| Show g w J I I i 4 4 b rl J tIk SOUTHERN STATES I III n Hut ho line oO to 10 the tho Elder F F p 1 Dalton In a n letter lotter dated Oakland Miss Hiss March 4 1 relates the following Incident of missionary life Tho debate ul al already ready chronicled In tho the columns of at the Deseret News NOWR occurred at nt Ie county Miss and from opinions nod general Im existing In this 20 neighbor neighborhood from h hood od which which U Is only ani about o out 20 miles from Teasdale Teesdale the Mormon faith was wall amply Imply and ably defended by Eider I Mo and put the tho Christian nd nil vacate flay Hev Jackson and his colleague Rev llev Fugua on op their mettle As All a n re suit ott Ilov Hov Fugua I challenged Bill or orn K E En KH n H Wool w foP foi n a debate on the same subjects which I will not 1101 enumerate here hero as It Is only my m purpose to re recite r recite cite vito e what followed folot foloto tr Kov Rov K I C 0 1 b who o lathe Is IR the tho edlor of ot the tho Apostollo Light the tho organ or an of ot the Christian church In Mississippi lU sl ld made arrangements arrangement for tor forthe tho the dobbin to take place hero here tho the minister of at tho the Presbyterian church having given his word wort that time tho church churchhouse churchhouse house of which ho was Willi pastor ho 10 thrown open alIen for tor tho time debate Elder traveled GOO roO miles Elders Ehlers ers Wooley Y and Clegg g g GO CO mites miles and Elder and myself 30 miles that hint we ve might do Just justice leu to the Iho cause causo We wo have JI VO espoused t tIto Rev Ilov Ito I wan IM here and It looked ns nil though we would have luwe a n tale fair and friendly debate The Tho weather was wall One fine The news noes had been scattered tar far and near Mormons from a 1 distance w were re coming also Christians Christiana Methodists i Presbyterians Baptists young and old began to gather In Storekeepers ask aak asked ed el 01 to have hl ve It postponed positioned from front 11 Ii a n m till 7 p m tn that they might better belter at nt attend attend tend Merchants greeted ns us on the tho streets with pleasant I The Tho principal announced It In his hl school All Alt were eager to attend with lIh no thought of at malice maitre nut flat lot ml Tho The anticipation of ot so many people was nipped In tho iho bud by our erstwhile Presbyterian friend who Informed Fugua that ho he positively would not let those Mormons use u o the tho church churchhouse churchhouse house In doing this ho had bad over overridden overridden overridden ridden the tile will of ot the tho Elders of at the church and disappointed tho the assembled n crowds Rev Fugue Fugua at nt once net set about getting the tho schoolhouse The rho trustees m p c MA fI M n nn an pounced the change In school u u 11 i myself lu elt went up to see Sf about aboul arranging ln the seats after school and allt were Informed that the tho trustees had changed their minds We could not use UR tho the building An Am effort was wait made by lingua Fugua to get gOI tho the debate changed to 10 some sane oth other other other er town but as ns there thero were neither Mormon nor Christian church houses within a 11 reasonable distance and all nil other propositions wore were so much like the one we wo had hall Just had hall tho the debate urns postponed Indefinitely After supper we went wen I out on tho the ve veranda ve veranda randa of at tho the hotel and sang gang a 1 few Mormon Mannon songs Rong From people turned up They The kept across s I Ithe the street however Hut But on tho Lords side Bide who Love LOIt at nt home etc ele drew thorn thom nearer and nearer to where hero we were they applauded at nt each Interval the till more we sang the tho larger grew grow the crowd Finally 1 some someone someone one ono asked n for tor a talk Tho The consent of ot the railroad agent was liS secured by b some of the citizens for tor us to preach on rail raU railroad railroad road rond ground Then we e would not nol be he plAtIng placing ourselves where the town om officials could molest UR us Elder Wooley and McKendrick e to the people Thus was urns the tine preached to the people of ot Oakland by b song nUll anti speech In spite of ot everything and everybody overy bolly We WI had gained a n victory Testimonies Faith J In a 1 letter loller received from Elders Elder J 3 S and F I M Millet Who are la In laboring boring In the North Alabama confer once ence of at the Southern States mission the tho News Is naked to give I to the testimony of ot Brother W V H Iti Kins of ot Ala He ne says that for tor yeara ho was wn troubled with epilepsy When ho hI hoard the Gospel he h wn convinced and received baptism at the hands ot of Elder Gardner He lie rues v at ed that ho he should hould not swain again be troubled with the malady and slues then h hI he has hall been well ell It Is s now six alx years sinN since he Joined tho the Church A sister ulster S Harris of at Lot Lor 10 etlo Culman Co eo Ala AU says she sliu re received received received In answer to prayer a n testimony mony mon of ot the truth NORTHERN STATES I r the Elder H IT tarter writing from Nevada Ne Nevada vada Story Co Cu Iowa Marcie March 1 says HUI We have just finished meting Val Valley Valley al alicy ley icy Junction with a population of ot 1100 It Is a