Show elder interesting writes us a long aud Int crestina letter some idea of the people the condition and the future of Dutch land EDITOR HERALD next sunday it will be about five mouths bauce I 1 left ogden city and I 1 have no doubt but what a few items from Dutchman the will be acceptable this country with its daima and dykes is quite different frodi our mountain home and no matter it you travel all day long you will never see a mountain nor a hill aa high as seventh street hill if it is not graded down since I 1 left the people here iu are not like the americans they live diore for themselves are not as ho bitable and are a very people they have great large churches and many of them aliey arc also like the people are in uy other community divided into very many different sects aud are at war with each other at there i a great conflict in what they call alio llio great reformed church the cause of is that the orthodox minister will not allow the modern and liberal ministers to preach from the edmo pulpit baptize infant and accept members in the so called reformed church we have three classes of ministers in the churches here orthodox modern and lib brals these liberals do not belong to the liberals in ogdan they have it fixed in euch a shape that the orthodox ministers are discharged causing considerable contusion amongst the converted souls and the liberal and modern minister when they bold meetings on agun day they have about ten or fifteen policemen to guard them the orthodox call the liberals and and clobbers lobbers and the liberal and moderns call the orthodox murderers and whore bongers mongers mon gers and these are call the shepherds to guide tho hocks these are the ful lowers of the meek and lowly jesus but now when it begins to touch their pock ts they show their color and that they arc wolves in sheepy clothing the political cou dilion af the country ie something like the church and it it was not for the surrounding powers having an eye on chese netherlands for themselves it would have been swallowed up in former days any one could be proud to say that he was a dutchman for the dutch nation had taken the lead both ou sea and on land and also in and many other things were they lar ahead of man nation yc 3 even with skating iff y were called alie best in the world but this winter they have been defeated iu by a man aiom mark so instead of Nei herland going burward and keeping the place which it once held it is going down very rapidly why is all thid because like all the oilier ns it is decaying from the bead to the feet there is a certain disease which we find in all the world which is like a worm gnawing away at the cure of the apple although the outside is beautiful and grand the inside is rotten so id it with the nations of the earth 0 and alo with this land the we have a certain society calling themselves social democrats who are working for the overthrow of government and capitalists ats they have their meet ing and their demonstrations whereby many ahinga lake place bot the people are under very heavy taxes is a national debt of to be paid and the people hac to it we haye ail army of which has dune nothing for eara and years then the war m atieh which nas deeo going on for about fifteen years has cost millions and will apt cost millions more when a mi ahter baa served term of four yeara they give him a pension of thousands of dollars a year while the poor man has to pay for it and if be lias not hia money ready they caray bis furniture out uit doors and beell it at auction the houses of ill fame pay very heavy licenses and with that money they any the ministers a beautiful cw of no wonder that abo people arp antagonistic tu the and I 1 baye no doubt it will not bo long before the neth landa will become a republic or be allowed either england germany or france fur they all want it it ig ft very pitiful sight when decet amongst the p or r we find them living iu holca raith large their faces bear the eight taftt they haa nut anything good 19 cat cli 1 l dren cry corf braadt men call for work women bag bjong the streeta and y cannot get anything it drives many in boneet father and mother to dt epa tr and in my triin via 1 eee duany things which J will not utter bierc but when I 1 compare the situation of the people here with those in zion I 1 say they cannot be gra elul enough tor the peaceful housea which they have for the of life which they have iu abundance and for clothing the poor people here cannot even gel boree meat for that is too dear and what makes it worse u the long winters which we have thia is the day of march and it ia anez ing like everything coia in the canali people are skating aud the tanner hai not been able to put hi spade iu the ground fur calliva lion and the cold 5 intense esp dally at iho ice Is about ten inches thick wood and cral aud everything live to be bought they cannot go to tie mountains and chop wood they have tu buy everything here and there are thousands upon thousands who are from the cold weather caunitz remember when they have hot able to skate in march such esthe condition condit iun iu this laud noir I 1 will say a little about my self I 1 have been here now about four months and have not been able to visit all the saints because they live in such a scattered condition they are all well