PRESIDENT'S OFFICE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, P. O. BOX B. Salt Lake City, U. T. April 1st, 1889. President W. Paxman, New Zealand. Dear Brother: Your kind and very interesting communication of Feb. 23rd reached us on March 19th. We were pleased to learn of the continued growth of the Church, and of the progress you are making in the printing of the Book of Mormon. Your request for $500.00 to help you meet your engagements ...

2 very reluctantly, as he was exceedingly anxious to honorably fill his mission. Since he reached home we have deemed it wisdom to entirely release him, on account of his poor health, and have encouraged him to the performance of those duties which he can perform in the midst of the saints without imperiling his life by the changes and hardships of a foreign mission. Have you any suitable Elder or Elders now with you whom you can recommend to succeed you when you are released to return home, or do you think it will ...

3 Germany, Switzerland, Holland, and the State of pennsylvania. On the same day the first Convention of the Officers and Teachers of our Church schools will be held, to consider matters connected with the organization and conduct of our Academies. The progress made since the General Church School Board was organized has been very encouraging. Twenty Church institutions of learning are running, with an attendance, during the past winter, of about fifteen hundred scholars; and we do not think we overestimate when we say that double ...

4 the appointment of such men as McBride, Varian and "Kentucky" Smith (Idaho) to other offices. Their hope is to get men into position to steal Salt Lake City and Utah Teritory politically as they stole Ogden at the last election. Some accounts represent President Harrison as quite prejudiced on our question, others speak more favorably. We have hopes that he will not appoint local men to fill the various U. S. offices in the Territory ...