| Show I 1 am satisfied that in time many good honest souls will receive the truth and come out into the broad light of day the people here as a rule are well to do intelligent peaceably inclined and at the present time are trying judging by appearances to solve the silver and gold question of the day in the meantime we are going about our business quietly and although we have not seen much to encourage us ps yet we are not discouraged as we can see it will take time to break down the prejudice here so that they will be enabled to see the beauty and consistency of the great plan of salvation as revealed anew in this the dispensation of the falness of times we will soon be going to conference again an event looked forward to by the elders with joy and satisfaction there are at present eight elders laboring here in iowa and all enjoying good health at present your kalua valuable bae paper comes to hand regularly and is appreciated by the elders LEVI A COLVIN JAMEs IAMBS D COON in olden times a servant of god dictated the holy will to the people with thus saith the lord today how different A minister has to be very careful that he pleases the people he must cater to their desires and cautiously cautious lv avoid coming in in contact with their prejudices otherwise he will lose his fine position and salary and they will get another divine more in harmony with their views and the other day a minister was discharged because he worked during the week at the fishing boats the mem hers bers ot of his congregation said they did not want a laboring man for their minister nan they wanted a gentleman I 1 mention this because it is a common condition here and is an index to tte the state stale of religion I 1 notice also that the field of clerical labor is permitted to be much more extensive here than in utah at home for the last lew few years particularly if any of our people preached anything from the stand having the least bearing upon politics it was heralded abroad as aft evidence that the church was trying to run the state the other extreme is the condition here for instance only last sunday a minister of one of the leading churches in brooklyn preached on the subject of politics and u urged r ed the people to vote for gold and MIC X inley and his remarks were received with frequent bursts of applause ministers are doing the same all over the country here A lew few weeks ago a minister had the temerity to preach silver but his congregation took especial care that he jid did not do such a thing the second time they discharged him at once I 1 think infidelity is growing rapidly rapid ty it is freely admitted that three fourths of the people who regularly attend church do so merely for fashions sake and very my many of these are as atheistic at heart as paine and voltaire ever were D J WATTS |
