| Show corresponding WITH AND VISITING RELATIVES AND FRIENDS A SOMEWHAT T frequent t cause of complaint reported by bk elders tre traveling away from utah among the people they have visited ia Is that reid reli relatives tives and acquaintance when they come to utah utan alpar apparently antly forget those they have left behind in the worl world dand and fall fail to correspond with them or write very seldom and never revisit them there ia is probably some truth in complaints of this kind hind nut but it tisa is a matter which may be looked at from both iloth E ldes sides of the question from the other side as well as the one above presented for instance will man many y of those persons at a dist distance alace aiace who have relatives or friends in utah ask themselves how often they have written to or visited their utah relatives or friends since the separation took place have the relatives or friends outside of utah written to or visited the relatives or friends in utah as often as the latter have written to or visited the former if not then why not if a correct account of letters and visits were wore made c out ut there is reason to apprehend that the ahe residents of utah would be w found to have written to foaud ald visited their re lativs and friends abroad qu quite te as often as the latter hae have written to and visited the former indeed we are sometimes tempted to think that if the figures be tween the two parties in ter were placed side sido by eide tide there would remain a han handsome diome ba balance larice in favor of the utah residents at least such sueh has been the experience of many of theople the people in this territory large numbers of the people of this thia territory have not only written more or less frequently to their relative relatives ii and friends at a distance but have also sent to them copies of the NEWS and other church ch u ach publications licati ons published here and have furthermore gone back some or of them more than once to the places of their former residence residence among their relatives and friends and preached the gospel to them as well as given them descriptive iye lye information of the country hereabout bere jere and of the people and the situation and pro prospects heie still further not a few of these missionary visitants tants from utah have brought with them on their return here such of their relatives friends and acquaintances acquaint aucey ancey as have been willing und and able ti come who in turn have written to and visited preached to and conversed with their relatives and aud friends and acquaintances abroad and brought some of them back to utah with them so 80 that we must be right in saying that a few letters and visits from relatives and friends at a distance are still due to relatives and friends in utah |
