Letter from John Mills Whitaker, 24 September 1897
Salt Lake City, Utah, .
PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
DEAR BROTHER:
I have just received your letter of notification of even
date herewith, stating that my name had been suggested and accepted as a
missionary to the Eastern States, and asking that I be prepared to leave
this City December 4th, 1897, and further desiring to know my feelings re-
garding this call, ect.,
In answering I will say that I am arranging my labors in the office
of the First Council of Seventies and the Deseret Sunday School Union
Board, where I have been engaged for nearly nine years as General Secretary
and will endeavor to be ready to leave this city on the date named in your
notification.
I will say, President Woodruff, it has been my constant desire and
prayer to labor where the servants of the Lord needed my humble services,
and in this call, I acknowledge the hand of God, and with His aid and assis-
tance, will go and in my humble way do the best I can to win souls unto
Christ, which is, I believe, the greatest work a man can be engaged in upon
this earth.
Ever praying for the welfare of Zion and her people,
I Am, Very Truly Your Brother,
John M. Whitaker
We can truthfully say that Elder J. M. Whitaker
is an earnest worker in our Ward and
a prompt Tyth payer we cheerfully
recommend him as being worthy of
this honor
A. G. Driggs Bishop
