wharf opposite the old PostOffice Building, consisting of about two hundred and forty Saints from England, under the charge of Elder Lorenzo Snow, who left Liver pool last January, after a mission of nearly three years. I, with a large company of the brethren and sisters, was present to greet the arrival of our friends, and gave notice to the new-comers to meet at the Temple to-morrow morning at ten o'clock to hear instructions. After unloading the Saints, the Amaranth proceeded up the river, being the first boat up this season." In the afternoon of the same day the Maid of Iowa arrived in Nauvoo with Parley P. Pratt's company of British Saints. TWENTIETH COMPANY.-Yorkshire, 83 souls. On Wednesday, March 8th, 1843, the ship Yorkshire, Captain Bache, sailed from Liverpool with eighty three Saints on board, under the supervision of Elders Thomas Bullock and Richard Rushton. The following is from the history of Joseph Smith, under date of May 2nd, 1843: "About one o'clock, p. m., the mate of the ship Yorkshire opened the Testament at the twenty-seventh chapter of the Acts, and asked the passengers how they would like to be shipwrecked like Paul! Elder Thomas Bullock replied instantly: 'It is very likely we shall be shipwrecked; but the hull of this old vessel has got to carry us safe into New Orleans.' The mate was then called away to hoist the foretop royal sail.” "Between one and two o'clock next morning, when off Cape St. Antonio, Cuba, there was much vivid lightning, when a white squall caught the foretop royal sail, which careened the vessel, when the foremast, mainmast and mizenmast snapped asunder with an awful crash; the whole of the masts above, with the jib and spanker, and sixteen sails and studding poles, were carried overboard with a tremendous splash and surge, when the vessel righted. At daybreak all on deck was in confusion and a com plete wreck. During the day a sail was hoisted from the stump of the main mast to the bow of the vessel, thus leaving nothing but the hull of the vessel to carry the Saints into New Orleans." From New Orleans the journey was continued up the Mississippi River, and "on Wednesday, May 31st, 1843, the steamer Amaranth," writes the Prophet Joseph, "landed in Nauvoo the Saints, who had left Liverpool in the Yorkshire, under the care of Elders Thomas Bullock and Richard Rushton, all well; and also some Saints who had left there more recently in another vessel." TWENTY-FIRST COMPANY — Claiborne, 106 souls. March 21st, 1843, the ship Claiborne, Captain Burgess, sailed from Liverpool with one hundred and six Saints, bound for Nauvoo, via New Orleans. No account of this voyage is at hand. TWENTY SECOND COMPANY.-Metoka, 280 souls. "The splendid ship Metoka, Captain M'Laren, sailed from Liverpool, September 5th, 1843, under very favorable circumstances. The Saints on board gave expression to their feelings in various hymns, which they sang as the vessel was towed into the river. The ship, which is admirably adapted for passengers, together with the respectable appearance of the emigrants, appeared very much to surprise the bystanders, who were compelled to acknowledge that they had not often witnessed the departure of such a people." The Metoka made the trip to New Orleans in seven weeks. The captain M'Laren, together with the other officers of the ship, were kind and attentive to the emigrants during the passage. Three deaths occured on board, namely one sister and two children. From New Orleans the usual route was taken up the Mississippi River, and a majority of the emigrants landed in Nauvoo November 11th, 1843. TWENTY THIRD COMPANY.-Champion, 91 souls. October 21st, 1843, the ship Champion sailed from Liverpool with ninty-one Saints on board, bound for Nauvoo, via New Orleans. The above which is taken from Linforth's "Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley," is all the information that I have been able to glean about this company. TWENTY FOURTH COMPANY.-Fanny, 210 souls. The ship Fanny, Captain CHURCH EMIGRATION. Peterson, sailed from Liverpool, Tuesday, January 23rd, 1844, with two hundred and ten Saints on board, under the direction of Elder William Kay, who in a letter to Reuben Hedlock, dated New Orleans, March 9th, 1844, gives the following account of the voyage: "We came into New Orleans on the seventh of March, 1844, at seven o'clock in the morning. We should have been in sooner, but for having to stop at the bar for a considerable time to wait for a steamer, and we had also a calm in the bay; but I believe that no people that ever crossed the Atlantic had a more prosperous journey than the Lord has favored us with. The captain and crew declared they never experienced such a passage before; but such a captain and crew for kindness I believe could scarcely be met with; his liberality exceeds all that ever came under our notice. The cabin and its provisions have been at the service of all who stood in need of them, and the captain has with his own hand ministered unto the necessities of all that required it. * * * * * * * 449 Iowa arrived at the Nauvoo House wharf, filled with passengers from Eng. land, led by William Kay. Two hundred and ten souls started from Liverpool and nearly all arrived in good health and spirits. One smaller company had previously arrived." TWENTY-FIFTH COMPANY.