| Show 111111 FROM MISSIONARY FIELDS 1 The Work on Long Island Jamaica L I Jan 19 1S9S 1 To the Editor I When loot I corresponded the little I Isle I of truck farms outside of Brooklyn Brook-lyn was the exclusive territory or your humble s rOnt and I could ex < 4 T claim with the Ipw recked mariner I III am monarch or nil j purvey lily right there Is I nand to dispute n-and certainly the young Mormoll 11 I A doe 00 I am fatnlllarly known had no ono to dispute his claim to that t ITT e But my solitary state is I ended RP2 tor 1 havo three brethren now with me for aIt me In my duties Our little I hand comprises the working rorl or the newlyrreate Long Island ton terence and our field or labor to I es q enough tu keel ua busy tile flenlvo our mllon Within the month < e have thoroughly tracted the Villages or Hempstead Mlneola Oaron city nnd Lost WlIlIslon At Hempstead whiM w-hiM a hall for ono meeting and after visiting the people at their home personally per-sonally Inviting them and distributing I five hundred tract stating place and I Time or IIIUng wo succeeded In 1 Inducing i I In-ducing a don pen to come and i bar us We afterwards held it cottage meeUng hut not a 0111 came to It Fo we preach to the lady or the house nod n boarder In Justice tu other 11 Parts of Queens county I will I bay that fit the V Illaire l l of Ifempiltend Is exception I ally Indifferent to the truth Tile 10 I t 1ewIirrkoratha greater part retired Nw Yorkre who having made Ii sue cess of business are nJoylhlr Its fruits In fashionable Idleness 1 and l evidently r1 Indisposed to trouble themselves bout their future condition While on i the subject or Hempstead 1 will add a rw other Items I The town properly speaking township li claimed to bone b-one of the richest In the Union It has no indebtedness and bar a surplus of HOOiM In the bank This desirable IInonclal condition 10 arisen from the sale or several hundred ncre8 or lImp stead land to the late merchantmil llonare Alexander T Stewart Upon the land he built a whole village of line residences for city people which Is known by the Nory appropriate name if Garden City One Incident the life or rather death of Mr Stewart is I worth recalling About two years after its burial In St Maika churchyard New York 157C the body was stolen from Its irrnvo A ransom of I29000 Nine demanded for Its I return and no questions to be asked Although detectives de-tectives were employed to search for the Abductors no clue to them could be oblalned and finally the full ransom was paid 1 Over In Il Prescribed way safe to them and the body restored The thleW8 were never < l1covred The body now Ilex under the church i or ilia Incarnation n line cathedral reeled in Garden City by Mrs Stewart Stew-art In memory or her husband l II cost one and n halt million dollar and l was Presented to the Protestant ipls oopnl church We had the pleasure re > rnUy of visiting this rnn < l dlftce Tho Virgil was moot courleou 10 UI nnd seemed to take pride I In showing his Mormon visitors the ramous cathedral In nil Its detail vn 10 the elegant communIon servlc > and the bishop rohCH Of office Wo apprecl elect his kindness and l repaid him In kind for his Information by tolling him or our famous trudurIhe Temple and Tabernacle We < nine gave him our cards and some tracts Campo < I with Ht Palrlk cattle tratln New York I consider the Oarden City cathedral to be much superior H I Is I not quite an massive but is richer In Its material and furnishings tin display If nculpturvd marble und carved mahogany being quite Imposing The mulclIl opting ntments also Impress me The building I contains five organs one on cither side 1 1 of the altar called Chancel Chan-Cel organs one In the chapel below one In the tower nnd one concealed In the lofty roof called the echo organ used 1 for responses and l distance < < tAll t-All the organs can be playnd slmul taneously from one of the cathedral argon This main IIItrumnt ha four keyboards nUll 124 stops The five irgnn have 7M pipes The total cot S 0000 As I have already stated I the remains re-mains of A T Stewart lie under the cathedral His