| 82 then both preached. We baptized six at the close, two more gave in their names and will be baptized at the next meeting. The other side lost, some of their best members declaring they would no longer stand connected with the Christian Church (so-called). I do not think the cause lost anything, although I felt my incompetence in the defense of so great and glorious a work."
Bro. F. C. Warnky, writing from the summit of the Rocky Mountains, November 2, 1874, said, "I have reached my field of labor, have hoisted the standard of liberty to the inhabitants of the everlasting hills." He had preached in Omaha and Papillion, Nebraska. At the latter place found an old-time Saint, and instructed her more perfectly in the way.
Bro. John R. Cook is still laboring in and around Long Valley. At the time of writing, October 13, he had recently baptized three, and had an appointment to baptize others soon. He had opened a new field some twenty miles from Long Valley Branch, where he expected an ingathering soon.
Bro. Joseph C. Clapp-we are pleased to learn by letter from him, October 7, that he arrived home at Los Angeles, California, on the 5th. He found his mother, whom he went home to see, in a very low state of health, not likely to survive many days; but her hopes were strong in the Lord.
Bro. A. C. Inman has been preaching at Pleasant Hill and vicinity, Miami County, Ohio, lately, and thinks a good impression was left. He had met with Bro. Robert Fuller, who held the office of a priest, and had ordained him an elder.
By letter from Bro. Magnus Fyrando, of Magnolia, dated October 20, we learn that there were ten baptized at that place during the week of Elder M. H. Forscutt's lectures there.-The Saints' Herald, vol. 21, pp. 688-690.
In November the first issue of The Messenger, published at Salt Lake City, Utah, made its appearance. It plainly declared what its mission was to be. 4
4 The "Messenger" has tidings for the inhabitants of these valleys, even all who have ears to hear, but especially for the latter Day Saints; and these tidings relate to the dispensation of the fullness of times; to the establishment of the church, by the command of God, on the 6th of April, A. D. 1830; of its disorganization (or rejection), beginning with June 27, A. D. 1844; of the darkness that arose as a mist at that time; of its causes; of the scattering that followed; and of the returning light and reorganization, or setting in order the church by the commandment of God, beginning with April 6, A. D. 1858, and of its progress and aim.
Our tidings will relate also to the wanderings of those who in the "mist of darkness," got "lost," and so, by accident, come to these valleys, under the misapprehension that this was, or could be, the covert or closet of safety for the church. While you may have believed the hand of the Lord was in all this, it is possible you were, and are still leaning upon the "arm of flesh," which we all know can only bring ultimate curse. If there are any here still, willing to do as they are told by man, asking no questions, "obeying counsel" "right or wrong" thus surrendering their agency, we have little or nothing for you nor do we expect anything from such a quarter, except hands off. But to the thinking we
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