Letter from William Spry, 8 October 1890
Chattanooga, Tenn.,
President Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake Utah
Dear Brother—
On my return from Middle Tennessee
Conference I find your letter awaiting me, and will
state that the instructions given shall be followed closely
Elder Moses Taylor has already been notified that
he is at liberty to return home at any time to attend
to his land matters and we are now awaiting his re-
ply as to the date of his departure.
So far as we could we have endeavored to pursue a
policy such as you suggest regarding the emigration of
the Saints from this mission at the same time we might
not have exercised that caution perhaps in some cases as
we should have done, in fact I am satisfied that some
individuals have gathered to Zion unworthily. We have
the names of individuals upon our records who have
been baptised at different times from the days of Elder
Jedediah Grant and others to the present. I have found
that in all cases where people have been baptised so
very many years ago they have become so completely
