Show ra conditions and Prospect sor nor of abe khe london youdon Confer conferti conference ei ce london eng noy NOV I 1 aj i 1874 1814 prest D jf dells delts dear bro itis it is with of great pleasure that I 1 attempt to address d you at this time lime bp IL R T burton bro B W carrington and your humble servant are laboring in this conference we are all well enjoying our oun babow and trul trusting ting our work wort la Is profi table tabie our oun ndel fiel nield field d 1 is large the conference comprising comp comprising 9 the counties of middlesex surrey essex kent sussex hants hert herns beds oxon axon bucks and wilta wilts together with the channel channe I 1 islands we vye have at presen present t twenty three branches and nine mine organized districts 1184 1181 members children under eight years of age making malting a total of 1384 against 1418 iu last june une our emig emie emigration ration season is just over and we hope to add by baptism before the next seasons season beason emigration opens as many at least as will make inake up for the number gone home during the from our nov conference 1873 to may conference 1874 some seventy five were added by from may my jtb 1874 to october inclusive have emigrated of which thirty were children under eight years of ageana age and fourteen were not members of the church but bui who having friends residing in in utah emigrated thither intending to make that their home during this same period from may to october sixty have been added by baptism field and prospects are before us of an encouraging nature we have no pentecostal conversions but chiefly by practical conversional preaching are the hearts of the people reached for we find the honest and truly noile nobie noble nobie hearted have only to become acquainted with the latter day saints safat and the gospel as aa believed and taught by t theato h e in love iove respect and ampre our semiannual semi bemi annual conference con on sunday last at tho horns A assembly 4 roo looms booms is kennington prest eider smith bishop hughes elder el dem McKenz mckenzie je hanham morris squires greenwood and vollda halliday aai aal liday were present and addressed the tho congre congregations eions in instruction and testimony president smiths testimony tim to th the mission emission of jesus was most powerful the tho meet meetings were well attended and the hearts of the thle saints friends and relations with the strangers were made glad bro H C fowler w was a sustained u s talked as traveling elder in t thi h its c conference 0 in addition to the present corps making four of us ilow now in lii this conference 0 twelve counties and tila tiia islands we h old oid a district meeting at brighton on bunday sunday next at which prest diest smith aud and other brethren are expected the meetings in in our city branches ara arel better attended than usual rothby saints and strangers ea i mii M mil H haidy 1 1 1 1 |