Show RECEIVING THE ELDERS in a letter received by david wc mo kedzie eba of this city trum beuder apdo heber C iverson dated pollard white while county tennessee the writer write r I 1 says saye the work of the lord is Pro progression progress gressin lne favorably in this thia part of our mastera vineyard we find almost universally that the hearts bearta of the people arbe b log ing go softened sott toned ened toward us the old poeju dice alee in ie fast disappearing and people tire are now as never before becom becoming iLg g dobir desirous of bearing us and in the majority of cases that to IB all that is necessary for they invariably change their ona of tue mormons cormons after afler li stelling to tile the of the servants servant or of gou ano are inspired by RIB his spirit I 1 will relate au an experience which we had t give yuu you au an idea oil as to bow we have been getting along in the work since I 1 here on the aay ut J auty u ay iy 1893 we have held sor some no fifteen or sixteen meetings mee tinge in anany it to 18 almost impossible to hoiu meetings enough to satisfy t tha he people tor for as they iney say bay when the preach they tent bear aum sum ething new DOW S solomon says gy 1 there is ie nothing new dew under the iha sui 1 11 1 1 but to 10 them it Is a new for or thov they have never before heard it prea preached chou frequently we hear bear suell such ab the following abic au an old oid gentleman mang over 70 years yeara ulu uld gave vet to after one of our meetings meeting said la he 1 I have heard more taught during the few minutes I 1 have jig ite toned to these mormons than I 1 have heard in all the rent ot of my iny n put together loge niia fur the one e that I 1 was wao about to relate elder bean agui had left an all appointment at hulmer creek school house for the first L daudy i august on ahe morning ofle of the first t batur saturday day in august as a we were pet paring to leave for 5 fluxmon ulmes crek our postmaster informed us that a oard card ajust arrived tor for elder bean which the news that those who had bad charge of the school house 1 11 holmes creek had bad to shut abut their doors against hie Alor mobs we had bad recel received a letter from elders duke and gardner in which they stated that tavy had two appointments tor for sunday loomell abely upon finding oure ourselves elvea without ru an appointment through this information irom from holmes bolmes creek we oun oon claued to join foin duke and gardner in filling their after our meeting morning we dittri distributed bUted all opt oar tracts and re invitations for enter so BO many that tha we hardy hardly know knew which with whom to go this was or way nesting meeting in the our atel after repe repeated afternoon and we were urgently requested ted to hold at least viree three more quita meetings in that vicinity before leaving which we did tile the most moat remarkable and plainly demonstrative interposition of the hand of god wag waa in this when our elderd that fact before our visit which were here was waa about six years ago the people to them hem thai bitterly opposes opposed were so were reaby to mob them and they would not attend the meetings held by knew enough ul the elders as they 1 tile the same fiame individuals Mormon low at that time first and most who were in their desires to muo mulo the belderis eager were now in attendance and found that thai that time they haj had known to prior nothing about mormonism Mormon lem many bof of these were most moat determined that we with them alter we should go home had to these once oace bitter enemies of truth in public aud Cu versed with then for hours in their homes of salvation KB as revealed upon the plan from heaven in thebe the latter dayl we found their leei inga otice so hard melted by the calm genile rays that come coma from tile the suu sun or of righteousness insomuch inao much that they were frequently when kuok our and we moved to tears departure to till fill other appointments they wept like children parting with their only friend from place to place of meeting we were followed for many miles milea one gentleman over seventy us one evening years of age followed to a meeting six ix miles distant from nib hia home to which h he be returned relur nea after 10 0 sit ai night nigh L anil and over the roughest kind of road in all those things we acknowledge the hanu hand or of ou our r gou we are enjoying 9 ourselves s in our labors and are generally speaking provided I 1 lur or in all our bauta autis through the kindness ki of an all wise father |