Show i ENJOYING WORK AS lARY The following letter was received received received re re- re- re this week from C Cyrus rus Nielson of Ephr Ephraim im who is labor laboring bor ing in Canada as a missionary for the L. L I t. t S. S church with the request that ie we publish it i in The rhe Enterprise The new year having started its nineteen hundred and twentieth twentieth twentieth cycle since the time of our our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and all of us no doubt rave have made our new plans of everything thatis that is good With everything once more down to working conditions and having a few minutes to spare could think of no other way to use them than to drop you youa a line or so It has now been some months since I last set my feet on Utah soil and I can say I have during this time enjoyed my portion of health and blessings from our Creator who always stands ready with open arms to anyone who will but receive the blessings He has to give I have seen some wonderful sights since coming into the mission mission mission mis mis- sion field having traveled over a large part of the state of Oregon and with the exception of f a few places in northeastern Washington Washing Washing- ton have seen all the most important important important tant points of f interest in that State Also a part of Northeast Idaho where the onto famous Lewis and Clark coming out of the beautiful lava box canyon of the Snake river river- settling land and settling what is now known as Lewiston Idaho and Clarkston Wash And now to top it all off am laboring in Canada and under the Union Jack To start to tell of Vancouver B. 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C which is all I have seen of Canada as yet would be of little importance and interest to you also it is not my purpose to do so in iri writing this letter but more I for the purpose of thanking you and all the rest through the Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise En En- for the most ed send off tE tendered dered me along with the other boys on leaving for the mission field I cannot express my appreciation in writing writing writ writ- ing b but t wa tito thank you one and all lL The liThe se second ond purpose in writ- writ is to show some of the things that give me a a strong testimony of a wise and powerful powerful powerful power power- ful Creator and also of my religion religion religion reli reli- gion your religion and the religion religion religion reli reli- gion of th the largest part of the people of Ephraim Mormonism Ephraim-Mormonism Mormonism why I am here and why every other missionary is in the fieldI fieldI field I am thankful that I am permitted permitted per per- to come into the world to proclaim to the people the gospel gospel gospel gos gos- pel of Jesus Christ and that my mr parents God bless them were willing willin to sacrifice for my sake in letting me come The story often comes to my mind that I once heard Apostle Whitney tell from the stand in inthe inthe inthe the Snow Academy Little John and Bill were playing one dayBill dayBill dayBill day- day Bill carving a piece of wood with his pocket knife and John amusing amusing amus ing himself with a fly John after watching the legs move and hearing the fly fy buzz said Bill what a funny thing lhing a fly is Well Vell John said Bill Ill tell you God never made flies like men make houses house when God wants flies he says Let there be flies and there are flies mes i Wonderful indeed are the charms arms of moun mountain n and plain I I river and lake with their living miracles of flowers butterflies butterflies butter butter- flies tre trees and beasts Yet beyond beyond beyond be be- yond all this in the he far d depths of space we wo can discern the lus- lus of other worlds some of them larger and more inspiring awe-inspiring than our own 1 Our interesting survey of nature in her beauty need not end with decline of day By night also the manifold labors of our devine Father in heaven are made manifest Iri IIi Psalms we read The h heaven aven declare re the Glory of God the show- show eth his handiwork Ho Hn the name of the stars He tell- tell eth the number And in the Doctrine and nd Covenants we read I All AU these are kingdoms and when you have bave seen any or the seyou have seen God Goil moving in his maj majesty esty and might S SIf If the stars should appear but once in a a thousand years how howman howman howman man would wonder and arid adore But aut as they are appearing every night he passes them off unnoticed i iced ed In the Inthe the early days we find that the only compasses used by the people were the stars They were the only of guide known and the only weathermen to be had Along with the moon and sun upon upon which all life de depends depends de- de let us look upon the unnumbered unnumbered un un- un- un numbered millions of stars some som clear night when the moon is absent Not only builder is He but namer also A chemist can take his materials materials materials mat mat- and make an egg so perfect that it cannot be told from an ordinary egg It will vill fry boil and get rotten just as an ordinary ordinary ordinary ordin ordin- ary egg but try as you wi will I you ca cannot not make it hatch He also can make a kernel o of wheat as one that grows from which the best of flour can car be produced but it will not growA growA growA grow A piece of Sodium Sodium Sodium-a. a met metal f which looks like silver and so so active that it decomposes water water- in into to lye and hydrogen melted hydrogen melted al and ard d put into a bottle of of the poison gas used by the Germans on the battle field one field one of the most active ac ac- actie tie the elements known to to the chemical w world and so poisonous that I a full breath brath will cause death will death will give you noth nothing ng more than the common household necessity table necessity table salt In the days of Moses he was with the so called wise vise men and ancl when he cast his rod down it became a serpent The others did likewise but the serpent of Moses swallowed the theother theother theother other serpents This to my mind was no more 0 of f a miracle than the things done in Chemistry to to- day The above being good ex ex- ex- ex amples Now let us take the boy who g gave ve us the Book of Mormon a j. j i I I P book not to be equalled to-day to by byman byman byman man Joseph Smith Little do I need to say of him but let me mesay j say this much if he had done no other thing than give to the world the word of of wisdom and of course we had accepted it look what he would have done The money it would have saved along with the homes th that t. t have been wrecked thru not accepting it This is only one me of the many things that show to me a greater reater power t than tian that of manAll manAll manAll man All things small and great de declared lared with one accord the wisdom of the Almighty Mind that called them into being There is no end to unmistakable proof of a wise and powerful i direction the hand marks of a Creator are left upon the fabric of nature in every part These rhese are only a few of natures nature's natures nature's na na- tures ture's hymns of praise to the Creator chanted by the lowly ob objects objects ob- ob j of earth no less ess than by bythe bythe bythe the majestic worlds of the uni uni- uni- uni verse In Him we live and move and have our being History relates of Hypatia daughter of an old mathematician of Alexandria who being committed com committed com com- to the flames by an ignorant ignorant ignorant ant mob exclaimed Who m dm mI m mI I whence came I and whither am I going These quest questions ns belong neither to any time sect nor civil civilization They ar are the questions of life and are sal They come to us at every turn in life lire and when life nears its close the master thought with studious men is that they will soon know the answer May the new year bring messages messages messages mes mes- sages of peace and happiness to you and yours your also to all the good people of Ephraim are the wishes and prayers of Your Brother Elder Cyrus Nielson Northern states states' mission r |