Show breach Preach preaching inu inc opposition baptisms branch organized etc ISANTI I 1 santi co minn april editor deseret JN aws since my last correspondence to you I 1 have havu traveled several hundred miles we the same way as before without purse or scrip I 1 have held many meetings and some very well attended and many individuals divi duals have borne testimony to the truth of or this gospel that have not yet obeyed its mandates but I 1 know that there are a d few that will the spirit of the lord mord is working among the people here last fall when I 1 canie came libre here it seemed to me like they were nearly all asleep they came mime to my meetings and rejoiced in my humble testimony and there was hardly any opposition in some places I 1 generally drew full houses and the people said they felt well ac but after that the orthodox ministers of the day seemed to fear for their bread and dinner Seemingly they feared their craft craf was in danger they at once commenced their revivals and their howlings how bow lings as usual di elusion delusion false P prophets doctrine of the devil ac and warned and scared seared the people and told them the danger of going to our meet ings ac but notwithstanding all that a great many that had not seen nor heard a mormon elder before wanted to see and hear for themselves in one place where I 1 had held meeting the priest came and had one after service a alady lady got hold of if the reverend gentle mai ind told him that he had told the thero t many falsehoods that day and flint 1 nt were not true and informed him hiat very politely that if he did so again she would tell the whole congregation that he was a liar I 1 have baptized a few person sand organized a branch of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints here and ordained bro liro 0 berglof and set him apart to preside over sal bal said sald db branch thus the lord has blessed my my labor in this thid part of the world and I 1 believe a few here wi wiil will I 1 I 1 yet receive the truth the snow is all gynethe go gone nethe the iceon ice on th the water evater will soon disappear and spring work will commence bro L anderson is traveling with me and he is a fine young man willing to do his duty but it is verv very hard ham for him to swedish although born a S swede we hold many english meetings heie hele I 1 am well and healthy and willing to do my duty and by this mean meau send my best love and respect to you and my many friends in the valleys of the mountains B P stun P S 1 I would be glad to hear from bishop edwd edwrd bunker I 1 am visiting his relations B P r IV helping thea abc poor sustain home acme manufacture dugall HOUSE WARD salt sait alt ait lake county april 1876 editor deseret ne bews bems in your weekly issue of april ath appeared an article on the subject of emigration with the heading helping the poor which does honor to its author whoever he be may he be helping the poor in any way is a noble cause a glorious theme which cannot be over weighed by the latter day saints especially v in helping to free them from the oppression of Babylo babylon nand and bringing them home to zion ame where every faithful adherent of the gospel of christ yearns to come as a child lost from its parents yearns to find its home I 1 consider that the subject of the article before alluded to ia is a vital portion of our religion and should be graven en upon the heart of every latter batter day saint you truly stated that there are many in ha this territory who might contribute to this cause without feeling any privation or 1 inconvenience 1 11 with your permission I 1 will add that there are many who would freely and liberally contribute were it neb net for the utter impossibility under the present condition of affairs here of turning the produce of their labor into cash eash which all are aware ia is indispensable ble bie in carrying on this part odthe great latter day work there are many kinds I 1 I 1 of produce that are paid to the laborer here but as my experience has been principally in home homo made cloth I 1 stall shall confine myself to this the inexperienced reader may say oh that is only an excuse to all such buch I 1 answer go and work in a factory for a few years with no other resource to replenish your pur seand isyou if you are not favored with a larger circle of cash acquaintances and more disposed to patronize home manufacture with a view to pay for fr the goods they receive your experience will not differ material ly from that of the writers writer I 1 remember trying to trade a piece of cloth to an individual who I 1 thought judging from appearance had much need of it and meeting with the response it may do very well for some but I 1 would not wear it I 1 do not t suppose this ibis to be tile the case with all latter day saints god forbid that it should be but there are many amongst Us who seem to think that thai serving god consists in getting a fat easy living and sporting their fine nine broad eleth cleth at the expense ense of their more simple and devoted devoted brethren let me ask such Is this living by every word that edeth out ot of the mouth of god when the lord says doctrine and covenants page par 12 again thou not be proud in thy heart beart let all thy garments be plain and their beauty the beauty of the work of thine