Show WRITE TO THEM AN elder who recently returned from a mission to the southern states says that many of the elders who have previously labored in that region and have returned home to utah have neglected to correspond with persons whose acquaintance they made while they were in tile the mission field he states that in consequence persons bouce friendly to the elders have had unfavorable suspicions and feelings planted in their miars minds our stated to us that in instances in which men had bad stood forth and risked their lives in behalf of the elders and such eh instances have not infrequently occurred iu in the south the whom they thus befriended could almost make them feel repaid by writing to them after returning home A letter copy of a utah paper tract book or other token sent by au an elder to a friend whom god raised up to mm him in the mission field would often clinch as it were the friendship and confidence of the recipient for aart in the sender bender and returned missionaries can in many cases supplement lemeut in this way and in a very effective manner their labors in the field |