| Show sr ST charnes CHARLEs june 16 1870 ia brother CANNON DEAR DEAP SIR june alth was a day of rest and recreation with our camp at soda boda springs resident president JP young and many of the company visited the various soda springs lid aid and other curiosities within five miles wiles of camp secured many samples of crys erys materials for the deseret mu guem we all drank liberally of the various soda springs several beveral of us visited blackfoot streams of water about ten miles from camp C caught au a afew fo trout and traveled over a strange country and returned to camp 1 june 12 today today to te day being the tho sabbath we assembled together for a meeting president young addressed us for half an hour and gave good counsel to all especially upon the subject of our intercourse with the Lama with which we are surrounded all were counseled to bet set a good example before them in all things not to gamble run races or swap horses or descend to a level leviel with them in anything but sho W them our superiority by our acts he was followed by D H wells and john taylor june 13 we broke campana camp and drove 30 miles to montpelier and und held a meeting at which addresses were delivered by president younk young D H wells and W woodruff june 14 A cold cloudy morning we drove to the ferry and crossed bear river biver then drove through ovid to paris about 20 miles we had bad several showers of rain during the time we met in the bowery for nora fora a meeting president young spoke 20 minutes and gave counsel about building a meeting meetinghouse house x 50 feet but as the bowery and ground was so damp meeting was soon dismissed june 15 we drove through bloomington to st charles and held a meeting at eleven the people were addressed by president young D H wells L snow and B young jr we held another meeting in the afternoon and president young spoke a short time advising the people to raise their house several feet higher and give more ventilation he was followed by john taylor I 1 F D richards W woodruff and br brother cither penrose behave had the spirit of the lord with us on our journey and excellent teachings and counsel from those who have addressed us june IG 16 president young and com pany any with many of the citizens of st 8 char harles haries es visited the east side of the lake we drove over the turnpike which separates the lakes this is a high sandy ridge on a belt of land which divides the two lakes the south side of the road is a fine line sandy beach with clear shallow water the horsemen rode out yards from the shore and the carriages several rods we crossed the outlet upon a new now good bridge we drove to the hot spring on the south side of the lake seven miles from st charles after spending a short time and traveling about a mile south to a spring of cold water we returned to st charles the whole company are expecting to go to the south end of the lake tomorrow to morrow and return to st charles the crops look very well vell throughout this valley no grasshoppers or crickets to trouble this season aa as yet it is a general time of health with the company p an Y yours in the gospel of christ chri B t W WOODRUFF SALT LAKE CITY i june 25 1870 1670 editor deseret SIR sib my last letter written at st charles rich bich co on the instant contained a synopsis of the journey of president young and party on their northern trip up to the date of writing I 1 shall now continue giving a very brief sketch of their travels and labors until they reached this city yesterday june 17 president young and company drove through Fish haven on the lake shore round the south end of the lake to ithaca twenty five miles from paris A meeting was held at eleven am the speakers on the occasion being president D H wells elders C 0 bich elch john taylor L snow P F A richards W woodruff and A M musser mussen and president young at the close of the meeting we returned to st charles and while passing on the west side of the lake we saw shoals of fish that came close to the shore saturday we attended the school of the prophets in paris where and instruction were given by presidents young and wells elders taylor and woodruff also falso being speakers on that occasion in the after noon we held meeting with the saints at bloomington which was addressed by B young jr J r aj L snow F D richards and the latter said the people are improving and he exhorted them to put their trust in god sunday sinn tinn day we held a meeting at the bowery in paris president wells addressed the people one hour on a variety of subjects and gave good counsel he was followed by president young who spoke of the improvement of the people since the days of joseph and the necessity of of this improvement wished the sisters to look round and they were going to clothe themselves counselled counseller coun selled them to cooperate operate co with their husbands in building a woollen factory in this place and let the wool bo be carried into the factory and made into cloth and not spend their lives in spinning one thread at a time also buy knitting machines to do their knitting let the people commence raising hops to have something to export and as far as possible manufacture what wo we use spend yourl your leisure time in obtaining knowledge out of those books containing the gospel and revelations of god there is much I 1 yet to be revealed to the inhabitants of zion when they are prepared to receive it for the saints of god will never stop receiving truth in time or eternity president young addre addressed ased the saints in the afternoon apon the ordinance of the sacrament and the doctrines of christ ho he said if any man will do the will of god he shall w whether the doctrine be of god or man allin ailin all ail in the spirit world will appear natural to each other as they do in this can see and converse with each other as in this life and when we were in the spirit world with our father in heaven all was as natural as it is in this life and after the resurrection we shall all rejoice together with all the prophets and apostles who have gone before us as well as with those who dwell in our jay aay day let the saints be faithful and labor to secure eternal life he was followed by elders 0 W penrose and 0 0 C rich monday we drove