| 483 You will undoubtedly have learned that I sailed from New York on the 13th of February, and landed in Liverpool on the 3rd of March following. We had a good passage but a rough one-I have learned that the rougher the voyage, the sooner we arrive at our destined port.-Something so is the voyage of life. To meet once more with the Twelve, brought fresh to mind, many scenes of by-gone time; and caused my heart to swell with gratitude to Him whose providential care has preserved and restored me to the embraces of that honorable body. Let the name of Jehovah be forever praised for his condescending mercy towards my brethren; and more particularly toward me.
I have sent a little present to you and brother Hyrum, by Elder Kimball. He will hand it to my wife, and she will give it to you. It is only a little token, that I have not forgotten you; for when we were sick, you took us in. I hope you will accept it, with the best wishes, and grateful acknowledgments of an absent friend and brother.
In my last to you, from New York, I requested you to write me a letter about the propriety of going on without Elder Page and direct it to Manchester in this country. But I feel perfectly justified at present in doing as I have; and I calculate to hasten on, just as soon as the brethren sail for America. Yet I should be extremely glad to hear from you at any time, and shall be happy to abide by your advice and counsel. But if I hear nothing from you to the contrary, I shall if the Lord will, hasten on as fast as possible without him. I have been greeted with a hearty welcome in this country by the saints where we were acquainted, I do assure you.
I can assure you, that although you are a stranger here in one sense, yet your name is engraven as with an iron pen, upon the tablet of many warm and affectionate hearts-and it is my faith and prayer that you may be delivered from the snares and violence of wicked men-Your days many on the earth.-and your name embalmed in the memory of the just forever. And in all your blessings I hope and trust Sister Emma will be a happy partaker.
I wish all the saints every good thing that I can think of, and hope they will pray for me that I may have power to "lay the foundation of Jerusalem," and return again to them. I do not feel at all disheartened at the prospect of going alone. I fully believe that the Lord will open my way before me. I trust that I shall have your faith and prayers, which I most earnestly desire. I should ask you to write me, but I cannot tell you where to direct, for I know not were I may be.
I hasten to a close, by saying, may the Lord bless and prosper you; and the saints and kingdom over which you are made a steward, and preserve you and me spotless until we meet again.
Farewell!
Orson Hyde.
Pres't. J, Smith.
For the Times and Seasons.
Rome, N. Y. June 11, 1841.
Dear Brethren in the New Covenant,-Having an hour or two's leisure this morning, and feeling it my duty to inform my brethren, the presidents of my quorum; and also the saints where I am, and what I am doing, and also, what I have been doing since I last wrote; I will, therefore, give you a short history of my labors since last fall; and if you should think the same worthy a place in the columns of your very valuable paper you are at liberty to insert it. The first of last September, Elder James Burnham, one of the seventy, called on me at Hamilton, Madison county, N. Y., and informed me that, I was requested in company with some ten or more of our quorum, to meet at the City of New York, on the 20th of the same month, and go to England; and asked me if I could go, I told him if it was the will of God, I could and would go; and notwithstanding I had not the first senine in my pocket towards defraying the expenses of so a great a mission, and my family, which consisted of my wife and five children to leave behind, who at that time had not where to lay their heads, and unprovided for food and rainment [raiment], yet through the goodness and bounty of our heavenly Father, in his kindness to me, on the 20th of September, 1840, at 5 o'clock, in the morning, I found myself on the wharf at the City of New-York, (having visited in the twenty previous days.) several branches of the the churches of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, residing in the counties of Otsego, Oneida and Lewis; and removed my family some fifty-five or sixty miles in the time, and provided for them, and for myself, for my mission. I must now return to New-York. I attended the Saints meeting in Spring street, in the morning, and was invited, (it being Sunday,) to speak to the people in the afternoon, and evening, which I did, as the Lord gave ability, and then, told the people in the afternoon, and evening, which I did, as the Lord gave ability, and then, told the people of that place, that if they desired to see me at their respective residences, I should feel happy to wait on them, if they would send their address to me, &c. In a few days I received an invitation from a popular physician of the City to wait on him; which I did, in company with Br. Burnham, at his residence. The doctor,
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