| 587 prosperity beamed brightly upon their hopes; happiness smiled in every countenance, and friendship, pure and unalloyed, reigned supremely in every bosom-But the sight of the beautifully sloaping [sloping] heath-situated near half a mile from the Mississippi-on whose delightful summit the Temple of God was being erected, filed my mind with emotions still more pleasing and delightfully intense; emotions to which the corrupt and profane world is a stranger, and which the acknowledged pen of sublimest eloquence and profound erudition, would prove infinitely inadequate to describe. That Temple was fast approximating a state of completion; and in the eagerness of my soul, I said, 'the day is not far distant when its magnificent walls of grandest architect and most skillful masonry, will post their ponderous and polished fronts upon that beautiful eminence, and become the beacon of Zion to sentinel the enchanted land.'
My attention was now attracted by a congregation of people who were assembled in a beautiful grove, near the summit of the heath, and seated in the unbroken redundence [redundance] of its shade. It was Sunday, and they had met to worship Him who is the divine Author of their holy religion. Now me thought I could hear the heavenly chant of their song of worship send its mellow notes, rendered more soft and harmonious by distance, through the ambient air, and, being inspired with love for its sweetness, I hastened from the place, where my bosom had been so emulated with feelings of transport, to join my brethren in worship near the Temple of God.
PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN TUKEY [TURKEY].
The Jews in Smyrna are exposed to the most wanton outrages on account of their religion. One of them was recently thrown into prison because a cat was missing! and no crime is committed of which they are not supposed to be guilty by the bigoted inhabitants.
WORTHY OF IMITATION.-A clan of the Cherokee Indians still remain in Georgia, numbering about seven hundred, all belonging to the Cherokee Temperance Society, except five or six, and these, it is said, never to drink spirits until they get among the whites.
ANOTHER "SHOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD" IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD.
[From the Boston Daily Mail.]
Amesbury Mills, Sept. 8th. 1841.
Messrs. Editors: I hasten to inform you of a most singular phenomena that happened yesterday in Kensington, a small village a few miles distant from this town, about half past 5 o'clock, P. M., which would seem highly incredible were it not substantiated by some of its most respectable inhabitants.
There had been a drizzling rain (my narrator states) during a great part of the day until about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the rain stopped and the dark clouds began gradually to assume a brassy hue, until the whole heavens above seemed a sea of fire. The sky continued to grow more bright until about a quarter past 5, when almost instantly, it became of burnished red, and in a few moments it rained moderately, a thick liquid of the appearance of blood clothing fields and roads for two miles in circumference, in a blood-stained garment. The bloody rain continued for about ten minutes, when it suddenly cleared away, and the atmosphere became so intensely cold that over coats were needed. It caused great wonder and astonishment among the inhabitants, I assure you, and well it might, so singular and unaccountable was the phenomena. I have been shown by a citizen of the place some of the matter that fell, and it has the appearance of clotted blood, and I think it must be a similar liquid, from account to that which lately fell in a shower at Tennessee.
Indeed, this is rare food for the scientific, and we hope some one will fathom the mystery, and make a report thereof of ths [the] result of their investigation.
Yours, &c. W. FITTS.
CONFERENCE MINUTES.
Kirtland Conference Minutes.
Saturday, Oct. 2, 1841.
Conference commenced pursuant to adjournment. Elder Almon Babbitt was unanimously chosen chairman and Elder W. W. Phelps, appointed clerk. The olemnities [solemnities] were opened with singing and prayer.
Resolved unanimously that Elder Jeremiah Knight, Samuel Phelps, and Edwin Cadwell,
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