DearBrethren: Your letter of the 9th inst.,
requesting an expression of my feelings and a state-
ment of my circumstances in regard to the per-
formance of a mission to Europe, has been received.
In reply, I thank you for the honor of such a
request, and state: That I am perfectly willing to
go to the nations of the earth to preach the Gospel
of Jesus Christ, and my humble endeavors to do
good to my fellow-man I readily tender, to be
used whenever they may be of most service, knowing
that God is sufficient kind to aid and strengthen
those who desire to do His will.
I have been in this country about 17 years. My
age is 33 years in January, 1892. I have a wife and
three children. At present I am indebted about
$150.00/100, on account of building and much sickness
of late. But though my income is only moderate, I
have steady employment, and through the blessings of my
Heavenly Father I trust all such indebtedness will soon