Excerpt from An Epistle of the First Presidency to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in General Conference Assembled: Read April 8th, 1887, at the Fifty-Seventh General Annual Conference, Held at Provo, Utah The most gladdening news we can communicate to the Conference of the Church in our Epistle is that from every part of the land which we in habit, gratifying reports have been received of the zeal and diligence of the people in attending to the duties of their religion. Probably at no time in our history has there been a better dis position manifested by the people to attend their meetings on the Sabbath day, and on fast days, and the prayer meetings which have been held during week day evenings. Meetings have been held at suitable private residences on many of the blocks in the city and country wards throughout these mountains. These have gener ally been crowded, and have been occupied by the Elders in giving in struction, and by the Saints in bearingtestimony and in prayer. All the Elders who have been free to travel who have reported the results of their labors to us, agree in say ing that at 'no time in their experience have the meetings which they have held been so crowded as during the past winter. These evi deuces of the faith and diligence of the people are exceedingly gratifying to us. We have been cheered in listen ing to them; for we know that when the Latter-day Saints repent of their sms and devote themselves assiduous ly to keeping the commandments of God, their enemies cannot have much power over them'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.