Show ATTRACTED BY THE TRUTH wn WE are in receipt of a letter from mrs airs J yard of bradford county pennsylvania with the price of subscription for the NEWS which she says she takes great interest in reading being especially delighted with the discourses which appear in its columns she was in this city six months ago having arrived hereon here on the of last october and attended the general semiannual semi annual conference in the tabernacle although then a member of them E church h she never according accord ing ho to her statement attended meetings of such great interest in her life she was inexpressibly gratified with the tile preaching I 1 in and regrets her inability to be at t the egl e late annual conference not only was she attracted by the tile spirit and teaching deachin at the meetings but also by the kindness and general goodness of the people it appears that the relatives of the family sent for them to return to the east and mr yard made up his mind to act on their invitation to the great disappointment of his wife who sa says her heart continues to yearn after t the 1 latter day saints she came out here with the impression that they were a bad people but found out by actual observation that they are precisely the reverse it seems that the favorable impression I 1 made upon her mind is so great reat that she has not attended the church of which she is a member since her return to pennsylvania she now regrets that she failed to lo get baptized into the church when she had an 0 opportunity port unity as she is confident that s she g e would feel more contented if she had taken that step mrs urs yard is like many other stray sheep when they hear the voice of the good shepherd they know it and another they will not bojt follow the impressions pres made n the ladys mind are evidently the whisperings of the good spirit which attracts and draws the sheep of the savior to ills his fold many receive those impressions and allow the good seed aced to be choked and killed by the cares of the world which we vve hope will not be the case in this instance and that the desire of the good lady to identify herself with tile the work of the lord will yet be gratified ratified |