Tunstall April 12th 1841 Eldr G A Smith & Woodruff Dear Bros I take pen to inform you of some of the occ- urances that have happened since you left us A spirit of increased active exertion begins to manifest itself among the officers of the Church in these districts All are or at least seam to be considering the best ways of of applying their exertions laying out schemes for the carrying forth of the fullness of the Everlasting Gospel into the Hamlets Villages &c so thickly scattered over this tract of ...

and it will require dilligence & Faith & Prayer to make some things bend in a suitable manmer and indeed did I not behold such things how should conclude it the church of Christ. "For fair as the moon clear as the sun." Moon[']s got some black spots you know so it is at the present time in the church but a short work It shall'd [should] be now when Israel is grafted into his own parent vine & I expect the time shortly when she (the church) shall be "clear as the sun and terible as an army ...

of Br Smith if this case of Bro Bowers is true for said you if the devil (as I think the^is^ black personage was) make his appearance terror terror and dismay are ^his^ usual attendants & though he may be transformed as an Angel of light yet blackness & Dimness accompany him in some way or other I write a rather long letter but you will excuse it as it must attone for the my neglect while you were in London I wish you My brethren ^&^ all the Saints a ...

As soon as you receive the money you can send a recipt of the same & should it happen that I reseive any more before the 17th I shall if there be time forward the same so that you may get it before you start the reason I send by Bro Witaker is that he is coming to Lpool and offered to bring it which will save me a journey of four miles & the sixpence and this way you will get the money nearly as soon and quite as safe my sheet is ...