Show f v M 11 11 I h I A L I I 1 L If I el elS S I i C i iL L I THE MISSIONARY FIELDS War In Spa rio Feb U 12 To Ta the tho Editor No doubt It will bf be to the ther th r deri ot of the New a to o aee se work In Ten Tennes nes iee The Mormon Rider has bas a great arrel of In hilt efforts to top p present nt the truth to the A tv Jew Itma In n connection with tracts ml not bt be out of place J HOOle have heard of thy m Il deta who ho went nt up tip to R a fin fine boule staled to the gentleman that they were wre rome traNS with the pope Whereupon h Well I 1 want YOU OU to IMe come tracks here hare lete Ie them with the h heels ls toward the hou Nearly every HIder has hils had ox perl In Inman man ninny the Invitation to hA has not been beell eo 10 mute J 3 U Ii o of the tIddIe conference a and the were engaged met felk vee In tract lug Ing the little city ot of SpartA county seat If t White While county Wi I each houtE distributing about tracts and were Invited In Inthe the tho houM SIxteen time tImeA the oilier we stood tood at the door and our errand as follows W V are Iatter R Saint EI EIder den der distributing literAture among the Peo le we hl have hire here a little tract chIch connIn a discussion r s nn would take piea tire uro In leaving you one OM If you OU have no objections announcement would bring forth fortha n a v or replies euch auch all a W We ha hatha have havethe the tha BIble and dont ned your books book r 1 sni am ret let In my bell beIJe and cant be changed etc Are re you OU Mormons naked asked one OM very lady lally Yes Yel Maam WU WIS the re reply reply ply Then with a very haughty air ah she away saying r I have no use ule for foro you o One lad lady said ald she was 8 a Presby tori an nil over oer and coUld not bo turned train that faith gnat many of those whom we mel claimed d to belong bolong to the church ot of Clod or OD hurch ChuiCh ot f Christ orno of the latter feel that they are arl very much 03 In Iii that th they are called Cam ites Ono One of it theta asked us IY t r we would debate with all one Of their pree We Se replied Yea gladly both bolh are tuo confined to the to fo this he would not agree WI We had a alon aiOn lon iOn tAlk with their Dr Sut Sutton Sutton ton III He was well armed with V Ih tracts published recently by the lor lormon mon League Leacue consequently bad no use UN tor br ours having no ot of any of the tho churches tn in the city we applied to the tho and several members of the county court for or permission to mt meetings In the court house hoUBe but Jul tide this niso has thus far been denied us Dolhof of the sparta r have hac had E m to say concerning the work which the Mormons Mormon are doing In the neighborhood The Favorite n 0 e trIed especially hard barll to cast some reflections on us and oUr work WI We certainly meet a variety of peo people pie A great many ar are too narrow minded to even cen give We us R hearing there are a 11 few tew who seem glad lad to get our literature anti and thank us UJ for It We tr trust at that at least a few of the seeds thus sown may mav full Into good ground and bring forth fruit The Tho News Is 18 highly by thil th Elders and SaInts here Your brother In the In Iii Colorado lIo To the Durango Cole Colo Feb 13 fine are lit at energetic Eld rg laboring In the Colorado We are with In IndiFference diFference and ome opposItion but the work of the Lord lAIrd is II rolling roiling steadily un on There thero are a few tew honest souls lOuis who are searching PArching otter after the truth and are In investigating the Goa ei III as taught t and b II d In IJ by the SMote this Ihl l Is a new newfield newfield field being 1 less two hm years It Was opened Iii 1111 there line hu been een twenty of which Were vero performed lest ht yr r Quite Quilt n a number ot of people stern m to be bed d deeply ell In our doctrine people ot of Colorado as a gen general tin eral rule are ery hospitable The Elders have bae met Int vary ery good treatment nt so tar far none of them having for of life It I Is now n t twenty since tim Iho writer entered upon UlOn this the duties of Ii a missIonary the geetter part ot of which has been nt In western Colorado Quite Quit b a bit oi o ark h been done hue here hereIn In Durango Last June a of all the In tern Colorado fOS Mid hOld here helP and some Dt at the continued to 10 preach h on tile lie Jar duro the tho summer months month Very been ione hero this winter We Wc have hav adopted adopt the tle plan ot of In the COUll country try districts In the winter and the In the summer when we can on the streets On Jan JanU 1 U I wall wa joined b by eider Day Dayot la ot of who has labored with me meas all as m my since that Ume After Ipen spending Q o fw few days with the Saints In Mantos let Ht out a missionary lint a vInce place park where I we found a small farming most ot of which were onnAn Gennan people I Wt We were vet very kindly and Rond sue In getting tile the before the people Ve next lInt went to tn t ti a i coal mining vamp Ill here w we Were I given ginn the ule me of Ua lb school house In which e held helt Ii a of rho fhe people out Win well and lind mAil many t of then them becomIng interested Invited us UI to their hom homes w We In allay 1 In log a great dell deal of oC and had a time of Sister Lautz formerly ot