Show NEWS erom FROM ENGLAND 42 ISLINGTON ron rox liverpool march ad eider elder geo U C lambert dear brother brothen the few months that have elapsed evou eyou left grim old 42 have passed ai away vay so smoothly and event has bar followed follone d event in so natural and logical a manner that it takes some little reflection to note the difference between that time and the present great differences there certainly are but mostly in things that do not perhaps haps affect you nor me only as we take an interest in the affairs of others politically there has hag been a mighty change although england has had nothing to complain of in the bravery of her army and the skill and heroism of her generals nor even in the tide of military success that has attended her arms in the dark continent fortune has been cruelly capricious in some of her visitations it is long iong since england has mourned any event aishe as she has the loss of her favorite son G GENERAL E GORDON I 1 believe that if his rescue could have been secured at the cost of a thousand lives and millions of treas urethe price would have been paid with scarcely a murmur but to lose him at the very moment of victory to learn of his death when the nation had bad already believed him saved and were deliberating in as to the honors to be heaped upon hig hin him has been a severe trial to 1 england n The verdict TOO LATE stamped upon the recent expediting expedit lan ian has robbed it of its glory and turned the apples of promise to ashes and its eff effect act upon politics has been great our misfortunes sometimes would be unbearable if it were not for the satisfaction is isi we take in piling the blame upon somebody and there never yet was wanting a scapegoat when sion called bor for for one in this instance of course the victim was gladstone and you can scarcely imagine the liberality with which the agony has been heaped upon his devoted head THE PEOPLES WILLIAM willlam has been hissed hooted and abused until everybody is out of breath many people have suddenly discovered that the tile grand old man is bothin nothing but a grand old humbug however the sober second thought will come and in intact fact has already put in an appearance pe arance gladstone has had a chance to talk and his bitterest enemies acknowledge that HE CAN TALK and although the conservatives derisively vey cry words I 1 words I 1 words I 1 reflecting ting people can also see logic logic logic in his speeches braxe BRAIE OLD GLADSTONE when I 1 look at his open hearty en english face on which the lines of intellect lutelle et and experienced old age blend in rugged harmony I 1 cannot help thinking of the a I 1 b c lesson he taught our verbose and erudite evarts when the latter was as anxious to stop the oversea immigration of the mormons cormons Mor mons as your our interesting varian Is to check the famous a in underground emigration A comparison N by the by is it not strange that while t this his premier of an effete monarchal monar chyl is engaged in extending the franchise to two millions more citizens columbia is depriving thousands of her sons a and nd daughters of this much prized right because they cannot give the popular accent to the shibboleth of so called christian marriage this tills setback set back to Glad stones popularity occasioned by gordons death would I 1 think have been the stepp stepping ipg stone to power of the conservative party if a disraeli were directing their counsels but it may be long before such a comet as he will again be seen in the english political sky I 1 suppose you would like to know how times are in england just now or I 1 in other words how is THE brnad BREAD AND BUTTER QUESTION so far as I 1 know times are no better than when you were here need I 1 say ay more there is a mighty problem now for england to solve and happy will slie she be ba if she can solve it without bloodshed from every town and hamlet comes the anxious enquiry what shall we do with our unemployed assisted emigration is nog now talked of as a remedy but irit while the grass is growing the steed is starving the merchants of babylon are suffering from over production and already the cry is goice up there Is no 40 one to buy our goods 1 ENGLISH CLIMATE we are having a mild winter though I 1 am told it is colder than last but to a veteran bear laker it seems strange to speak of such seasons as winters there Is more pure unadulterated insinuating permeating cold in one blast of the tio bear lake down wester than in a month of such weather as here passes for winter and when I 1 see the hundreds of little bare feet and almost naked backs in this great town I 1 feel thankful to heaven for the mild winters iii in regard to THE MISSION it doda doea not appear that vve ite w are doln much at present I 1 say appear for f or in this as in many other things appearances may be deceiving testimonies are being barne and warnings are uttered that may be taking root in the minds of those who hear bear the word but certain lythe fruits are of slow siow growth whether the labors of the elders in this land are drawing to a close or the judgments of the almighty will yet awaken this might nation to an appreciation 07 of the gospel I 1 know not but the indifference of the people to those things that most nearly concern them can only be realized by those who like yourself have seen and felt it yet an honest soul once in a while rewards our labors by accepting the gospel and you willi know be rejoiced to learn that brothers roberts and gorman german have within a few weeks been baptized confirmed and borne their testimonies to the truth of the work of god you can imagine ima ine lne our joy at the fruition of that labor labo r in which you took so much interest fend pleasure when you were here the elders who have been crossing tiie the ocean this winter have experienced some severe storms and the ships have had a dicag disagreeable habit of losing their rudder but all has ended well president wells is in GOOD AND SPIRITS i and all the brethren in the office are well up with him in these blessings sisters wells and james are also aiso feeling ingwell well weil young master Mast erJames james is grow inc inn we family men are taking great interest in watching his growth and development ile he appears to have got the In sidetrack of all our affections one reason for which is he re reminds ands S mandof many of us of our little loved odes omes ones at home the saints and elders eldera all unite with me in earnest wishes for your welfare and ble bie blessings s sings your brother and friend j GEORGE OSMOND A Mission arys abife for her earnest and important laj a bors in the siamese mission the wife of rev jno 11 chandler is as well known andas much beloved in the baptist church as her honored and devoted husband to a gentleman who visited her and her husband a few months ago at their home in camden new jersey where she has resided since her return from slam in mo she gave the following narrative from my early girlhood I 1 had been ambitious to attain the highest degree of knowledge and usefulness I 1 want ed to go as a missionary to some i heathen country and I 1 prepared in myself for it my gut gift for the acquini tion of languages proved of great ser vice to me on going with my hus bus band to burmah burman I 1 assisted in af a missionary school at bangkok I 1 lis liu taught schools of the native siamese Sia sla I 1 III fil had bad ad among others the brother of the present king 1 under my care besides a number of children of the nobility to whom I 1 taught the english language 0 1 I also did much translating r so arduous were my labors that my health which had for some time been failing falling broke down in 1873 1 I had been of buoyant spirits but my nerves were exhausted and I 1 sank down vitality gave out endurance failed I 1 gave up all my work 1 I was so low that arria arriving ng in this country in lin 1876 no n 0 physician would mould give me any encouragement when I 1 returned to siam slam it was only with partially restored health I 1 broke down again and for months was absolutely helpless iwas I 1 was nervous to a frightful ua extent and could not obtain satisfactory sleep we could not see our way cle cie cleara clearts arto to leave B bangkok an kok until 1880 when I 1 began to P pack acid I 1 was afraid I 1 could not go through t such a heavy undertaking in t the he midst midat of this terrible state stale of depression dr macfarland the abe presbyterian missionary loaned my husband a book about compound oxygen on arriving in philadelphia we went to the office of drs starkey palen and procured a home treatment has it ione none done me good you ask look at me ram lam restored to my old good health there could have been no severer test than was offered in my case A treatise on compound oxygen 91 containing a history of the discovery and mode mol of action of this remarkable curative agent and a large 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