G. S. L. City, Brother Gibson: Dear Sir: I received your two letters of June 15th, and Aug. 7th, respectively; both of which were highly interesting and edyfying. I read them to Prisident Young and council, your daughter, Captn. Hooper and many other friends, who were all highly pleased to hear from you. Your daughter says she writes you very often. Your letters please me they shew plainly that the spirit of your mission is upon you. Your labor in searching out and stirring up the cold and lukewarm saints in the various branches through the country was a good work. Oceanicus' letter to the mountaineer was published and read with much interest. That the Japanese ambassadors to the proud high-minded Americans, could not find a linguist among the literate of this great nation, who could speak to them without an interpreter till they met a Latter-day Saint, is rather sig nificant and adds to the signs that Israel is to be head and not the tail, and the mighty nations of the earth are begin- ning to feel a little of the forebodings of this truth, notwith- standing the present smallness of the little stone or kingdom which Daniel saw. [Daniel 2:26-47] The openings in New York for public lecturing, which you name, and also publishing truth in such extensive public works as the new America cy[c]lopedia, rejoices my heart