spiritual spirit but not so wull financially for the kingdom of god id composed of the poor 0 f the earth they have been blessed with enough to eat although it haa not been such wholesome food as we have in utah but rye pancakes and rye bread with oil and no meat I 1 have lived on rye pancakes for a few days but I 1 tell jou it is a trial for I 1 could feel bliem roll around my stomach for two aweeka after they dont seem to be digested by me very well we have also some saints who live in canal boats something they do not know much about in utah these boats carry b rick manure peat coal or anything they can get from place to place like aliey do in with wagons but these go on the water and when the wind is in their favor thy sail if not they pull them with a rope and long poles which they push down in the mud and then place against kneir breasts them forward they range in length from SO to feet and from 10 to 15 feet in breadth and about four or five feet deep people live iu thoe boats and some raise very large families if we compare their of living with that in zion we find a very great difference in utah they must have a parlor room a bedroom a din ingroum in groom a library and at least one kitchen and very often two or three bedrooms the so people who live in these boats have a room which ia about six by eight feet and some four or five feet high which roust servo fur all these above named they enter from the top and as soon as we get in we must set down fur we cannot egand up in there the hole ia about two leet square through which we descend and when we get down wo find the father and the old lady kiib six children each with a plate on their lap eating dinner they sleep eat drink and sit up in that little place and if any person ia not used to buch a place he cannot feel at home I 1 had the picas ure of sleeping in one of the places there were of us including the children I 1 biad to crawl through a hole about two by three feet and I 1 had to lie down as you cannot sit up without knocking your head against the ceiling they put the door over the entrance and all night not a bit of fresh air entered that little place which was very and water on nighttime I 1 was really atad when cadue and I 1 go out and ert a 11 le frebe air this is people are not used to in the val leya of the mountains where they arche tha pure air where they the puro brdey ea coming forth faoro the mounta us diali places people live a lifetime we cannot adequately the place which the lord has pre pared fur people my labors havo been greatly in this laud some haye al ready been baptized some tre ready to be baptized and a good many arc examining our doctrines I 1 have also been able to remove considerable prejudice and very often llie papers here arc copying pieces out of that sheet called tho tribune ar 0 all lies but with all their printing aud publishing about the cormons mormons they do considerable good for it causes to investigate the principles of Murmon iain and I 1 have had some very pleasant con with the diu erent panics their although 1 ain out here all alone to preach the gospel I 1 feel plad tha to be bubli a I 1 a in counted worthy luex and it 19 true as llie pay log y the harvest 13 ut the lubo are few 1 I 1 have no daht bu that acu cn that have all I 1 can buur duur thrresa room hero for about is more mia annarea 1 have to viall the saints and they all live in a scattered cn aitio i aud give but tracei and co ji M tv elect lect them again and then go out visiting diffen nt parties it takes all lime when ido not visit the sainta I 1 have to write letters to them calling them to theia i delics duli cs and building them up as much as 1 cau I 1 have written oyer hun decd and thirty letters since have in my I 1 have never been without food I 1 have always had something to eat although many days have passed without a warm meal timea it has been two or three days in a week I 1 did not get a carmi meal ant I 1 got bread and a place to lay my head the majority of the people here are poor aud very poor in deed and they seek every way to get something locate when I 1 come cud visit them a a servant of god to talk with them way to eternal life they do not care about that they have no desire to hear anything about religion they ay that they have their church and their minis ter and that is sufficient and in many places they gnash their teeth at me it is as the apostle paul says they are anoro lovers of themselves than of god having the forni of godliness hut denying the power thereof when I 1 see them go to their chur clies on sunday my heart is filled with sorrow at seeing so many people being led astray uy the teachings and precepts prec epta of men for they arc taught to cerve the lord with their lips but their hearts aie far from him satan has considerable sid erable power over them and it necmi as though they are bound like slaves lo 10 their ministers they think more of them than they do of their god I 1 have succeeded in renting a hall for the branch located at amsterdam where we hold meetings every sunday I 1 have it pretty well published and quite a few strangers have heard ane gospel we had a sectarian minister with others trying to our meetings ant whenever they made an attempt to do so before our meeting was closed I 1 have been able to get them to wait