| 20 with and making a part of. Duty was but a hazy memory, care a dull and distant thought; while the pleasures of rest were forceful and refreshing.
Pleasures, like sorrows, must have an end; and, striking the current of active life at an acute angle, in order to avoid too great a commotion, we emerged from the quiet ways and deserted streets in company with Bro. Henry T. Pitt, the elder of the Rock Creek Branch, and met our appointment in Bro. Lambert's neighborhood. . . .
Leaving Rock Creek in charge of Bro. Daniel Lambert, by team we arrived at Bro. Thomas McGahan's in time for dinner. After a rest of an hour or two, in company with Bro. Daniel, we walked over to Bro. Salisbury's, near to the schoolhouse, where our evening service was to be held. At the hour appointed we met a "company of earnest souls," waiting for the word. We had a season of good liberty. On Sunday we spoke in the forenoon, and Bro. Lambert in the evening, in the Cottage Schoolhouse, to well-filled houses; and were permitted to feel that there was an excellent spirit resting with the people.
Brn. Joseph R. and Daniel P. Lambert have been laboring here with the result of the obedience of some twelve or thirteen earnest seekers after truth, who are striving energetically to improve in the "apostles' doctrine," holding steadfastly to the "faith once delivered to the saints." Brn. Salisbury, Connor, and McGahan are striving to establish and carry on a Sunday-school, and we think they will succeed, for they are determined men, and will have aid from the sisters. . . .
In company with Brn. Solomon and Don C. Salisbury on Monday, after the meetings were over, and parting with Bro. Daniel Lambert, who went home, we came eastward to the home of Bro. Don C. Salisbury. We here had the comfort of a visit with Mrs. Catharine Salisbury, second in age of the three sisters of Joseph and Hyrum, and who with her three sons, Solomon, Don C., and Frederick, are now members with us in the church, and in the fellowship of the Spirit.
At Colchester, at which point we made our next stop, we as at our last visit, obtained the use of the Christian church; in which we preached the word on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday nights, to quite large and attentive congregations. . . .
We have experienced nothing but kindness on this trip, and we have received cheer, comfort, and courage therefrom; and this has had a tendency to rest and refresh us.
Rest is an outgrowth of labor, and none can truly rest except he is weary. We have been weary, and we have rested. Not in idle inanition, a dreamless, unconscious existence; which, to us, is not a condition of resting; but in quietude, peaceful thought, restful thankfulness and expansive relaxation from labor; and such a rest we have enjoyed. Nauvoo needs rejuvenating. The river is wide, and runs so grandly by broad plains, engirt by hills, that the city lies in the summer sun like a vision, to vanish with the night-but each recurring morn but
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