| Show IIi r A ntMAItKAIIti COMKItSIOV II 1 a 1 f 1r 1 < I The Almighty linn 1114 own methods k I I It Dt bringing tD pM the ooralon to I I I 1ft i the Gospel of much Individual I members I ot the human family os have been foreOrdained fore-ordained to that destiny and often II Ills ways tire utterly Inscrutable I to I II t mortals Illustration nt the truth of 1 I this are familiar In the experience of 0 + most members of the Church especially F i especial-ly much as have labored In the mission I I i1 1 field but an Instance In which a man was convinced of the truth of the dr teachings of the Latterday Saints f has ott II Just come to the knowledge of the If jj News which Is unusually Interest ft Inp It will lie remembered that In the I 1If t i year 1S84 the popular prejudice against Mormonhun and the Mormons was very iv strong The historic raid on polygamous I r polyga-mous families that continued with tij i such severity for several yearn wo I UI lit Just being fairly Inaugurated and Mormon Elders In various part of the t f1IM iI 1 United Wales notably In the South 1 Jf A were Moe ting with much and bitter 01 II 1 Posit I on and not Infrequently they t t T j were victims of mobo atlc dmontro I I 1I0nl In that year Elders C F Chris II 1 tenscn and W r Garner were laboring I In Carter county Tennessee when they l ft j l were arrested ln on a charge of teaching I j > r polygam I and Inducing people to moo to a country Ahere it was practiced i tlf Of course the charge was nn absurdity 1 fill t < i from a legal standpoint Iml It served I j us a pretext for placing the Elders In l Jail jailOne of the men who aided In I arrestIng J i arrest-Ing the Elders was named Will C II 1 I i IIf I Sutphln and he has written a letter to jr J fI Elder Carrier whooo home In I now In I r j Clifton Idaho which the recipient forwards I rl for-wards to theNeAvs Mr Stitphln Is I ilt evidently I I a man of fair Intelligence r It IT It though not of finished education and t I t while his letter may be open to criticism MI f criti-cism from a scholastic standpoint It M m tells a story of the proUlences of the tl Almighty and bears a testimony that A far more than redeem UH literary let j J1 le-t It Is dated HaleXlltchell county k N C Jan 1118DS and lightly revised I Ii < for the types It reads us follows jllft Mr Wn r Comer f ht I h t Dear Sir I and Ilrother For the first iJd I time In this life I eat myself to fret > J 4t you a fewlines to tell you something 14 JJ lIt ld lvhn J i perhaps that will do you some good 1 f i i om one 01 the mn that were NItll the Meer In Carter county Tenn when ltj1 J l 1 Elders Christensen 3t Garner were or r rested and If you remember one of You Q l 4 I 4 i sold to the other We might preach J r I J to these men as they did to the Janitor fr of 0107 I t I Little did I think that I would rind r u your words of any benefit to me but f Ood for m > sake put me In that wick I 1 rd oincers hands to help do that work II that my prejudiced l heart might I be Ii > softened and I can bear my testimony i hot from that very day I commenced to search for the truth nut I nr nw another pair ot Elders until IS93 nt which time I was o ready for the water Elder Thomas W Sloan baptized me and llder John It Terry baptized my wife lust spring I had been a member of the Church of I Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints In belief J be-lief for four Yearn before I or my tam lly I had heard a Mormon iider preach I The little look known as the Voice of I J nt rno Warning did all I tire preaching to ins except what you and IJrothr Christen men did that lonesome night going from the head ot Shelf Creek to loan Mountain ag A I om the oldest man that WD In that Bang anti the one that did the most > of Ilion I Itions talking and asked i so Many title lion nut it wo Gods will for me to be there one rnnn was that I aheiul l protect you from horm and the other wan to how me the way or truth for 0 without that I would perhaps be today where I was before that nntnbo night I Now brother DO oil know 101 al ways trends Ilia julmpnt on those who will not heedllls reaching but Beck to do evil at wlckM constable who hfld the papers for You rider Came to his death on the railroad nt the station N hf f olh old 11I3ti He was standing on the road and did not seem to try to get away Itl body I was torn to pleces and he filled 0 J drunkard grave We can only pray that our Ilwnenly Father will hasten the time when 1114 1 Spirit will cover the land IM the t wnten ao the sen and when there will be IK drunkards I We Bend love to You nit Your brother In the Gosnd WIT C FUTIIIIN The blood of the martyrs Is I the 8e1 of tho Church and the Bufferings ot the sen ants of God form an Important i portion of the testimonies and cl dences that will either convert or condemn con-demn the world No doubt Elders 1 < Cur ner and Christensen feel rewarded for i tho night they pent In riding In Jail and for the Imprisonment and other t forms of persecution they endured while In Carter county |
