Salt Lake City, July 14, 1897.
Our Beloved Mother and Leader:— When "Miscellaneous writings" first came out, I thought of writing to you and expressing my gratitude for the immediate help it was to me. But everything I thought to write seemed like a mere jingle of words compared to the glories of immortality which that book revealed.
Its clearness and simplicity seemed to bring God and Heaven very near. While reading it, I felt a nearness to you that I had never before felt, and it seemed thereafter that I could call you Teacher, as well as Mother and Leader.
