Show correspondence IX scotland to the living and collect wail tor for the dead scotland september 6 1886 a editor zator deseret news thinking a tow few lines from old scotland may not he be uninteresting I 1 embrace a few moments of leisure fr from 0 o in mf 1 rambles and the excitements excite ments of ft airs I re bazars bazar raad and flower blows to pen pea you a tow few items hems on the ot ol november last myself and twelve others elders who were friends and relatives for a short timi time left salt lake city in possession of what to fo me appeared very peculiar sensations as the reality dawned upon us that we were to ue far separated from manyee had bad known from childhood yet a call had bad bew made and that under all circumstances we would endeavor to fulfill the tion seventeen days after starting I 1 was assigned to ito the file glasgow conference in which my labors for the past ten oaths have been spent 11 my experiences were like those of all utah bred missionaries when gettins tins u used a ed to kole kale or bread sul and c cheese b tese and very often the bread 1 WITHOUT THE CHEESE till still there always lurks an unseen power that aids the untiring laborer and lightens his bis burdens when following the path of duty when hen leaving lor for my field of labor I 1 was wao consoled with the thought that I 1 was to bei be among a people who claimed thi the eigher qualifications of civilization and who ure are particularly noted for their thorough systems of education so universally adopted by which the people as it a rule are benefited aud and brought to a higher standard still with all their superior lor advantages I 1 soon learned there was something entirely lacking in the general makeup make up scotchman I 1 could approach him in iti many mally ways and found lie he always had the same peculiarity very and that is tile the assurance ehas of his spiritual welfare and after go 86 many months of careful study and comparison I 1 find his easy grace to is all ail collected from the satisfaction he has of bein saved considering all these deficiencies or false impressions the lubers of the elders in this conference are not followed with the success that has baa heretofore crowned their efforts in these parts MUCH GOOD may be accomplished and vast avast amount of prejudice allayed by the saints at home in corresponding correspond ine with their friends and relatives here many ol of whom are anxious to near hear from who have emigrated to the salt sail lles as the homes of the latter day saints are called and besides they would have their winds disabused dis abused of the idea now held by br many in the world that those who KO go to utah are oot allowed to have say any correspondence with the people of the world only occasionally or semi nemi as the case might be I 1 have found some who had not heard from their near relatives tor for 23 28 years and whom abey thought were dead previous to leaving my mountain honse home 1 I bad the privilege ol of hearing president john henry smith preach a sermon taking for his bis text t e fourth chapter of malachi Mala and I 1 felt so impressed with the remarks upon that subject sud and of the success that had at tel adest the labors of some distant rela relative tivi ot of president smiths who who Ws was makk makine i it a duty to trace r if 0 leMe tae smiths to their 0 trig origin 1 eg ts abat t on nay arriva arrival 1 here and trav traveling g through the many old church y yard dp w with ith their decayed and decay decaying iniz to abi ate a I 1 felt more the force of the meaning in the 1 turning of the hearts of the children bau ren to the lathers and have bay et untiring in my efforts to do a all 11 us that tia lay in my power to forward that wort TO the advertisement in the columns of tho the bivs relating to has hail awake awakened hed a spirit ot inquiry among many of the saints whose forefathers were from old scotland cot laud and I 1 am pleased to state that success has bas been the result st atea ding lading most of the searches I 1 have made thus plying giving the inquirers the es and data to enable them to dot doi do i t work tor for those who had bad not the privilege of hearing bearing the truths of the gospel we are now BOW permitted to embrace the limited amount ot of expense for researches has placed the opportunity within the reba reach of all who are la in any way desirous af getting their genealogies and b by way of encouragement to those who are NAta an attempt to trace theli their records I 1 will vill say at as tile the results ot of my searches in behalf of six per gats I 1 sebu reft more than three thousand names bames making an average for each knoot more ore wan five hundred this surely p should be truly gratifying since so meuy will be released from prison in tho the other world and set free to sing the song of the who lamb the words of 0 the afie lord lora through the prophet malachi are thus being rapidly fulfilled and as days and years advance sod and the saints of zion are allowed to build mure more temples to their god a greater desire will possess their souls to io do more for their ancestors more especially since it is is ia by D divine V command the records ot at eacie par carh 0 in ia be scotland atland are neatly lurd MA wa abia H h 00 ove fit to call in everything recorded in births marriages marrick es and deaths previous to 1855 since which time a moi e accurate record is kept a copy of which is forwarded to the registry resi siry boffl e each mouth some of the old musty records extend as far back as 1500 thus giving a great scope in which to exhaust ones powers of patie patience neb and perseverance er severance and before finish finishing lug give gim him some idea of the meaning of hieroglyphics besides begines searching the records I 1 often intrude upon the hospitality of strangers mostly to a certain if there be any connecting links in their relationship with friends and acquaintances I 1 have atheme at heme home and invariably I 1 have accomplished dished two objects one tor for genealogical purposes the other is bearing my mv testimony to the people I 1 meet for it is characteristic of the scotchman that his curiosity leads him very often into many tight places none from which it is in more difficult to extricate himself than the testimony of jesus and the restoration of the gospel A testimony race once impressively borne to the generality of the classes will leave its impression yet with all the good work done here but comparatively few are strong enough lit in the faith to enable them to s successfully ully battle with public opinion I 1 I 1 I 1 would add by why way of encouragement to those who desire to get a record of their genei genealogies logies the trial expenses are but small thi the cost ot of getting access to the records being only 91 1 or 5 alter which it if stul in a search bearch a remuneration only sufficient to defray expenses is necessary thus taus making it within the reach ot of the farmer as aa well as the merchant fearing I 1 shall intrude on your valuable space isacc I 1 will close and promise more anon yours obediently 11 1 1 low |