Show ovel till 1 sa s1 E A burrows tells ot of his Missi missionary onry field v AND RACK SENT RENT causing 1 misery amoda the tha F f of gf i 51 t E britain 1 11 since si nce my gylat lat cona U 1 I 1 to trin 1 lia hae e been somewhat unsettled hat hai iu in 0 g 1 travelled ravelled ravel fravel led in warwickshire Warwick shire e and phare as the lii me abers of 0 our U r church are very inac much li scattered overn over i vast extent of country and there are but fey missionaries ve vc have abc only jwj in each district who are travel ing missionaries and much of the trac traveling cling lias has to be performed on foot from town to town and from froin kulage 0 to village some of our members have been connected our church 30 and 10 40 years on oil the of last january vie me bield our semi annual ail mial conference it in the hoc II ockley kley chapel birmingham 0 at which twenty three missionaries sion Eion aries irom froin utah were present apostle lund there the resident t of tiie the mission vc e had excellent meetings s and add addres es the sa I 1 report read showed that the 1 total num number lier of olli cers and member in this conference was on the follo following iving monday evening wu nye hele held ii a social party in thu the same hall and an excellent tune time was enci joyd consisting of dan dancing n za eing iny ing recitations recitation music etc elc oil on I aeb ei acis ix new members men ibers were baptized into the hockley ockley II branch the theaople hieple eople generally are very benl enl in r regard eg ard to the saints and look upon it with doubt and as we have n no 0 clAir churches ches erected i here itai e they look upon upon us not as min axters of the gospel but more as colonists who wish to make a speculation out of them in many cases burche hur che chapels and religions in are so numerous that it is not a dui 1411 cult matter for persons to find a religion that suits them and one that is is popular illustrating the saevii of file savior vide is ib the gat and broad is the way that leads to destruction and many maily there lie he who go in thereat not I 1 ot w the progressive nou I 1 oukine of moat hobt sectarianism iu in ll 11 I 1 xi niland land during the past century at t inest bo admitted on examina i that in educational matters alad strides have been made show that in 1811 41 per ee e of young people getting mar ICU could not lead nor write writ u their 0 ov names in 1891 1691 through the vy everence of public educators iia alarming large percentage of dracy had been reduced to CA C pf af cent only of elioe e getting gelling n no tied lied who could not mad nor r w f e in hi 1841 the government e tilled pounds in the m i rest of education in ili the year the nn government ex for educational 1 purposes 9 the agricultural and industrial interests ts or of england ap pear to lag causing much poverty 1 among the ibo toiling nSf some time lime ago I 1 atte attended ded a lecture on on the wretched condition of brit british ish industry the lecturer stated that tha till in J england ti gland alone there were une one million and a half of nien men out of employment while mil ions ot acres of land owned by the lords I 1 1 were ere lying byln g untilled unfilled thou though 1 the file coal dispute of la lal lai I year rep was settled by the assistance of f the lords still stil I 1 it is said there i are a great many miners millers who only work about two days per per week and these nien men it have ave large families to bup support port so to all those who happen to be out ef cf employment in ill utai utah the there re is this encourage merit their chances of starvation ire arc scarcely aoe de in ten len thousand there to one in a hundred here there when z man is a man if hes willing to toil lid ild jilly imy reap of his labors the fruits of the llie soil but here no matter how willi willing ug a man mail is to toil lie he has to pay pa a high C rent for the soil and a hi high h price for the fruits bread is cheap at present and plenty in some parts thank god and american agriculture and other countries it t is astonishing to see the quantities of Aine american rican beef and mutton that are imported and cons consumed here american beef costs here about sand 8 and 10 cents mutton about the same 0 of f course the roast beef of old england cots a little more the past winter ill in england has been remarkably open opell very little snow ha having v i n g fallen the ground hosteen has bean bare most of the time during february terrific gales allies swept over england in doi doing ng much damage in many cases throughout this district tall smoke stacks were blown down and in one instance the roof of a house ft a few miles from froin here and buried up up several people trees tree s were rooted and buildings building unroofed and blown down beleas has alo also 0 been quite hurrious fur rious in march but the he trees are now in bud the primroses prim roses arp ara a ar r e be beginning in GA boblo r bloom om nature is fast donning ont ling her gorgeous garb of green and al already realy the birds are arc singing n their joyful songs bongs 0 telling us of brighter and better times at hand band and cheering k the hearts ol of wanderers far from home yours truly jo J o BuRi tows |