wires remains are also there Ilolh bodies are now practically out or danger or any human molt tlon for their metallic caskets are Imbedded Im-bedded In a five foot layer of concrete then covered with marble Plot a IOn weight and the whole surmounted by B beautiful marble urn welshing 1600 pound The graves are enclosed 1 In n circular morbi mausoleum ana the privileged 1 visitor can npproach no nearer than to peer between polished I steel bars or through the fancy ironwork Iron-work of the slronglyholted door Upon the stainedglass windows which light up tIts grim abode of death with t-Its varlcolored sunshine i are depleted the Incidents connected with the glorious glori-ous rurrUon or our blessed He dmr All the surroundings mlri but to lOok the epulehre an Ueal restingplace beauty of color and l orm the purity of the chaste marble the brightness of the burnished steel the subterranean IIIne the sacftl dlnce over hadall combine to In spire the beholder with admiration reverence and awe We left tin stately tomb the males tie cathedral the pretty village and all ptolning 10 the honorable name or Htevvart nnd l returned to our quarters nt Hempstead feeling well paid for our visit I vlsllWe left Hempstead on the 10th lost land came to our present iddress We are now 1 In Greater New York which 810 Includes villages still further east Prospects seem good for effective work In Jamaica Th three village papers base Opened their column to us and publlhed a short nnnounemnt or our Presence hr which will be followed up by other articles It we can nnd n suitable hall we Intend holding n serif of Iccturps and discourse on Utah history and religion assisted by u teAt Of ZlonB singers stationed In Brooklyn I At Present We are tracUng the ndjoi en Village and l reserving Jamalcn for further consideration trusting the Press notices may stimulate Inetlgn Ion nnd l open up a way to the honest In I heart We feel encouraged In our I new Held The people receive us kind i > nnd freely converse upon religion The Saints at Oceanside ore In spiritual health We meet with them twice emh Sunday and they rejoice In the Gospel Friends lining to communicate with us will address as follows D J WATTS F r MOSES MARCUS JoAnn j n Diwnv 475 Fulton St Jamaica U I In Trill Fort Worth Texas January 1C 180S To the Editor 1 left my mountain home nt IIhl Idaho November 17 1896 for a mission to Indian Territory and l woo set apart Deremhtr 2nd and 3rd bade farewell to all that was near and dear to me to carry the glad message of the restored I Oopcl l to the world l Arriving nt St John ICAneas I was assigned to labor In the Chickasaw conference vittere I arrived on the 12th of December following fol-lowing At the conference held In the followIng follow-Ing February the two conferences or Chickasaw and Oklahoma WO United l Under the one presidency unit culled I the Oklnhomll conference with J A EftmIley prIlcnt Experience tins tallrht U4 that it was a very wloe move 1 labored for the first nine months In that conference with the rolowlng companions ucelvly Chas A nob loan or Montpelier Idaho II D Nebe kr of suit Lake City Utah J M Knrn or Ollnnln llnh and J A Hardley of Salt 1 Lake City Utah I had tho privilege of leading two souls down Into the waters of baptism on July 25 1SS7 189In In the latter part 6r August Eider Gallahr and 1 peqolved I notice from Ildrr Wlltllun T Jack 10 met him at the ralfroadundpfeed 10 The Ion Slnr conference A very Interesting conference was held nt Delhi Texas I it which It was divided Into two conferences con-ferences the southern Is I called the 1 Lone Star and the northern the North Texan Conference Joseph Coulnm from Salt Lake City wa appointed president or the new conference with J W Ho as his as Itnnt Fort Worth was decided upon ns the dltrlbuUn point for the nw ronrr ence Accordlngl3r It wee decided that rider Coulnm and I should canvass thldty Dy the city officials and the I newspaper men we were treated very courtouol hut llere Informed by the maor that we could l not preach on the streets an thorn wn nn olInnn against It iWe then tried I some of the churches but were