-Isaac Allerton, 60 souls. February 6th, 1844, the ship, Isaac Allerton, Captain Torney, sailed from Liverpool with sixty Saints on board, bound for Nauvoo, via New Orleans. The company arrived in Nauvoo in the beginning of April, 1844, a few days prior to the company sailing in the ship Fanny. from Liverpool with one hundred and fifty Saints on board, under the direction of Hiram Clark, bound for Nauvoo, via New Orleans. TWENTY-SIXTH COMPANY.-Swanton, 81 souls. February 11th, 1844, the ship Swanton, Captain Davenport, sailed from Liverpool with eighty-one Saints, bound for Nauvoo, via New Orleans. The history of Joseph Smith says that a company of eighty Saints arrived in Nauvoo, Friday, April 18th, 1844, which undoubtedly was the company that sailed in the Swanton. TWENTY-SEVENTH COMPANY. Glasgow, 150 Souls. March 5th, 1844, the We have had two deaths on board; the ship Glasgow, Captain Lambert, sailed first was the wife of Elder James Jones, of Alfrick; she died on the nineteenth of January, and was buried in the sea on the morning of the twentieth, off the island of Porto Rico. * The other death was the youngest child of Sister Greenhalgh; it died on Monday last. * * * We have had regular meetings or prayer morning and evening, and three times each Lord's day, administering the Sacrament in the afternoon. The Saints generally have shown a willingness to give heed to counsel from my self and Brothers Hall and Cuerden. * * * We have this morning the steamer alongside of us, and intended gathering our baggage on board to-day. I assure you we rejoiced exceedingly at the sight of the steamer, which was the Maid of Iowa, and at the thought of going up in a vessel belonging to the Church, and commanded by an Elder of the Church, Brother Dan Jones." Besides the foregoing, the following from the history of Joseph Smith is all the information I have been able to glean about this company: "Saturday, April 27th, 1844, Hiram Clark arrived in Nauvoo, accompanied by one hundred and fifty immigrating Saints." TWENTY-EIGHTH COMPANY.-Norfolk, 143 souls. "The fine ship Norfolk, Captain Elliott, sailed from Liverpool, September 19th, 1844, under very favorable circumstances, at a quarter past three o'clock p. m., having on board about one hundred and forty-three souls put on by us. We rejoice to see so practical an illustration of the faith of the Saints being unshaken by the late tragical events in the west, and that the Saints are not living according to the precepts of men, but the word of God." Under date of Saturday, April 13th, 1844, the history of Joseph Smith says: The above is an editorial published in "About five o'clock p. m., the Maid of the Millennial Star, Vol. IV., page 80. 450 THEN, O FAITH, YOU PIERCED THE DARKNESS. This was the first ship load of Saints sent out from England after the martyr. dom of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Proceeding up the river, a number of the emigrants found it necessary, for the lack of means, to settle down temporarily at St. Louis, Missouri, while all who were able continued to Nauvoo. TWENTY-NINTH COMPANY.-Palmyra, about 200 souls. January 17th, 1845, the ship Palmyra, Captain Barstow, sailed from Liverpool with a company of Saints under the direction of Amos Fielding, bound for Nauvoo, via New Orleans. According to calculations based on a re· port made by Reuben Hedlock, stating that he shipped nine hundred and ninety adult passengers between January, 1844, and January, 1846, about two hundred passengers must have sailed on the Palmyra. No other information is at hand concerning this company. THIRTIETH COMPANY.-86 souls. In 1845, the Millennial Star of January, (Vol. V., No. 8), the editor says: "The fine ship Palmyra, Captain Barstow, is expected to sail with a numerous party of emigrants on the 16th instant. We would also give further notice that we shall have a ship sail between the first and tenth of February." That such a ship did sail about that time is proven by a letter written by one of the passengers, (James Kay), and dated St. Louis, Missouri, May 20th, 1845. The writer says: "We landed in New Orleans on the sixteenth of April. On the eighteenth we started up the river on board the Julia Chateau, and after a rather miserable passage of nine days, we saw the city of St. Louis. On the twenty-eighth Brother Mackintosh, and as many of the company who would and could go forward, took passage on the Galena for Nauvoo. A number of