n railroad center I and religion comes last with the people We have people to contend with much misleading m liter literature aturo I net met an nn aged gentleman the other day who says lIas ho heart heard the guns go goolT off olT that killed the tho Prophet Joseph JOH h I naked asked him his opinion about the affair He lie said he hud had always considered It very cry unjust and that the law should have declared him either guilty gUilt or not guilty I also met mel another gentleman who sold Brigham You Young UK a bunch of ot horses horse lIe He gave glo a good account of ot Utah Ut h EASTERN STATES mw NI V CONi ACI Meetings Bald BallI to tn bo 0 Yell Attended In to Various forme Eldors Hillers W V 0 and Wm I L Van Wagoner In n a n letter dated Newton Mass Mals March 3 IHa 1600 tJ state that the the conditions In tho the conference are arc very encouraging One hall and ond three cottage meetings are r being held weekly In a w many lilt Ulf E t tr r T y nt 1 I terent places viz 11 Boston Hyde c l sail nd M e and honest heart henrt ed cil people am are being attracted to them thern Our Biller K I I n Clyde I Is III i an nn loader lender zealous in time Ihl of ot his hll duty and ami worthy the trust reposed In lie III lino has the of ot tho and Elders Our future mission t president Elder ElderIC IC K II 11 Nye NYI has hus recently Auld us till a tt visit and while here In ht company with Eller l lyd lyde made u a L tour tOOr through the thu north northern cm IIII part of ot the tho conference visiting the HAInta holding 11 encouraging them In ht theIr ralth explaining time tho l to and Investigators The rhe Now In is a n welcome visitor and n II potent factor In III the hands of ot the tho HI ICI flora tors In III tho o of ot truth BRITISH M AS I Thu ho 10 II News NewN n VIIU Among limo faille Eider Win Will T rl tea front from Dunstable harts Herts lob Fob I eb 22 28 I Your paper IB is Indeed a n very welcome visitor and vu wu lUll It very helpful In our labors The Saints are aio 01 eager auger to 10 get Kut the Deseret News Nolis from us U i also wo we find investigators anxious to rend mid It thus It often opens up tho the way WilY for tor a visit amid conversation upon the principles of vital Importance I J and Elder Ehler r I If H Smith came hero from front St Bt Albans 1110 nil whore he and Elder ElderA A Gardiner have been laboring tho the past t year on time the 3rd of ot February to labor and with HIP o holp help of ot the Lord to awa awaken ken now ItOW Interest here among the tho peo people pie Wo We find lilt that we lire are r from past times timeR for far In lime Iho early days many emigrated from around here So like mushrooms we wo turn up tl again un unawares unwelcome visitors to 10 through blessing we find and make friends We have been Jean fairly In trading Home cone Somali small vII vil villa la lager ROB and succeeded In removing ren some seine prejudice and as soon an nl favorable will endeavor to 10 hold meetings among the people Our prayer IK I that wo we may Inny some Rome sockets after truth that lint we by bythe bythe the Iho Lords help holp may bo be the lime Instruments ments for them to receive recell the true trul light We WI hold good cottage meetings at mind and ort every Oler two weeks week and amid expect to at tit Sutton Button next weep week and hall hull 1111 t meeting on Sunday evenings at St BI Album The rite tracts ore arc often spoken n of ot as the tho beet best the people have wad rend not nol being mart mad up of ot Idle hilI stories slotted of ot which the people are uio tired oven even a minister will acknowledge by action netlon what the people say An In words wards One OM some Bome lino ago hail had n me bound baund Hays sent Bunt hint him and tind the Iho people noticed ho hl had considerably cot changed In his hll preaching since since Thus Thusn a little leaven of truth starts the great mass massI I am nm pleased to say nay wo we are enjoying our labors and have 0 excellent health Notes Millennial Star 20 Ehlers arriving hero Ins I week for tor the British mission have hn been assigned us to 10 the tho following conferee conferences es cs Charles M r and Albert Iberl 11 u Ford Fond 1 N Williamson anti and Joseph Newbold Jr JI London Amos Antos moll Fenley Merroll and David L 1 Leeds Alma AlOIn A Smith and Daniel Williams Nottingham David Doltl J I L Dowding line has been Jeon transferred from fron Birmingham to following Elders J homeward bound bond sailed Balled from coin Liver Liverpool Liverpool pool 1001 today per steamship Dominion Frederick A Mitchell Stephen W Walker Nits I 1 Aagard Angard I William F 1 Hotter Fredrick I 0 O Hufner Hutner Peter V Y Bunderson on David Crackles hitherto Incorrectly reported II H Charles A Peter N tt J Ilow man James Jo mites I 1 P John Jolin Johnson son non Albert 1 K Johnson 1 and Henry I N Hottendorf STAKE CONFERENCES CON FER o March quarterly tako slake conference convent il l yesterday ye V with whim three SI ami and continued over today with two Iwo lie Tho overhead was n flee flap fi r had tind the Iho n In the city ellY wore were dry but hut time the country roads were Impassable on ou account of or the thi late hUll and continuous pros pre precipitation elI Matson of ot snow anti ruin rain A delight delightful ful spiritual feast reset was wan enjoyed