| 178 entitled to a divorce, and the president made to pay heavily as alimony, remains for his own private cogitation and decision to determine. In either case President Young loses; in the one money, in the other moral prestige: and the latter is just now the most valuable to him.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 24, p. 154.
Elder Magnus Fyrando arrived at home, Magnolia, Iowa, May 13, 1877, from whence he wrote the following letter on the 18th:
We left Copenhagen April 20, Glasgow the 27th, Larne, Ireland, the 29th, and arrived at New York May 8, after ten days pleasant sailing.... I was sorry to have to leave the mission and Bro. Brix alone. We were sure some one was sent from the General Conference to his help, but how sadly disappointed. . . . It is hard to be alone. From January 22 to April 6 there were eleven baptized, and many more are believing. Five of the members came over with me from Denmark.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 24, p. 174.
Commencing with June 4, Elder Heman C. Smith held a public discussion at Blue Rapids, Kansas, with Reverend W. F. Boyakin, of the Baptist Church. This resulted in a more extensive hearing in that city and country than the Saints had hitherto had.
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