own hands oh I 1 ye latter day saints why do ye not klep kleg keep the commandment commandments s of your god 0 why provoke him to anger against you by your pride and haughtiness by your carelessness and indifference to all that pertains to godliness why are you so 80 swift to do iniquity and slow to remember the lord your god beware of your pride lest you become as the Nep rep hites of old know ye not that babylon the great on whom you depend for so much of your youn extravagance and folly is about to be overthrown know ye nt also that many of those whom ye now sustain and encourage among you would were their power as strong as their will wipe you out of existence then why give them and their stuff the patronage and preference of your brethren and good home homs made clothing awake to a sense of your sour duty cease to be blind to your own interest and instead of bending pending your money away east and west to bling to zion so much of the worse tijan than useless trash in the aba shape pe of tea tobacco cigars ground up rags in the shape of kofl cloth etc etca patronize your home institutions that zion may ba be built up and beautified and a goodly portion of the money thus spent be applied to the gathering home of the poor latter day saints who h without some aid are unable W to gather that the purposes of jehovah may continue te to roll on and the bride be prepared for her bridegroom for lo 10 he cometh quickly aurs yours youns etc P F A carminc and weather the V U 0 schools and improvement aties nth sevier co april 1576 editor desett deseri mews we have had very fine nine weather er this spring and our small grain is na mostly in the ground although considerable snow has fallen in the mountains we have not had any in this valley last winter worth mention the U 0 although yet in its infancy is growing remarkably strong and though but very little encouragement is aar afforded corded unto us J from the older richer and more experienced settlements and even though some of the saints look down upon us as rather f fanatical ana ann yet we have got the testimony for ourselves that we are doing the wor work kand and will ot god and we are determined to persevere we are not laboring for money and no do not hire for wages and hence the loid lord loi lor d has blessed us our settlement continues to increase by settlers rom all parts pails of utah for the sake of the tle order supposing that jt it is better to sacrifice all to god than to have our enemies destroy it our young adu men meu here with few exceptions are taking a very honorable course we have baye a young mens alens mutual I 1 L A who hold bold weekly meetings and it ettres cc tures presided over at present ky y wm win it has been in operation over t two WO y years ears we have also abernice society ty for young men in the order presided over hy by james sellers whose motto la Is for god and the priesthood another society called edthe the monitor society composed of df young boys have semiweekly semi weekly meetings and seems very much interested te their president is ed thurber we have also a dramatic association which has played several times during last winter each a crowded house there js abase a base ball club a regatta club etc our schools are in jn a most excellent condition our day chool held by henry JS hudsen assisted by pratt would woula be a credit to any place and our sunday school by sup 11 P miller has about scholars and twenty five teachers who all take a lively interest in the education of the youth taking it altogether a better more agreeable or pleasant place forture for pure honest noble latter day saints can hardly be found and yet we are of the idor igor poor we have a very vary healthy climate here heie yet this morning a very sad bereavement was as sustained by bro geo frazer in losing his wife after a happy marriage of but fifteen months she was a most respected young lady a daughter of brother hunt runt of monroe respectfully yours chr J KEMPE cooperation operation co confidence honesty quor selling editor deseret we mows we are here in morgan county the same probably as other people at other places some good and some boma bad and indifferent need a thorough reformation in many things not that I 1 want to nind find fault with anything or anybody but rather let charity begin at home the people of morgan city have met more mord than once trying to or themselves into a co opera tive order but failed iti in the attempt if I 1 understand the disposition of the people it is the jack of confidence in one another which is the worst complaint that gan can exist amongst any people especially among us as a people because it is impossible to please god without faith nence hence we cannot be saved without it lt I 1 remember reading an account of the operation cooperation co of the working classes of england twenty eight poor weavers thirty two years ago in iii the city of rochdale Roc boc hilale hdale england combined for the purchase of the ne necessities 68 ties I 1 of life they started wl with th a capital of less than from prom this small beginning large and prosperous unions have sprung up in many important cities of engi engl england a nd T today to 0 day the aggregate membership of those unions is over they are conducted in such a manner as to prevent t peculation and fraud and