| Show FROM A MISSIONARY I j 1 IIlH Kxporieiiee in Proiifhing tho Oonpol in Eiig limdIIoUUiiK Out Door MetintfM I = Hie following It I a letter written by Elder Alfred L I Booth from Liverpool England to the fortyfifth quorum of beventles I km thankful tay my health hat been very good all Ihe time since leaving leav-ing home The trip here on html and ten wnt very enjoyable I went In Independence In-dependence from Kansas City and viewed the temple iilelierl in Chicago n lew hours called HI NUii iri Fell and tep ed out uf the UmtCl htalen or the first time in I my life by crossing I the urn priori bridge Into Can ida Vinlled I sevtrol placet of note In New York I during nearly Iwodjys and rvl sail a week afur leaving Salt Lake City W ni nut so sea sick at to prevent me from luglnng at other people who were I d worn It is comical lo see people so I cenenmt Hut they with to give iheir lireakfal up to the hesihal it l when I you dont happen lo lie Ihe gen out one but after a lew days It gets a little I tlreonir and the people quit it Then I iti II at the steamship cu npany hat 10 If r forthepattengentiylonuke upI up-I r what they hey lost and eat a iluu Ic iiinlny It doesnt end there lor n iny every Elder It I hungry for two hionlln i liter landing I have known them Ii I be tllnl t al a hotel and between be-tween tirnkta t and dinner go out to a rciluurailior a meal beciute they were fhanud to let the hotel keener tee vv uat I i r ivenuus sppclile I they had On la brig at GU guw we were taken Into II i i ibm house and searched Tim limit came and asked If I Had any dutiable article I told him I didnt know what things were dutiable and he said Have > ou any tubacru or iplrin or tceimr No 1 smd Will he looked and lound I a bible Hook of Mormon Doctrine and Cov enantl fceleslasllcal History and a lew other books and tome clothing There I I were luenlione ol us and I dont know ol a troop that we paid out toT i duly A great part of the revenue ol Ingland I U obtained from the articles I clf t fiat mentioned iln Ue were the first I company ol Udenvvho came via Glut gow and hence tire ofhcers aurptite at finding so many who ne llier smoked j lirank nor needed perummg I cup Jr lnnnuiu pose yn Hut lime they lire beginning to I I recugtiKeour rlilert for they nave been coming that way since then I The country louked very pretty It blng tire iird of May when we landed at f OUsgow coming to Liverpool that Mine ntgnt I was appointed t > labor I I In the Liverpool Conlerence and went l to a little place called Charley for a month The country did not seem to strange to me on account of having read so much before coming The crooked CRiTIc were little perplenlng at first but a person soon gem accustomed accus-tomed to them The weather Is more nearly equal summer and winter but there Is I a greater difference between tire lone and short dupa than at home I remember In June reading without aitihcial light until half past nine I I Clock Now It grIt dark about four J In the summer the sun sets up to early that only a few people see tt rise and In inn winter there it so much mist that IOU cant ate It until an hour or more alter It reaches the horizon I hove seen two or three sunsets hut that it I all since tine middle I ilel last April It made me tremble lo Ililnk about trading and holding open air meetings at titan It makes me smile now when I n look back I nt tine first tumulus started out wllh filly of llruther George Peas deli Glad 1 tidings i 1r Great Jo > ili I had been shown tine street where I oat to commence but lould 1 not find the number ol the door a part of the street had brett visited I an1 IAI 1 was to finish ll It seemed to me that any other doors In the world would have bon easier lo knock al I kept on talking I along till tIc I end of the street was reached I without with-out venturing to stop nt any door Hie houtet there were just the same and II looked as IheiU li I would have lo begin I somewhere so I determined to red make a start I be first door was opened by a rnodeat looking servant gill who thanked me for the tract and It nridnnl lemon to bad alter all My fl ty tracts were gone in a little while but no one had asked me who I wat nor had I obtained an opportunity of talking on the principle of the Gospel 1 was to d by Ildert that very few conversa lining weto hd in taking round line first hid bull I could l etlrerl none with the lecond lielore taklnx the second one however I wan moved the Conlerence minute Ircston nnd appointed clerk of the Liverpool Conference rrcitun as most uf you are