| 163 during our stay; and for this we thank Mr. Kimball as a man, an enterprising, energetic officer of a new road in a growing country.
On Sunday, December 3, we spoke twice, morning and afternoon, in the Liberal Institute, to quite large and attentive audiences; meeting a number of old-time Saints, who kindly remembered us for "our father's sake." They loved him and wished to shake hands because of that love. We were pleased to learn of their love and regard still cherished for him; but it was a trifle mortifying to be made to think we had no merit of our own for which to claim a recognition. However, some seemed to grant this, and we can not complain. On Wednesday night we again spoke in the Institute, and on Thursday night, December 7, we spoke in Bishop Rawlin's ward meeting house, near Union Fort, he having kindly granted us the privilege at the request of Bro. William B. Smith, our brother in charge of the little Union Branch, of that place. The house was warmed and lighted; was a very comfortable place to speak in, and though large, was well filled. The audience was very attentive; and, although many of them at first looked as if they expected us to be harsh and denunciatory, this was apparently dissipated, and a good feeling seemed to prevail at the last.
On the next day, in company with Bro. Reinsimar, we returned to the city, having had a most excellent visit at the house of Bro. Smith, with the band of Saints under his charge, and some from adjoining places. We hereby extend our thanks to Bishop Rawlins for the use of the ward meeting house in his ward. We do this the more readily because it shows the growth of a more liberal spirit than characterized many places in Utah, when the elders have been there heretofore.
We spoke again in the Institute in the city, on Friday night, making the fourth service held by us in the city. Bro. Thomas Hudson, in charge of the branch, presided at our meetings, and we were on two occasions led in prayer by Bro. Jason W. Briggs, who arrived in the city during our stay. We met the Saints in prayer, testimony, and business meeting, and spoke to them once in the house of Bro. Joseph Clark, where their meetings have been held for some time past. We found them earnest and seeking after the truth. We formed some new acquaintances, which to us were very pleasant ones.
There will be a continued effort made by the Saints in Salt Lake City, to build a small chapel. It is deemed by many of them, including Bro. Briggs, to be necessary. Others, not with us in faith, but in sympathy with the effort we are making, also think it advisable. We also, though before favorable to the erection of a house there suitable for the occasion of public worship, are in favor of it still
It was rumored that instructions had been given that if we asked for the Tabernacle it should be opened for us; but this was evidently only rumor; as there being no facilities for warming and lighting it, it had been closed for the winter. We did not ask for it, moreover, as we did
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