| Show THE INDIA MISSION 41 BT ELDER changey chancey chan CHAT gey GET W WEST CEYLO P oona arlbia aribu lett LETI lenen lener ER NO 2 the tha next eay aay cay after we arrived at galle galls a piece was published in in the newspaper notifying the people that we vo had come to declare one of joe smiths revelations that we preached a new gospel that we vie were polygamists that they must beware of us and not hot receive receive us for if they did they ibey would be partakers part par akeis takers of our evil deed deede we round found Wim it possible to get a house to hold meetings in or any person to take us in and feed us As we had hid a letter of introduction to a gentleman in colombo lir mr air andra we concluded to go there a distance of 7 miles ullies on arriving at Color colombo ilbo libo he received us kindly but butas as he be was a alyee lawyer ai yee religion did not trouble him much however he be was a member of the church of england but he acknowledged to us that he did not believe there w was aas any more salvation in in that church than there was wms out of it and that he was an infidel in belief ll 11 he thought so much of his good name that he could not emford afford to keep mormons cormons long por for fearon fear of being publish d ja in the papers however he let us stop with him for afew days during which we visited among tile tiie people trying to geta get a house to hold bold meetings in but all to no purpose we went to the authorities and tried to get the public hall hill they wey being men who belonged to some of the christian churches of burse courso course we could not have it we left our testimony with them we visited both high and arid liw priest and people but reasoning and testifying had hid po good effect upon them bliem they would not open their doors for preach preaching ingi neither would they feed us unless vi we e paid them dider elder dewy sold his watch to get money to purchase food aitho altho he did not get half its value we were denied th the s privilege of preaching to 10 the tile so diers diera or visiting them the low class of europeans aa as well as the half castes and natives who ar are educated inthe english eull euli ish language lan ian guage thy th y are depend dependent enton on afew a fe w speculators and government men for employment and if they do anything to di dimple se the priest priests t they tiley lose their situation tion and then starvation will follows thus a few great men with the priests all alt altheir at heir their head bead have the people in fetters while the priests are rolling in in luxury As A for them the are generally an ail indolent drunken enand anand and filthy people subsisting on cocoa nuts and other fruits which grow spontaneously uy over alie island after spend spena spending ipg several weeks in tr traveling froin hrom from place jo 0 o place under the thel bernini sun of that elimere clime elim ewe we did not feel able to endure such treatment ranch much longer therefore wp concluded to return to galle galls and give the people another trial arid and if they would not receive receive us w we would leave and go fio aio to a people that won would ld the weather being boing very hot it took toola us five days dag to walk to galle galls vie we slept upon the ground and our food was rice and cocoa buts we passed throy thru 37 native mine towns and learned som ellain g tit olf the ther r sick sickening enin g iradi immoral ral rai practice practices a ani cocia degradation the promiscuous in intercourse ter course amon the sexes isso isso common that little or no disgrace attends it even tho the uhe the parties were engaged in the violation of the marriage garringe mar ringe rel rei relations allons uness un es it be with one of the inferior rank in gocie socie society tyl then if exposed the one in in superior standing loses reputation and that most odious practice there prevails of a plurality of if hu bands binds a woman may have bave have ais a many husbands hu bands as suits her disposition dispo they ahey do not all share alike ducommon Ju n common in in regard to her favors but each enjo s it r attention atin tion exclusively clu alu at faatea slated elated periods or at her pleasure when sha gha ile lle be corries becomes the mother motter of a child she nom nam malesa matesa father and ajl aal he has to it on oil arriving at galle we met with the same reception ail a L before oftentimes being abused abused ill lii in a most t shameful dianner manner after this tins we went and saw the american consuls lon con agent mr air walker who slid did Y roi rot ot treat us wilh with wilh respect lie laughed at our out papers and said governor young wa wat the lie lle man who rode throy snit silt lake luke city wish with sixteen wives anes said we had bad come coma to the wrong place to preach mormonism dior monism we bore testimony to I 1 him bun of the gospel which we ye had tad to declare e to the peo people pie we told him bim we sad bad had been ill lii used and he said that thit was what A a might expect after which he left us tsa vve V were told by a number of gentlemen afterwards an rast lie le had informed them that we ue did not belong to america that bhatta ea llor mormons Mor mons had rebelled against the government and violated the constitution 1 this