Show missionary experience elder I 1 H barlow relates soma of his while in tho sunny south editor davis county I 1 thought a few lines from this part of the laud land would not dot come amiss a mm to the reader of your valuable paper since leaving my home lit in bountiful march 3rd ard 1891 and arriving at Ellis ellisville ville jones co Mis 1 if it I 1 have labored in jones jonea jasper smith simpson covington Covin glon marrion marnon aud and laurence co traveling n up to late date nearly miles on foot to carry the gospel to the doors of the honest in bicart having traveled with elders IV 11 II J A farley bett johnson Jo huson A D and JI may having been appointed to labor with the last named on june 1892 and assigned to labor in lawrence co with head quarters it at silver creek but lit in this vicinity the people do not care much to hear us its we have opened up a field at oak vale ten miles south af pf of here where we have held three meet ings and have baptized two persons and made a good many friends and in ili the near future are in hopes to baptize several more while in this vicinity we a attended a baptis meeting at church where parson morris had given it out that he would expose mormonism and he gathered a large crowd to hear him about they came for miles around to haae him here for tile first time I 1 sat and heard our people vilified without the privilege lege 1 of saying a word ire he accused us of everything every thing lie he could baybis lay his toll tongue gue to and wound roundup up by saying we ve preached that baptism was essential to salvation and said he would deale the pope of rome or Mob mohomed 1 orned or any Bli minister in the land to prove it by the bible after meeting we stepped up and introduced our selves to him and elder I 1 may quoted him luke ath chapter chapt erv ars where jesus said but the and lawyers rejected the council of god against them selves being not baptized of him this downed him and he had no more to say but sought a chance to get away a way from us also alao we went to here palf parson son turnage preach at society hill his subject he be said would be on faith and he said now you first must have knowledge then would come faith he is an old man having labored in the pulpit for years yeam his head bead is as white as snow an yet he does not know the first principle of religion well might the saviour say to his disciples in mathew mathen chapter ars yrs let them alon ethey are blind leaders of the blind and if the blind lead the blind both shall fall in the ditch at oak vale we met a baptis preacher bythe by the name of bullock he be lives over ou on the west side of pearl river he was very much up with our doctrine and gave us a very pressing invitation to come over in in to his bis neighborhood and see him and he thought we could hold some meetings there promising to do what he could for us if we came we accepted his invitation and on july we started to go the distance being twenty three miles crossing pearl river on the great iron bridge steps long it is fixed so as to swing ta one on around so boats can pass up tile the river one mile from the alver we came ta to tile the town of mon monticello tic elle which was once tha capital of but now badly baliv ted a cyclone having sweat swept over the town several years ago demolishing 0 the buildings and sweeping veep ing the timber down for miles it now consists of a court house four or five stores post office and about tw twenty eota buildings seven miles beyond here in a field where no elders had been before we again met parson bullook st at his home and while in ili this settlement we held seven meetings in six days all in private houses tile the people turning out and fol following lowina M us from place to place and on sunday we had a congregation gre gation of about which is large for a scattered district I 1 like ike it is here in this place we made many warm friends and on the we wc baptized tour four pori persona ions and then returned to silver creek after having planted the seeds of af tru thin th hearts of many in that place anaw and wa believe that several more will yet be baptized there the Missi mississippi sippi conference is looming up twenty five having been baptized this year our annual conference will be held on nov ath and ath there ara ten elders in this Coti conference ference and three of them are from bountiful daniel moss J J holbrook and myself the clipper is a welcome guest ever praying for the success of the same I 1 will close not desiring 0 to intrude an any y more moreon of your valuable time kind regards F to all my friends f ric ads at bountiful ul and espee ialy those of the sunday school I 1 remain your brother in the gospel of christ landhuis lAn 11 BARLOW SILVER LAWRENCE comiss july 1892 |