of Salt Bait Lake kl City now how residing In nay hay Gulch on hearIng or of UI ie belu being at Hesperus rull sent nt r us nfl 1111 Invitation to visit m nt which was WAIl al It Is need 16 hess fOr tor roe me t to lIa say that thA t she Waal wa pleased to meet mett a laIr of If I after being from the lInte for III a year WI We were Wert also allO pleased to meet mett ou sue that believed the ne as s e 1111 and was n In possession rf tile the same spIrIt We Imme Immediately lately began lIn a series of oC meet O t p t t Is r k IJ hi I Ii h to lo bo enjoyed by all allI II I 1 Jt A minister of the Free Methodist I who attended one of our 1 ings Th subject spoken upon was thit thIL t of f authority and Church organize Un tin the Methodist minister had a for Sunday evening In th Barn house houle where we hall hati barn lie us UI And told the Ihl we Se were false talle going around converting women omen and taking them to Utah Itah for Immoral purposes lie He also abIo told then them that we had bad been driven from pines to on Recount account ot of our Immorality and varned arned his flock us This however made the more friendly and O caused UM them to out and h hear us The Lord always overrules overrule things for forthe forth the th GOOd of his hll people Ihl they a are performing the tho dut dutIes II devolving upon them The Ns News Is n a welcome visitor and andIs andI I Is appreciated by nil all the Elders Ehlers III this conference Anone having relatives or friends In tale vicinity it If they wIll III send their all dresses dreIHS we e will bt be plod pleased to call on them YOUr four brother In the Iho W L b CnA President West Colorado conference A As a Token or at J Love Te Sap Cal Feb 17 1900 1000 To the Editor For some m past the various Societies of our mison hire here on the coast have been 1 a token loken of for Sister Hattie bye Nyo who vho with her tIr husband f I E U II N Nys has hae been n laboring here hitre as u a missionary for the three The Idea originated with Eleter lea Isn leabelle belle Sall one of oC the tho counselors to President Ira May It oC at the San Society anti thase la ha hadies dl dies together with Sister hughes th the theother other to all the sl ale tera of the a 11 monster quilt or of pl pieces bordered with entin should be given nil an a of affection those who sho felt Sic Sla Slater ter Nos In Society work lz 1 this state ate The iho CAme In the substantial form torm of the necessary blocks Pieces came from oel every abiding plato place of the SMote from San Ban Diego DIIO on the tho south to 10 Wash on the north Utah wu represented by u a dozen magnificent squares of silk erect ored hand hond ed samples of Sister Zina Young sent a Illece ot of her wedding dress and Sister Aister MOor Mary me Young built the surround Ins Mrs P F S 5 lion was of the silk sent to the Fair and dyed dud with saiD ago while Mrs Irl Wm Win ot of I Fork ork made It beautiful b by painting It ItA ItA A uniform plan hail been ll that the blocks he the same te and general pattern no wu WI found In putting them together excepting to o oset set let them nil In lUll and Star triM tried It gave ave up itt In dt lr an and Is now DOW busy a tar tho those heft leU leUer Over er erOn On Friday evening F Peb b the Urd of the wadding of dent ent and Sl Sister Nyc Ny the th completed ted was Wall Some om and friends being present n a pro grain In had bed been arranged b by the tue sic lets Irl In which C It 5 Savage who is In spending n a few fow weeks here on the tho coast cout with willi his hll fife took no an Impromptu vart Supper was 01 noo on long lona tn ta tiles biN running through the rooms and nd att after r the delicacies of the tha evenIn had been lleen of Goner Stenhouse e pro the Quilt rending reading from the tho om era eralio lio manuscript accompanying the token tire the welt well chosen rhon words that his Sister had writ written ten all as chic fhe was unable to be present on account of sickness Sister ye re JI with deep fe feeling Ung thanking the tho ladice for their appreciation of her ha 1111 the I kindly way they had hll of nt a sentiment which sh assured them WAS os mutual MId and would throughout nit nil time her IlL Ia hsue had been In places the she he had made madl were her dearest The quilt would be cherished as 11 personifying title this happy relation The rut rt of this the evening wILl was spent In and broke up with wishes tor or many 1111 lIP returns return of tire the anni consummated The ml mis work on the cout hOI has never had hiI so 10 bright an outlook as at present tes nt Nyc e has Just l a tour ot of the Stats StAt and JId found that the ye re of t lie cam campaign of a tIm few months ego ORO well for tor th the work Throughout the south the tbt Elders are energetically In ha and all previous records nr are be belag lag loe broken The hails at Len Ios Angeles Angelel teen tan I and San Bernadino are be ID lug tIlled at teach each lien servIce Ice At 1 the J are working diligently end and andare are MS man many friends frIend II The north northern ecu ern ends t of f Ih the State tate Is not lIot far tor behInd nto Stockton la IQ the hi interior are creat prag r reua while San Fr Franchs Oakland II Jose JOlt and Santa nos floss the b coast cities are all aJl well and sending I In encouraging