Show letter I 1 EDITOR JOURNAL thinking a few lines from an all old subscriber raight might be gladly received I 1 write you oil myself and companion J J I 1 danl tanner ier are laboring in taylor co kentucky and find tle the country up to the average althou although ai somewhat tome what broken in some portions portio ns the principal crop cop lipina being corn A ve e find the people cleople to 10 be very kind but some have very strange ideas abut the mormons cormons Mor mons hiving having never seen any before and they say you are just like uther other people our oar business is to make friends aud hold meetings distribute reading readia matter amon among a thim fit and we find ma many n v very an anxious xi ous to know more about us and tl ti e ca baui we represent but generally general lv the people area arc a wideawake wide awake people and trying to get along the iest hest they can we have a noble hand band of twenty 6 six ix L iders elderd in the kentucky Kan tucky conference and they are a fearless set of young men full of faith and energy arid and this is it a good place to put our young men that thai they may develop thos those e trails of character and become stronger and fall of faith the work is or opening lening 0 up before us and many of our elders stay at the best hotels and their bill bil I 1 is iacome come again our way has been opened and we have had the ill of holding meetings dealings sinca baly july 4 and sta staying ving with the best people 0 of the county at our last conference we were requested to travel absolutely without purse or script then came cam the trial of our faith but we were determined to do so and from that time we were more successful in holding meetings I 1 and havin having gospel conver conversations conversation satio among the better classes of people although we vie have only had one application for baptism many are investigating and ere long a great many irany will embrace the gospel as are anxious to know if we in d to build churches in this county avd and we wa tell ell them yes just as soon wo n as ye vs get some members this year has been very trying on preachers money being so scarce they could hardly get jong along and consequently many of the churches are seldom opened for serviced service we ave came into the county seat and applied for several of the churches but were refused so BO tried the court house and got permission per and on going to it found it I 1 locked so go found the city marshal and got permission to preach on the street which we did and had large congregations gregat ions find and we held 16 meetings so they had a chance to hear bear the gospel on oil the street some of the people asked us to hold meetings in their private houses and we were able to bold 17 so the way which seemed to be closed up opened to us and many many had a ellyce to hear our message THE JOURNAL comes regularly and is gladly received MARTINEAU i taylor co ky standing at one end of th the building can hear te a whisper and a pin pill drop at t the other end the distance bring being brin bein in two hundred and forty fret fj el I 1 visited the taber tabe r acle and listened lis Iii to their great organ butwid not noi top over sunday to heir hear their choir sing when they hive have thair ir services services on su sunday aliday they have it a choir of over three bree bundled and said the n inin aing 0 is very fin fine e I 1 found the mormon people a ver arv I 1 hospitable lot they are a careful pair painstaking pains is taking poll people e T they aey I 1 have lave their religion and are firm sincere and steadfast in their beliefs I 1 found them ready to discuss thir religion t with all persons and not clannish or self assertive e T they hey elam claim that the bible igla islat divine book and the word of god and they are arc also firm in thur their bailif bi lief lif that the book of his I 1 s the work of god there are no flaral marriages marriages in in utah now the younger generation are opposed t to more than one family arid and in nay my opinion the abolition of poly polygamy gain y in in utah would have resul resulted tea in ft a few years yeara without any law prohibiting hi it the law is upon our statute books and they say they will observe it yet vet s some om of 4 the be older mormons cormons think the law is i wrong wrong as to those who had plural wives wives as it separates men from their families families which families were prior to the edmund tucker law considered in all respects legal AD and legitimate I 1 learned that the mormon church has haa nearly twelve hundred missionaries out in the various por gions of aba world and they are men who go into a foreign country master the language of that country and then preach the mormon religion the mormon church is a great fa factor actor in utah and the surrounding country one thing to their great credit they insist upon every family to live within their income income I 1 lod and be is not a good member of the church unless he be pays all his debts the church cares for its poor the church is kept up by a system of tithing one tenth of the annual increase is paid to the church this may be ba paid in kind or in in money at all the large citi cities es there is a regular tithing house where all kinds ki lids of farm products are tak taken en as tithing and then ilien sold gold to consumers consumer charles r E barrett |