doubtless aware Is the place where thu Gould was first preached In England by Iteber C Kimlull and otlieia 111187 I visited the I mixhall Chapel where tine lust sermon ser-mon was preached MW line l ruins ol the cockpit t wliein lrv lirsl eonlcienee woe held and the river Kibble In which the lint Latterday JMiut baptism 1 m LnJinil I 1 was perlormcd Also 1 the house where the Idcrs I had such a route rou-te t with ciii 1 spirits at the beginning ol Iheir labors Here it nothing i exinir dumry In the appearance of any of these objects but they bring a trained rtllec tiont hoe persons mind Ihe hrst meeting 1 attended there Wir only bout htleen present which teemed a null number to me 1 I here was alicia little buuda school of seven member and the contract wot very gina us 11 I had linen accustom d to seeing see-ing iw nor three hundred at home little lime accustomed to theelunge The inunnnLa 1 tchoel and meetings were In Id light m the cuuf rencc haute and we could at least limp our meetings were crowded I burma among those who ocrlMOiully attended l meeting was un undlo our secretary llruilior Hugh LUytun His work wt m another rice and he could not i be present vtry when it I hii been a queiilon my mind which tceliiig wnni woric dial occasioned b > me IhoUkiii ol mural going out tract in or thai oruughtuii by thinking ol llu ms upen lIr meeting I hu vail I enough pi icuee not to get unusually a i au ol talking 10 auy audience when In heiioute but the intent ul Hunting a CUll nation by comIc into lIre 1 stieel nnd oe iimuiB a lirau was aw ul ItT to reined all riUit to hear I mire re tu On 0 Men I mull about II it and su ol lonmn nil wins in mine uutuncc there wai no 11 ur ilir dread ul it but I when we wen walking down mile simon with Un il ten ion 01 doing that very thing u imcrud to me Unit everyone on the Sid w ilk could 1 rccollno wnat wu were on cinnUiliic 1111 1 a iooi lining tliai limo other loin vvhowtue nimbi nnno h nih 1 unc through II belore or 1 am ulraid newoulil have kept on thinking we i 1111 nnd a belter place Uhen w ni Ui n elJ 0 nOoni 1 plACU I iii 0 i lecl at there were nut lacM n Ie I a when the people were In sight they would look diHerent Irom thew 1 who were not there We finally came lo R irooil place where HUM tireeii meet coil good tin nj lamp poll In the center There wat A Methodist rhurch on one si I la I of in ii row of business house on another an-other and t a public i huuie nn the third Ue laced the Utter pulled out our hymn hook and began Two or three lithe I loom left Ihelr play lo we what the noise wnt one ol tire I brethren tillered a Siioil prayer and I that attracted Iwo or three mini IdletWhi sane again nd m F der i > ull d out hit Ilible I nnd commenced preichmg Tney kindly lilt me until lIe last 1 and m we had no eel three for doling my remirkt tree tre-e > brief Ii teem than a dreim tome I to-me lo think of ill < t meeting Hut the next one w is harder Ihr president ol the conference had I put me with it man who mad I not been much In lavor ul open air meelirtjt He come about eight months before I I did yet 1t1 I been tu but one or Iwo meet iigt out dojrs My injunctions Salt Iaiae City by line Anosllet in I Liverpool le by resident 1 dI and In I Irestun I by the pietident ol the conference confer-ence were to iiuld cit the open air meeting meet-ing we could convent emily My com mloii had not received them so hId h-Id bUll 1 had teas told at Ireaion el him out ly I nil iu > ann If powlble IK I yuU C ant Iniigme how a young 111I I gn Jantnuiee lover would meet In dealing with une wlio pieslded over IInl I and wai old eiiuunn 10 he liu hillier Me lold me II I would talk first ho would go with me He would pray ami m irtMiuce mo lo tine people but he ouldnt talk much I lIter to all he asked and we appointed an evening that we would go out When Ihe time came It was raining and I dot know which one of us was the more thanklul lor that rain but I didnt tell him I was I We did not appoint any other time but walled until a fine evening came and I asked him I to go out He contented under the conditions I mentioned and down the street we student ICe location wat similar to the one at the Art meeting ihougn In another bun inete were two or three men sUndmg around the lamp Inns I und as I walked I up lo III Inougnt of Ihe people in Ireaionwhere I had I before preached l were not naif so formidable looking Inote close to me We trembling wised II liny knew of any meeting appointed 1 ap-pointed hum that evening and were informed in-formed thaI 11mm II t lace was ours If we