The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-06
JOSEPH F. SMITH FLAYS
FOES WHO ASSAlL HIM
Continued from PAGE I

TN. Here again we met with the Latter
day Saints and with the elders. as many
as could get together in that mission
with them.
Here we found excellent conditions ex-
listing. but some conditions that were not
favorable, and which L regret to find. and
L will briefly say that is is this: Some
OF our young people who have gone TO
Berlin TO study music or to follow other
pursuits, by their negligence in not per-
forming their duties, by their neglect to
go TO the meetings of the Saints. by their
holding themselves apart from the Lat
ter-day Saints are not welding a whole
some or good influence upon the people
o. that country. l want to tell you that
and L say u to my regret. They make
the excuse that they have to study and
nave to practice every day-day in and
day out, and when Sunday comes, if they
do not have to continue their practice,
they are so fatigued that they cannot af-
ford TO go to meeting. Now, if any of
you have children in that condition L
would advise you to stimulate them to
do their duty and set good example
before the people OF the world in this di-
rection. really think that the sending
of our children 10 Berlin TO study is con-
siderably overdone. and 1 do not believe
as as rule any good, or any particular
good, with the exception perhaps of a
little more practice, will ever accrue to
our children who go there.
Visits In Switzerland.
From Berlin we went to Zurich in
Switzerland and held a conference.
From there we went to Lucerne, and
from there to Berne, where we again
met with the saints in conference and
had most excellent and interesting Wis
1t. not only with our people in general.
but strangers who visited with us. We
also held meetings with the elders, in
some instances having as many as fifty
or Seventy-five present with us at one
time. From here we returned to Eng
land, having landed at Dover on our
way over by way of Paris. France
where we remained a couple of days. In
London we again met with our people in
conference. We also met with the elders
very many of them at that mission, all
of whom. so far as / could judge or see
seemed to be in , excellent spirits and
faith. and willing and ready and active
in the performance of their missionary
labors. We had a good conference in
London, and we afterwards had a most
excellent gathering, and met with the
elders of the mission in priesthood
meeting. From London we visited Scot
land and attended conference in Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, where we also had
an enjoyable time with the people and
with the elders of that portion of the
British mission. Returning south from
Scotland we called at Liverpool and
attended another conference of our peo-
pie at Blackburn in Lancashire, and
also held a priesthood meeting there
Here we found the same conditions as
far as our elders were concerned-a no
bic lot OF young men, bright, intelligent,
active honorable, upright, clean, pure,
and sweet, as were ever found in any
part of the world
Makes Trip to Vermont.
after short visit at Liverpool we
returned to London. We spent a few
days visiting in that great city the
places of interest. From there we re-
turned and took steamer again for our
native land. On reaching New York, the
18th of September, we made arrangements
as hastily as possible and visited YER
mont, the birthplace of the Prophet Jo-
seph Smith, and spent a couple of days
there. We found that great improve
ment had been made under the direction
of Brother Junius f. Wells. The grounds
have been laid off beautifully, the mem
orial cottage completed and made ready
for occupancy, and everything is looking
beautiful and attractive here. Quite a
large number of our neighbors who at
tended the dedication services on the 23d
of December last. hearing that 1 was
there, did me the honor to call upon me
and shake hands, and they made us a
little visit. The burden of their petition
was: Don't take Mr.. Wells away from
US" They want Mr.. Wells to remain
with them.
From here we visited the historical
Hill Cumorah and the old homestead
of the Patriarch Joseph Smith and his
family. We also visited the grove where
the first childhood prayer of the Prophet
Joseph Smith was offered up. and where
the first manifestations of the approval
latter days, with reference to the opening
of the dispensation in which the fulness
of the Gospel of Jesus should be restored
to the world and the authority of the
holy priesthood again conferred upon
man To say that the visiting of such
places as these does not inspire serious
thought and peculiar feelings, at least
in my breast, would not be true.
There is something hallowed about
those places, to me and to ALL I think
who have accepted the divine mission OF
Joseph Smith, the prophet, and who are
imbued with the spirit OF the gospe
that he was instrumental, in the hands
of the Lord, in restoring to the earth
To me II is pleasing. to me IL is inspir.
ing to visit the haunts of that great anC
good man. and his associates in the earl,
days of the church. and even before tn
church was organized We visited
Palmyra. near the hill where the plate.
| of the Book of Mormon were found and
shown TO the Prophet Joseph by the an
| gel Moroni. and where they were givei
| TO joseph by him. which is a truth tina
| all Latter-day Saints will have to accep
| in order TO acknowledge the divine au
| thority of the man who has borne thi
! testimony to the world. and who wa
| instrumental in revealing the funess o
| the gospel Of the children OF men.
From PALMYRA we visited Kirkland