| Show FROM VARIOUS MISSIONARY FIELDS b ur LA IlNt AlabamaDecember 4th 1896 lo tic lililor Some lime has passed since our last uritlne during which some changes have been made and a great deal f o fruitful labor has been done Much 1 sickness has prevailed among the Saints and Ciders of boinh Alabama llanklul are we however lo say that all are now able to be around and prosecute prose-cute our labors in tthe Lords vlne > ard We have just passed through the withering heat of summer which say the people has been the hottest fur manv years tgto and will doubtless go down in history as such We now have thirty Lldcrs in our conference ol whom M A Lewis Lawrence I eterson S A Allen Georce T Webter Charles H Spencer and T W Andrus came since September Many openings are being made and souls are being brought to a knouleike of the truth Vc notice a marked dll lerence in the spirit manifested In la calilies where ona year ago we were met by opposition In Its grossest forms we arc now meeting with success which bids fair for an excellent harvest in the near fuluic We ale making quite a specialty of organizing Sunday schools where we have a tuflicient number of Saints or earnest Investigates We fmd tins to i be an excel ent manner ol reaching the people for wbenlhey see that I e lIave theinlereit ol the > outh at heart ther take more kindly to our doctrine Uc hive now eleven Sunday Schools In our conference most of which seem to be In a thrifty condition Another important feature is that of building was i adopted meeting at our houses last conference which I pUn held list Msy We now have one house finished fin-ished another in course of erection and still I another which was captured by the Llders converting and baptizing i all r save two ol thosewho owned it Vie are now converted to he fact that the more meetings ue can hold the more converts we make Many are the new suggestions that are being submitted to us Irom our beloved president Elias S Klmball which when iirncil IUlo acton hh L 1 der I i ol Israel tlo but Itmon trite the divine I nspiritionof those whom It has pleased God ID 11 Ilce at tho head J ol thli mission Our warcry Is succesi willi Ihe help ol God inu that without purjc or srrlp Following it a list ol Idem I with their pot tthcc addresses Iva Call C II Allev Montgomery bounty Alabama Aaron Hardy Charles R I Spencer Bradbyton Crumhaw Countv Alabam i Joseph b 1orlir Tranlilln W An Irus Warwick Gcncvi Count Alabama Ala-bama Jasper C Jensen John II 1ace Bay minctte llald m Countv Alabama I L 11 alt Laurence I ctcrson Grove Hill Clarke County AUI ama Gcorgs L Jarvis W II Redd Grove Hill Clarke County Alj ama Hcber Kicks M A I > cckslcaJ Link Choctaw Countt Alabama George A Iteed 1 Joseph Johnson Camden Wilcox Coumy Alab mi E 1 Net > > Jo eph A furnbow liras I owiults County I Alabama fli 1 l 6abp ion Artlmiu Millet Io n C Ioulson HiaEgs L ndcs County Alahima W r Jenkins h A Alltn Kingston AmaiiRi County Alibama C A Vnrley G T tbster Kinss ton Anlaugi Count Ahbimi J Jensen 1 M A I n is Magnolia Maiengo County Ahbiltnl J S Gedde S K I Brown La line Crensnav ounly Alnbm D 1 II rhonia I T Wdkcfield Mobile Mo-bile Mobile County Ahbann J b GEDOES President kSi sPK D II THOMAS A t el res Lttu 1ft WEBSTER City Iowa Dec Stl 1896 To Ihe Hd 1 tor Having read in your valuable paper manj interesting pieces written h I y the I Iders abroad I thought that probably a few word from me might be appreuat ed by others I lell my mountain home March 7th 1895 and have been laboring most ol my time In the state ol Iowa Having been brought through much opposition I can say honor be to my Maker lor protecting me Many limes He has extended ex-tended His arm ol mercy and assisted me when In need This truly Is a gteat experience lor an rider of Israel It causes us to appreciate a good home and Ihe kinds words ol a dear lather and mothtr who have passed through nnny trials and tribulations for the establishment establish-ment of this great latter day work It 1 also causes me lo sympathize when 1 think ol their suHenngs In Missouri and Illinois where the blood of many Innocent Inno-cent souls has been shed for the cause of truth often wearj hungry and cold and ke wi nowhere to lay their heads When I think ol these trials the words of the Apostle Iiul come to mind yea and all that will live godly in Christ lesuihal sufler pers > cuiion Brother Parley Will ams from Deaver Ulah joined me at Hampton Iowa November loth 1856 shoitly ilier our spiritual least at conlerence From there we came to Webter City Iowa our field ol labor this wmiir The population of this city is about C coo It aflurds thirteen or lourtein difleren creeds and eight nice church buildings which they seem lo think are too beau fully adorned lor a Moimon to preach in Irtjudice was jreat when ue came here but as we eel acquainted to some = rl extent ittakes flight Mr WhilehcatJ who claims to be a divine healer arrived In this city las cveninj and it giving a series ol lecture here Ue hope to be able to do justice to our mission here and hope that many ol the seeds which we are SOl 1111 will fall in good ground and bear Iruit DAVID A ROBISON |
