It is cheering to hear of the prosperity of Nauvoo. It forcibly reminds me of the vision of Esdras in which he suddenly saw a woman in great trouble weeping with great lamentation but sud- denly there appe^a^red in her stead a great city. It will not take the Jews long to build Jerusalem at that rate. I think that the sin of laziness & indolence will not be imputed to the saints much longer for they seem to build cities with almost as much dex- terity as children build cob houses & I presume they are