wished II Till time I had to commence com-mence lIne singing my coniianlon having hav-ing a good voice but not venturing to start a hymn I happened to get II bout the right pilch und when we had sung two Intel I wan no more afraid than I am now to tell vou about it llolli of us seemed toslni boIler tlian I have heard us either before or since fhe people commenced gathering and by the lime I began talking there were about blimp whicn number kept on Increasing In-creasing ran long at we heidI I went home thinking that I would prefer preaching In uiorlcv to any other place on the I earth Since thm 1 luve always I looked forward with pleasure to an outdoor out-door meeting and can Uulhlully lay II my ciwlce were given to preach In or out of doors I would My the latter when the weather It I plea ant Ol course at home I ould prefer to be In the house but I am satisfied It would not frighten me any worse now logo through the operation of walking out under the electric light role near the Tabernacle block corner and commencing commenc-ing to sing for the purpose of gathering a crowd around to preach to than ll did those hrst two occasions I luve de Kilbeil I am lhanklul that my fear hat been taken away and mention tills lo snow thaI lln orewas no need of It In I Ihe lint place and Is not now lor any one of oil wno contemplate coming over heir except perhaps to teach us iiunnl lly A mission is pieemlneiitly lined In all its pluses to nuke a asian defend on mine lord and he does not require a lung lime to ClImb it out It summed a hllle hard when 1 heard before coming here about the Insults tllercd but it u a very easy mailer to lake them I with all smile and rejoice in them I if a person lives at he should the methods that are emploed In pro elliiK I now are dlllercnt from wlmat limp web tisnmnly or thirty eari ago Then I there were 1 a great many buinli rummy branches where then It now 1101 unto of I our treoinho Thin llucrt Iravil Irom one place to another stoppl and inciting with tile Saints one or twolimet amll pcrhapt holding an oul door meeting then going to another place and doing time tame com pleimg me r circuit once a month or thereabout At lent thai u Ilia way I have been Informed they did Now tinny are started two or three Inn In-n place usudly two lakmg lodgings and o > > tematl lil veiling ivery house and olltriiiK a Irma Most ol tIre people with take one anal Ii I maps two but they donl care fur any more lmney I say our doctrines are all right but just as soon at p110 mention the necetity of com plvmg with the Gospel requirement they think there is I no need ol that any further than exprcismg a belief in the atonement 01 Jeus Unlit We cannot can-not get them lu see lhit a true belief will munlfest ntelf In obediente A great nun seem not to know us liy the name ol 1atler day balms and say they think I we are ah right but at toon as the word i Mormon It menllolied I It it all ur with lurch and 1 us Only last Sittitday another voune Elder and I were at a place talking with tun ladles who mud something ubout Mormons and one of them remarked that there wa no more Mormomsni We lold her thai wan what wu had como here to preach and she said ll could not he for lire government had put an end to that religion whnli was nothing I but Idolatiy according to her Idea of it We began to ask her a hew mlcilioiu und almost msullwl her by inquiring if she believed III the IIhie Ji course she did I read the whole 01 > I Conn thm xu lo her and a part of phesiau I terId J sCrtc ix and Mark ant She conlescd I that she dullil believe all that was there and no number ol witnesses could convince con-vince her that apostles endowed with the name potters and author m those nncenlly were upon the earth finn would ham to seen lame person healed uj tlre a blind person restored I to sight n dumb one 10 speech or sonu Hung equally wonderful before she would be i iCi orl bcj lIen it was possible in our I mIni I asked her u I the would Iw A M rmun ii alms saw onu ol the wonders performed bymine 101 our Hider and she Mil no In i ould not I then inked lunl I sh utul < 111 I iv b en i hrislun in ill df ol Uin1 ll she lioid cern all limo won I I = I I lirlul minilntalioni mmimed 11 the i Vw Tiitnntent nnd II lime i hrist nuns were Inokrd on with 55 tnurli d ilavor at the Mormom now are She I iinn it a minute and Ihen confuted her < e ir that she woo il not We promtwd her that by yielding obedience to Ihe prIm 1IIJ 1i ciplei I l the Gospel the sh mid tee nil the signs that wont d be good for her but remarked that the greatest