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16 AROUND THE WORLD.
close and constant intercommunication between this and the heavenlyworlds.
...
" 'Abroad among the nations,' we had plentiful corroboration that
this theory was no idle dream, but based on facts. "Wholesale spiritual
manifestations did there attend us. Our sick were then healed by the
hmidred. During the great cholera year in England, among about thirty
thousand Latter-Day Saints, scarcely one succumbed to the disease. "We
were rich in spiritual manifestations; we felt angelic presence, even if
unseen ; we lived in an atmosphere that made us feel every day very near
to Grod and the heavenly world."
The guest of Senator Fitch and lady, the recipient of
personal kindnesses from others, we have only pleasant
memories of Utah, its people, and scenery.
Landing upon the Pacific
CALIFORNIA.
coast, fifteen years since, an invalid,
I can only now exclaim, What changes ! What a
marvelous growth! The State has a population of some
six hundred thousand ; the city of San Francisco, one hundred
and fifty thousand.
The Orient with its treasures, and the Occident with its
untold energies, meet in this city, that has sprung up as if
by the sorcerer's art. Vigor, vigilance, and public-spiritedness
constitute the red globules that flow in the body politic.
Pioneer Californians are truly hospitable. El-Dorado men
are proverbially generous. Those possessing fortunes are
certainly more liberal
with them than the same number in
the bleaker Atlantic cities. Money should be yoked to education,
and idealism harnessed to practical uses.
here is a conglomerate.
Citizenship
It reminds me of Constantinople.
PRESSING IMPROVEMENTS ARE NEEDED.
Arise, then, O sunset city of gold, and deck thyself!
Telegraph
Hill is an unsightly landmark. The sea-tourist passing
the " Golden Gate " expects something different.
And
then, the dreary heights of Russian Hill might easily be
covered with verdure. Black Point also might be made to