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Show ; '' Mobbed In Kot lb. Carolina. I ' I We hate enjoyed our labjrs Tery ft 1 1 i i much thus far. We have met with jf lite, I somesuciess aud fouud some who are I HE, ' willing to IliTestlgata tba principles of f li ' the Oespel. We were laboring In I J'l Asbe county, nesr the lines of Ten- i'tti nessce and Virginia, known as the i Pond mountain. We had been ttj<b through once before, held ineetlugs (I and were Inrlted to come again. Ho Qayf, we were visiting and distributing HEfM! tracU t all who wished them. We Bhh called on a Mr. Htephen Ferryt InteuJ- Effifji log to stay for the nlghl. We had not HFHId' besu there very long, however, when BW the news reached us that a mob was !V' rnmtng upon us. It was Just dark. Two men tame to the house, called . Mr. Terry, and wanted him to turn us I,' A out, ile refused end said we should H ill, v stay there till morning, Ihe crowd Htc ? ir whooped and halloed most ot the nlghU H I v At daylight next morning, Feb. slh, H l'i about thirty men, some arm. It! ed with guns and some with B, I'', , V clubs, cims and sail they M i were gotug lu Uke us. We tried to M i i reason with them and asked what we E ' J had doae. They would not listen to M t ' us, but consented to let us eat break Mh 1 ,,1 fast. Then, they said they were going Mt i to march us out, they were not going B! ti ' to heve any "MormonUm" In that Ml ' , country. When we found nothing Mb j, i' ' would do but for us toleave, we tolj l I 1 M: , them that If they felt like taking the MJi l H respoaslklllty upon themselTra we !, , would qu(t. They ssl I they would: (I lIL tl; but we had to ge with them. They N'!1 uarchsd us through a laurel thicket, Mr i I threatening what tbey wuuld dote us, M li used most abusive language, aocusbd Mln' us of all manner of crime, and said M ji we were "on the road to hell, and they itf ' would help us along a littles faitor," M They marched us two miles and then f ' told us they would let Us go, and that MMJ ' I If we were ever csugbt lu that part MMMj tt again we would have tu be "carried M0 iif away." BsMf, 'v Borne wanted to make an end of us LMK ' there and then; lut we arkuowlolgu flj1- the hsnd of the Lord lu being spired ffiMy i and delivered Iremtliera, Wearunot BH dlscoursKed. Itoulygtvtsusstronger ilesuuiony to Ibe truth or the (J xiiel, and leel to press on for the spread uf truth till evil Is overcome by good. We are both well and have a dislre t tolsllblully till the loltalou assigned lous. Our prsyers are that the inirilea ,' , ufOidmsy beelteuded to all enganed I j III the ministry, that they may not , ' meet with mob violence. fill The leader of tho mob above referred t I i to, we learn, la a premlueut class gMJj i ( j . leader. We trust that he will repent mflP (M L i aul never be guilty of anything ol the BK ' i f klud again. That la all the harm we BR i 4 wUb him. I, T1IOM18 A. CllUWTIILII. HAMUkL N. AM1IH. IKJUl Boliiuuk, Ashe couuty, N. C, Feb. I ft (Ui, W2. |
