Show missionary A COOL RECEPTION ROCK HILL york co south carolina nia aia may 10 4 4 editor deseret nees mews it was wa one year the loth of april since I 1 left my mountain home ho ill iii e I 1 11 in bountiful davis county utah on arriving ar nivin rivin ut at chattanooga Chatt anoop anoon tenn elder 4 C E robison Bob lson ison t f iam rom idaho feho and I 1 were assigned aisig ned to south carolina Oa rolina where I 1 lah iab labored red with president J AI easton two months month slin ln Sparten burt lurt county trying atoeff to effect act a budwith but with no success I 1 was then ehen hen appointed to I 1 b r ith elder elde angus nie nic mckay lay kny 0 to open antl anel a new nield field we traveled through six counties in north orth carolina distributing many tracts but in so BO doln doin doing the people generally generally preferred ThA the heels ceis towards the door dobr 1 on finding out who we were they would say they had vad heard beard enough 11 about the mormon through the press pres on one occasion a gentleman in fu good standing standi ilg fig in the baptist church on enquiring who we enquiring were asked if the peep people e of utah were all heath beath heathens athens he and said sald on the previous sabbath they got up d a collection to send a missionary to utah to jabor among the heathens athens he AMON amold I 1 hlll clil clie we arrived in swain county north Caro carolina carolinas linaL august among the cherokee Iiama who are situated on the river riser where an elder eider of the church of jesus christ had never uever been the cherokees number I 1 about 2000 own a large body of land and live as the whites we ve appointed two meetings but they would not come i out to them as the baptists ista and aud Quakers had made it their business to tell them we were bad stayed in that vicinity about one month but as only a few of the laman ites could talk the english language we could accomplish but little good we had severaL interviews with the chief who seemed to be much interested lie he had a limited education we left with him a book of ef mormon and voice voie beof of warning ile he said he calculated to visit salt lake city during our stay we attended a protracted distracted meeting composed principally of baptists hey they wey took for a text beware of false prophets 11 and said pointing to us they are arc re among us now and will devour the very elect for they have llave the S scriptures cr tures on the erly eily erl eri of their ton tongues ues aes 11 ve we prayed in our hearts that they e y might be confounded suddenly two men in the congregation began fighting and the meeting was broken up THE MEMORY OF ELDER ROBISON we returned to headquarters where we learned that elder C CEIlo E robison bison was very sick elder J 31 easton J J humpherys and myself went bent and ana assisted his companion elder H miller to albring him to headquarters as he lad had had been laboring among the cataw ba indians he was beloved by all that knew him and sowed bowed seed in his lasada last days s that since his demise has taken root lle pie he departed this life at ac 10 minutes to 2 p in sept 1883 catawba CATAWBA blans INDIANS AND WRITE WHITE leople PEOPLE BAPTIZED I 1 was then appointed to labor with H miller the catawba are situated on the catawba river elver york co S C many have forgotten their ter h mother t he r tongue ue they all ali talk t the h er englich bugl i s ill lii language ane ang ae a e many lany A of them h have hase I 1 light lmh t oy eyes e aird d ha hair ir they merrl married an and d inter intermarried married ari d with whites which accounts for the light eyes ana and hair h air aln they number about ninety abd aud a are re healthy industrious and law abid ing ug citizens they own ogg gog acres of land and we baptized on the lith of nov 1883 five of lot the Cataw bas these being the first to receive the gospel Ell eli elleah erH miller was now released to return home onne on account douht ol of sickness then elder JJ humpherys and I 1 I 1 were weve appointed to labor together and anone occasion we fort mills after our mail and were wera followed through the town by a crowd of af men who were under the influence inal u nce of bad whiskey Wh ikey they made many threats but kept their hands of us since then we have baptize 17 and four whites and or organized anizel a sunday school which is in a prospero prosperous qs condition we have blessed eight children and think trie good work will wilt continue among the Cataw bas until they are all born again those who have been baptized are the leading men and they the have spirit of gathering Gather lux ing on the itt of april elder elde r R M I 1 humphrey arrived and is now my companion we are holding meeting severy ing by lythe the fireside every night and ana have the promise of a coat ebat of ta tar and rand feathers but as com dodger and genuine buttermilk are plentiful and have made our backs broad we hope by the help of the lord to endure if put to the test t e t wherever the NEWS is read it helps i to put down brej ud ice lee soseph JOSEPH WILLEY K R 31 HUMPHREY |