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Notes: ~ "By their fruits ye shall know them." Surely there is something in that religion which would transform one's life, which leads those who endeavor to keep it to the highest thing in this world, service to one's fellow men in the spirit of the Master. There comes to my mind the instance that happened about 150 years ago on the shores of England.
A vessel lay in the docks hired by the Church that emigrants could go from England, Scotland, Wales out to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. There was a writer who read that the vessel was about to sail and he took up his pad and pencil and went down to the docks to write against them. He received permission from the president of the mission to go aboard the "Amazon" and he noted this group from Nottingham, another from Wales, another from Newcastle, group from Scotland. They know nothing about his presence and this is substance is what he wrote:
"Nobody is ill-tempered, nobody swears oaths or utters cross words. Nobody is drinking and down in every crevice, corner where it is possible for one to kneel or recline or sit everyone is writing letters. I have seen emigrant ships before this day in June and these people are so entirely different from other people I have seen in like circumstances that I wonder what a stranger would suppose these people to be. What awaits them on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, what great delusions they are laboring under now I am not prepared to state. I came abroad this vessel to write against them if they deserved it, and to my great astonishment they do not deserve it. Something has brought about a change in these people in which other a great influences have failed to produce."
` That writer was Charles Dickens and you will find it in its entirely in the book "The Uncommercial Traveler."
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