Show Ttsmes Irom MUUInl SllHult Mississippi August Slh 1896 To the Editor As perhaps an item or two from this part of the country might I rove acceptable accept-able to some o of your readers I thought i rou I could not employ n hew minutes to more advantage than lu touch lightly on a fe passing events This Is Ihe season protracted meetings meet-ings among the various sects ol this country of which Uaptitts anil Methodists Metho-dists largely predominate They are trying to get everybody to join them ntflom rl f i and the movement Is so popular among the masses that not to be a member ol some sect lot regarded as almost heathen halt hence al least I nineten of the adults ol this I country are church members mem-bers so called And It would be a hard matter II 1 not an Imposilblllti ton find to-n two Individuals I that believed alike In hIre same tech lo say nothing of the clash between the different seels 1 will so In I modify that etpretslon as to say that they all agree when Mormonism 11kMT 11 ism ll the object rgl attack To the true Latter day Saint this Is one of the grandest evidences of Its divinity here have been a number of public lectures against Mormonlsni In Ihe surrounding sur-rounding II country by the apostate Oswalt He Is i using all his I powers of pen and speech to warn Ihe people agslnst the delusion as he cills it gainst tile time when Llders Win be sent Into Ih and I surrounding counties lie advises all over whom he can have any Influence not lo hear them tthen they come and of course to refuse them entertainment To counteract hilt Inlluence Ihlnk I It would be wise when tills part of the country Is can yesrui 10 Iran Elder who are oat only well posted but fluent speakers ler whocaneipound the I eternal truths ol i lheGospel with such force as lo utterly confound the leaden 01 the opposition here hereThe The branch ol She Church organized here by Elder I W 1 T Dotsun and Stout Kicks and subsequently more perfect I by filers Lrastus Chrutensen and ol icIer Nellton I Is moving along smoothly We field I a meeting I not long since and U T Quinn whu was or Joined a icIest gave a most excellent tall It was his Iit eflort and ho bids lair to make a brilllcnt speaker and a UKlul man We need hell here from some able and fearless riders Tlie Nun comes regularly and is u much appreciated visitor II I DOT JON |