refused Then we applied to the sheriff for permission to preach on Ilia court house steps which wn granted us The county building Is I n hoautlrul brown stone structure cotln OOOO It otqlidq 1 nt thehead or Main street raring south The nwopnp gave notice or the Mormons being In the city and l or nor meeting so we had l large crowds l rorthe nt rw dny and the people seemed astonlh at the doe trine we preached olnc tn connection with Alormonlolll they could think or nothing but pdy amy We also held public meetings at the public square but public Interest soon died out so wc dilvoted our entire time to failing the people nt their homes and l distributing our literature Ft Worth claims 10000 Inhabitant After laboring with Elder Coolant two 1I10nth new Elders having arrived we were obliged to separate Wm A Modges l or Gardn CItyj Utah was given trip for n companion We wr tu stay and finish the clly I The last four days four Elders have ben laboring here viz riders Hodges and Pant r or Perry Idaho Elder Coleman of Smllhflcld Utah and your correspondent We had the privilege of baptizing one person and there are otheis Investigating Investi-gating The people of Texas are ns a rule kind l and hospitable The best hotels In the city have been opened to ust we have not gone hungry nor eked n place to lay our hea < l when tired JOSEPH W HKSS North Texas Conference Lane Hunt Co Texas January 12 1S9S To the Editor The work li I favorably progressing In Ihe North Texas conference over which I was appointed l lo preside and I although Wivvrre not at first received by the peopleSvltlt open arms we have i succeeded I In getting the 1 Go pel before them The worldly expression of certain cer-tain Jews Acts 2S and l22 viz h Vc desire to hear of thee what thou think est for as concerning this sect we know that It Is evrywhere spoken against is often made to 111 especially 1 especial-ly wni thin the came ns Joseph W Hens and ihe writer stood upon the great courthouse step of 1ortWorth addressing address-Ing nbout 300 Intelligent citizens that place A remarkable feature of our visits among the people was that upon entering en-tering they would smilingly approach us with I Gentlemen what can we do for you today Hut upon learning the object of our visit they would l suddenly sudden-ly remember that they were busy and would often as suddenly vanish The people as n rule kindly accepted our tracts expressing an intention of Investigating In-vestigating our doctrine ami Heated us ilth courtesy We visited about thirty different churches but were refused the prlI 4 loge or Preaching In any or the1 nevlIhel lie hld a Ir 01 mat meetings Leaving 111r HPI IMA < omalliun to finish Iroctln the omlputllon ell Jtrttr Horace I Utow and 1 I come l to Visit the IMors und l Slints or this conference wh had not hud a tll rrom any or five Elders until Itlenty for r eerol tnonth I nnd the T ldni enjoying good health nn4 l strength tM enjoying their laborm und l II spirit If their holy calling Seven rwrPonn hove hen nesilitoti tied to the told milking a Mol of 4 rnemlero In I this conjence I md got 1 m Sitfilts Bit well I We Ble at prilent vlolllnl the Saints nt Inn We orl4 hr In lime to t st nd tile New IM hollay We celebrated I Nw Ynf eye Iy holding three meetings In s cession All the Saint utre prelek numbelng 25 beI Other IrInd1 and u v enjoyed it greajpirltual fen on fo t There were also four VUlders pr i viz I U IIr Wm Henton and Orion L Nelson rider I nrow and myself Wt held it niecting New JI night Sm ilg day in orning lit 10 me 11 all In Sunday school und thin Ieing th II thl firmt Sunday In the nf first month ofn th New Year tse continued oUr meeting all lay In gusting unit l Irayer Tilter Tilt-er it large otowd l present and 1 ertnlnl enjoyed the day Our hrtt swelled with Joy suit grlllltlld as w listened to the strong 1lImonls 00 b 1 thrso A ho have abided l I In the doo trines or ChI 1st 4 The lIll1n 1 < less have long it vanished front my mind as to the rldl ulou a reports or the Txan people 1r 1 have 1 been kindly entertained eve I night during my 10110 JOSWlI COlluI Conference President I |
