Letter from Russell T Chandler, 27 August 1896
St George
President Woodruff dear brother will you
please to al low me to ask you for a little
in formation con cerning one little item
the unpardnable sin brother is lazyness
the un pardnable sin dear brother why I
ask you this question is this Bishop Cottam
Bishop of fourth Ward st george sent me a
little less than two years ago to stay with
a man in his ward I went willingly done and
still as I am toled soon after I got to staying
with this man something toled me what my
deuty is here it is to study his ailments and
the causes of them I am a greeing with the
Priest hood of stgeorg when I say the causes
of his troubles ^is^ lazyness brother if this man
ever had a desire to work for salvation he has
lost it brother he will cry sometimes
like a whip child and he would like to get
out of his troubles he has been out of work so
long he has lost and looseing all his strength
it seams he has refused to obey the voice of
the Priest hood and has been checking his self from
work for if I remember right about twenty years
we hav offered him work and tried to get him
to show a will to work heis refuseing to try to work
am I justified when I tell him no man can stay
