President Wilford Woodruff. Salt Lake City Dear Brother. Yours of July 10th came safely to hand and found us well here in the office. The Article we were pleased to receive. It will give encouragement to the Elders many of whom are laboring without any seeming return—bonds of warning exhortat[io]n Counsell or testimony are received with grattitude by us all Many if us are young men Some men advanced in years but young in experience in the ministry and when Elders like yourself grown grey in the service drop words of encouragement or counsell or Iexplain your own experiences they help us to despel our own little troubles and take gold with renewed vigir to push forward the cause of our God. It is the hardest thing that an Elder has to do to day to keep from becoming despondent. for to travel from weeks end to weeks end without gathering any fruit requires a man to posess in a large degree the sunshine if the Holy spirit in his composition. Elder W D Williams President of the Manchester Conference speaks in high terms of the earnestness your son displays in performing