Show 1ACIFIC SlATKS MISSION I llrnorl rf Opining up 1 A Xw I bell bJ lid n hlerrniou tut Catch y CHILD and Well Uranch Near Lima Montana July ind 1896 IUIKK F 1 n I KICIIKIM Elder M P Cooley and msel realizing real-izing the Interest you take and the good will you hive for the various minions both at homo and abroad I take pleasure of reporting Ihe opening up of a mission in the Pacific Slates ol Montana Washington Oregon nod northern Idaho Now we wish to say that Just prior to the martyrdom ol our loved Prophet who rcallccd that his hour had come he called she Twelve Apostles together in the upper room of the brick store Just a Mile north of the prophet mansion here he endorsed the 1 w civ e and then and there charged them saying upon you rblr fellow tposllts I Itl place line responsibility of preaching the Gospel lo all nitlons and people Rmll I charge vou that you see toll 1 here were a hew others thins favored with rso endowment endow-ment and only two ol them now are living who are witnesses ol those precious pre-cious and most choice blessings bestow rd Ias a pattern ol what followed the Namoo temple and others since built The two mentioned President WII lord Woodrull and bitter llalhshebi Smith All the rest of those favored ones are dead that received the first endowments at the hands and direction ol the prophet who received the order from leaven I It became necessity that the twelve the second quorum In the Church should bo endowed IJ power from on high before the marl rdoni of the prophet consequent the prophet JIlo s1 t rcalulrij I and by command ot God placed upon this quorum power and authority In carry on the great work ntruvtcd lo him by Ihe heavens Hence alter these endowments Joseph said at a mcellni held on thus east cud or tilt Nauv o Temple triune ha walls threat were completed and Ldward Stevenson U one ol the witnesses wit-nesses I now leo time lima I hive Liig de < red lo see I am free now to go where 1 clooscto Kurono or elsewhere for Ihe Gubpel tree U I planted and rooted root-ed never more la bo rooted up There aio those under the sound ol my voice who ara prepared to take limo work read cany It on let me go where I plena Elder Slcv enton man then only youuy a single man but the power of Ins 1 vords so deeply Imprcsicd him I that It vas cnrravennswilli an Iron pen ann an-n the rocK I forever I Only a short I rand ol lima elapsed bcloru limo prophet found a mailJ grave Sidney Iflgdon set up his claims as a guardian with Emma Smith at his back soon Mlowed by I I Strung A Cutler Cut-ler Lymnn Vight Gladden Ilishop the Laws 1 lledrici Ilickertoniles and many other Ittbul IIrl bans was the president presi-dent ol the original twelve apostles rJII the quorum who were endowed mid charged by the prophet of God who rll JItI 111 f JI i look his coat yrr I slake from my shoulders responsibility of the Gen pet I message upon you my lellow twelve apostles < When Sidney Kindon set up J his claims In the I1I glove under the great elm tree Just east of the temple amid lime congregated taintis lltlRlwm Young Nas line Olle upon whom was thc mantle of he IreI < prophet Hint ever graced the w01 hi The voice the I very prophet J rllrl fJ ei r was there the lion roared all hands went up Sidney vanishes went up w ills his theories as il in smoke So hate or will all the ruderwhile Lion I shall trw temples I II be built I the dead he cared Ir for the gathering go ona continuation of time prophets work here he I lefi u until he I shall I again come cr in the rfi ilu and fulfill all that sros laved upon him Dear lltolher 1 Itlchardt fully reollimc I these matt mid the ti pon ibillty mu I care resting upon the First I residency I and the Twelve Apostles who looking I over the missionary field east tlc watch lul etc over thc Northern Pacific Slates where no ml io9ar s voice was heard and many lost shoe s were can ras tai tel y w iihi > ut a he paertl lour ugeil eervn r ol Gal wsehoscll with a muh Jojiu er companion lukr M I I Loley lavored if the lA > rd And mme oudl can mm-e say we fell lo heartily respond Ihe v ice ol thc Lord and the lOih ol June found us In Lima Montana After attending ho caniercnces ot llannock stake 51 111 inlum I s ikt ntI1 ng the tar hK I hand > nJ bl Hingsol yeurtelf and our loved ones wan whom we parted at the glorious conlerence at lllnxham stake Once incur field ol labor we lacked no Irlemls to lake us In and provide amply or our wants and on urn heat coaling we called n meeting and fifteen met lu thc house of Elder U Ilium P 1 Hopkins Oa the follow ing acing tie mild a public meeting 1 In u two story tl lt brick district school 1 house the best I the I town nllords About filly attended I ont loan t ol i Lima Is mostly a railroad town with a population ol ah ui IKI Wu have continued our mi elitist In public and private with tcol I success and now much picjudlce nil i h let prat w e had < o contend with hOo kncn way We vis ted the only mlmler In the place a Mtttodlt spending two hours with him and his wile the Uitfr lias attended 1 at-tended two ofiour public meetings President Kicks ot DannJek slake cr noised branch of the Church at ffan place r last tall lllli the > uu il Ing Ruder > Uanlcl Claik hall lell Luna au we icurgaulied tie branch 1 witii Ilder I > shutout F 1 Ifopkinn prrsiling 1 ier and l with John Dun anti uI li t Child as aijlitlnts Doth ol the latter ate seventieslWo opened baptUnal lout at the ranch of Droll cr Childs three mess out and oflucd the opportunity oppor-tunity hue baplll and for Ihereucwal ol covenants 61 ome who hive been away Irom the Church ovci sixteen years = S The spirit u of the Lord lane Srttendtd our labors and many of the Ion sheep have been made to rejoice as evinced by eight souls claiming ha than r on the 9othdof 9oth of June and on she iih ol lane the dale ol the marlrdom ol our loved prophetwo bJptUed lourteen more on the hollowing Tuesday olhwc baptized lour more twenty six In all and thirteen thir-teen ol those baptlied are lust bpt Isms There Is I one peculiar circumstance which I think worthy ol note Slslir I Godlry and Unnlyol six children live ten miles north of Lima hisser I Godlry Indm f I had been very sick we learned ol her condition and Elder Austin W Child took us In a carriage to their residence and we spent four nours with the limlly A oung gill ol fourteen had been blessed l our Hdtn Nlsen a babe The spirit followed her and the result was that she was prtpired lor baptism bitter Godlry broiunt her children up ten miles lo oil ol our meetings And we blessed them and tub riucntly baptised the mother and lour ol her I dliidrelli and last Wednesday the ill ol July we held A reed Lest al hller Godlry s and administered I ad-ministered the sacrament to the lanilly there were ten ol us and shun unbelieving husband bowed thc knee with tie We hold publc meeting next hunda and soul after ball t ike our oIellAUUle Last evenlnc five more gave in their names for bapitmn Some other Ciders I Irom lUnnock stake will visit thistranch soon llrFie In j the lord heeling grateful far Hit goodness and fully leaning that Ha moved upon I III servants ser-vants tu open up this musses we hum blv tubKiiuc ourselves your brethren and bellow laborers In Christ Jesus LlttVAM bThVKttOV I M F I r OWl my |