Show A FRIENDLY LETTER ST JOSEPH missouri april 25 1895 the april number of the DESERET WEEKLY to a just juat received I 1 have noted with interest the to go the conference of the reorganized church at independence ep permit me in all kindness kind neBB to say aay aba ba he be press dispatches to which the articles and criticisms of the NEWS allude are very unreliable deplorably colored and distorted the NEWS bee bag only to be reminded of the he fact that the church east encounters the prejudices of newspaper reporters very M nab as does the church west while occasionally fairly reported it Is oftener not so reported the notices copied by you were very far from bein le correct the disruption 1 1 editorial jy spoken of by you to is by ou no means imminent 11 it IS is neither actual nor apparent op parent to those 00 oo on the ground 11 on the contrary the b condition of the reorganized church la is spiritually and temporarily far ahead of any period of the past and its membership to la striving to 0 heed the injunction come up higher individually and collectively we also note with pleasure a similar tendency on the part of cut cur rocky cou slue the attitude of the ministers of we utah church toward its members the past year exhibits in very marked degree an anxiety to have them reach a higher plane of religious life thle this is commendable indeed and should meet ameet the hearty approval of all not logo less so has been the upward march ot of the reorganized church in christian grace the past year has been by far the most successful in its history a gain oi 01 fully 25 per cent in membership over dver any previous year you will have noted that no minister to is now deemed worthy of a general church appointment who uses tobacco they must musi be exemplars in such things elder nicholson will have the wind quite taken out of his bis saik when he discovers that the church takes no such position as the one he assumes for it aheu be relied on the erroneous idis dispatches by him quoted one of the most regrettable features of this mosi P unwarranted assumption ibs IB that he be failed first to verity verify the idis dispatcher before making his bis criticisms david H smith has already been dropped from the presidency and I 1 11 I 1 the wisdom of men could safely do 9 the vacancy could be filled without delay but recognizing the law which provides royiden that the position should be t filled ailed by revelation from god himself we are disposed dispo aed to abide his big time it il human wisdom may judge there to is no lack jack for material now in the church let us as be content to wait the disposition toward fairness in the editorials of the NEWS on the matter Is ig manifest and deserves deserve our thanks very respectfully E T dorson DOBSON |