the Saints remained in St. Louis to seek employment in order to earn means wherewith to continue the journey to Nauvoo. Brother Kay also mentions that a number of the passengers who had crossed the Atlantic on the Norfolk and Palmyra had taken employ. ment at St. Louis. COMPANY. THIRTY FIRST Oregon, about 125 souls. Some time in September, 1845, the ship Oregon, Captain Borland, sailed from Liverpool with about one hundred and twenty-five Latter-day Saint passengers, bound for Nauvoo, via New Orleans. We have been unable to glean any information about the voyage. THIRTY-SECOND COMPANY. — Liver· pool, 45 Saints. January 16th, 1846, the ship Liverpool, Captain Davenport, sailed from Liverpool for New Orleans with seventy-seven souls on board, including forty-five Saints, among whom were Hiram Clark and wife, Sister Phebe Woodruff and two children, Elijah F. Sheets and wife, and several families who went to join their friends in their journey across the Rocky Mountains. This was the last company of British Saints that sailed for America before the emigration was temporarily suspended, because of the exodus of the Saints from Nauvoo. Andrew Jenson. THEN, O FAITH, YOU PIERCED THE DARKNESS. Like a listless mountain rover That has made the millions fond When the hills of doubt rose higher, Capped with clouds of deep despair, Failed to find the sunlight there: Edward H. Anderson EVOLUTION AND CREATION. II. Several thousand years have now closed their rounds of time upon this order of things without any change in the natural laws regulating the powers of reproduction, which in their very order, admit of no evolutionary changes into other forms. And we are bound to infer, in fact we are justified in coming to a positive conclusion, that what nature has omitted to provide for in the procreation and perpetuation of the several grades and classes of animal existence into gradually changed structural forms, that certainly by the use or disuse of the functions, as the property of organic substances, by no known causes or good reasons, could such results be produced. Again, if we could by any process of logical reasoning demonstrate as true this theory of evolution in its application to man, in that he has descended from the lowest organic life, we must on the same line of reasoning anticipate the future as having other formal changes through which the brute creation and man will have to pass. What shall we then anticipate in this direction? Can evolution thus interpreted produce any awakening emotions in the human heart, any pleasurable reflections and impression regarding the future state? Let us rather take the reverse view which inspires the soul with veneration, love and praise towards the divine being who brought man to inherit a body the very impersonification of God his Creator. effort in any attempt to mix the separate and distinctive classes. While we find in the forest and prairie wilds, in cañons and mountains, where the presence of mortal agency is seldom felt, the oak, the fir, the cedar, the walnut, the pine, and a thousand other varieties growing side by side for hundreds of years, and each through nature's laws retains its own peculiar shape, color and form in foliage, and all the other properties distinctive of its class, or separate kind. But to return to the subject of man. We have in our remarks already stated that he was first formed spiritually; that this spiritual life embodied possessed the intellectual power which manifests itself through the brain; and as we have also stated that some philosophers and scientists affirm that thought or intellect-is the property of the brain, we wish to give some of our views on these conclusions. It is generally admitted that the brain is the seat or center through which the spirit manifests itself intelligently and directs and controls all the organs and functions of the body. Beecher says: "The more brain the more intelligence." Many other writers assert that the greater the intellect the larger the brain. Now we cannot bring our minds to adopt this view. We do not believe altogether in quantities. We would rather favor quality, if indeed such a term is admissable. We remember that some thirty years ago there existed quite a mania for the exhibition of high foreheads, among both sexes, as an evidence of the presence of great intellect, insomuch that a practice prevailed in combing back the hair and in some instances shaving it back to expose as much of the front of the head as possible. Now if the more brain the more intellect doctrine be true then we would have good reason to believe that In following this line of reasoning we will naturally refer to the vegetable king dom, the laws of which provide for innumerable distinct and separate classes. Many of these classes are grouped in families, varying in but a slight degree, proportionate, relatively speaking, with the