Show FROM DETROIT A PRISON AND PRINCIPLE PRESERVED BETTER THAN THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD AND WEAKNESS HOUSE OV of correction DETROIT MICHIGAN september 26 1888 editor deseret news dear brother perhaps I 1 am tres passing in writing so often but I 1 feel that our condition partly justifies me in imposing both bom upon you and your readers as it appears tu to us the only means by which we can reach all ato ano have so liberally both in word and deed befriended us iu in our unenviable situs situa t on many of our friends earnestly r request auest us to write to them and we are as anxious to do it but it is impossible as even these few lines are sent you through the special kindness ot our deputy who extends to us every lavor the prison rules will allow it however all the saints appreciated the pages of the NEWS as highly as we prisoners in detroit do there would certainly be a copy in every house and all would read at least part of this our humble communication the NEWS Bi kuben star istar P PL L journal juvenile inan instructor and Histo historical record never fail and the era bra and svenstad svensta haroldean Ha rolden we receive part of the me uwe fine lor for all of which we heartily thank our brethren as also to pamphlets and 0 other similar fj also feel to express my W ks to the editor of baku n for his hig kind ness in taking the trouble to translate my letter tor for the benefit of my scandinavian friends while I 1 cannot perform my real duty to write to him specially however it is not only those who have tried tu to lighten our burden here with literary b lessins blessings lessin s that I 1 desire to express my gratitude to at present there are many ways in which both we and our families have been remembered by the saints for which words are chade inadequate to express our feelings of gratitude our health is at present good with the th e exception that 1 I am considerably pained by rheumatism our hope of deliverance before our term ot of sentence is out is not quite dead yet but is badly shakeh the entire absence of any fairness or justice toward us in the past leaves but a meagre hope for any clemency in the future history tarnishes furnishes but buc few instances or parallels of so unjust and atrocious a crime against innocent men as we have been subjected to by what ought to be courts of justice I 1 and we can but naturally suppose that even if the president should be disposed to grant us a pardon he will be so intimidated by our enemies ansiso influenced by false reports that he will drop the whole thing we cannot deny that we are sick and tired of prison life I 1 have heard aua and read of ancient saints being imprisoned for the gospels sake but my imagination ima ina never could compre comprehend he ud the feelings of a prisoner in his 1 lonely eel cell thousands of miles from all that is in near and dear to him it is agony that words fail to express ex but while we drink ve te hitter bitter cup of nate hate envy and malicious malic ibus hatred poured tull t ull unto us by our enemies we rejoice in the atie knowledge that there is no cloud so lark dark nor no mist inist so thick but that at some time the sun will again send its illuminating rays through it and that when the day lawns dawns when the cup of the wrath of a just god shall be tilled and he shall say there shall no more beaven be g ven time then I 1 hope nay my garryen garments ts shall be clean from the blood of this generation and though today to day I 1 feel the burden is heavy and alid grievous to bear yet the wealth ot a vanderbilt or the t e power ower of a bismarck bismark k outside the gospel of christ would weigh as air in the scales to exchange for eternal life the poets words after all was lost are worth remembering the best of all I 1 still have left my faith my bible and my god we were greatly disappointed in not seeing brother calne caine or hearing bearing anything from him but suppose it could not be avoided friends please remember us with a word now and then your brother and fellow laborer in the gospel of christ I 1 P S three weeks ago eisaw I 1 saw all the brethren from idaho they were all well and felt well C CIK I 1 K |