Show IN SOUTH ALABAMA LAP iNIZ alabama july 1896 the little fire that was kindled while in conference assembled by our beloved president elias S kimball is still burning in the hearts of the twenty six young elders of the south alabama conference who are going through h their field of labor pruning the lorti lords s vineyard beyard for the last time kindling hope in in the hearts of the honest wherever they go truth is mighty and will prevail we are holding more meetings to larger congregations with more satisfactory re results than ever before during duri ng our short visit in lowndes county with elders artimus millet and ezra E meeley in the short space of two weeks meetings were held and thirteen souls added to the fold of christ many others are seriously glancing into the perfect law of liberty with a view to baptism some of whom already have made application others are not quite ready we also have a multitude of little children chil dien to take up into our arms and bless as did our lord and master elders heber ricks and E L tenny are doing a good work in choctaw county having led eleven disciples into the waters ot of baptism during the past two weeks they also report five more applications and the day set for attending to the ordinance ira call and ewring L pratt report one case of repentance and baptism in their field making baptisms in the conference in six teen days and six or eight more to be added in a few days we are fully persuaded that many of the lords bright jewels are here being polished for the numbering many who feel themselves unworthy of the gospel are leaving off their coffee snuff and tot tobacco acco through the example of the elders we feel that god is greatly blessing us with his holy spirit which truly casts out all our fear and enables us to keep our armour bright and thrust in the sickle and reap the golden headed grain following is a list of the elders in south alabama with their post office addresses aaron hardy and george E jarvis bradleyton Brad leyton crensham Cren shau county J E jensen and daniel christensen grove hill dark clark county ira call and I 1 L pratt monroeville Monro eville monroe county artimus millet and izra E neeley braggs lowndes county I 1 S porter and W H redd green ville butler county D H thomas and J H pace brewton escambia county i C H alley and J P jensen linden indent maringo county william E jenkins and charles A varley kingston autauga county heber ricks and J C poulson lusk choctaw county george A reid and james johnson camden wilcox county J T wakefield and S R brown hector bullock county J S geddes and J A lapine crensham Crensh Cren shau ati county since last writing elder E L tenny has been temporarily released to attend to toj t legal business we look for his return elder lewis E R barney has also been released to return home on account of sickness no recruits J S |