In the Temple of the Lord Presidents John Taylor & George Q Cannon Beloved Brethren Your vary interesting & consoling Letter of Sept 17 is received, Also A letter of Date July 30 was Received, for which please receve my thanks. I came down to the Temple last Evening to attend to the Marriage of Edward Snow the son of Erastus, as his Father was not at home to attend to it, he requested me to, which I did this morning. I had a plesant interview yesterday with R. T. Burton & E. F. Sheets who are here on Church business I also had an interview with Elder Roberts who done most of the preaching at the conference, & people were much Edified I also had an interview with Jacob Hamblin. I gave him a mission to the Lamanites as he is not allowed to stay at home and his mission has been to the Lamanites for many years and he seems better qualified for that mission than to the gentiles. There was a Telegram sent here from Beaver saying that somebody had told Marshal Armstrong (A cock & bull story) that I with Thurber Spencer Bagly & others had threatened to throw Armstrong & his papers into Fish Lake if He came there to Arest any body. there was No such threats made, nor truth in it. But there was a man in Beaver (said to be a Reporter) took it up, and has tryed to make some black mailing out of it. But president Murdock has been communicated with to ^see^ Armstrong, and correct the matter with him, for we have all of us but the best of feelings with him as A Govern- met Officer, for he has behaved more Gentlemanly than any other one in the service. I think it will be setled without Difficulty but this caused me to leave the Room I have occupied of late, and I went back to my old retreat whare I had spent several months. And I found my old friend vary sick, and next morning clensed & purified. The Saints tried & proven, when the cup of iniquity of those who are persecuting the ^saints^ is filled, and when the United States Government is Ripe for the Harvest, And it does appear to me I never saw a field ripen as fast. Brethren you have my prayers Day and night for your health, prosperity, and deliverance President Taylor has once suffered Marterdom If ^it^ is the Will of God I pray that may suffice. If those wicked men had you in their possession, They would never want to let you go alive. And I pray you may be kept out of ther hands. George Q is also a brave man, and my chafe under confinement, but do he protest; I was sorry to hear of the sickness of Abram H we pray for him and hope the Lord will preserve his life. All the Saints of God around me wish to send Love & blessings With regard to myself I thank the Lord I am able to say I am Enjoying good health to day considering my Age and close confinement. I exercise when I can in safety. I feel as though we need Revelation Every day in order to know what to do. We are all in the hands of God, and he is not so far away, but what he shows his hand. I think He did on the 24 of July In Ordaining Gen Grant to officite in his last act as a scape Goat to bear off the sins of the Mormons, and to cause president Cleveland to command all the United States to put the flag at half mast, and Governor Murry is particular to commend the command the Citizens of Salt Lake to do what they were going to kill the Mormons for Doing doing And the soldiers of Camp Douglass are sent to fight the Salvation Army, or some other Army instead of the Mormons They may not acknowledge the Hand of God in this, but I do The Lord and the Heavenly Hosts are watching over us And the Lord will Defend his Saints his Anointed and his friends. Therefore have courage, onward brethren to Deliverance to Victory, to Glory, and Eternal Life