Excerpt from Writings From the Western Standard, Published in San Francisco, CaliforniaIn incidentally alluding, in conversation with some of the brethren, to my intention to compile these writings in book form, whenever I should have a favorable opportunity, several of them expressed a desire to possess the work, if ever it should be published, and desired me to issue a suffi cient number to supply them with a few copies, these requests caused me to modify my original plan, and I have published a few more copies than I at first thought of doing. Elders Joseph Bull and William H. Shearman kindly proffered their services - both being much interested, through their past labors in connection with the standard, in the preservation of its editorial articles - to aid me in the publication of the book. The opportunities afforded by the millennial star printing office of publishing this work, with their proffered aid, have induced me to com plete my design. These articles were written so hastily there being, in the beginning, but Brothers Bull, Wilkie and myself to do the selecting of extracts, editing, type-setting, proof-reading, folding and mailing - that the first portion of nearly all of them was in type before the latter portion was written.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.