many of those who have means are prepareing to leave in the spring. Brother
is expecting to lead up a company from At the opening of navigation. Since I
have been on my Eastern Mission, while meeting with the saints, And teaching them the
first Principles of the gospel, the Epistle of the Twelve, their gathering & building up
Zion, the signs of the, times. the gathering of the Jews, And the certain judgments of
God which Await the Nations of the Earth (And further than this your servant has neither
taught nor practiced) I have been filled from time to time with the spirit of God And
a deep sense of the awful judgments of A Justly Angry God which stands like a
storm already gatherd And ready to burst upon the Nations of the Earth Esspecially this
Nation. And I feel to offer up the gratitude of my heart to my Heavenly Father
for his blessing to me thus far on my mission. Elders , Haven, ,
, , , And have been labouring more or less during the past
summer & winter in these Eastern States. And they almost universally make one report
ie they cannot get access to the hearts of the people, can not get them out to hear, And
if they do get a congregation together the word is like throwing A Ball against A rock,
it bounds back, or like pouring water onto a gooses back it runs off, And does not pene-
trate. they cannot get their bread among them, or means to travel, but have to call upon
the churches in order to live. I have generally found the same indifference manifest
by the world whare I have travelled, but few come out to hear & but few have been
Baptized. I baptized 3 in New Haven, Br Rockwood 3, And Brother Appleby
several in Philadelphia, & , & several Baptized in other parts. I gave
Elder Appleby council to visit the Saints in Pennsylvania & from time to time
as he had An opportunity And preach as doors were open. The question might be asked by
some why are the people of this Nation so indifferent about hearing or Embracing the gospel
while the work is rolling like fire in dry stubble in other Nations. I view this Nation in
as bad a state at least as the Jews were After puting the saints And Jesus to death, their day
of visitation in a great measure had past. This Nation in like manner have stoned And
killed the Prophets, shed the Blood of the Lords anointed, rejected the gospel, And driven
the entire Church And Kingdom of God with those bearing the oricles there of into the
Mountains of Israel, who before taking their departure with uplifted hand's to Heaven in
the Temple of the Lord, Justly cut off the Nation from the Church And Kindgdom of God,
for their Abominations, wickedness And Bloody, deeds. In Addition to this since that
period, the sins of this Nation have Apparently increased fourfold commencing with the
sin of sodomy adding Every other named in the black catalogue of crime, untill it is
like A flood that overflows its banks, And it seams as though not ownly the Holy Ghost
but that portion of the spirit of God that was given to Enlighten every man that came
into the world was taken its departure from the people, And they are going like the
ox to the slaughter & know not the Approach of their destruction
many of those who have means are prepareing to leave in the spring. Brother
is expecting to lead up a company from at the opening of navigation. Since I
have been on my Eastern Mission, while meeting with the Saints, And teaching them the
first Principles of the gospel, the Epistle of the Twelve, their gathering & building up
Zion, the signs of the, times. the gathering of the Jews, and the certain judgments of
God which Await the Nations of the Earth (And further than this your servant has neither
taught nor practiced). I have been filled from time to time with the spirit of God and
a deep sense of the awful judgments of A Justly Angry God which stands like a
storm already gatherd And ready to burst upon the Nations of the Earth Especially this
Nation. And I feel to offer up the gratitude of my heart to my Heavenly Father
for his blessing to me thus far on my mission. Elders , Haven, ,
, , , And have been labouring more or less during the past
summer & winter in these Eastern States. And they almost universally make one report
ie they cannot get access to the hearts of the people, can not get them out to hear, And
if they do get a congregation together the word is like throwing a Ball against a rock,
it bounds back, or like pouring water onto a gooses back it runs off, And does not penetrate. they cannot get their bread among them, or means to travel, but have to call upon
the Churches in order to live. I have generally found the same indifference manifest
by the world whare I have travelled, but few come out to hear & but few have been
Baptized. I baptized 3 in New Haven, Br Rockwood 3, and Brother Appleby
several in Philadelphia, & , & several Baptized in other parts. I gave
Elder Appleby council to visit the Saints in Pennsylvania & New Jersey from time to time
as he had An opportunity And preach as doors were open. The question might be asked by
some why are the people of this Nation so indifferent about hearing or Embracing the gospel
while the work is rolling like fire in dry stubble in other Nations. I view this Nation in
as bad a state at least as the Jews were After puting the saints And Jesus to death, their day
of visitation in a great measure had past. This Nation in like manner have stoned And
killed the Prophets, shed the Blood of the Lords anointed, rejected the gospel, and driven
the entire Church And Kingdom of God with those bearing the oricles there of into the
Mountains of Israel, who before taking their departure with uplifted hand's to Heaven in
the Temple of the Lord, Justly cut off the Nation from the Church and Kingdom of God,
for their Abominations, wickedness And Bloody, deeds. In Addition to this since that
period, the sins of this Nation have Apparently increased fourfold commencing with the
sin of Sodomy adding Every other named in the black catalogue of crime, untill it is
like A flood that overflows its banks, And it seams as though not ownly the Holy Ghost
but that portion of the spirit of God that was given to Enlighten every man that came
into the world was taken its departure from the people, and they are going like the
ox to the slaughter & know not the Approach of their destruction