Letter from William Moroni Palmer, 10 April 1890
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April 12 [end of sideways text]
C. T. Co.
The Contributor,
ESTABLISHED 1879.
Junius F. Wells, Manager.
Salt Lake City, U.T. April 10 1890
To the first presidency
My dear brethern
I feel I can a proach you, and give some of the
reasons for advancing the ideas I have advanced withou
my atempt to do so being construed, as an etempt to
s^h^rink from the responcibility, for thus I have been told
on a previous ocasion, hence I was silent to a consider-
able extent. I do and have always believed the holy
Spirit to be the quicking power in the sense mentioned
in the published artical of Saturday 5th inst. Not for
one instant did I think it would act in the same
material way as a germ in a seed, but used that to
alustrate the awakening and the body having spirit
in the veins instead of blood and being a spiritual
body thus changing from its perishable state to an-
imortal, as the dead dough changes to the nature of
that, that quickens it. But I see now my way of compar-
ing it, is not aplicable or wise, and I willingly learn
I did believe that the enjoyment of much of that
Spirit, would bring its pocesser from the grave or give
them the right to a more speedy resrusection than
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