his official official story awry being afloat it clen had bad its influence vve ive lr to havethe avd ave the island cf to sin pore but as there wei wet e no sailing vessels running to that port the be only chance wa was wes to go by the steamers buti butt they would I 1 not take Us tib for less than 50 each ea cli under these circumstance we saw no hancel of or getting t dway iway away awny A few das after the large hip ship penola penoia I 1 frill from belfast Beli ireland carn came s in fit for water while on its voyage from born australia to bombay we concluded if we could obtain a passage we would go to bombay and visit br findlay and hen sail from there to siam and by so doln dolo doing fulfill fulfil a very sin singular gular guiar dream which I 1 had a few night nights before lelath relative e to to bis liss assistance istance ii e went on boarin board and fou faund found iiii arica no trouble in getting our pal pai passage passage sage we returned an shore and got our trunks and went on board alain the next evening two tuo gentlemen came on beao boari and told 0 panini rally rany that they hoped be he was not going to take us to bombay dombay j that we were mor mons mains and anal men een men not worthy vor thy to associate asso claie cinie with captain rany rally whoa w ho w as an irishman told them 1 I dont dork care a dineh what their faith i Is lathey they hate have trea treated feti feil moa roe ilke like gentlemen prid jand they have the appearance of such buch and they are guingao going to bombay with me I 1 if f in my y cr crat alt all dont sink 11 I 1 may hlay here remark that we might have I 1 ie e ey p able to td make arrangements with the captains of the St steamers earners for surpass our passage ge if sf the good pious folks had not uselin used in fluence against us annet after leaving ceilon celon we sailed failed bouth south we weil si until we struck the ath degree of south latitude where we got the trade winds we ve then steered northeast north east crossed the arabian sea and struck the coast 71 miles above bombay the day bero belo e getting into bombay while failing railing along the coast about IQ 10 miles in lies iles frum f rum num shore the ship ran ground aground a the wind was blowing moving very very tery hard and the waves were running very high and when the waves struck the ship ilief would I 1 alse laise her up tip and then she woul would d come down with a tremendous cr crash ash osh ns as if she ehe mu mut must t come to pieces in a very few minutes and arid to all human appear appearance mets meas we must roust be lost in the great deep as a the small boats were BO so placed that it would take somo some time ti to ge get them overboard ani when they did it was doubtful doub fui ful whether they v ride the sea elker elder elder eider C B F dewy beay and myself went to our room and aked asked ille ilie lord that the winds would cease blowing and that lie ile aou would la gave save save pave us from the fury of or the elements about this time they launched a boat and it filled in a minute a few minutes after they put over another boat loat alid and in a few minutes more it was almott almot a calin calm arwe were about to leave the ship captain rany discovered that she was afloat he is called t to the carpenter to sound the pumps he found three feet of water in her hold the captain t hen then said he be would try and ta lake take keher her into bombay ile lie put A bame bime me of the hands to the pumps and some to hola hoi hol athe the gails calls and the next morning the sloth of july we 1 in bombay we found round elder hugh findlay chow who ws s happy to see fee us after being so iong long a time in that benighted land lie ile had a smail small branch of the church established in dum bum bay and anil one in in poona 93 rulles thence we called on elder findlay the president there to know where be would have us to labor jabot the fe few w mouths we i e would tarry with mini him Is tie ilo thought it best for thi me to stop in bombay and for him arid and elder hewy lewy to ro 0 lo 10 o poona I 1 august elders findlay and dewy lent left for poona roon a I 1 held four meetings a u eek tek ju bambay bombay an and also visited a great number of 01 people altheir at their house houses making my own introduction by way of tracts to read I 1 fund that the people acted generally shy fhy and did not feel free to converse or to accept of a book to read I 1 I 1 willy took the J iberry to ask them thein the reason of that and had why they rejected ejected us without investigating our principles that thili saint pauls admonition was prove all things thing s and hold fast that which is good gooda 11 some of them told me that their minister had ilal told them they must not read lead our works or th thy tiny y would be deceived that thit it was such a deception that almost all wild allowed themselves to investigate were viere caught in the delusion several natives attended my meeting among whom was one who of off fired mired artal himself for baptism he lie is was wan abw aou weil well ell eil educated in the tile englich h langual and and could speak eky sky several others I 1 I 1 ad hopes he lie would be a useful man but as soon as lie he found to his satisfaction bhat thai what I 1 bas bad had told him was wag