| Show 11 IU > TKIIT Iris Canaries ITxhnl In slower It ruHil nl Sncr I liiim CAMrttLtVll1 Taylor County z Kentucky August jut 18gi To the I dioti I send you A short account ol our labors la-bors In d1Yo lo I county tlnce j I 011yalAd and trust It will be ol sufficient Interest for publication On Hie roth and Jill of une the Kentucky Ken-tucky conference which then bad Ian lyeitilit Elders met at or near llulurd In onto county liter 1 Hills S Kimball Kim-ball president ol Ihe Southern States misilon find Orion S Taylor met with us old among many other ahi bc Instructions In-structions given was the direction to travel from that time forth without purse or scrip Tl Is to those Elders who hid in the past been rth Inl more or leu I on a money was a trial but the 8llh section ol the Decline anj Covenants KM read to us and we then saw that we had to obey or else go home because ol disobedience diso-bedience Elder NcphI Msrllneau and 1 were aligned al-igned 10 labor together and He left Conference fully determined to carry out Instructions We arrived In our held of labor on Ihe sell ol July and began lo hold imetlmis and iLialt among tlio peu Ele Tlie bletstnei of the Lcrd have eenultli us liverv want has been supplied I even to hanukcrchlcfi and toilet toi-let sojp We have found many friends Chinches and school houses ai Hell of private reildriue have been thrown open to us We have not had lo wane very much of our lima In hunting up trustees they ou the other hind e have been coming or sending lo us tu come and preach to them In several lrtancci money his been donated for lie purchase of oil our washing has been done by our Wends who seem iilcaied lo minister lo our wants friends have been on every hand and It seems like nearly m family we visit Hani usa us-a come In and explain the prtndplescf IIJ princiLles roG nr of ne Ihe Gospel to them Tor w cki we have only been jblo to lslt afw laml lie dally because the people are so anilou 1 10 hear of the Gosptl that our conversations sometimes last for literal hours Our Instructions oe and always have been not to circuit 1 or antago Hie In any reipcct to and not tu study or try tolue81 plain mysteries the people We hate been trying lo confine ourselves go the lirst four principle ul llhe Goptl and those subjects closely connected therewith there-with While speaking on IhCKe principle princi-ple the Spirit ol the Lord ha < been w Ith us until our frames hate trembled and people In breathless silence I and is > lilt blanched I faces have listened lo us explain the Gospel and with mizhty low I C r bae we called them to rrpent nee Since July 411 to have held 77 meetIngs nearly all weie very well attended at-tended We had a series ol meeting holding from tour f to ten In each district or neighborhood Last Might we held I a Ihe last meeting ol a series of srven teen The house was packed almostlo sulfocallou und crowds Here gathered I around the door and windows Alter meeting dozens of friends came up to shake hands and bid 1 us good 1 be If we Hereto visit every person who has Invited us to come and lilt them I fear HO would not leave I Ilili part for many days HIders need lo hold eight or ten meet lagi In a district if possible that tne peupemay gel acquainted with them Alter meeting Ihe other night Ihe postmaster post-master ol a null I country town In Ihl county came to us and rdI You have some mall to send oil come up lo Ihe office In the morning ddd Hill fix It up for you01 Next day He did as directed anti he bought us paper and gave us Stamps and l envelopes and how thankful thank-ful we were for these thln < sas really iscrain ned of them IfeZomayous sumo money to help pay lor a pair of shors Tonight we are lo preach In another an-other neighborhood Set r1 famllle front that place have sent for us to come and see them though we have not jet been there We are rccelting many Invitation lo call nn people that olegen orally have appointments out a day or two ahead JUNIU J TANNKK |
