Show THE LATE JOHN L BLYTHE THE demise of brother john L blythe brings to mind some gome recollections connected with his career he tall large framed and swarthy thYi somewhat slow in his movements measured in his speech and being of an intensely religious nature solemn yet pleasant in macnei manner he such a man as would carry an influence with a large proportion of the people of bis native country scotland he was in that land on a mission in 1878 9 and for some time labored in a mining district some distance from glasgow where ho he did a good work being the means of bringing quite a large number of people into the C church in one village the name of which has baa escaped ush us he was especially successful the members ot the church there at one time during his 1419 ministry numbering more than those not connected with it seve several ra I 1 years yeara later he be filled another minion mamion to his native country and from thence he went to australia where he also per formed missionary labor the last time brother blythe was waa in scotland he made a special business of searching for genealogical information connected with his family at the register office in the city of edinburgh where the records of all the parishes to a certain date have been collected he employed an expert to assist him who succeeded in fishing out of the records a great amount of information after the work was done brother blythe told the man he had employed the object he had bad in view in obtaining the information be performance of vie arious gospel work for the d dead d 1 the expert was evidently a bigoted ted prejudiced religionist ligi onist he admitted that he had taken both interest and pleasure in searching the records and getting the data for brother Blythe but said that if he had known to begin with the use he intended to make of it he would not have performed the labor for any consideration eide ration that could be named I 1 he declined a copy of the voice of warning prof preferred erred him and said that if he were to take it he would burn it brother blythe had secured a list of genealogical data probably as large an aa that obtained by any person in the church and had for a long time of late been engaged in performing tern temple I 1 work at ac logan for his progenitors wis his information was so extensive that he employed at different times a number of people to assist him in this labor this was his latest W cotton 0 M on work in life and he has got gone e to the spirit world to await the resurrection of the lust and probably to receive expressions of gratitude from many who had bad preceded him and in whose behalf he has diligently labored to for them the full berie benefits fits of thee gospel |