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Show was appointed to go to a neigh boring village called CSasterton, to preach on the following Sabbath. I had never be for spoken to the people in publio, only to bear my testimony in our meetings. At this time I was working for a Methodist Preacher who lived in the place whore I was to preach. During the week he heard of my appointment and came to me ana told me I had better not go; "for," said he, "I have been rt preacher for forty years and if you come there, I will come and stand before you and you cannot preach." This troubled me very much and on the Sabbath morning 'I asked two sisters to go with me to help me sing, which they did; and now the time had about come for us to start and none but those who have had this experience can imagine my feelings. I went to a secret spot and pouied out my soul in prayer to God that he would assist me in that duty as I was going out in His name in my weakness to try to teach his holy laws. We arrived ar-rived at the place and in the street we sang a hymn and quite a number num-ber of people gathered around, and true to his word the preacher was there right in front of me, only a few feet distant, and I offered a veay sincere prayer to my. heavenr ly father, that he would give me his holy spirit that I might be able to speak in his name the words of eternal life. We then sang again and I started to talk to the people, and oh, the lovely in hience that came over me, tongue cannot describe! I spoke to the j people by the gifts and power of the Holy Ghost, and it brought words to my lips such as not only gave me joy, but surprised othe people; for a number of them knew me, and I heard some who did not know me, ask "where that young fellow was from? and where he had been educated?" And when they were informed who I was and where I was working, and that I had no education, they were surprised sur-prised indeed. TPhen I examined my watch to see how. long I had been preaching, I was surprised to find that I had talked ' one hour and twenty minutes. "The preacher never uttered a single word to me about religion, after that. Rhondo. To be continued . A YOUTH'S EXPERIENCE. Continued. It is needless to say that this done our cause no good, but the "... reverse. A young man who had ; ; been to college to learn to preach, v joined with a number of others and T ' raised a mob and thev made us a y-:rwr. great deal of trouble in disturbing ' 'T our meetings, and as many other such cases, our own folly causes us '" lots of our trouble. On the follow- i.r ingj Christmas the Latter-day J' , J Saints held their conference at the 'V . town of Leicester, which was 30 m miles from where we lived, and r--. bro. Bland, C- Morris and I started ' on foot about 3 o'clock in the morn- ; ing of the day on which the conference was to meet at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and we were all strangers, none of us ever having been there before. In going along one o! the streets I saw two men at some distance coming towards' us. Although there were a number of people between be-tween them and us, the Spirit told me that those two men were Latter-day Saints. I said to my companions, "Those two men coming com-ing yonder," at the same time pointing them out, "are our brethren." breth-ren." They both laughed at me, but I told them it was so. We walked on until we met them face to face and one of them held out his hand and I held out mine and we took each other by the hand. He said "I don't know who you are or where you are from, but one thing I do know, I know you are Latter-day Saints." I told them I also knew they were when I first saw them. The brethren with me and the brother with him wanted us to toll them how we knew, as we had never seen each other? We answered "We could only Bay that the spirit told us such was the case. We stayed ' there two days and attended all the meetings and partook of the spirit there made manifest and it was a feast in very deed to me. Soon: after this I was ordained to the office pf a Priest and on Tuesday Tues-day evenings we held out priesthood priest-hood meeting. Atone of these I |