Show maw 37 MORRISON STREET KINGSTON GLASGOW SCOTLAND april 1870 elder cannon dear bro As I 1 have a few spare lapare moments this evening 3 thought I 1 would give you a brief account of our visit to the famed beli ben lomond brother george romney called upon us a few days ago and as our brethren here had just returned from a along long tour through the north and none of us had ever visited the celebrated mountain we unanimously agreed 0 to o spend one day in amusements freed from the noise and filth of these densely populated cities which becomes very monotonous to mountain raised boys at a little past 8 we were road and about 9 am we were on the little steamer princess of wates wales steaming up the beautiful loch lomond adjacent to this freshwater fresh water lake are the beautiful braes of balloch on the south majestic ben lomond on the east while the west and north are none the less grand rand in their appearance to one who has haw as been privileged to spend his life among such scenes the lake is about twenty four miles in length running north and south and twelve miles wide there are tire twenty four islands beautifully arranged in this little fairy dell to see the deer and goats feeding leisurely around to hear the birds biag i with a clear spring sun shining shilling down upon us was a treat that could only be appreciated by those who had been deprived of these blessings for lorhe some bome time after aften enjoying a fine sail bali we landed at a small pier A couple of light footed gents came onshore on shore bhore who asked if we were going on top we replied ago go on we may catch you so off they set get at a brisk pace when we had followed the theold old oid path about one mile and a half we overtook the glasgow gentlemen who earnestly entreated us to take a long rest of course knowing the injurious results we declined I 1 was indeed much surprised to find turf with water soaking out of it all the way up the brae it resembled one of our low bottoms so far as moisture is concerned and the feed for the sheep was vas very poor indeed as heather was the principle product of the famous ben after walking at a good pace for two and lind a half hours we found ourselves on the topmost point of lofty ben lomond a little over three hundred feet above the sea level all of us had a good look at the magnificent ent scenery with hills dales lakes and deep valleys and admiring natures handiwork we knelt and brother park offered a very appropriate prayer in behalf of all israel I 1 can assure you we all said amen at the conclusion with a vim and an earnest wish that god would accept our desire to bee see his kingdom triumphant the scriptures say pray for your enemies and we did pray for them most fervently that they might be thwarted in all their evil schemes to bring us on a level with their ungodly platform we felt that a great amount of the spirit of god was with us we descended ed refreshed ourselves and in a few hours were in glasgow Brot brothers herg heri park smith and douglas remained in glas I 1 rag aag while brother romney and your humble servant booked for belfast ireland we should have made the voyage in eight hours but we were overtaken by a dense fog which detained us seven hours I 1 received a letter ietter yesterday from heber who tells me they had an ua excellent time at their conference on the dinst president carrington and elder L W shurtliff were present all was peace and prosperity among them on the continent we are still struggling to fulfill fulfil our missions honorably the brethren all join me mein kind ove to you also to president young you ug I remain your brother in the gospel coye Core covenant nant H C JACOBS a 1 14 flet alet wet us remove temptation from the path pan of bf youth as the frog said when wee tee plunged into the water upon seeing a boy oy pick up a atone stone A new york reporter of a thought fuu ful turn of df mind has written his own obituary he appreciates the ancee ginty of reportorial life it ia is rumor eid fid abat victoria dictor 1 ia 0 woodhull and mrs claflin Claff irly the female brokers of new york contemplate starting a dally daily paper |