Show by the august mail we received the millennial Mil lemal lenial star of tune june and july logli inclusive from which h we extract tile ane following CHEERING PROSPECTS OF THE FRENCH MISSION FIFTEEN BAPTIZED rM EXTRACTS TRACTS OF A LETTER J KOM ELDER C E BOLTON rue st honore paris J june tine 14 1852 dear brother samuel W eduards it is beyond the power of the E english language to make inake known the difficulties attending this mission but god be praised we are at last holding public meetings and tal ahat at N a st stones olies chiow ot of the office of the commissary of police we commenced on sunday we the ath instant yesterday was our second day of meeting we have a little hall or rather a slight building of lath and plaster put up at a trifling cost as a workshop for making little steel beads for purses the building is away back out of sight and hearing from the street and we inland to there quietly and leisurely until government a with us n with our doctrines doc times ac several speak of hal baptism 1 bisin next sunday I 1 do not know how bow many but I 1 believe three or four foul it is is beyond my power to describe to you the profound humility bum hum lity and gratitude 1 feel to my heavenly father for this answer ei to my incessant prayers and labors this is is one good long stride ahead a head licad and I 1 pi ay night and day that we may never lose one inch i of aay it by any imprudence I 1 live in prayer I 1 live in tile the spilt of my god I 1 feel daily that his hand is is ovel 01 ei dud and around me banishing from me everything that might harm me and slowly and gradually b but lit steadily and surely working with me to give me a firm foothold tool hold in in this stronghold ot of satan I 1 feel to glorify god I 1 feel as th ough the dark moment be tore morning was past four weeks ago I 1 was in deep affliction surrounded by darkness dai kness a and nd not a gli glimmer nimer of light a licad atad no hope of permission from government overn ment to hold public meetings all at once g the whole of this has disappeared disappear ed the bright warm sun of prosperity has begun to cast its mellow tints in in advance tile the dawn of day is is appearing god be thanked I 1 have public meetings I 1 have baptized fifteen tile the past three weeks and besides those now in in readiness many moie moi e are ae a e preparing my heart is glad 3 my soul is is fil failed led I 1 weep tears of joy for this moment of bliss and in may dy god grant that these things way ipuy continue and that im iio po power may be permitted to make them cease until the work is is done in in france in such a moment I 1 feel n paid for all the arduous toils and privations of the past ir in reaching this point and when I 1 see the good which god permits me to do and the infinity rf of the woi k that yet remains to be done in in the earth all desire to the atlantic is is for the moment ban banished dished from my mind and I 1 only desire to wear out my body in in carrying this gospel to those who are now without it but who are waiting tor for it and will carry it out when they receive it until the news is is spi spread ead over the whole earth and the reign of peace commenced 11 e of the I 1 be preachers denomination or sect sects named paul burnier tried to have me imprisoned a few days since about fifteen or twenty years ago there were great revival meetings held in paris and this paul burnier was one oi of E the preachers quite a number of persons became cerati deranged ed under the preach ings at that time among the rest a man named jancid who otherwise bears tile the deput reputation aaion of being a just upright virtuous trusty mar man 1 I 1 baptized his sister an and her her husband last october and they are first rate truehearted true hearted lat ter day saints this sister having spoken much and often to him on the gospel he finally became convinced of the truth and ardently desired baptism ile he then came to see me I 1 saw in win him a meth methodist adist falling failing down spirit and told him so and that it was a of confusion of the d vil and was baing to dearaya des trav his body he told me it was his desire to ge get t rix of this spirit and that he be looked forward to his bis obedience to io the ordinances of the gospel for deliverance from froin this evil spirit and begged earnestly tor for baptism I 1 concen consented ted recollecting what a worthless infidel I 1 had been before I 1 was baptized and 1 knowing that god haj had al power servants through faith could do enuch I 1 baptized him 1 and when he left us as he was sane aid rejoiced re much he was happy and not even excited in ID the evening junous wife wf e and two iwo other sisters to use the most abusive language towards him caned hun him all manner of names they are members of tha the vent icle of paul burnier burmer and finally drove he man inan crazy craze but it was only a sullen stupid madness sile ble declared abat it if this gospel was not true there was I 1 no truth on n theearta the earth the bible was false and there was no god and in the even evening ng in a fit of despair d es p air he burnt his bible and book of mormon mor in a 0 arid and every other religions book he had the next morning these women coaxed him into a carriage telling him th they ey were going gi din to be baptized and thus tha they took him to the en madhouse ahouse he himself went for the carriage and hired it when they arrived atthe at the madhouse the secret came out that he had been there five ve times before of which his wife to whom he had bad been married only seven levei or eight months knew nothing no lhing early the day before these three women took junod to the asylum they called upon paul burnier for counsel in the fhe matter burnier told thew them to try to find a doctor who would give a certificate that junod was crazy and that th at it was the baptism that made him so and then to go to the commissary und land get out a warrant seized in prison off these thee r t and lave have me noc ci started and spent several hours in bunting hunting me up lut but could not find my address though I 1 1 any one of their christian fj friends bends could have given v jv a f it them even burnier barni ei himself knows it at about i half past three they found my address at a brothers who did not know them when they obtained the address they did not use it as I 1 know for my room was only fifteen I 1 minutest minu esl walk from where tl they aey obtained my add address ess and I 1 had not stirred from it all d day until a quarter I 1 past five and then I 1 went direct to a that samp same tast blotner br otner while I 1 was there talking over alie matter J janod came in rather exited acx ana complained of the treat treatment anent lie he underwent from his wife and two sisters and burst into tears after a little the brother with me being an elder we laid hands on junod and he be became calm I 1 went home with him at 6 p TO 5 at I 1 a in he burned his bible and a few hours bows after they took him to i the he madhouse burnier would have looked pretty it if at the time tim e of the revivals I 1 have spoken of some of the friends of those whom his preaching sent crazy had gone to a roman catholic priest and asked advice addic e and the priest had told them to have burnier taken and put ni in prison what a bowl he would have raised about r religious elig ious persecution and the intolerance of the church of rome yet this is what he wanted jone done to me poor creature I 1 he dont know that there is a elah just s t god who rules in the heavens and upon the and who rewards evry every man according to his works I 1 doubt if he even believes it but he will feel it some time or other his vexation od originated 0 in my baptizing some of his congregation before I 1 quit I 1 hope to baptize all the rest that are arc truly and honest ly desirous to serve god your affectionate brother in the new and everlasting covenant 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