variations existing in family groups among animals. We admit that some classes of vegetables mix by inoculation, mind-thought-intelligence is a property but which detracts from both the form and quality. Grafting and budding are resorted to in botanical science in graded kinds and classifications in their own particular family groups, but no good results, indeed, no success attends the of the brain and that an increase of intellectual power is the natural result of an increased growth of the brain, or in other words by way of illustration, that the man who starts out at the age of twenty-five years in pursuit of knowledge in any portion of the great field of intellectual excellence, if he pursues the study of any particular science, art, or profession, or succeeds to eminent qualifications in statesmanship, that year by year as he progresses, develops, unfolds increased knowledge, and adds to and gathers influence and power, the brain must grow and the head must become enlarged; it must further devolop in size to admit of this increased growth or enlargement of the brain, which growth would be apparent in the appearance of the physical form, and one evidence of this growth would be in the ever varying demand in the enlarged size of the hat or head-gear that such a person would wear. Hence on this principle we would look to leading prominent minds to have a proportion of head in striking contrast to those of ordinary minds; whereas men of every grade of intellect, with all the ever-varying changed conditions brought to pass by the application of their mental powers, have not found, after the body has matured, which is generally at the age of twenty-one years, that there has been any enlargement of the head unless by some organic disease. On the other hand we do not think that the size of the head or brain has so much to do with the extent and powers of intellect as some are, at first thought, disposed to concede. Our own observation in business experience has been that some persons of dull, sluggish intellect have worn the largest size hats-71⁄2 to 7% while many smart, bright, intelligent individuals have been content with 634 and 6%. This order has been reversed in others. We are aware the argument may be urged that this difference was due to the enlarged animal organs of the brain. We would say, if these latter organs predominated in size, no evidence of the fact exhibited itself in the acts or conduct of these individuals. We think there is but little, if any difference, in the component parts of the brains of different individuals. It depends upon the operation of certain physical laws peculiar to the human body as to how much strength and effect the spiritual activity is permitted to impart or transmit, and which comes through what is termed the faculties of the brain. Where imbecility, mental depression, or insanity is manifest, such a condition is purely attributable to physical decay or weakness. Remove decay; restore strength; and the spirit finds the machinery through which it operates in a condition to manifest its intellectual forces. The intensity of the rays of light and heat of the sun, upon which the vegetable kingdom depends largely for its productive forces, is often dimmed and made obscure by atmospheric causes. When clouds, storms, or night, shut out the light, the potency and brilliancy of the sun's power are diminished; remove the obstruction, as in the case of the intellectual spirit operating through the brain, and both shine forth in all their primeval strength and glory. We will now refer to the creative power which existed and still now exists in advance of, and which is superior to, all physical laws, and in which Darwin, Spencer and others do not believe; and as they argue in justification of this position it is because "no one living has seen, heard or witnessed any exhibition of this creative power," that all the miracles performed, all the great events that have transpired upon this earth, by and under the direction of God, "we are dependent upon the writings and testimony of dead men for-men who passed away thousands of years ago." And yet the same authors will turn round and ask us to believe in their theory of evolution with regard to the origin of man, a theory which advocates that animals of a distinct specie are evolved out of one entirely different in organization, and yet no man living can be found who ever witnessed or beheld anything of this kind taking place. Where is the consistency in such logic? On the other hand, notwithstanding, the antiquity of scriptural records and theory, keys are given whereby tests may be applied to prove the truth or falsity of the doctrine therein advanced. Now the question naturally arises, how did physical laws originate? Did they create themselves? Let us examine the question as rational beings and investigate with a view of reaching tarı gi. t |