There is steam boat comunication between those
countries and the United States, both east and west,
and also with the rest of the world, and when the
contemplated Inter-continental rail road shall
have been completed, the distance bethween here
and there will not seem so great.
I have been led to interest my self in
getting all the information I could conserning
those countries and people, because many like
my self are in jeopardy here all the time on
account of our large families, and are forced
to seek homes elsewhere, where the laws are more
humane, spend our time in the "Pen", or abandon
our families. We were informed by the Prophet
that both and
is the land of Zion, and President said many years ago that settlements of
the saints would be extended all the way down
into South America. President
said, or the Lord through him said: Let the
Seventies prepare themselves to go and preach
the Gospel to those people, and let the
prepare them selves to go and preside among them.
I do not expect in presenting these views
and ideas, which are based upon information,
that the Church Authorities will consider that
as a suficient inducement for imediate colon-
ization, but if the advisability of extending
There is steam boat comunication between those
countries and the United States, both east and west,
and also with the rest of the world, and when the
contemplated Inter-continental rail road shall
have been completed, the distance between here
and there will not seem so great.
I have been led to interest my self in
getting all the information I could conserning
those countries and people, because many like
my self are in jeopardy here all the time on
account of our large families, and are forced
to seek homes elsewhere, where the laws are more
humane, spend our time in the "Pen", or abandon
our families. We were informed by the Prophet
that both and
is the land of Zion, and President said many years ago that settlements of
the saints would be extended all the way down
into South America. President
said, or the Lord through him said: Let the
Seventies prepare themselves to go and preach
the Gospel to those people, and let the
prepare them selves to go and preside among them.
I do not expect in presenting these views
and ideas, which are based upon information,
that the Church Authorities will consider that
as a suficient inducement for imediate colonization, but if the advisability of extending