Letter to John Smith, 20 January 1888 [LE-7187]

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PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST.
OF
LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

GIBSON MULER & RICHARDSON, OMAHA.

P.O. BOX B.

Salt Lake City, U.T..

Patriarch John Smith,

Dear Brother:

Your favor of
the 17th inst., in which you state that you are very
close run and have had to borrow in order to meet
your obligations, and informing me that you have drawn
all of your allowance for this quarter ending March,
and are about $3000 behind now and nothing to go on
with for the coming two months, and asking for
help, has been received and its contents considered.

I am informed that you draw at the
rate of $1000.00 a year from the Church, not men-
tioning the amount that is paid to Sister Lemon,
and that your family is small, your children gener-
ally being able to sustain themselves. It seems, Brother

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John, that, under the circumstances which the Church is
in, it should not be called upon to give you further
assistance. You are at liberty, and have the oppor-
tunity of doing something for yourself, and with this
amount given you by the Church, you ought, with good
management, to be able to keep out of debt. It is not
pleasant for me to have to decline an application
such as you make; but the calls upon the Church
are so numerous in every direction that we are compelled
to exercise great care in the disbursement of the funds.

You probably can make arrangements with some
of your friends to assist you in tiding over this pinch
till the next quarter.

With kind regards,

Your Brother,

W Woodruff