reports I Al AI San Eider Nyo e ha haIn hew In lag met lude Judie Kinney who for years WU was supreme lI tm judge julle ot of the Territory of oC and Idaho Idelie representing It In Con eyes reM u a delegate Judge Jule Kinney has hils but bul married his hi wife was forer Sister Thurston o of Salt lake bake who has been with the from its III earliest The They ire Ill spending the winter III hi the south Among the other othor Utahn here nt at are Miss MIlia Grant Gmt of Snit Salt Lake lee 0 Austin wife and ot of Lehl Lehi Irs Wilson and Mrs Wilson of oC Ogden Your Dr ther II 11 D I HAINES I In 36 Parliament St I Derby Feb 4 1 1900 To Tn the r Editor It l J months since I left my h bern In Salt Lake CIt It to for lI a mission to d and ond during that time m my la in heN 1101 11 have been confined 11 to dUD cities of at And Der tiT Iy which fire are included In the hum My 1 companion awl I Ian Iare are an kept busy dIstributing our litem t ture the people and holding c meetIngs whenever the weather er will permIt dt 1 we some lomo little op opposition JOlt position t but nothing ot of a serious on na nature lure ture and while It Is III not 11 It has ball t a tendency to our toe at the seine nine time giving us UJ II a vague Idea Idel ot of what our Savior had to tot t contend DInd with during hI his labor In the III ministry tin an earth WI We haw have also forwarded to each Moh ot of the ministerS 1 it stiles of nf our tracts ask alk lag 1111 them 10 kIndly read th the Mme In order that they may na have I a more m re eor cor of the a W WI ve also askIng them for tor some tnt of nt 1 I 1 I In but with tw trA the they have I I Ignored us UI It If some of tIre the Salute who have emigrated In tire put past would write to their and It would remove considerable p and thereby resist us UI greatly If we can 1411 In any WilY way a assist slat them In addresses which are lost loat we le lewill will gladly do so We are N pleased to toha ha have the privilege of reading the tho News which com comes I tUn am your brother C 0 S a Elder Ehler Quorum Laet Jordan Feb 19 18 1900 To the tho The FIst quorum ot of Elders In the Jordan Stake of Zion was nl organized today at West ordan by the tho I y of If the Stake Rinke Wm L b woe was president with II FJ Moss of Jordan and Thomas Finlayson or of Jordan nI as his hla counselors The Th quorum com comprises prius the Elders re residing siding In last HUI and West Jordan wards Ider Bateman has for tor runny many years over oer the Twelfth quorum ot of Elders Ehler In the Salt lake Stake Slake embracing ing In addition to 10 the wards vardi named North Jordan now In the Granite Stake Orrin p MIller the president of the Stake und hip counselors will visit Granite ward next Sunday to set et In order the quorum of Elders at that place Next Sunday Sunda alno the warda ot of the new Stake Slake will bo be visited by homo home Liverpool COli Coit Lan England February 1900 1000 To the Iho Editor Myself and party ot of sixteen mission erie left Salt Lake Cit on the morning of January ln t for tor our field ot of labor Two To of them vent to the North Northern Northera era ern States Slate the rest felt to Europe 1 he steamer W was J n a do day late In getting In from LIverpool so 10 sowe we e lId did not call from Philadelphia until the list lI instead of the Ith ot of intro at ary We lied had a very pleasant trip the tho ocean all but one day and that wu was Very ery rough The wind blew a gale the ne rolled roiled high and the passengers suffered from lose of appe tUe IlIe On Sunday Sanday January ith Ih the cop cap caplain lain held services In the tho dining saloon at 1030 n and at ZW we held our eer vice Ir In the same lamo place pIaN Most Olt all 1111 the and many ot of the crew nt at attended tended and we TO had a splendid meeting The captain ot of the is 18 a fine fineman man and the way Ire ho 1 Jeeps hl his steamer is 18 a credit to 10 him everything Is very ery dean and neat noot One timing thing I ob observed that during durin the whole trip I never heard an 1111 oath One day o as the cap cal caplain lain was walking the deck a lady Jady asked him If hI he expected on any very Cr rough weather Oh no said ht he we fe hay have too many Mormon people on board to get any rough sea ileA seaOn On January they rave gave a concert concertIn In the dining saloon aloon for tor the benefit ot of the Sailors home in Liverpool The evening was spent ver very nIce nicely On let 11 We arrived ort off Queenstown anel Oil on February 3rd at 2 ft a tn mn WI we arrived In III the docks s at LIver ooh We wore were mot met b by Mc Ide McFarlan Farland Farlan Smith and McMaster c loster And then went to 4 where we met Lynian bItt and ami Wootton Woollen We had bad a meeting and i mt very ery So good Il from deut dent and other brethren of Liverpool I We Ve were then appointed to 10 our Ott ot of labor Some Booze ot of the breth ran ren soft left the seine night the rest resl stayed I over until Monday attending Sunday Sunda ml meetings tn in Liverpool alt all of time the brethren bore their to the truth troth of the It any rr of the News have UI alt relatives In this part vort ot of the country and wish Ih me inc to call on them I 1 shall be happy to do so soI I arrived at my field ot of labor on February 10 1900 was wall met mel |