miracle connected with It would be her conversion conver-sion and the removal ol her prejudice j f chn she admitted She said all ol 1 our people she had teen were very good and we must bo sincere to c ime out here without any remuneration That it I a sample ol nearly every talk we eel III Is 10 strange that these thing should be In our Church and not In any of the laihlonable ones ol the day The prejudice la A part of the nature of many wople and they can not Ihlnk we ire representatives of that awiul Murmoniin I had no Idea what n bad pioiile I had been raised among until got away from then and Ihe farther away I get the worse people nre If rumor is i true It U I time you com minced a reformation ll mutt be ties esiary for you and not the miiijnurlM because everybody admit ill they are not the kind of people to do such things 01 we are accused ol U II some one who hat never been on u mission The only way out ol the difficulty Is I for each one of you to come out here and show the people I yourself hey I rai I dont look like a Did chap J this is not meant for beetling but I cant possibly get them to thm we are ordinary specimens speci-mens ol M irmonaor that you am all at good at we n1 I many ol you better My labor Irestin was very pleasant with the exception ol having lo cook lor ourtlvot Any of you aho have ever tried Iliat will agree with me Hut It I U not a desirable way lu live but we managi to get along without any great mi naps When I It was my turn tIre I wakr m Ihe tea kettle teemed lo be I I como alive and wished la jump out upon the floor Ihe milk wu especially I i bad for trial and the lady that came i I once a week tu clean up the house was especially glad to have me move away from there 1 he Saints w hII leo there I I ale left are very kind lo the Illers but there being so hew of them mikes MI that they cant do at much at they would hkIu do Four monthi baching It w un Hie was enough tom Ihe president ol Ihe commence and for hear that lilt digestive apparatus would not survive a very long tiee of my cooking he tent me here and gut a iiood theepherder WIno knew a little of Ihe science ol domestic do-mestic economy to come in my place I had been here only one dav and got acquainted I with the lady I where the Enacts In Liverpool have been stopping when they sent lor me to come Into the Millnxial Oar olllee The young man who hat been writing since July IH9J l Wan troubled ln with I hit lungt I and 1resi dent Lund telegraphed from Scandinavia Ji Irs = via for him logo home chore coming c-hore my teaching hat cvaieil I and It hu been too cold lo go out doors lor Intel Ings Thy will CUIIIIIIce next soring again The mission generally so far as I have been able to learn Is I progressing nicely the bapllimt Nre not so frequent aim early Inneitiui a great many people are given the opportunity ol hearing the iMxpel who never have before and all who de lre can Investigate lor them semite until be led without an excute If they leject II here are III tIme neighborhood neigh-borhood ol a million tracts given out yearly In the llrilith mission That gives nuny million treoinls the chance of reading them If 1 they with lo Hie different dif-ferent conhrence refiorls hON that these combined with the labor of Ihe Hlileis I in conversing preaching etc I are time mean of bringing i about tliree hundred Into the Church annually 1aklng out Ihotewhoapoitatlte It nuVes an average ol about Iwo 10 etcli llder yearly One of tIne brethren laid It costs much lest lo raise them nt home than tt dovt 10 convert them out here and they are in nnny cases 01 better quality at Ihey have not to much to unlearn However If a person does not baptlte a soul the experience la I worth more tlun thin lime and coil It hat been nothing but pleasure to me thin far livery move made his teemed 10 be for my esiecial good and I have several time wondered where tIne un pleatantnett of a mission comes In I think though tlut a person must experience ex-perience It to know It entirely We are l all more or lett I doubtful about It and wish to delay the lime to Ihe future but mv advice balmy one who called I 1 by lIe pro > er authority It I lo go at the time nosed Them may be possible cases where men can not get away but they I lr III N r are very hew when tIme mind Is made up The Lord knows our circumstance1 and can see what will happen il I we obey Him lie very seldom mikes requirement require-ment tlut men can not fullil aiidtho few urn given AI a test of Ullli requiring requir-ing an exertion on our part all least Atrium U I llouru |
