Show THE WORK OF GOD it Is steadily spreading into all the world we have received the following communication muni cation from one of the brethren who has received the gospel in asia it is dated at october 1888 and was written in the armenian language this is the interpretation Pre president george teasdale dear brother thanks thanes be to god godlar for restoring the gospel through joseph smith and thanks be to the prophets and apostles and all the saints that the gospel which has been committed to them mein has been preached free of charge chare in all the world being testified of to all the gentiles and nations and they are gathering the people israel and the saints to zion I 1 am thankful and happy that brother hintze also came and preached the gospel to us na and baptized us and that he has borne strong testimony both here and at zara and that it has been believed we that have believed and been baptized have received divine testimonies and we have also commenced to bear testimony times have been that brother hintze has preached till two in the night and now dear deai brother I 1 pray you to bless us and those of ours and pray for us your children that are born in the gospel that we in ILL every way may may be made strong strone amen we family like kiss your hands and kindly greet all abic brethren and sisters firm for one another SHAff ABUy it does not matter wherever this gopel G pel of the kingdom is preached all who honestly embrace it have the same testimony that it to is from god our asiatic beather b tiler expresses ex 1 toe tile thankfulness to god od we all a pil feel that he has restored his gospel through his faithful servant josepf smith the world have failed to disprove the divinity of the minion of that prophet and abd seer of these last days on the other hand band all who seek wisdom of god andi and ex vesti gate the principles taught become convinced of the truth of the message when they obey this form of doc doctrin trim it they do most assuredly obtain the gift itt of the holy ghost aej and rejoice in tae lie knowledge that it imparts the turkic h mission has beau a hard one to establish lish we have been interested te in it ever since our arrival and president wells our predecessor was equally so we have constantly helped to sustain the work there wait ing patiently tor mhd recompense of reward i and it has cc me rider elder hintze his has mastered the turkish language and tills this is a source of joy to all ot of us now new he is able to the gospel to the people in their ow a tongue several beveral converts have bet bee n baptized some time ago elder eader hintze informed us that the lord tied had drawn into his told fold represent atiles of four races a servian an armenian Ani nenian a but bal karian garian and a syrian of the old syrian race and remarked surely this gospel net is gathering from all nations this is its mig mission slon and it is I 1 quietly y e extending ext 7 tend endine in little by little fulfilling bletl clug the 11 never ver purposes of f the mighty almighty millennial tj star nov 19 9 |