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Show PROSPECTIVE 8TATB OF vDESEfcET. - 139 man can well doubt, who has witnessed the indomitable energy, the unity and concentration of action, together with the enthusiastic, spirit of proselytism which seems to possess the entire Mormon community. Their zeal for increasing their sect has already filled the world with their missionaries;, and has, within the space of four years, and in defiance of obstacles that, would have appalled most ordinary adventurers, collated a population of some twenty thousand eoulA, all breathing the same spirit, animated by the same hope,* bound by the 6ame views, and unitedly engaged, heart and t hand, in providing means by whjich converts to the faith may be transported from all parts of the world to this great; head- quarters of the church, " the fountain where truth flows from the lips of tfye prophet of Ood, and where true liberty can only be enjoyed by the' saints." A large and constantly increasing fund has been created . among them, called " The Perpetual* Emigration I^ und," which is devoted exclusively to this object, and receives liberal contributions from, the " saints," both in this country and in Europe; it being the authorized teaching, all over the world, - that it is as much- a duty binding on every " saint" " to build up the valleys of the1 mountains," by assisting forward those brethren who' are too poor to provide an1 outfit for themselves,, i s it id to be baptized for the remission of sina. The effects of this widely diffused spirit of propagandised are, already seen in the number of converts that have been made in most of the countries, of Europe, as well as in the Sandwioh Islands, and even here in our own country, with all of • whom it is made a cardinal point to " gather to the mountains.'' Measures are being taken to open a southern route, by which the converts coming from abroad xpay cross the . Isthmus of Panama, • and, landing at San Diego, may thence reach the land of promise by A comparatively short and easy transit, without being subjected to the hazard of a sickly voyage up the Mississippi, or to the tedious and expensive journey aCrops the plains. In the mean while, preparation* are industriously'making in the valley for the reception and immediate accommodation of the coming tide, by the building of houses, sowing large quantities of grain, the erection of mills, the establishment of manufactured, the importation of labour- saving machinery, apd the establishment upon a solid basis of the means of education.- The manifest object of these harmoniously concerted1 movements is to concentrate, as. speedily as practicable, in " the valley of the mountains," a number sufficiently |