Show LETTER FROM SCOTLAND STREET glasgow scotland june 2 1894 we will forego the preliminaries so common to the amateur correspondent by offering as an apology for our pre that we think there are many among the host of readers of your invaluable paper who cherish warm spot in their hearts for the land of their birth and the home of their childhood and who have an abiding interest in the progress of the great latter day work both at home and in this little green spot in the ocean to those we would say that there la in a steady onward progress program of the work ivl in this the scottish conference th the nine elders laboring under the diree direction of elder 8 P arany president 0 of the conf conference are working for the spread of the principles of righteousness and their efforts are crowned with a degree of ae while the hardy scotchman ilan h bedou ever accredited with having mak mind and wali of his bia own which 1 la decidedly a national characteristic yet he be also has the courage of his convictions eions and when convinced that he be has baa not chosen the better part he has baa the stamina to come come out bold ly jy and face the opposition and oppression with an und unflinching inching determinist tion not met with in every laud land it Is an old saying if a othman So fall in the river always go up stream to find him the inference bring that he is too contrary to float with the current but rather choosing to stem the tide in our travels we find many who wao are still stemming the tide of popular opinion all faithful members in whom the gospel spark burns as bright ly as when first implanted there which in some cases is more jbv than a quarter of a century ago who are never faltering in their testimonies asto as to the divinity of the mission of our martyred marty red prophet and the efficacy of the gospel plan to which they have yielded obedience and have proven the scripture if any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine doctrin ee we meet the same complaint here that greeted aur ears in every city county town and shire that we have visited in england and scotland and that to is that returning elders eldera will not a 0 at keep their promises to write how often Is it the case that elders coins and fill a good honorable mission work bard tu to scatter seeds of kindness and disseminate the principles of righteousness with all the power they are blessed with who have haie partaken partaker par taken freely of the hospitalities of both saluta and st who have made friends and admirers among those where they were called to cibor labora when they were starting for that lanu land over there nave said if not no always by word at least oy by Im lm tiou tion oh yes yeo I 1 will write to ray my rood good kind friends over here as soon mg aa I 1 got get home P but weeks run into months and manthe add themselves vew together and no tidings comes fro from 1 him whom the people had learned to honor and respect and by thus faill falling to keep their provi promise lse or if not promise to perform the common civill civilly ties to those left behind who have right to expect a token of respect ant and gratitude irom from him who has placed pla himself under obligations for kind kin nesses received while here but appart antly forgotten in too many cases so a soon BOD as he is released to return homo home ifa is often the case that he be destroys destroy much buohl of the influence fluence it he might have had for good and entails a hardship on OB others who follow la Is it any wonder then that we meet the not very cheering but feeling remark wilt will you also go away and forget us ue as so many have done before returned Beter ned elders do you ever think of the position tion you place your ex com in who have to apologize as best bat they can for your negligence and which at times almost assumes the shape of ingratitude dan ayou think you place yourselves very much in the some flame position as that of the caw who gives a good pall pail of milk and then steps in the bucket aud and kicks the thus coming in for a knock with the stool instead of a pat on the back were we over the there reP we might with our returned brethren think this hard criticism but we feel assured that every traveling elder in british mission will join with us in saying that it Is sufficiently mild and all whom the cap will fit are welcome to wear it I 1 am yours for right W W |