| 168 requirement of the observation of the first day of the week, called Sunday, which in Missouri is about the same as it is in the other States.) The constitution of the state of Missouri is a guarantee to peoples of all religious faiths of a perfect equality-no one being in the least favored or restrained more than any other.
Furthermore, a long and extensive acquaintance with the people of all Northern and Central Missouri, enables us to truly assure all persons that with the possible exceptions that may be in some very obscure points, or among some few unknown, ignorant, and uninfluential persons, any and all persons, of any religious sect whatever, who propose to bring into our State either labor or capital, or both, are warmly welcomed with outstretched arms and gladly encouraged. No one dreams of asking what any person's religious belief is, and in Northwest Missouri especially, our people are familiar with the customs and doctrines of the church first above mentioned, and are not likely to be surprised, as with a novelty.
Incorporated companies for manufacturing, or business purposes, are required by law to have a majority of their directors citizens of Missouri, as is generally the requirement of most if not all States. But it is well known that citizenship does not require an absolute residence, and that one may be a citizen of a State for business purposes, and yet reside for the most part elsewhere.
[Signed]
CLARK IRVINE.
T. H. KEMP.
Brother Joseph: When in Oregon, a few weeks ago, I called upon the above-named gentlemen, who are among the best informed lawyers in these parts, and asked them what were the laws of Missouri in regard to the matters referred to. There is nothing to prevent any number of Saints coming in and colonizing anywhere.
Your brother in the faith,
T. W. SMITH.
-The Saints' Herald, vol. 24, p. 95.
The following items of historical value were published in the Herald for January 15, 1877, on pages 25 and 26:
Bro. Henry Halliday, of Shelby Station, Iowa, writes that the work of the Lord is prospering there. He has baptized fourteen this year, and others are believing.
A late letter from Newport, Southern California, states: "We will baptize four persons, at least, next Sunday, November 16."
Bro. J. S. Patterson, of the Canada Mission, writes that they are doing all they can preaching, though his health is poor and the winter weather is severe there.
Bro. R. M. Elvin, of Nebraska City, sends us a bill of fifteen lectures to be given by Bro. M. H. Forscutt, in that place. Bro. Elvin writes that the first two were given on Sunday, December 31, and the attendance was large and the attention good. After an intermission in the evening the Saints held a sacrament and testimony meeting. in which the power of
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