the truth how that the elders cf our church went wen 1 forth without pulse or scrip aid aid nid we had not a few thou and lacks of rupees in the bank of to draw from to hire the natives iri iii tives to acknowledge our religion lie he returned to the church ot 01 england where he sid said bid he formerly bad two rupees i piece cf elf money worth 44 cents a week but now got three the tile natives natives of india and more particularly tile the upper caste whatever their religion may bi be it lil ial K made subservient to present inter erl ert the the idea tit it their receiving by immediate imme dute revelation lation a menage from god for the their 7 ir implicit obedience J is most moa foreign figu fetu their ilona he who come comes etheln tt to heln them a and lel tel has ild bribe to odier offer no message for then them kt esho the englif english and american ri have gone to that country have been furnis furnished bed bea with plenty of money by the missionary f at ilc lic licile me mid n u len ien 11 qi 11 they found that they could not win sin win ain a in the tire stives with their principle principles gathey they have hired them thein to join their churches this sund jund und hav have e written back what A hat great things tl ey are doing in converting the ibe poor heathen be ithen I 1 have had bad numbers of th alim m conie come ta to me ond and offer uffer to leave the churches iames hey hex mere were then 1 acknowledging and come to ours if I 1 only give them a few cents more than they werthen vere ehen hert heit getius at the same time they knew no more about iho the principles vies vieb and faith faiths tf if i f the church to whir whit h they professed to belong than tile the brute beast arld and theae bame tunie people will bow down arid and worship ship sticks and tones lio s of theia thela own inake snake make when the y think there Is no christian ch ridin 6 seeing them truly have these missionaries aries arles fulfilled the raying sayin of the savior when he bo said thai that they would com compass pass sea ea and land to make one prose proselyte iyler lyley an alii then he be would be oe twofold more a child of hell than he lie w is as before they have taught them to be dece taul und and isho bet the reasons why the n tive whom I 1 b in ill bombay did not believe what I 1 told him hlin that I 1 I 1 w was bent tent forthwith out ont purse or scrip and had not money to bite hue lim rim tr ba be a christian n nd that if he joined oitt church he do eo it for fur the love of the truth was uns as that tle tie krew knew that all missionaries with hom bom whom he had bad been acquainted had plenty of money and that at the samo same time thue would shy sly sav say they had bad none 1 I would here herb hero bero re remark markas s the missionaries von ion fonaries aries arles wish to kep in t the good food graces of tho rho ratios 1 t Is a common thing thin when they tiley comi come oar gar lioney money qasem or s i bething athi ethi ll 11 g which winch they lirey do not vi wish ih 6 to liet tiet let iet thie afie them 14 kave have they 1 sky say say siy they haie have hav hono bono bone in elend stead of offing billj ing I 1 they ay cannot lef iff tb rhem them em have havo li aielt it nence hence tile native natives look for rles ries to tell them these little white while lies iles lie lle as the down easter easier would say pay on the ath of september aider elder allen alien findlay from england armed attired in on a mission to that cou country n after tarrying tarry ins wih with me a ft few days dais st by request of b ins is brother blugh he went to poona to tak take charge of the wark in that place I 1 I 1 october esth first breit findlay and elder dewy tewy ret rel resumed arned to bombay I 1 t wasi wasa the then il autumn in n ail ali andre andro d u e thou thought it time to start for fur siam slam but could abid find rica no chip thip sailing in that direction savo save theria therin the mail marl il steamers ste ete amers and it was wag im possible for us ts to i a passage on them without money president findlay thought it best lo 10 give gie gio bombay another latr lair consequently we circulated a small email printed sheet containing ponie soine f the articles of our fath aln alpo a notification to the people perpie that thit ne i e would hold meetings at three aelter allt points t I 1 in III til I 1 he e citti city aaril naming haming ini the places placed and hour goun of ot service pervice f I 1 went inow inti Fort Gerge to als Ais tribute some gome fomhof bt these printed sheets whereupon i I 1 was stopped and ordered to be e escorted sc orteLl orteal aut out orthe fort with a guard of bodier so dier and myself or any other mormon arb adilen to return we attended our appointed places of 0 several bev bet era times while noone no one came carrio to hear i pe we then ihen hen thought we 0 would leave leae them without a chance cf of excuse by visiting thern thai a allatt belr beir Jip lif uses leaving our testimony ony oay ny and ana offering them tracts 0 6 o read and I 1 must say siy our dur general reception w was as elther either the european sneer or that cold formal so characteristic of that coun conn try i t during this t time fine th the e brethren who ho belonged to IQ the fhe army were called culled away |