over the mountains to franklin and held a meeting the people being addressed by L snow john taylor D H wells W woodruff F D richards and president young president young said the saints should labor to obtain the spirit of god and in all their labors temporal and spiritual they should follow the dictations of that spirit all persons are liable to be tempted but there is no need to yield if a man yield to evil and lose the spirit of god after having n received it and turns traitor and denies his god and betrays his bis brethren neither the lord nor his people can ever have the same confidence in him again blessed is that man who keeps the commandments of god in all things all have to be governed by law all exalted beings faveto abide a law and so must we if wo we ever enjoy the glory possessed by them theford the lord is pleased pleated with good order and refinement and we should seek to imitate him tuesday we drove to richmond m ond and held meeting at ten in tiie the morning president young addressed the Saint sand counselled counseller coun selled them in very plain terms he said that if the lord blessed them with a crop this season they should preserve that gr ainlay it up and not squander it away as has been done in former years lay up enough if possible for two or three years and continue alfrom from year to year until you have enough for seven years provisions for your families and this for a wise purpose in god and go to and establish woollen factories many have supposed because we have one cotton factory and several woollen factories that they will supply the whole territory but this is entirely ente rely a mistake there should be factories established in all the principal cities of the territory for the manufacture of woollen and cotton fabrics in order to supply the wants of the let the church be cleansed from all iniquity and men who will not keep the commandments command ments menta of god be severed from it president young was followed by R T burton B young jr and W woodruff at the close of the meeting the party drove to smithfield and held meeting at I 1 ocl oel ocic ocil the speakers were P F D richards J taylor and president young after meeting the party partook of an excellent dinner got up bythe by the bishop andy and people eople we then cameon to hyde park where meeting was held afa at 4 being the first meeting held in the new mee meeting t house it was dedicated unto the lord john taylor offering the dedicatory torr torb prayer the people were addressed by ayd H wells W fand president ident young toung the latter speaking on the persecutions of the saints in the days of joseph and on the blessings and prosperity enjoyed now he exhorted the people to trust in god and be faithful to him at the close of the in meeting the party drove to logan where at 10 am on wednesday a two days ineat m i beet ing commenced president young made the opening address and remarked if I 1 I 1 were to ask how many there are in this congregation who were in jackson county or how many of you ou were in kirtland I 1 think there would be but few the sainta saints today to day with those who lived in the days of joseph and I 1 see a great change the great majority of the saints today to day have been baptized into the church since the death of joseph there Therel is also salso a great change in the world since then when joseph presented new revelation to the people they were much op posed to it but bat since t that h at period the world has been filled wi with t hit it but not hot of god the world is tending ten d ing to infidelity and those who have left eft the church deny everything that has been receded revealed for the salvation of the children of men they deny the principles of the gospel the atonement of jesus christ the resurrection ur and every other princ principle ae of salvation the latter day saints should prize the privileges and blessings which they have received from the hands of god the lord has haade de livered to them the ordinances of the gospel for the salvation of both the living and the dead bafs has any other generation ever had the privilege of attending to the ordinances of salvation for the living and dead did the zion of enoch of adam of abraham isaac or jacob did the apostles in the days of jesus have the privilege of administer ing for the living and the dead if they did I 1 do not know it but we are called to do this work in our day and generation then let us labor faithfully to accomplish com that which god requires at our hands with these responsibilities rest resting dg upon us what manner of men ought we to be what should our works be we should not permit the things of this world to blind our minds and turn us from the commandments of god it would have been better for those who have received the gospel and its blessings and then have turned away and apostatized if they had never heard it for they will be destroyed they cannot inherit eternal life we are called to keep the celestial law to build up zion and to redeem our dead the meeting was next nest addressed by president wells and W woodruff in the afternoon the people were addressed by john taylor and F J D richards thursday in the mornings meeting the people were addressed by lorenzo snow B young jr and R 1 T burton barton in the afternoon by W woodruff bH D H wells and abd president young X T the spirit of the lord rested upon the speakers and their minds were led upon a great variety of subjects and all the people appeared to be edified and instructed and they felt that the visit of the presidency was very profitable to them at the close of the meetings at logan we drove to box elder and spent the night there yesterday morning we traveled in our carriages to ogden and there took the cars for this city 1 arriving here at about a quarter to 2 2 ol 01 e lock in all our travels through bear lake cache and box elder counties we were met by large groces siona of men women and aud child renwith banners on which were inscribed appropriate prop mottoes of welcome to the president and party and we were never more kindly greeted or entertained than upon this visit I 1 was pleased to seethe beethe bee see the great improvement in and extension of the various settlements your brother in the gospel W WOODRUFF |
