July 30 [188]4

President Wilford Woodruff.
Salt Lake City
Dear Brother.

Yours of July 10^th came safely to hand and found us
well here in the office. The Article we were pleased to receive.
It will give encouragement to the Elders many of whom are
laboring without any seeming return—bonds of warning exhortat[io]n
Counsell or testimony are received with grattitude by us all
Many if us are young men Some men advanced in years but
young in experience in the ministry and when Elders like
yourself grown grey in the service drop words of encouragement
or counsell or Iexplain your own experiences they help us
to despel our own little troubles and take gold with renewed
vigir to push forward the cause of our God. It is the hardest
thing that an Elder has to do to day to keep from becoming
despondent. for to travel from weeks end to weeks end without
gathering any fruit requires a man to posess in a large
degree the sunshine if the Holy spirit in his composition.
Elder W D Williams President of the Manchester Conference speaks
in high terms of the earnestness your son displays in performing