| Show the european Blis hlis mission sion slon by a letter to prest L J herrick dated weymouth jan 13 and published in the millennial star from bro wm geddes we leam learn that he was on the ship cy phrene Sf which left london jan 10 the put into weymouth because the captain had committed suicide by jumping overboard the captain had some difu culty with the owners or of the tho ship it was expected that a mr wood from scotland would take command of the tile ship and that it would leave weymouth in the evenin evening jan 13 bro geddes was on a in mission is to australia in a letter to prest herrick Herric lc dated d bern switzerland 3 jan 7 published in the star henry riser biser says ayd As we have just returned from our preaching tour which brothers huber keller heller and myself had gone on some three weeks ago I 1 thought a few lines perhaps from me would not bo be taken amiss I 1 arrived in this land on the of may 1872 and was appointed prest of bern and jura conference the time I 1 livi spent here has been very pleasant to me and the tho lord has blem biem ed rny my labors up to this time I 1 have through the blessing of the lord lor d baptized quite a number as you may see by the annual report sent by brother huber to you 1 I have great joy in the knowledge that this is the kingdom of god and that I 1 am an instrument in his hands bands in proclaiming the everlasting gospel among the nations of the earth the loi lol d works through his servants in the thee thre lays laya us HS well as he did eighteen hundred bundred years ago A circumstance 0 happened a in my neld held of labor ii which whis whig the hand of the lord w wa a visibly manifest which I 1 will mm t ion lon liere here early in december I 1 aub ui on my usual trip through the tile jura visiting the saints and bearing my testimony wherever I 1 had a chance I 1 went to au vernier neuchatel Neu chatel where I 1 had appointed a meeting a few days previous and had written brother beutler of Moira igne asking askin him to attend the meeting as I 1 dad did not expect expect to go up to see him before bo holding ding meeting when I 1 arrived at auvernier alvernier Au Auvern vernier ler ier a feeling leeling came over me that in spite of the cold and foggy weather led me to go and see brother beutler I 1 started for his place and in several places eson on the road persons wanted me to stay over night but I 1 refused to do so I 1 felt that I 1 ought to go and see brother beutler that night I 1 arrived there in due time and brother beutler said that he be had only an hour benore before that tha it time mailed a letter to me asking me to come up as there was n u family at colvet near the borders of france that that thab had expressed a desire to see an elder from utah we shortly afterwards ter wards went by train to see shee the fau fan family ully illy all of whom were well pleased I 1 bore testimony to them odthe of the tho latter day work according to the dictates of the spirit of god they listened with the greatest interest and at eleven that nighal night I 1 baptized eleven souls after te that we entered into a friendly conversa conversation tiou tion and the father of the family then that they had fora number of years sears inquired about the gospel and that they had bad learned so much that they knew they must be baptized for the remission of sins they could not however find any person who wilo was authorized to baptize them so they went and each one of them immersed himself in the water anter A few weeks ag ngo ago 01 al after t e r t thinking over the religions of t the i 1 d day ay lie he had a dream in the nigh tin which which he be was told to go to Post gasse at Be bernand bern and buy there a medicine named brigham he awoke and got up to write down the name of the medicine and in the morning he inquired of the family if they had ever heard of such a medicine he never had heard the name before mid aud and i the mother of the family told h n that that thab was vas the name of the lor lur mon leader he thought then he would not have anything to do with it but a voice faid paid to him but what I 1 will that you shall I 1 he said he had nothing more to sakund say and a little while after P ayac by accident a member of the family went to brother beutler Be uller who resided six miles distant for some work they were led to speak about religion and brother beutler then gave the man a pamphlet of ours A daughter of the family also told me that she had bad had bad av a vision islon she thought she was on a great groat body of water A large ship was on shore and a man standing there caalim calling t aloud to the people in the ship t to 0 go westward another of the family ays pays she lias has seen president young in vision and described to me hi his s appearance on a preaching trip afterwards we visited the family and I 1 baptized three more of the them in ft 1 feel well in health and spirits is as also aiso so do brothers keller and huber we are united together and all goes on very well in anthe the mission misa alisa we h have havo a v 0 held sixteen meetings and baptized seven persons in tho the three throe weeks while wo were together brother nalle naile is in germany and brother keller at zurich nich rich i |