have thrown around them such safeguards as to prevent it from falling into the hand of selfish men now the question naturally rises in my mind how long the child children rell reil of this world will be wiser in their generation than the children of the light or the members of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints what can we behold today to day even in this nation nothing but dwindling cheating and official thieving consequently as a people we should excel on those rings with their dishonest proceedings we should fix things in such a way that the wicked man cannot steal from his brother then many a man will not be so ready to push for an office because there will be no chance costeal to steal from his brother president young has remarked to this ear enneett act keep a thief from having a chance to steal and be he may be saved bavda to some boma degree of glory story 19 then we need not give to such any office of trust and they will not be tempted te to steal wo we should not forget the propriety of the lords prayer when he taught his hit disciples of old to pray not to be led into temptation and to be kept from evil but he that is tried and ana overcomes all things will be entitled to inherit all things thinks yea kingdoms and dominions and principalities and eternal lives hence it is IQ I Q in the long run better to be poor and honest than go around as fi a well dressed dressed rogue I 1 am of bf the opinion that selling whisky and such is a great evil that is too common among as asa deop people I 1 Q it has agrest a great tendency y to lead the young astr astray and nd be an obstruction in the wa way y af pf 0 ingoing i ing int bithe united oid ord order older r of odthe the kingdom ng of god 1 I 1 when we think that our children are the very vury instruments to carry on the work when we elderly people shall pass away we should try our best to keep them from falling a prey to this evil of drinking that will lead to all vice confidence is the greatest boon that can exist among a comm community eunity of people and aud I 1 know that the latter day saints in that principle are a model to al all nil I 1 the world I 1 know also that our leaders are the right men in the right pl places acea and I 1 may exclaim god bless them to be instrumental to roll on the great kingdom of the great king of rings kings until the holy priesthood will reign predominantly and zion triumph over all her enemies E EAB ear A the waters and abe canals SALT sant lare laie CITY may 4 1876 editor deseret hews news I 1 there have been some irti articles cles cies published in the late issues of the eve ning NEWS from taxpayer and others about the recent floods in bridges ac each particular sufferer su frerer manifesting a little of human nature by way of thinking supervisors and persons having charge of roads and the cont rolins roling of the waters might have bettered their individual cases inthe if the facts of the case were understood they would know that all has been done that could be by the supervisors to make the damage t as light as possible on all whose e property lies by those streams respecting the roper koper ditch I 1 have attended the junction of that ditch with the cann streams daily and filled it to overflowing and ana when we airet first turned the water in that ditch it would not have been safe to raise blit but one gate which we did having ing made the ditch so much lower iowa r than the bed of pf the stream abo above ve the gates it would in all probability have undermined the bridge and took the whole stream besides stopping t travel ra vei vel on on one a 0 of f our mo most 8 t public thoroughfares we therefore prevented that with the use of jhb gates and as the ditch filled with gravel we continued to raise both gates until last sunday morning when at work raising the gates city supervisor hyde and others came down and assisted me in taking them out I 1 do not think mr hyde would have interfered with the gates rates in question or any other property without authority from from i persons paving having mhd right to authorize autho bilm so to do JOHN waymar i supervisor dist no 2 salt sait ln so ou bounty nty sericulture sety SeTi culture editor deseret evening news news ier Ter perhaps haps hans ps adew a few suggestions or ut a new few words a a dad Vad 0 advice vice vlee on the subject not rot to those who may not be so nar far advanced a as regarding the nature of silk blik worm worm eggs As the warm sea sen soni song son ia is approaching it would be e well to talethe eggs gs out and look at them thew especially those who may ha have hem them in a warm wart a place in ta taking in my eggs olit ou t to look at them f for or ehg the e purpose of giving a few to a friend 1 found there were in the neighborhood of 1000 worms crawling around which had hatched out thai that day and which but for the above circumstance I 1 should dhave have lost I 1 went out to look for some borne feed but it wab waa very scarce as the buds are only just beginning to show themi themselves elves but I 1 hap happened pencil to have some tender lettuce which was about three or four inches high I 1 got some of that and cubit up in very nine fine and gave it them in feeding them lettuce cut it up very nine fine and 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