Letter from George Quayle Cannon, 24 February 1863

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Letter from George Quayle Cannon, 24 February 1863
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    LATTER-DAY SAINTS, EUROPEAN PUBLISHING AND EMIGRATION OFFICE. Received beginning of April 42, Islington, Liverpool, February 27th, 1863. President Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George A. Smith, Amasa M. Lyman, Ezra T. Benson, Charles C. Rich, Erastus Snow, Lorenzo Snow and Franklin D. Richards: Beloved Brethren, As I stated in my ...
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    (2) utterly destitute of reason and sense as to fail to be perceive his inconsistency and falsehood, ^he^ having told them two stories, both of which cannot possibly be true. An apostate, of the name of Parrott stirs the Elders up occasionally by raising a mob when- ever he can to annoy them and to disturb our meetings. He gave me a chariavari early in January, while visiting Bristol to attend a Conference; but he did not succeed in interrupt- ing our proceedings or in preventing us from enjoying ourselves. Since then, he ...
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    (3) "anti-Mormon" association, which exists in that city. They have hired a hall quite close to that occupied by the Saints and are doing all in their power to break up our meetings there. A man by the name of Charles Derry, waited upon me atwo or three weeks ago to ask me, as he said, for the privilege of setting forth his principles to our congregations in our chapels throughout the country. He said he was a missionary sent over by the "New Organization of the Church" under young ...
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    (4) he rose, and requested the privilege of making some re- marks. I repeated my refusal, and as he was disposed to be pertinacious, I told him that if he did not sit down im- mediately I should put him in charge of a police officer. At that he caved. After meeting he came up to me and said that it was the weight of his responsibility under which he was laboring which induced him to rise. I replied that it was just such a responsibility as the Devil had ever felt. He evidently intended to arouse ...
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    (5) emigrated to the Valley. He has been shown no quarters, how- ever, by any of our people, and will, I am confident, do us more good in the end than harm. I felt to predict this when I first knew of his arrival. My teachings to the Elders and Saints have been, not to descend from the dignity of their positions to argue and hold controversy, neither with the Devil nor with those filled with his Spirit; nothing can be gained, I have told them, by reasoning with apostates, men who have known ...
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    (6) that she had been seduced by him. I mention this letter to you now, because in my last letter to you, I informed you that he had denied having done any wrong with any person in the Church, yet this girl had testified that he had ruined her, and as I have not seen the girl, myself, I wish him to have the benefit of the doubt in your minds which his penitent letter has rasied in mine. Unless some counsel should come from the President to the contrary, I expect a ...
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    (7) Brother John L. Smith is pursuing a very wise and saving course towards the Saints and the people within the limits of his mission. When everthing is considered I think the Elders there have done and are doing remarkably well. In France Bro. Bertrand has many grave difficulties to contend with, which prevent him from being as successful in his labors as he otherwise would be. He does not appear to get discouraged or to give up trying, and occasionally baptizes a few. I proposed to ...
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    (8) wise to separate the Elders and remove Bro. Schettler to labor with Bro. John L. Smith, who was much in need of his help, and with whom he could labor with greater pleasure and harmony than where he was. I investigated the difficulty, and though the principal opponent of Bro. Vander Woude evidently had a bad spirit, yet Bro. Vander Woude's course had been a very unwise one. The latter promised to do bet- ter and the difficulty was settled, only, however, to break out with ...