in alabama eld eid elder eider er T B lewis is laboring in virginia elder figga was laboring with him at last accounts but I 1 understand president brown released him to return home elders dix and church are laboring in north carolina to advantage elder J W crosby jr is on his bis way home with a small company from georgia I 1 expect from him every day elder A baird called on me at st louis I 1 raw rad saw him off to memphis tennessee he carried with him the spirit of his calling and will do a good work if he continues in communion with god elders george mosser and rudey are laboring in pennsylvania syl syi vanla vania where there are two two branches of the church the one in pittsville Pitts ville and the other in hyde park elders eiders israel evans evana and nymphus OM CM are laboring in iowa where they find many man y friends and a few brethren rejoicing in iii the truth elder J W thurmond writes mo me from heart county he is now about to return home with his mother and family elder W G goforth who has been in business in illi nois boisis I 1 is coming up the river from st louis louls lou is with two families from indiana I 1 expect them here bere tomorrow to morrow there are a few faithful saints left in bt st louis who cannot possibly get away this season geason I 1 have appointed thomas harris to preside p H he e is an energetic man and is capable of doing a great deal of good if he will continue to seek first the kingdom of god which I 1 verily believe he will do I 1 have instructed the elders to report progress in their respective fields of labor to you hereafter he as I 1 am return returning 13 9 home agreeable to your wish a privilege v 1 I 1 esteem very highly since I 1 I 1 left eft home I 1 have enjoyed the best of health hav bave p always had friends and means tl to defray my expenses and the preserving pres preE erving care of heaven protect to me from ha harm km by day and by night in all my travels from ogden to north worth carolina and thus far backi feel amply rewarded for all my labors and ind I 1 pray god to bless all who have klied ly administered to my comforts while on my borwhat for what littile glod I 1 have done in conjunction with faly baly ny brethren to my father in heaven all the honor is due with love to yourE yours yourself elf eif and Counsel and all associated with you in the holy priesthood to my fellow laborers inthe ministry to all the faithful at home and abroad I 1 subscribe as ever your friend and brother in the gospel covenant DAVID M STUART |