| Show I oUr OI fir nt rt Who tho Un HII to lb I Kentucky Jul July 24 1100 To Ih the EdItor To 10 Elders laboring In the mission minion heidi the Nw com comes u an a vI view of our home u 81 the they now are and an such uch It I is welcomed b by us u uThe The work of th the Lord though meeting with many obstacles is II still steadily In this Whre We have been able bl to obtain a we And we have made very vry deep impressions on some After ins Inc to the Gospel Gopel In It its fullness II as preached lIy by the Eider Elden we find man many people become dissatisfIed with a form of Godliness Without the power An Instance of this kind came under m my own some months month since Inc IncAn An old gentleman came to one of at our meetIngs and for tor the time In bl his life heard a Mormon sermon The Th sermon w was preached by an n Elder Who w waa but nIne nineteen tun yr veers of a ate e After ACter meeting tl the e gentleman n came up and shook hands hand with u us and mid laid Gentlemen I have been a member of oC oCa ofa a ohu church b forty years ea ud and hue have MW heard man many hundreds of sermons but that sermon ermon just delivered I the bet best I IIer ever Ier lIstened to Before this Urns time he had been rather to u us judging from the reports current that thai w we were bd bad people mt short bort time after arter this Ihl h he wan WAi called upon by a committee sent HIlt by bl his church to find out why h he was Mormon doctrine The pastor ator led Is the committee committe nd abused him for lor havIng any anything thin to do with WI us U lie also 10 gave fe him hi his version ot of the Mountain Meadow Massacre The reply walla was so Lull tull ot of honest conviction that I Re give It a as he afterwards gave ve It to me lie He said Id Pastor I am not a Mormon I dont know that I will ever be one cue In befriending those thole young men who have mon heen reaching In our neigh neighborhood I have simply Imply been doln doing 1 I 1 would woId like to be done by My I home is II ismy my own If food lood 1 Is my own and nd thank God no on one hat has a morta mortgage on It either These Theil young mn men h have shown m me many truths truth which have caused me to think and I will never close m my doors doon to them unless I find something In them or their t which will justify m me In doing so 80 Well VII I Is not polygamy for tor that thaU asked ked the pal pastor tor Jn In reply the old gentlemen told the pastor that he had bad nev never heard a s Mormon lonnon Elder preach that doctrine but even ven that b he said laid h he could jud judge better after hearing harln than before The Tb committee left and a short time after afterwards i wards warda tb the old brother wu was summoned to answer s a charge of heresy The Th reo re suit ault WU was h he wa was turned out of oC the church of which he had been a member for over forty years The used uNd b by the various riou churches church here to 10 pt get members can be summed up In k a few words om In a reo re recent cent reVIval the leading preacher lit be Caine so worked up that h he ly Ir said d to the sInners It If you dont come cOIn up here and get religIon you ou will no Iba share In the resurrection No wonder hi his church II declining all an are aU all the rest In thIs C W We have a band ol of 16 Elders In our conference ot of whIch two are local m dera Wre We are doing a good erk and are re generally treAted well I am rout four brother C E B CROWLY |
