Show URTUrIIN VI MISSION ZIAAsel mill nead TnNnny LId ItArzovilluf it Polipsles BUTLEB Butler County Pennsylvania November ijth 1896 To the Editor Our last conference was held at Pratt Maryland September 4th While there We got Some good instructions from our beloved president Eider Samuel G Spencer We also agreed to travel without purse or scrip I was assigned to labor In Butler count Pennsylvania and was to travel alone till a new companion com-panion came out from Zion I lelt Cumberland on the Stir in company with Brothers Josiah belly I and John Crawford f I only had money enough to ride some forty miles and my field was some hundred and sixty After my money gave out I Jot 011 the cars and did not have money enough to send my big grip to my field so I left It took a change ol clothes and started I met friends all along the road I would go light Into the leading hotels ol the cities tell them who I was and my message and how I was traveling and only in one case was I relumed most of them living me the very best they had I passed through the city of Ill burZ IJear nof nd on to my field arriving there I on the nth I went to the best hotel in the City was received and treated royally The next day some riders came from I Utah and I got a partner In the person Of r Eider Mlhonrl M Decker of larowan Iron county Utah the other Elders went on to Huntingdon Penn ylvanla 1 onf president Ia to meet our conference After the oilier Elders lelt we went I to Nee the leading 1 men of the city They treated us well The mayor I told I Us e might tract the city and he t would felp I us all I he could We saw the lead b g newspaper editors and they told Ui thty would announce our meetings J or any thing we wished They also Pve an account of oar being In the citi So lb cWt I our names were well advertised t We in tried to get a place to preach In b glrfrtoC uuererelused two o thee houses > > e went to trading the city and at first eOrlhloll seemed to be against but J applied ourselves lo fasting and tfaor and then the tide turned On junday next i8tb we were Invited lo speak n the parlor of a hotel which to VhO aid after meeting We were asked many questions which were answered to their salislactlon One of the men saldi Thennlr way we can gel aiound these men is to deny the Bible A 1 Ve made many friend4 sold onc In of em Voice oT WaVning0nanaCgave away many tracts From that time all seemed to go on smooth with us The next Sunday we got a hall and held two fine meetings We also had mcliy given us so we were able to pay our hotel bill and although the people would not take us into their homes and keep us over night they would give us money enough to fig our way so I if the Lord don t provide pro-vide In one way He will in another After we got the city tracked we went out In the country some five mile 10 a place called Ribald where e met a end who had onlttalned uur Elders before He knew Elders I O Critch low also a number of the liiers i We held six meetings there and baptized some Into the fold They were Mrs J C Crltchlows three daughters and one son Alter holding meeting there we got a house some four miles aw ay at a place called Glad Run and from thereto Ren frew where we are holding meetings now Last night we held a meeting one man said that was the first Gospel sermon he had ever heard I want to testify of the kindness of the people here who have ministered to our wants when Inspired of the Lord to do so They are rich its this is In the region of the large I oil wells Ir I also want to say to the young men of Zion who are not called out as > el that the people here are just as kind and has Viable as In the Southern States where I was traveling before I came here Some of l the Elders who have I been in this part need censuring lor not writing t alter they get home as some have failed to do as they promised Nhen Ihe Elders me ke a they ought to be sure and fulfill promise ue ao 7 forgetful as to break their word Your valuable paper comes regularly and Is i read with interest Looking over the reports of the Elders It maLes us feel as though the little stone Is I rolling and may it roll till It fills the whole earth as the Prophet foresaw I V BABLOW M M DECKER |