Letter to Ilus Fabyan Carter, 10 July 1840
149 Oldham Road, Manchester, England,
Mr Ilus F Carter
Dear Sir
Having an opportunity of forwarding
letters to New York by Eldr P. P. Pratt. I feel disposed to
improve the opportunity of sending a few lines to you. I am
enjoying the best of health & spirits & prospered in my business ie preaching
the gospel of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it may not be altogether uninteresting
to you to give you a brief statement of my labous since I have been
in England. After holding a conference in Preston I went to Manchestr
Pop 280,000 the town a little larger than N.Y. I found in it a small
church of Latter Day Saints of about 200 I preahed several times & went
to Burslem at the Staffordshire Potteries. I preahed there about 6
weeks built up churches in several Market towns. from there I went
to the South of England & commenced preahing in Herefordshire
& in one month & five days I Baptized 160 person, 45 preachers, one
constable, one clark of the church of England whih flung into my hands
more than 40 preaching places & one or two chapels, but I has to leave this
field to go to Preston to attend a general conference with the Twelve &
church in general & on the 14th day of April I had the happy previlege
of greating my friends from America & siting in council with them after
which I again returned to Herefordshire in company with Elder Youg
& Richards & again commenced preahing & Baptizing daily. & Before I left
there we had held two conferences & organized 33 churches with 10 Elders, 52
priest, 13 Teachers & 534 members, all of whih have embraed the work in
less than 4 months, their has been nearly 900 Baptized during the Last four
three months in England & Scotland many new doors are opening in
England, Scotland, Ireland, & Wales; I am Expecting to visit Eng London
in few days in company with Elders H. C. Kimball & G. A. Smith for
the purpose of warning that Mighty City & setting up the Standard of
truth among that people by the grace of God assisting us. I recieved a
letter a short time since fom Phebe which contained a variety of
intelligence. the Saints are once more settled in peace, the
