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Show were no.t pretenvious , were so arranged and furnished that they were ve r y com:t'ortable and me returned Missionary was very grate:Lul lor it all . So again at home w i~h his loved ones ; ~o again meev , in pleasant associati on , his many f riends ; to hear on every hand cornrnenct vion I·or the work he had a ccomplished in the Missionary :field was most gratifying to him . on the evening of December ~ he wen t ove r to the Fourteenth ward , just across the .street , to a ttend Sac :r:amen t Heeti:og . Here he s poke :Lor a short time on the i nvitation o! ishop Thomas Taylor , vhus delivering his f irst sermon as a r e turned ,Missionar y • . On the I ollowing day , he visited the and gave paper a 1·u11 account of his missiona r y l abors in Illinois , Indiana , and the Southern States ; the whole of which report was printed Decem be r 10 , 187 7. On December ll~he visited the school which was being co:oaucted at that time in the College Buil ding i n which his home was loca ted a nd wh ich was under the ) rincipalsh i p of russ c ook . Subs equentl y , he called at the of't ice OI the .b1 i r st Presidency in the~sident ' €> Q..~ ff'ice eas t of the Lion House on South Templ e where he met Pr es i dent J ohn Taylor , Ap os tle s orson Pratt , Wilf"red woodr utf , and w. ]:{ .. Hoope r to whom he made a f'urther re port on h is recent mis si on . During the next few uays he visited among his !'rie nds and met many old a c quai ntances l inding a pleas ing attitude on t he part of church members , but a r a vher bitter f' eeling OI opp osition on the part of the non-Mormon element in the city. In it all , however , he felt a calm and serene s nirit of con t e :o t ment in again being i n the a ssociati on of his fri ends and the home of his loved ones . On the even ing o±· Decembe r l ::J th , on i nv it a~i on of El der nathan i al v. Jones , he delivered a sermon in the 1 3th ward Assembl y Hall a t |
