A Word of Consolation

Owing to the continued illness of some of our hands in the office, this number of the paper has been unavoidably delayed beyond the usual time of publication. In future we hope this will not be the case, but be overcome by punctuality which is always considered, with prompt pay, the life of business.

The October conference minutes, which are very interesting, will occupy a great portion of the next number, and if the Spirit of the Lord animates the souls of his brethren abroad with a pure desire for the spread and benefit of the kingdom of our Savior, as it does ours, there will certainly be a greater degree of unity, joy, peace and satisfaction among the Latter Day Saints than there has been. Polished steel keeps brightest by constant use; so brethren be active, prayrful [prayerful] and charitable, and your light will so shine that others can see as well as you.

DIED-In Brownstown, Michigan, on the 20th of August, last, Elder Joshua R. G. Phelps, aged 31 years.

He was on a mission to Canada, and died in the possession of the latter day faith and knowledge, which the world neither gives nor takes away. His sudden death in the midst of life and usefulness, brings to mind a verse of his, written upon an infant, some years since:-

"What is it comes and stops the breath,

And takes away the spirit?

It is the power of God, by death,

And all the world do fear it."

But the house where the good man meets his fate

Is honor'd more than the haunts of wicked men,

Therefore, 'Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord!'

For when the Lord comes they shall come with him.

Sept. 20th, l844.