until we were done at last it came to a discus sinn which we had a few nights ago but the lies and the falsehoods they brought forward were fearful they have been badly defeated as was acknowledged by different parties belonging to their faith and they eaid they were ashamed of the way they had done they also said that we were living in the millennium a very beautiful timea should think to live in that grand day of rest for the fathers stand up against their children tho people have waxed cold and instead of being men they arc borac than the brute beasts wo have many examples of them in zion it was with feelings of pain I 1 hoard of the arrest of our beloved leader brother G eo Q cannon and of hid condition and I 1 have no doubt eliat many prayers ascend to the most high tor hia speedy recovery bu paul ha said if we live godly in christ jieva we shall be persecuted we know that acri are our while on this earth but be of good cheer chaid jesu I 1 have overcome the world the arretta of our brethren aro only for the good of the people and I 1 have no doubt it is with the saints ad with me a cause to live nearer and humbler before my heavenly father that ilia will may be done on earth as a s it is done in heaven when I 1 became a citizen of america I 1 was really proud to be a citizen of such a great nation A matiu for which many noble men have given their live a nation which had been established by tho hand of god and which had spread its out fur protection over those who cadoo under them as an adlum fur the oppressed n land where I 1 could worship my heava lily father accord ing to my own conscience a which it offered unto me but bow while it has gathered us together and we are established aud growing it sees a mighty power namely the power of god and that we are united it is afraid of fiand instead of it to protect us it puts its claw oil ua to press us dawn to persecute us for our it is trying ti destroy tho grois which it beeda to uphold it and save it from falling and by so do aup il ia itself and is becoming because it is trying to protect corruption wickedness and and destroy righteousness and if they do not repent the gud of heaven will cause the nation to fall and atwill be the fall tore go on ahou great and mighty nilion for yet a little time you will enjoy your power you have alread commenced 0 o ro away you have decarti d i rom tho ways of the lard you have allowed your peopled 6 kill the holy pro of god and then is crying aiom youa so ll 11 t god or vengeance gu on aa yon are now doin and the servants of god who have been into pridu for sevin that yurn remo neing who i fitly anan you go on and inake laws whereby you are trying to destroy that great aud mighty ow er but you will uever succeed lor the god of heaven has already commenced to pour his judgment out upon you look into your halla of congress and see the corruption look to your judges and your officers which you have placed in the land for they are full of corruption look to your capitalists and your governors and presidents for their knees aro shaking together because you all have span the band writing on the wall you have been weighed in the balance and arc found wanting your time is short and like aking who would not acknowledge a in heaven you will fall au 1 jinkaway sink away in the dust and none will fin you likely some of pe rising generation of tho latter day saints will read this letter I 1 ciali to eay to them let us follow the footsteps of our fathers fur behave enlisted in a great and noble bause we are the soldiers of the kingdom of gud let us unite together and fight the good fight not with candau and ball but with our faith let our hearts ascend to god in mighty prayer and obey the laws and commandments of god do not fear what men can do but be determined to obey god before men weare as a light set upon a hill ana let that light become brighter let us do away with the things of this world and let us show to them that although they cast our leaders in prison thinking that this work will cease that we still become mightier anil stronger god is at the helm he will fight our battles and all these trials and tribulations are a blessing unto us for god devires that we become i saviors upon mount zion and as our dear brother thatcher predicted on the fourth of july lat they shall trample tiro constitution men of god cs under their feet and the latter day saints will defend it on with energy stand firm and steadfast drauk out of the fountain of life be strong and built upon that great and mighty rock that no wind thunder lightning or whatever tern poet may come may destroy you hut firm trusts ing in him who culps the universe and shall reign aa diug of kinga and lord of lorda for the time shall come that every knee shall bow before him and every tongue ahall confess him dear brother I 1 am sorry that dutch postage stamps would not help to pay your fideor else I 1 would have given my cents to help to pay your fine for exposing the beautiful charac tars you have in your midst to reform the cormons mormons Mor mons they are there to drag them down to corruption and hell I 1 nor the latter day saints want nothing to do with them the medicines they oner are too bitter and will cause pain sorrow anil death they have no 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