| Show T the 1411 nation in england LI LIVERPOOL V E aug u g ig 19 19 1874 editor deseret news I 1 give you a few items of i my personal pens onal experience and observation ia te slice elice I 1 jent jena salt lake city I 1 enjoyed myself very much on my journey to this land all ali along tile lne line ine or of railway I 1 was courteously and amid respect respectfully rully listened to when engaged in conversation upon our principles or of religion or upon the country we live in or replying to questions respecting the peron alid character cf president B young I 1 found a very liberal spirit manifested towards toward 5 us as 8 a people and many manifested considerable sid erable interest in the holving of the he Al mormon brinon problem however the majority majorah were in favor of nonintervention but were willing for us to manage our domestic ron cerns our own way they deprecated gressional digressional mi interference in either our religious social or municipal affairs and denounced special legislation as a very dangerous precedent to establish in that land my journey across the AU atlantic anti antl C was equally pleasant and I 1 think I 1 am sane san e in saying that in sommie soffie some eases easel I 1 was enabled to remove a little of the erroneous i views which many of my fellow passengers had concerning us a as s a people I 1 have now been in in tins this land since the of june and aud have had tad some little opportunity of seeing being the people and the country I 1 am laboring in the liverpool conference which is now very extensive ten teu sive geographically it extends north to barrow in furness preston blackburn burnley over darwin and some portion of cheshire the saints are scattered too through three or four counties in north nor th wales the tho isie tsie of bf man 14 1 also included so T r have quite an ei extensive part of the country to travel in I 1 have visited the majority bority of the Br branches branche auche in the conference and have invariably found the saints pleased to have the t he visiting among them 41 my y own personal exper experience lence lenee in this s respect has been very gratifying some of them I 1 find very poor indeed intact in fact receiving parish pay yet even in their poverty they hang han ban 9 dui dru to the thew work and look ronard ranard wity with areat great anxiety for the day of their deliverance mavy many of them have been in the church forbears for nor years jears some for thirty eight years and upwards and they tell very interesting rem reminiscences of bf the elders eiders in those early days bro bro heber and bro hyde are very prominently mentioned in preston and the surrounding country the saints point but hut the places where the elders lifted up their warning voice and proclaimed the gospel gospe in these latter days and tell of the wonderful success as they met with but oh how changed nol now noi the saints are arc few and scattered one family here and another there ther e where large and flourishing branches formerly tm existed twisted isted and among the people of the world there seems no disposition to investigate any system of rell reil religion gloh to we me it r seems seems reems e ems that the spirit of the lord lo 10 rd is being bel bei ng gradually withdrawn from the people and they are ar e givin giving 9 way to the spirit of infidelity and disregard for anything tny luy thing sacred I 1 view with sorrow the great change for it seems to me thail that I 1 can see swee a great change mong among the people there seems more drunkenness more crime and misery and certainly N nore more poverty ty than when I 1 left upwards of fourteen years ago and this among all classes of society another sad feature especially for the rising generation is the great intemperance of the wo women and this teems to be increasing another feature 1 I notice and j I 1 have asked all classes of people for information on the subject which is this that although the working class have been much better paid than in years gone by they are no better off at the weeks end enli the answer is invariably the same that the price of every everything thing lhing consumed by a family not only food dood and clothing but rent and taxes coal and gas has increased more in pio proportion portion than the wage wages 4 and the people themselves bay fay they are poorer than when the price of labor was lower very many industries dus dubs tries have bave not recovered from the high price charged for coal and some forne begin to feel feer the dull times limes in amelica america Ame rica ilca and look forward with some anxiety for the coming win toti tori ter and nul nol wholly without cause one reason for the indifference erenee manifested towards all kinds afre of religion is the partia parila partiality lity shown by the ministers or of the va various ricus sects iii in voting the members of their churches the poor are left to themselves in oho tho their ir kovei no interest is taken in their spiritual or temporal temp cral crai welfare but the rich cau can be visited no matter what their general characters mas may be another very tery prominent cause for this thia religious indifference is ia the tendency of thu the dissenting churches to what Is ii enow known n a m a high church principles and they have incorporated in their forms forma of worship catholic notions and ideas such as candles cout cont ossion and other fea pea tures of roman ritualism some bome churches have taken out outtie the private pews and introduced plain bo bunches inches or forms and the people are arf expected to pay their penny every time they go g to church this last innovation seems to have given the greatest offense offence and made the people very careless and indifferent in this we can see seo the hand of the lord at work amon amod among 9 the people they have rejected the true plan of salvation and are satisfied with these empty fo forms ains alid and outside bibow pom hom parade in view of these thine things then 1 to say that I 1 prize more than thay ever my faith and my home horne in the mountains but expresses nery very faintly nay rny nay ray real thankfulness and gratitude to my heavenly father for restoring the gospel and priesthood again upon the ae earth and oh ohl could those who are now gathered with the only appreciate their privileges that they could and do enjoy they would cease the their ir murmuring and complain ings and be thankful all the days of their life for I 1 prefer the peace the quietude and the general good feeling that prevails pie vails valls in our mountain valleys to the hurry burry bustle and confusion that exist in these lands could the brethren contrast the peace and good feeling generally found in the workshops of salt lake laake city with the drinking Bw swearing earing envy and jealousy so prevalent in the shops of this country they would feel thankful and appreciate the change and what shall I 1 say to the sisters they think sometimes their lot is hard bard no doubt but if they could view the women of this country as I 1 view iview them their little troubles would a appear insignificant and would never be mentioned by way ivy of bf contrast with the troubles of the them women of this country very very m many any have drunken dissolute husban dorto con terl teri tend d with others brutal and lazy jozy men and many of them wilful and disobedient children and thousands of b hem atheni are compelled tp work hard to sustain iii themselves in any way and keeps shelter over their head heads and are obliged to be content with a home and surroundings that to my inda the poorest in utah would be ashamed of they have other evils to contend with which I 1 need not mention but which seems ito me to be sapping the foundations of thousands of what might 1 be happy homes but perhaps 1 I have said elo eli elough enough ough let none nond think this picture overdrawn for most arti nul assuredly this tills is how I 1 view these things I 1 had some pride for my country before I 1 saw it again but now how that is gone and as I 1 feel at the present time money would not hile bile me to make my home in this country and bring up my family with these feeling feelings no wonder I 1 love iove my mountain home and it 1 is only forthe for fon the hope that perhaps I 1 may be enabled to do some go good od while here in these lands that reconciles ed con ciles clies me at all and when I 1 think of our poor brothers and asters sisters bisters in these lands lauds how they are hoping and praying and many ot of them striving hard to emancipate themselves and denying themselves of nearly kearly nil nii all ball that goes to make lifo life comfortable I 1 think if those who have comfortable homes and are doing well in utah would spare a little more to the P E iund lund i und especially if thoe th o who havo have been bellel heipel by its fil means would make mane a good effort many of the poor saints could be helped away As far wi aa I 1 am aware the brethren are aret bollig their best aud nud endeavor to bo be as economical as ap they can that the burden may be light upon the saints who are left for it ik seems like the gleaning after the giarve harvest i 1 done I 1 have visited some few of my relatives they seem to have haye nis nip n interest in anything that pertains to my mi lon ion but hut I 1 preach to them whenever I 1 have tho the opportunity B B bartos BARTON artos 1 |
