| 79 Wm. Redfield, J. J. Kaster, and J. R. Badham, of Manti, Fremont County, Iowa; Brn. Samuel Waldo, Rowland Cobb, S. W. Condit, D. M. Gamet, I. L. Rogers, D. Dancer, E. Banta, George and Washington Conyers, George Hatt, and a host of others, all anxious and earnest for the work.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 21, pp. 630-632.
President Smith follows this with a detailed account of his visits to and labors in Council Bluffs, Plum Hollow, Tabor, Magnolia (where he dedicated the church on the 11th of October), and Woodbine, all in Iowa.
October 31 Elder Z. H. Gurley wrote from Salt Lake City. From his letter we quote the following:
I am happy to say that the interest in the reorganized work continues to increase in this country, judging from the steady growth in our congregations, and also from the invitations to "call," etc., etc. My faith and confidence in the ultimate end becomes more steadfast. I know that truth, though oppressed for a season, will triumph even in Utah; and that from the seed that has been, and is being sown, we shall reap in due season if we faint not. For as God only "giveth the increase," let us possess our "souls in patience" and abide his time. I repeat a former motto, "In God we shall do valiantly."
Bro. Warnock started for the north and east on the 21st instant, is meeting with success in having congregations and good liberty; "God-speed the plow." I am looking for Bro. Briggs to join us soon, and expect to go south soon after, as winter is upon us, and the roads south may become blockaded ere long.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 21, p. 691.
On November 1 the Herald contained the following notice concerning the elders appointed to labor in Utah:
Bro. Jason W. Briggs is intending to proceed at once to Utah in compliance with the request of the fall conference. It is contemplated to issue a small four-page paper from Salt Lake City, for a few months, the prospectus of which will be found elsewhere in the present number of the Herald, and should the effort prove beneficial to the mission, to continue it. 2 Bro. Briggs will have the care of the paper, and while in charge of
2 Prospectus of the "Messenger," of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints:
The above periodical will be issued monthly, beginning in November, 1874, and will be devoted to the elucidation and defense of gospel truth, as embodied in the doctrines held by the church established A. D. 1830, and reorganized in and from A. D. 1853. It will seek to assert truth and defend it; to avoid error and expose it; plainly, but kindly. It will deal with every question essentially connected with the latter-day work, and also with every form of opposition in their time and place, whether it be innovation, apostasy, or atheism. Its columns will be open, to a reasonable extent, to those whose teachings or theories it assails; for we only ask that what we believe to be truth should have a fair encounter with what we believe to be error, and we shall be content with the result. It wall aim to avoid extremes, and at the same time, disdain all compromises; while it may rebuke with
(page 79) |
