No. 2, Vol. XXV.

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Leaving the city about eight o'clock on Friday morning, the 17th of October, we trotted off in brisk style northward, passing through Bountiful, Centerville, Farmington, and on to Kaysville, where we halted for dinner.

As we approached the town we were met by sixty scholars of a public school taught by Mr. Wm. W. Burton, a young man of good intellect and fine talents. They formed in line and saluted the President, then paraded up the street, carrying four banners, to the house of the President's host, and sang that beautiful composition of Eliza Cook's, "Speak Gently." On the boys' banners were inscribed the suggestive mottoes, "Intelligence in Embryo" and "Defenders of Right." On the two carried by the girls, the truthful inscriptions, "Daughters of Zion," "Our parents love Virtue."

With his usual bounty, Bishop Layton provided for the comfort of the President and his friends, numbers of the brethren participating with the Bishop in kind acts of hospitality. Among the luxuries served up for dessert, I must not omit naming the

A meeting was held in the Bowery adjoining the school-house, at 1 p.m. Elders George A. Smith, John Taylor and Charles C. Rich addressed the congregation on the building up of Zion, making conspicuous the lack of improvements, such as are necessary for the farm, the garden, and the general comfort and welfare of the domestic circle. President Young followed with a short, but cheering and encouraging sermon, on the untold worth of our present lives. When we have looked around upon the earth's vegetation, with its luxuriant foliage, and have taken into consideration its stores of mineral wealth, he said, we have been in the habit of believing and saying that all this must and will pass away, and we shall go to heaven; but now we are beginning to learn our true position, and to know that it is our business to make a paradise here, such as angels will delight to visit, and where the Redeemer of the world will be pleased to reign a thousand years, while the people of God labour in peace, uninterrupted by the common Enemy of the Saints, for the redemption of the world that have died without the benefits and blessings of the ordinances of the Gospel.

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Most of our company visited the new meeting-house now being erected, under contract, by Mr. Charles King of Salt Lake City. The building is 85 by 40, quite a large house for the present inhabitants of Kaysville; but it is being built with praiseworthy enterprize with a view to the future increase of its deni

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At a quarter past two, the President started for Ogden. Having crossed the Sand Ridge, and commenced to descend the bench land leading to the Weber bottom, my optic organs opened wide enough to take in a view of the scenery in front, and among the first things which attracted my attention was the once fine bridge built to span the Weber, and to keep the swift current of that river within the limits of its buttresses, but which now has the appearance of a snagged steam-boat with her stern fast on a sand-bar, leaning rather ungracefully towards the northwest, seven-tenths of the waters running on the west of the wrecked bridge; and the whole of the bottom-lands adjacent to the river are striking monuments of the fearful work of destruction wrought by last spring's flood.

On Saturday morning, the people of Ogden and its suburbs, which, by-theway, extend over nearly, if not quite as great an area of country as the environs of London, assembled in the Tabernacle. Elders Charles C. Rich and Joseph Young preached on the duties of this present life, the necessity of manufacturing the fabrics we require for home consumption.

and blood in the east, was invited to give some of his experience in military life. He rose and painted in high colours the horrors of the present war of brother against brother in the States, speaking particularly of the battles of Fort Donaldson and Pittsburg Landing. His estimates and figures of the killed and wounded in those battles were so much higher than all of the published accounts, that I forbear to give them.

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President Young then preached a sublime discourse upon the great duties that devolve upon the chosen people of God, who have been called to establish and build up the kingdom of God; spoke of temples, endowments, demption of the dead, the resurrection of the just and the inheritances of the Saints, spreading an influence through the house that imparted joy, peace, and a spirit of thanksgiving and praise to the Great Father of all our spirits.

On Sunday forenoon, Elders F. D. Richards and Lorenzo Snow preached upon practical religion. President Brigham Young made some essential remarks on home manufactures; alluded to the paper mill in particular, calling upon the people to supply the required material for all kinds of paper, and exhibited, as a proof of the success of the enterprize, some writing paper, also memorandum-books, and writingbooks for children, all of which, together with journals, day-books and ledgers, can now be had here, if the people would send their cast-off cotton and linen clothing to the mill, for which brother Goddard would pay them in the productions of the mill.

