President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City. Dearly beloved and much esteemed brother, It has been upon my mind these last days that I should write you a few lines and let you know that I am alive and happy in the discharge of my duties, although they are widely different from what I formerly was accustomed to, as a clergyman of the world. But I thank God for His mercy towards me and especially for the light He has given me through His chosen servants of the gospel. When I came here to Palestine, I was soon made aware of the fact, that I was placed face to face with millions of human beings, to whom the latter-day message has never sounded. I mean the Arabian speaking nations, who are scattered all over Syria, Arabia, Egypt and a large part of Africa. And my prayer to God was that He would lead me and make an opening by which the light of His gospel would shine through. And it appears to me that the prayers are now being answered, in as much as I have ^found^ several