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Show "FROM WISCONSIN. AX IXTEr.ZSTING LETTEU PROM ELDER JAMES E. AXDERSOX, OF TOQUEltVII-.IE. 718 State St., La Cross, Wis., Jan. 29, 1900. .Editor, Washington County Coun-ty Kews-Dear Sir: Thinking a few lines from this part of the country may be perused with interest by the readers of your valuable paper. La Crosse is a beautiful city built on the banks of the Mississippi river, it has a population of 35,000. This city reminds us very much of our Western homes as it is surrounded by a low chain of mountains covered with many kinds of hardwood timber. We arrived ar-rived in this city September 6th four strong. We took up our abode in the center of the city and soon become very popular and gained notoriety through the pulpit and press. We worked very hard the early part of the fall to make hay while the sun shone and gained enterance into many homes and had the privilege of bearing our testimonies long and loud. We met with little or no ' opposition. Our steay course of labor and success in gaining friends soon caused some of our Christian friends, who profess to be teaching the Gospel of Jesus so kind, to try and hinder our progress by preaching against us, but as before we found friends had been made for us. Our opponent created a little more prejudice pre-judice to crop out of some of those who was filled -with the spirit that i- n n r.lrt-n fl-i o flrmc! nf death. We find that same spirit in the world that Christ said should exist; thev shall kill you and think they do God's service. There are thousands of good honest people in this country serving serv-ing the Lord as best they know how and striving to get more of the light to gain life eternal. We have made many friends in this city and we hold from two to four meetings per week. We saw lit to have our band strengthened so two more elders have been sent here and all find plenty to do. The winter has been very mild and we have all enjoyed the best of health and enjoyed our labors, and if the Devil dont sow tares while we sleep we look forward to see the fruits of our labors crowned with success. We all preach the Gospel Gos-pel without purse or scrip, that is we do not charge the people for our labors as the Gospel was to be preached free to aU mankind; but we are thankful that Christ said to his Apostles, "If ye have a nurse take it." This rule holds good todav, if you fill a mission in the Northern States and have a purse- by all means take it, and be sure you have plenty of scrip as you will need it as it costs the elders from $10 to $15 each per month. We have to do as Paul of old, he hired a room and went from house to house preaching the Gospel; we have to dress well in order to command com-mand respect as this is a very well educated state. Dixie is well represented in this city as elder F. It. Bentleyof St. George is here and the writer hails from To-querville, To-querville, so the Dixie elders hold one third in number, if not quite so much in power. If any of our people have friends or relatives living in this part of the country and wish us to call on n,m. ninnup send ns the address as we will only remain here another month then we will go to our Spring conference confer-ence where I hope my worthy companion, compan-ion, Elder T. P Thompson of Ephraim, Utah, will be assigned his field of labor at home. I thank you for space m your valuable valu-able paper and wishing you success as your paper is perused with interest by us. Your etc.. Jas. E. Anderson. |