Show BROTHER KEMPE AGAIN HEARD AT HOME contemplating PAST experience there are some things in the following letter similar to what appeared in I 1 the correspondence correspond enC published a few days ago from the same gentleman to elder lorenzo snow and others to preserve the symmetry of the communication muni cation we notwithstanding give it in f full ull ALPINE apache co arizona october 1886 editor deseret news I 1 am at last at home and at liberty and though today to day I 1 awauld rather take a ten years mission to the gentile nations or the savage indians than go back to detroit tor for another year I 1 thank god kor n my experience for the last two years I 1 am well satisfied that I 1 and my brethren tenney and Cari traveled for many years from state to state in this coun used all due diligence in proclaiming the principles of life and salvation to iu people it would have removed less les prejudice than did our unlawful imprisonment in detroit WHEN WE LEFT THE prison we were were most comfortably entertained by the general overseer of the house gen R A twichel Twi cael who together with his noble family did all in their power to make our stay in detroit pleasant lea sant and our visits with several beading beading men of Detroi most agreeable the president and officers of the house hoise were all most courteous toward us and expressed themselves highly pleased to see us freemen free men our journey home was very pleasant and thanks to brother hartwe had a cheap and comfortable passage pass age in chicago I 1 land ana brother Christop christophersen hersen visited the Se bettler wagon works I 1 arrived at ray my home in the mountains october in better health than I 1 have known for years ever evea the rheumatism from which I 1 suffered bied so much in detroit has entirely left me the pleasure of being once more with family and friends is greater than I 1 can express the memory of the past is like a bad disagreeable dream and yet I 1 shall never forget the kind and courteous treatment we received from all the officers of the house neither shall I 1 forget that ater after I 1 had bad for 22 months worked as hard and as faithfully for the city corporation of detroit as any man ever did I 1 had to pay my expenses to get 2000 miles mackto my family had it not been forthe for the KINDNESS OF FRIENDS I 1 do not see how we should have got to our home it is truly humiliating to contemplate that such cruelty can be done to men in this age ot enlightenment yet such are the facts and though our treatment was illegal from tile the very commencement behave now no chance for redress but we have this consolation the world at large has received a testimony thata can never be erased from the pages ot 01 history we united with our b brethren in georgia tennessee the utah penitentiary and the maho idaho yuma aud and detroit prisoners prisoner to show that neither death imprisonment nor suffering of any kind can make the saints of god deny their religion we know god has spoken from fram heaven we know the gospel of jesus christ is once more given to the human family with all its powers gifts and blessings and what are persecution the prison or death compared to its eternal blessings with sincere thanks to all who have been so kindly sustaining us in our trouble I 1 remain as ever yours truly clip 1 I KEM E |