bv lIy nil 1111 present Standing room was at nt a premium before the tho time ilium for tor Stake Priesthood meeting was tuna IMd I Saturday night night nl hl on the stand stant wi wire Ir i iA Apostle pORtie A M F I h Cowhy owhy C who arrived at l 30 p I in in Elder U n Young Youn John of the tho general bound o of at religion classes J W A Hide llyde and Alonzo Norton and Carl J Cannon The Tho clinic was wn augmented and with truth string Instruments Rider miter subject was religion class eln work Apos Apoy Apostle Ap a atie tie tle gave a n lute fine discourse on A Marvelous Work Wok and a 1 Wonder Eliot Seymour U Young Yong pok spoke Mon Men Monday day forenoon on the very timely topic of at sanitation Elder er Hyde Il d reported ru r 1 the stake as nB Im Improving m warde proving orlly It has ha 10 wards with only live or meeting meetinghouses meetinghouses houses at present There Is a II 10 per percent percent cent increase of lit tithes tithe II th III hut but also a I larger list of on uc cc count of at tho the more specific returns return of ot I statistical reports by The nun gun oral and local lo nl officers were sustained without n it 1 dissent the new omeerA bo be boIng belog Ing log L I C Pond stake tithing clerk cl rk Time The stake stoke board bour of ot educe education tion wore W A Hyde N S 9 Pond fond H n HR R 1 Woodland L I 1 C 0 Pond Ponti K E I D eon con and Arthur Noah f B Pond fond of at religion class clans In III this city for tho the b biting being Tho The ward clerk Is 14 busy bURY transferring names and genealogy Into u new sot sol of ot record hooks aril ana reports success In this perplexing work RETURNED RN ED MISSIONARIES ludo Henry P 1 writing from mom halt March Inu h 8 reports that ho he teas nan sot Mot on the Oth of at atOc Oct Oc 1900 1000 for n a lul to the Iho Bouth Ile States On arriving at nt St At ohn Kaunas he lie one nil assigned to labor laborIn In III tho the Oklahoma conference the first t nine months lie III labored n IIA as a n cr ran n missing The fhe next seven months hu hl labored among the tile In the lie h nail Creel nations end And then nt at the spring conference held heldon on Feb 24 21 and 25 71 2 1901 IDOl he tuna called to 10 preside over oer the conference until the 2nd of the th following February when he received his lda He lie arrived home hOIn on all the of February White away towny ho he enjoyed his labors greatly anti and was treated well Tho Thu people In that part ho says ays are very kind hind and the Elders W are making milking many friends and Elder Frederick 0 G F Huttner of at this city elty returned on tho the OUt Oth of ot this month from the mission Ion for tm cm ho lie was WIM set apart on the tho HIli of at February 1899 While absent he has hns been labeling In the thu Dresden Stutt Stuttgart Stuttgart gart gort and conferences He lie pre pro presided sided over Ocr tho the latter two The Tho lust last seven oven months ho he eluted edited for Dor Stern the th Church organ lie He says nH hr feels well and that thai he had an nn enjoyable Elder Elie I Perry It II of Law Lawrence Lawrence rence len I Emery county returned to this city on time the of ur title this month from frum 1 the Southwestern States where he hl hns has been laboring In tho ho Arkansas conference Ho lie was set Act apart on the day of ot October 1399 Ho lie slates that Iha I ho he enjoyed good health except during the part of at hi his hili mission mind and that he lee baptized flue tc applicants a while In the field Tho The last nine months he acted as 19 counselor to Elder Ehler K n 8 S lie Me McAllister Allister AlU Eider Willard L Jones Jonen of at Overton Lincoln county Nevada NOalla was set apart aparton on the tho hit I t day of ot November 1839 1809 for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the Southwestern rn t Plates where hp hI labored In the Lone Star confer conference con conference reI ence encl Texas lIe Hu states that he hI had a n time In n the flue field with the ex ox exception e option of In III the tho first part when he ho suffered some lome front from chills and fever fer The l lder he says are as RI ft a rule Iule treated kindly and meeting with goot He his returned to this title city ell on or o the of or this month Elders Joseph Jo eph R F of West We t Port Portage age county reports r by b letter Jellel that lint in iii the latter later part pari of ot March 1809 18 9 he was wal appointed to 10 till fill a I mission ml lon to Australia He lie sailed from frum San Fran ClICO May 17 Ii 18 9 on the this steamship Mourn MOlInA arrived In Sydney June 10 and ana was SI to 10 labor In the New South Vales Walea conference cont rence In September he heal was al transferred to Hobart Tasmania conference then In January ho he was appointed aJ to Co labor In to Launceston Tas Tasmania Tasmania mania inhere he remained until re ra roo leased lie He says he enjoyed his hi labors very much The Saints Ire are very ery kind to 10 the Ih l kleI and they the do all In their lower I Oer to Co help them In III their mission On hl hi his return h lie he visited his sister In Iran Hound valley Oregon mid and his brother and niece In Idaho He Ile arrived home hom on ou Feb 1 13 IS im 1102 l O In ht good health and spirits Elder Perry ferry rry D Huntsman of ot Overton ward Id |
