the means as fast as it can be obtained to pay for
the same as soon as you assertain please forward me
word. You will see in all my addresses & teaching that
we published in the Star that I have thoroughly urged
the necessity of all the Saints in this kingdom strictly
abiding by the Laws of the land which agrees
with your council. As to News in this country
I will say as a general thing we are prospering inevry part
of the vineyard before what we could expect considering
the Extent of the field & the few Experienced Elders that
are in it there are still some few Conferences yet
that are some out of order & behind the time but in
all such cases it is for the want of a change of
officers to preside over the conferences but we have
no time for a Elders on hand to make the change with
fo[u]r out of EleventhousandSaints Scattered over such
a vast field we have ownly about six American Elders
to supply the whole with except 2 or 3 of us in Liverpool
& nearly all that are here else expecting soon to
leave for America to be in Nauvoo in the Spring
and if we can hold our own untill we get 50
or 100 good wise Judicious men next spring after the
Endowment to our help we shall do well. O how I should
rejoice to think back with a company of such men
on these shores. For I am now in one [servis] alone
though surrounded by many. The Lord has been with
the means as fast as it can be obtained to pay for
the same as soon as you assertain please forward me
word. You will see in all my addresses & teaching that
we published in the Star that I have thoroughly urged
the necessity of all the Saints in this kingdom strictly
abiding by the Laws of the land which agrees
with your council. As to News in this country
I will say as a general thing we are prospering inevry part
of the vineyard before what we could expect considering
the Extent of the field & the few Experienced Elders that
are in it there are still some few Conferences yet
that are some out of order & behind the time but in
all such cases it is for the want of a change of
officers to preside over the conferences but we have
no Elders on hand to make the change with
four out of EleventhousandSaints Scattered over such
a vast field we have ownly about six American Elders
to supply the whole with except 2 or 3 of us in Liverpool
& nearly all that are here else expecting soon to
leave for America to be in Nauvoo in the Spring
and if we can hold our own untill we get 50
or 100 good wise Judicious men next spring after the
Endowment to our help we shall do well. O how I should
rejoice to think back with a company of such men
on these shores. For I am now in one servis alone
though surrounded by many. The Lord has been with