| 490 in various parts of this land, as well as abroad. And although so much has not been done as might have been done, still a great deal of preaching has been heard, to the allaying of much prejudice and the salvation of many.
"Bro. E. C. Briggs and Bro. Eli Clothier are laboring in Michigan.
"Brethren W. W. Blair, T. W. Smith, C. G. Lanphear, and Stephen Stone in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania have done a good work.
"Brothers Z. S. Martin and John Taylor from De Soto, Nebraska, are in Indiana and Ohio, where there is an excellent field of labor.
"Bro. William E. Kelley is in Minnesota, in prosecution of his long appointed mission there, and would welcome an elder with gladness to his help.
"Brethren Calvin A. and Isaac Beebe, T. E. Waddel and Benjamin Ballowe are south in Dixie, sounding the trumpet.
"Bro. J. W. Gillen is yet in Utah laboring as we suppose in union with Bro. Thomas Job and others.
"Brothers M. H. Forscutt, Robert M. Elvin, T. J. Smith, and others, are in Missouri, in connection with Bro. Hazzledine and others of the St. Louis district.
"Bros. A. H. Smith and William Anderson have returned home from California, leaving the work there in the hands of Elders Thomas Dungan, E. C. Brand, T. J. Andrews, and others.
"Bro. Gurley, in company with Bros. Joseph and Henry Robinson, is off on a tour to Grand Manan and the islands off the coast of Maine.
"The officers of the different districts are striving to do good in their various fields of labor, both east and west.
"Branches have been organized within the past year at Boston and at Dennispost, Massachusetts, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Guilford, Missouri. Some hundreds have been baptized into the faith and some few have departed from it.
"Another great and good cause for congratulation with the saints is the having in possession the 'Holy Scriptures,' which is the crowning mercy of God unto us. It is one
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