Letter from George Teasdale, 5 May 1887
My beloved brother:
Your kind, encouraging and ever welcome
favor of Mch [30] came safe to hand and was read with much
interest. I remember the holy, happy hours I have spent with
you in the Temple of our God and am grateful beyond express-
ion for the experience of those never-to-be-forgotten times. It
was a long time since you laid your hands upon
me and blessed me for my mission to Mexico. What
an experience I had there! But it is coming out all
right, is it not? I am very glad I stood bye it. What
changes have taken place since last we parted. How
many have gone behind the vail—how many proved
their integrity prefering to be robbed in fines and costs
and imprisoned rather than surrender a single
principle of the gospel and how few have weakened.
There is a little faith left in the world yet. I
hope it will increase. We have received the news of Dickson
step down and out and an expectation for Zane to fol-
low such men are a disgrace to the genus homo and
make one wonder if they are not of those class of
spirits whose names were not written in the Lambs
Book of Life from the foundation of the earth referred to in
Rev XIII & 8 verse. We have some just as bad here. Do you
remember a fellow by the name of Jarman who obtain-
ed an unenvyiable reputation in Salt Lake City at Jennings'
[Well] he figures as an anti-mormon here and is what
