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Show Elder Geo. A. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Brother and Cousin:-- Los Angeles, Cal., 1-6-oB. The temptation to write you relating to the favors you have shown me is a little too great for me to resist. I hope though that you will -be able tc make up the time you may lose by my interrup ti on of the routine of your duties. You took occasion a few times when I was in that vicinity to sho\v some interest in my welf re and on one oooaeion you went so far as to repeat the compliment paid to your father, when he was a young man, by an early prominent figure in Utah history. Was it Judge Zane (if not, would you kindly tell me who t was~ who said to him that he"had in his veins t h e best blood of the nineteenth century?" Your motive when speaking to me in the same language must have been a kindly feeling towards me a s I 1l &..ve said. And it is to justify your efforts for my good that I thus a g ain make myself known to you. In regard to that compliment and your adu, onishing me to "ma k e g ood," I am a little proud to be able to lay claim in a small degree to t he lineage of the stock through the instrumentality of which the greatest era in the history of the world is well begun, and I believe I have inherited through my mother a few of the good qualities of the Smith family. On the other hand and at the same time, I have reason to be proud too of wh a t my father has bequea.thei to me and I do not mean to detract from the honor I should give him, for he has made a mark in hie time in and for the comm unity in which he has been associated that any man wc uld have reason to be proud lf.But,granting all this, my lineage shall profit me nothing if I do not ma k e use of it by using that inherent foundation provided for ma u p on which to build up my own salvation. As evi,lence in a small way that the interest in my 'Welfare that yo u once took pains to take is justified, I am enclosing a samp le of my men t al productions. I would like to ask you if you do not agree with the latter part of my article "The Christian's Vi tal Breath." 'Ihe idea I wished. t o convey therein is that when the order of Enoch is estal)lished fully ther·e r; i l l be no need of money for t h e reason that the wants of, for instan ce, a whole tov;n ·:.ril l be -p rovided :f or out of t h e general store-house t hrout ll a sort of |
