Show missionary letter EDITOR it is a pleasure to me to again have the privilege of penning a few lines to you perhaps tome at roy my missionary la laborg bore will be ot interest inte reet to you as you art are already acquainted with the babits and customs of this country and people I 1 labored nearly a year in the kent district of f the london conference I 1 became acquainted with many good true tru hearted people whose time to t join the church had not yet come though I 1 did my beat to convince them of the truth of the gospel others will so far aa io say they know bellave we have the true church and will even wonder why people are so blind that they cannot see it and at tho the same time they thein selves vc do not belong to the cli church abey are arc afraid that their neighbors will make game of them and chaff them if they become deluded mormons cormons Mor mons as they would be called yet notwithstanding Sta standing riding all this opposition of satan I 1 and my faithful compa companion Djou have been the able instruments in the hands of ef the great god of baptizing seven into the fold of christ had we not had bad this pleasure we should have felt ourselves paid for our labor for we can now raise our heads and rejoice saying wo we have warned thousands though hough few haye have received our mony of the let chapter of corinthians ians commencing at the verse 11 god hat ban chosen the weak things ef cf the earth to confound tho the mighty the foolish to confound the wisp wise and things that are not to bring about things that are my aly good reader try to imagine if you can the feelings of the young mission ary when giving his bia first discourse in some large city or on some street correr with those surrounding him ready to laugh and make light of any ungrammatical langu age that may be used or even the slightest error of speech that may fall from his lip it is then ha be feels bis his weakness and but lie is 19 again buoyed up by the spirit of god find and knowing the mitrion upon which lie ho is sent stands firm to hit big post an and d proclaims in their ears the truths of the gospel upon being released from the london conference I 1 was appointed to labor in the norwich conference but before going to the last named place I 1 spent a week in london that grand city the largest in the tha world containing over four and a half millions milliant milli ont of af people and saw some of her tights sights which fire are impossible to describe dea cribe it is said that about one halfon half of the city whose area js is about 00 square miles is is undermined der mined by unde underground reground railroads and such things while in london I 1 in connection with some other elders held bold a number of outdoor out door meetings meeting 9 which were slightly disturbed on the of june I 1 started on a milo mile journey to my new field where I 1 was welcomed by the elders of that conference and appo appointed anted to labor with elder S B 11 hulce ulet of ditl mit reek sit co ce my arrival hero I 1 have been scriv ng IV io the counties of norfolk 11 and cambridge and oven goiri goin into what are arc called the ahir M s ih I 1 have ave helped to hold in m this T 20 outdoor out olit door and 10 in doo booi 5 3 meetings we have much walting walling to do the hearts of the poo ile have boon been softened toward us s god agod promised they should I 1 kavc vernet met many of toy my relatives her hein in this part somo some of them ba hav heen been very kind kina to me but others have baye been somewhat cool we hope t to be able bobring t bring some of te honest n st in in heart into the chu ach before leaving hero here at lea least we ii ivill ill warn varn thorn and proclaim both long and loud the doctrin grinj of christ lot let persecution come it must let the curtain be held back the shadows of darkness hang bang over us ug god is at theli the helm elin and soon the mighty gan irn monts of man will feel his clias chast inning ning rod for this time we wait the will of god Y WM BAKER |