| Show j J I i i iI i i I J T J I I iL t i P L J I If Ii f I II 1 I II I 1 11 I L I If I I A I t I 1 i NEW flEW ZEALAND MISSION The LIden Meeting Heeling With Success In Some Pah PahI Iu I Other Oller li 11 a n Great Barrier In An tho f of Dt j Elder W B D Erikson reports ns as fol from Auckland K N Z 23 3 In some parts of ot New Zealand Ze the Eldora Eldor ore meeting with remits while In others the harvest Is slim Indeed Especially F Is the case caseIn caseIn In the European clUes cities where thu minds or ot the people lire are biased by the literature which they read against us Prejudice la III tho great reat barrier burler In the thep pathway p of ot truth Tho open meetings In Auckland i have hIlve been well many familiar faces tac B beIng Been regularly but bu t It seems It our lot to now the tho seed aced others who follow may muy water It and 1 trust trustle I le lie privileged to gather the fruit Lout wt May the Elders EMera In If Dunedin suffered some from the mob element who broke broko up ii meetings but street treet preaching has been 11 returned In both places and In the lat latter ter city no further violent opposition Is Ia anticipated The rho young hoodlums of however Informed th Elders the tho other night that eg were cheap now lOW and then proceeded to storm thorn thom with fresh tresh ones and per perhaps haps hAP would hove have Indicted d bodily Injury i had not lot the police como come on tho scene and dispersed ed the juvenile rioters As IS rapidly as conditions circum circumstances stances will admit steps arc taken for forthe forthe the advancement of ot the tho Maori Saints Solna and a nd as liS a help In this direction President dent J B has hils established e Ile r lIet societies s In branches The sisters are taking a great feat Interest In tills work The first Relief Hellet Society In this mis mission sion was organized In the To Horo noro f branch of ot tho Hay of ot confer canter conference canterI t I ence last March with Mangu its liS president Several more have since been organized In various ulous parts of ot the 1 On August 6 l and the writer left Auckland to attend the con conferences conferences II of at several of ot the southern dis districts We first went to To Te Hauke where a two days s conference wall held t with the people of ot Hawkes Bay Un After visiting several branches In that dis district we continued our OUI journey to Ko near the th south end of ot the Island Hero also alio a good od spirit existed and one man received the ordinance i nance of at baptism Our next conference 1 at Mahln district where jj j two more were added to th the told fold The day following ne we rode rod to oM oMI stopped at the homo of at Wiman I i ga I who Is now residing In Snit Salt Lake I City and had hod the pleasure ure of at seeing Ii tour four of ot Influential In people bap by Rider Elder John E Taylor TIl lor Their names are Waka Vaka and his wife and ond Mrs and her husband who 1 Is a brother to At Poverty Hay 11 a district the assembly was not so liD larJ as nl nt at atthe the other places but the Spirit of at the Lord was with us and excellent Instructions were Riven llen by Elder Eldor and others An Elders counsel was waa held at which the following Elders were era present and as na It proved a II spiritual feast J E J M J B E C A Allred II It IL Solomon D X N J It n Johnson K 0 Q Cannon J W Sliver Silver H J Johnson Jes Jel e W H n Erikson After the conference the El EI ders departed for fop their several fields fieMs of at labor fhe he writer returning tn Auck lIek land by steamer Riders Folders and ond Taylor TR lor coin In on overland with the thc view of ot tho Maori i nn on the a The v tn ar nr arrive rive In Auckland d In about two months nn un Ann Imo r I I I Ono of ot III 11 i Let Off nt Dayton Halon Ohio Elder Silas 8 S Smith Jr writes from j Dayton Ohio Oct 17 Myself and other Elders of at the tho t Church have been laboring In this city i during durIn the months AVo Wo havo hao I I a n portion of at this city of I t j I nC Inhabitant dis distributing r tract and convers ing with Ith the people on the tho plan of ot m NIl We hae hUd many meetings j on the street corners proclaiming the restoration of the Gospel 1 of ot Christ f calling the people to repentance warn InK ing of the Judgments that are f noon to overtake th the wicked and en In our weak WO nj to preach t the l In plainness ami simplicity We have made many friends and n nt few t The city officials have treated us with Ith f and the people have hae very rry tolerant Dut the adversary has hall MIC ue In stirring up some ministers who felm to that should hould the Gospel In Its Ita purity and simplicity b be many of their communicants rant would and oby o Last LallI Sunday Sunda th HI Dr T J C who claim to hII been labor J Ing as a missionary In Utah during the last 11 lit vears delivered a Il lec ture tUte In a M I E J of lit this thin city Ity i for Ills ilIA Its Menace Ien and In h Dr Him said MId the th Mormon Church has hu the mo mott t per form torm of on fin Muth Ho iro irol l spoke fIOke of ot Joeph Smith tM Prophet his hI parentage birth life ridiculed rl vis of ot heavenly vis Ia lon Ion etl tr and denounced the tho nook of Mormon as os a II fraud H He related the an nf f the Mormon If t U Jt was AS of ot their unsavory character and Smiths were tre murdered by b n mob while In Carthage He lie deprecated mob 1 violence however and sail said he ho dill did not fIOt believe bellevo In mob of any ony kind Spoke of ot President nt Young ns os a groat leader among men Ho hall had hadn n great Influence over the minds of at tho th 1 Mormons Hut But defied the laws Dr IlIff said tho United States hall had to send un army ormy to Utah as the Mor Mormons Mormons mons wele In a state slate of ot rebellion Continuing he gave What purported to tobe tobe be n 1 history of at and the tho against tho Church down to tho present time But Dut hlo sermon was full tull of at vituperation I At the close of Mr Ir sermon sennon wo 0 went made ourselves known and applied for tor nn on opportunity to reply reilly to Dr Pro but we 10 were w re promptly refused the church We have havo also applied for tor many mony churches to preach In but are MO always refused The Tho answer Invariably Is we dont believe bellove In MormonIsm cannot Jet M you OU preach In our churches Wo bellevo the opposition arrayed against tho work of ot God will result r sult In good will cause many to Investigate Hate gate the doctrines taught by the Lat Saints The Tho News and Era lire are welcome visitors arc Dr anxiously anxious looked for by b the Elders I A GOOD Killers HIller AntI Saints In West Virginia Have nn Catherine Elder Albert E 1 Miller In a n letter leUer dated Grafton W Va VII October IB 16 re reports ports parts as follow Our fall conference which In Buttons Suttons Draxton county ended last night and now the Elders Ehlers me starting for tor their fields of ot labor Elder Ehler of or the tho fourteen Elders Ciders of the conference some of ot our Saints were In attendance besides many others who had holl come orne out outto outto to hear We wore very ery well treated nn th hp nf or theli the Gospel and the divinity j Iv l ti of tho mis mission m Iii sion of ot Joseph Smith were delivered The Instructions the received I came cain from the Lord through His servant ant and an tho Elders ore arc all feeling well wellIn wellIn In the work We have many man good fields to labor In and many honest souls to carry the Gospel to and we Wo look forward with pleasure to the tho time our Heavenly Father will see Dt fit to re IC our labors That Ho has been doing so In the tho past ast astIs Is attested by b the baptisms In this conference this year with many more marl making n serious Investigation of ot our message Our number of Elders Is constantly being diminished and aull lar o counties only twelve tele Elders fui rUI ample work for tor nil all but we pray for the Lord of ot the vineyard to send wore laborers and to make those now hell qualified l for their great work The people among whom we labor are very kind In entertaining the HI m mIers dors and tho Lord has opened many avenues for us to carry carl the to thorn thom |
