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Show 328 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. than two hundred and fifty dollars, I should be ashamed of myself." On one occasion, brother Joseph Young and myself had travelled more than two hours among snow, and in a piercing cold, to preach in his neighborhood one evening. Having had no dinner or supper, we went home with him, and he never asked us to eat a mouthful of supper, though he did mnster courage enough to go into the •cellar with a little basket, he came up with the tears almost running down his cheeks, and said with some difficulty-" Brethren, have some apples." He held out the basket to us, and when we were about to help ourselves, his niggardly soul made him draw it back again, for fear we should take any. I saw he did not intend us to have any apples, so I put my hand on the basket, and drew it out of his hand, saying-" Come here." I took it on my knees, and invited brother Joseph to eat some apples. He did make out to give us some breakfast in the morning, and even then he got up from the table before we had time to half finish our breakfast, to see if we would not give over eating. Said I-" Never mind, I shall eat what I want before I stop." I am happy to say, through your trustee in trust, that the latter-day saints, in the capacity of a church and kingdom, do not owe near as much money as they have on hand. A year ago last April conference, we owed over sixty thousand dollars, but we do not now owe a single red cent. May God bless us, that we may always have enough, and know what to do with what we have, and how to use it for the good of all, for I would not give much for property unless I did know what to do with it. |