In the afternoon, the congregation was called to order by President Farr, and the opening prayer offered by Bishop A. H. Raleigh. Elder John Taylor preached on local improvements and the building up of the temporal kingdom of God on the earth in the last days.

and their poisons. He was followed by President Brigham Young, who showed, in addition to the use and abuse of the ball-room and theatre, the proper government and management of such places. His remarks were pithy and to the point. Elder Rich made a few remarks, and the meeting was dismissed.

was upon self-government, and Elder Smith's was directed to the raising of flax. hemp and tobacco. He said he used to be strong on the "Word of Wisdom," but he had now changed his policy by recommending that we raise the god we worship, manufacture the master we adore, and thus within ourselves create the autocrat at whose feet we constantly bow!

The President visited the Ogden Kanyon and gave directions for the rebuilding of the road which was washed out last spring.

President Wells and Elder Joseph A. Young arrived here at 2 o'clock on Monday.

It was past nine when our party left Ogden on the same morning. We found the Ogden river bridge a la Weber, and the bridge which used to span the north fork down upon its knees, about the centre of an immense bed of gravel. We saw Slaterville and the "cities of the Plain" looming up in the distance as we travelled up the east side of the valley to North Ogden, where a meeting was held, at which Elders G. A. Smith, F. D. Richards, John Taylor and Charles C. Rich preached on the necessity of building up and beautifying Zion, and thereby making the place of the Lord's feet glorious, the importance of being classified in our labour, and the necessity of the brethren using the knowledge they have of mechanical arts for the good of society.

President Young then rose and made some encouraging remarks to the brethren; called upon them to build good and comfortable habitations for their families, to labour for the building up of the literal kingdom of God upon the earth in the last days; told the brethren to do all they could to make everything around them inviting and agreeable, and thus make their homes so many little heavens below; reasoned to show how men might indulge in recreative amusements, and to what extent they might go and not sin.

After meeting we travelled on to Willard, where we had a fine opportunity of witnessing the good feeling of the brethren who came out to meet the President, the band playing "Yankee Doodle," and continued to cheer our spirits with the sweet strains of their

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performances till we reached the town. A public dinner was provided in the school-house, of which all partook, returning thanks for the bounties of the earth spread before us.

The people assembled in the Bowery immediately after dinner. Elders J. V. Long, John Taylor and G. A. Smith, each addressed the congregation, setting forth the design of the Almighty with reference to the building up of his kingdom on the earth; that instead of dying and going away from this earth to a world of which we know nothing, we are called upon to build up a kingdom here preparatory to the reign of Christ, who is coming to reign with his people as King of kings and Lord of lords, and that the time to favour Zion has now come; instructed the people to build good houses and to finish them, to make good gardens, orchards, fences and farms, but not to worship them, but to worship the Lord our God and him only, and to hold everything they possess in this life ready to place upon the altar of sacrifice when called for; reasoned on the way to prepare to build the New Jerusalem, showing that the proper method was to learn to build up good cities, towns and villages here in Deseret, which is the school wherein the Saints are to learn how to build up the waste places of Zion.

The President then rose and said"I will not ask any of the rest of the brethren to speak; I am going to preach a short sermon myself, and that is, go to and get out lumber to make yourselves bins, then thrash this wheat that you have raised in such abundance, and take care of it, then when you have got these things done I will come and preach to you again."

This was the shortest sermon preached during the journey, but it was so significant that all who heard will doubtless remember it.

Just as we were leaving town we were met by Elders Ezra T. Benson and Peter Maughan, accompanied by several carriages and twenty horsemen from the town of Brigham and from Cache county. These horsemen formed the President's escort through the upper part of Box Elder, and forward into Cache county. By this time our company numbered eighteen carriages and thirty horsemen.