| Show IN NuniIiAAIIlU rurfe u 1h Atindy Felitiel u 111 I I all RirLKY Mlsi June 1897 To the Editor Time rol ng so pleisanlly and swiftly along with ui in the North Alabami conference and we being so quiet through your coumri perhaps our nenus and coljborers of the Im preislon that B I are unable to stir this vaim weather so as to see or Co any Ih 1 I ng worthy of Due Although very warm weather hat come yet we me not I without Intercit in our labor that is I of 0 Ireal momot Since inrfan my dear mountain home I I bVlyl dvi eUIr In Wilhril fyeUIr September 2tli I 1895 I I have learned much ol I the I may cuitoms and l vIews ol 1 the people of the I bunny boutblme traversed XI Sus r r er i Alabama sou trout sule to side four times during which time I have bcn I over the bjlteglound ol l85r to 1864 tat under the sycamore true lid listened to l lengthy tales from experienced set trans whose scars told how bravely they I ought for lut their eyes brightening up seemed to sty they then behsved I tube I tu-be right Ire battle at Corinth waS one Inch drew RUne of distinction between the brave and cowardly Corinth Is but hlrly miles from here and one old father of f the South said in answer tony to-ny query as to how I he let I w th gun I on boulder sure aim on Yankee realizing 1 hat the contents would destroy his life Youre a young man and I hope you never s a ar but I njoyed J I 00ng hem ankees drop over and leave their rations lor their ala much as I erjoy j forulheii alfe mucih1 Seeing i n squirrel iVivinz its share of hickory nut ant corns out of Ihe tree for my dmrcr Such became the hard ness 01 son sent their hearts by continued contin-ued warfare Women here can touch the hurt by elating how they had to run I the farm aline and then have themselves rubbed of all their summers work by seeing their crops burned by fire or taken b > t he revengelul enemy The reults of hit war will never be entirely erased by time or patriotism as error never lails to leave I a scar My labors of twentjone mcnths here halt Ili lave been mostly confined to Tippah county which the I liters had not la I bored in for some fifteen or sixteen garcandiorianyLlhave r i l been tI fit Anxious Uteners to truth since we Came here Church house schoolhouses I and dwell lI I ngs haic gradually sA ling their doors wide open to us as the rnt ot prejudIce I has been eaten oil I lie Lord soltin Ing the peoples hearts that this Gospel Gos-pel of the Kingdom can be preached 10 every nation kindred tongue and people which could not have been done in the face of the prejudice iA hlch xlSICd even tO yars alO I spent my first Xmas here in Benton Mils with some newly convened Saints alone with Elders Jgoisveled Muscr William Mrdoe and David Hubbard soon alter which I was called to labor In Alabama with Elder G T Wride nnd then with Elder Albert Matlieson president ot our conference In whose company I traveled viaiiin the Elders in their diflerent counties until Autust conference held at Kus stliville when I was assigned to lator with Elder John Christensen In Tippah county then on the arrival of a new Elder Joseph P Jorgensen I labored with him eight months our labors being productive ol much good E dr George E Hill was my next companion only remaining with me two weeks be Ing I then calld to travel with Ireident Matheson Cider Reuben Alvord taking his place Whether we are making any headway uih truth here or not let our last three months report tell In that time we have baptized 14 good honest brave souls vl into Christs fold organized 3 flourishing Sunday schools which aid attracting the admiring gaze of religious person dnd no doubt Aill bar fruits of thirty sixty or an hundred fold In I rlhICoun e5b lIungry are the b uuls of many for ist that apt lEt call loud which j sil dd the u Rib a Mortrion liters are dealng out Ir I a 01 charge Mary are the wet eve that gaze after the Elders as thy lth gill III hand leave the homes of these good peopl and the exclamations And uphSlon on 4ur return plainly tell us our can IsJ much appreciated at ther I Fany f I rcs Our hopei fp have high tensions for tlreseo d 01 Gospel truths Sohn fit Tip pall county and elsewhere by the Ibirlsi energetic Elders in our confer ence led on to victory by cur much loved president Albert Matheson Our thank go up daily to our God lor the privilege of labcnn in His ministry in the way lie and illS ancient ministry worked that we might be instruments in Ills hands not only to warn but to prove tins generation Our testimony is lint God does lite and care for His servants in ever neces sar > way who are aiding In tins great work The bIirs bear strong testimony testi-mony that the promised blessings In the Bible are not withheld rum more for which they brave the many Satanic attacks at-tacks made upon their good name and they I with all other true amts are learning learn-ing that lie Hut llvelh godly In Christ I elS shall fuller persecution The NEM finds the holies and I carts of many end IS a welccme guet alter it leaves our eager gaze having given us great encouragement RonNur n Anav |
