The Brigham Young Center

Great Salt Lake City,
May 31, 67

Mr. John Shenton
London, Canada West

Sir:

Your favor of May 4th has been received. Please find in this a Copy of the Deseret News which contains an epitome of our faith. It will give you a better idea than I can in the limits of a single letter. By corresponding with Mr. William H. Miles, 117 John St., New York, whose Post Office address is Box 3957 New York City, you can ascertain from him the route that will be travelled by our emigration, and be able to learn the probable time of their departure from the frontiers for the West. An agent or agents, selected from our elders who go from this country on missions to Europe and the States will be in New York to make the necessary arrangements for the emigration. Mr. Miles will be able to give you all the particulars, as his place will be their head quarters. The expense of coming depends very much on the style in which you travel. An arrangement might be made to travel with some person who is coming through, by purchasing your provisions for the journey and paying at the rate of from fifteen to twenty cents per pound for your luggage. Of course this would be a rather slow mode of travelling, but is the manner in which our people usually emigrate to this country.

You need not be surprised because we are spoken against by the papers, We view this as an evidence in our favor instead of being something to be ashamed of. It was the legacy bequeathed by Jesus to his disciples -- that their names should be cast out as evil, and he pronounced a woe against those of whom the world spoke favorably. If we were of the world the world would love us, for it loves it own. We have suffered in this respect no more than our brethren who have preceded us who embraced and practiced the pure principles of the gospel of Jesus under his own and Apostles' administration. The antagonism which formerly existed between the Adversary and the Truth and those who practice it has not died out by the lapse of years as we have proved to our satisfaction in our experience.

If men will embrace the pure principles which Jesus and his Apostles taught, they will be hated as cordially by the wicked to-day as those who practiced those principles were eighteen-hundred years ago.

Praying the Lord to bless you in your search after truth and enable you to comprehend it, I remain your obedient Servant in the Lord

Brigham Young