Letter from Brigham Young Jr., 9 March 1892
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LATTER-DAY SAINTS',
EUROPEAN PRINTING PUBLISHING
AND EMIGRATION OFFICE.
42 Islington, Liverpool.
Prest. Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Brother: Your favor Feb. 15th
came to hand and was perused with uncommon
interest and I will answer you according to the light
that is in me. First, we thank you for your kind invi-
tation to attend the aniversary of your birth day Heaven
has favored you and I thank God you are recovered
from your recent illness and for the presservation of your
life to comfort the saints and your family. I will sug-
gest that your next invatation anti date your birth
day, time enough ^for us^ to joni you, especially should you
consider our presence necessary—rather desiriable.
Curiosity I believe is the mainspring that has brought
strangers to our meetings, and I believe that, curiosity is
waning; for all over the mission with about three exceptions
the people feel in the districts where our people elders labor, that
a mormon elder, with his gospel is a nuissance. The
people do not want the gospel and while we do batptize
a few—not one proselyte to each elder in the year. Still it
is a fact that, the elders meet with but little but abuse.
We are warning the people and ^doing^ but little else. I have felt
to put a force in here—this nation, that, the people will be left
without excuse, I have found not one case where the distribution
of tracts has brought one soul to our meetings or into the Church.
