| Show I X ELDER BEN E RICH j cd by h The annexed lin from the TOnn r nn Times T mo of or Aug 30 Is I It is I reproduced on 11 going Ui show the liberal thought of o one Ime of tho leading journals of tho and aliI there others in Dixie whose hose towards till the Church and its 1 1 adherents has materially changed In Urn lust ht l decade The Tho ar aI ih s as ns follows foll ws Chattanooga Is to lose a It good goud citizen Bon Bell 12 g who for fOI 1111 years nr has hm made Ihl oily Ills as liS president of llio States mis mission sOIl sion of the tho Church of oC Saints Is going commissioned by h his HS It president l of or ofHie orthe the Hie Eastern Slates i Mr ift mch ail nl of Mormon missionary mIH work orl In the south them was disposition tion on nil tI part of oC to thu tHI work in III which lie was WIlH engaged ell with mystery and absurdity Until Unlit recent years Mormons In tins tI south wore bogles hO le inciting prejudice and passion Mr III Rich filch mule more than other man 1111 Is III responsible fur for a truer conception of the Ihu work In which he and his colleagues have hac been bee 11 engaged Tills work has hm been of a II missionary character depending upon education educational al literature and personal mission work woJ to make known the gospel as the Mor Mormon tOI mon church Interprets It It The of tho Church Chunh as II taught by 1 Mr III his 1 ar I TInt not to either or Ill propriety The 1111 ritual of modern Saint is of character free from text or 01 suggestion that Is not apparently de devout vout Y and normal even In this lay day and of fails und fancies so u fre ly I as religion 1 lon There Is considerable of Ill the practical combined with the spiritual in the llor nl mon missionaries U l must be ho so 1 for theirs thell is IR a II work of combat combating ing prejudice 11 II d lc reasonable or unreason unreasonable able this combination Is IN marked In It ItI Mr I Rich tilh lie Is III truly a man of or affairs preacher teacher executive councilor co I and lIu ln man mall manlie mallUe lie Ue has the head and a forefront p of tho Florida Conference Previously he h located In Smith Carolina a 10 II 11 1 Th Introducing him J his successor SIll to III Iho Ow following In Mr iJ Rich In 10 an ap open tp his says a s sA AH A you o Ill up III your OUt may ein el In my that Cort would In 0 mo nil with Ills t to direct tho missionary lonar work in the tho south I beg heg of yon now no to pray for him and l t 1 1 him to It you ou and to In the Saints as as a 11 man mall of 01 Got God clothed with tins holy hol priesthood filled with lh spirit V pC C his calling and with his heart and In the thc work of or the 1111 ministry try Slay God bless him in his Important calling may nol bliss hos Ihl labor laborIng Ing II in tho vineyard of the Lord 1011 and may llio Ih choicest blessings of nf our only II father Iathel hover hO ll around tho saints who have listened to the gospel sound I May Ia the pence of our nUl Master the homes of our friends who ho have haYI fed cd rested and all protected the servants of I ter who wI came In the name of the Mas Master |
