| 57 demand; and its main resource in the matter is the Seventy. How many of you will respond like the ancient of the Lord, "Here am I, send me"? How many can so respond and take the field from the next annual conference? As many as can, and will probably do so, please inform us of their willingness and intention; and if drawn to any particular region, name it and the principal reasons for choosing such locality. If any are willing, and are prevented by obstacles they can not remove, advise us of such facts. Those already in the field, whether upon home or foreign missions, we request to communicate with us upon the condition, prospects, and wants of their several missions, of any change of labor contemplated by them. By complying with this request at as early a day as convenient, we will be the better enabled to provide for the various wants of different localities by having a better understanding and preparation against the conference. And we would here suggest, that it will be a praiseworthy act on the part of local brethren and branches, where a Seventy is resident and in shackles, to "loose him and let him go." Brethren, try it; and may the God of all grace reward you, and inspire those to help move the cause of Zion, and in hope of its complete redemption.
We remain your coworker in the vineyard of the Lord.
J. W. BRIGGS.
-The Saints' Herald, vol. 21, p. 92.
January 24 Elder J. S. Patterson wrote encouragingly from Birmingham, England. Spoke commendingly of the labors of Elders Bear, Avondet, Evans, and Brand, and of the efforts of local brethren who had nobly assisted them. They expected soon to organize several new branches where the membership had been materially increased
On February 1 President Smith wrote concerning concentration of effort, and gave examples of good results. He states:
Our work-the elders' work-demands that where an opening-a breach in the enemy's lines-offers a strategical point of attack, there should be a combined, a concentrated effort made at that point.
This has been most happily demonstrated in the following instance, as related by Brn. John H. Lake and Daniel F. Lambert, in a late letter from Montrose, Iowa, of which we make the following extract:
"We consulted with our Father as to where we should go, and immediately came to the conclusion that Farmington, Van Buren County, Iowa, the place where the Lord wished us to go. Accordingly, on Wednesday following (December 17), we went to Farmington, and began a series of meetings that evening, Bro. Lake making the introduction, by showing that we as a people stood upon the original platform of the
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