| Show KANOSH millard county counts utah november 24 1881 editor dewerd news we are having interesting times eight babies born bom in our little town within a month the recent ari ary anuval gyal of brother anthony paxton from a mission to the southern states who received a general welcome home and was ser traded by the kanosh choir A committee was appointed last sunday to get up a gramme pro of a series of lectures tor to be delivered weekly in connection with our sabbath school we had bad the tho benefit and pleasure of a visit from president Hinck leys last sunday who gave us some very timely counsel regarding railroad working f or which our settlement has had quite a fever the tho last two years he showed the demoralizing effect generally of such camp life and proved to a demonstration that those who remained at home homo and raised their own potatoes a d squash came out in the end both temporally and spiritually ahead counsel which many of afir our ouy returning bre bro brethren thren after a bummers summers tell toll on the railroad can very keenly appreciate pre preci preel clate elate ate but the event of tho the last week has been dmn the advent in our generally quiet burg of the presbyterian b by V terian terlan preacher from fillmore Fill moie the town was duly placarded pia pla carded advising the people that the rev mr jear huff would be down at kanosh ne companied companies compa nied by an efficient choir and that they would preach and sing to the people our meetinghouse meeting house was offered to his agent free of charge and accepted one of our brethren also loaned his new organ and the people filled the house some of the fossils who admitted been to meeting for tw two 0 years were moved at the novelty and put in an appearance the congregation was kept waiting for about an hour during which time they amused themselves sel bel ves with singing and extempore speeches the iko ito r gentleman is a young man of pleasant his discourse rather pedant pedantically icly lemy which at best would appear rather dry meat for mormon worship pers but in this instance it did not rise to the dignity of the apostolic admonition of milk for babes and the had a wet blanket thrown upon their hopes of at least something that would awaken a new thought but it was only an offering again of the dry husks that many of them had east cast away forty years ago it has been quite amusing to hear the simple chagrin of many of the eh children ildren lidren and the quaint narration of their disappointment is ig really y laughable they act as though they had been off offered ered a v very veny e ry nice cake but upon close examination discovered it to be painted plaster the gent lemans text was taken faken from the tenth chapter of john ninth verse 1 I am the door etc 12 sj 12 but according to the presbyterian theology the door hinge hinges bars or bolts it ia is simp y a suspended rag i which blows in any direction according 1 to the fancy of those who desire to enter how different from pauls mode of entry johns proclamation eters instruction and christs positive command the choir consisted of two ladies one of whom is a very fine singer and musician they thessing Th eysing sang bang nive five pieces three of which our own choir frequently sing they were on hand and assisted on this occasion now sir hir the latter day saints are proverbially cosmopolitan in tb their air sympathies liberal and coutte courte oi s in then their treatment of strangers especially to christian ministers notwithstanding the treatment our I 1 elders almost universally receive under similar circumstances is of the very opposite nature we are fully aware that many of those sent as missionaries into our midst would be deligh delighted teu tea to receive some rebuff 1 or discourtesy that they might blazon it abroad as evidence of the great daner dan danger er they run in trying to convert the terrible mormon and BO so move upon the sympathies of those who supply the tho funds which is the soul ot of th se worn systems of expedients recently in fillmore a playful urchin was overheard making some unbecoming g remark one of the missionaries pass ing caught it and appropriated it as if directed to them so anxious allx alix ious lous are they for a cheap martyrdom now that urchin little dreamed of being published in the orthodox wite kite and probably becoming as C c Moto notorious kous hous as that other naughty boy who would not come down from the apple tree treo s until the oid old man was comp compelled elied to try what virtue there was waa in stones stone s but whilst we would be liberal and kind and sedulously avoid tho the slightest Olgh te git rit cause for of fence we believe belleve there is a limit to every virtue and as these ladies and gentlemen are paid to come amongst ua with ith the avowed purpose of undermining if possible the institutions of the th e latter day saints sainta it is su Bu that the future use of our meetinghouse to the same parties should be conditional or that the subject matter of the discourse shall be debated immediately after its delivery and as the latter day saints are accused of being densely ignorant this abw light may reasonably be expected to gladly accept these terms as a ready means of extending its luminosity and the children being the chief objects of his missionary anxiety will have nave a fair chance io to judge of the intelligence and consistency of the their ir 1 own home teachers and those who come with the subtle sophistry of a blighting friendship to rob them of their fathers councils and lead them into darkness we believe it is the duty of every elder of israel to stand guard over his own and his neighbors child and see that the tender vines are not bent by hands but give a chance to grow up erect breet under the pure and vitall vitalizing zing influence of the gospel of jesus christ as restored again in these last cays through the prophet joseph smith of course thre thare are some silly nali th that atwIll will bite at any tiling that glitters regardless of the concealed hook book and its consequences but no man or woman who ever tasted of the sweet testimony of jes jel jesus jelus us can be caught wilh with me ule cnair ulese these poor hirelings hr elings have bave to offer offer we have t only oely of one conversi conversion cn and that in a quarter where no religion was supposed to be lur lun glug slug but it really is instructive to see what incongruous combinations call cau be effected with the silly hope of VF 61 bursting mormonism bior Alor monism mormonism is of god gentlemen and at best beat ye are but men take a little counsel of gamaliel acts Y 33 4 muir ruif do not let your vanity inake your names a byword amoni among amongst st strangers bt rangers goo bles blesi the lovers of truth and justice of all creeds 1 I 1 remain your brother in the gos bixl lal ixl GEO CRANE DES amo AEO prairie co ark november 30 1881 editor deseret newe when I 1 last wrote I 1 was laboring in company with elder JG bigler A jr in butler co ky where we continued to labor in that and ib the e adjoining counties of eulenberg Mu lenberg f and ohio until the of september when we left there for franklin simpson bimpson co idaia in july some 12 or 15 ministers fo joined ined together in a crusade against us and held a series of nive five meetings professedly for the purpose of ex posing the mormons cormons Mor mons monr but about a all ali that they accomplished was to expose themselves and their ignorance in regard to the principles of the ei ej gospel as ns understood by the tho latter day saints and they utterly faili v ed as they always do whenever they undertake to oppose the kingdom kingdo i of god and in place of making enemies for us they made friends frien dg one lady had the courage to come out and prove her faith by her r works and on the aist of august I 1 had the pleasure of baptizing her into the fold of christ and trust that ere long others will follow her example Pre pros morgan desiring to extend the work into arkansas I 1 was re eased leased from the ky conference and appointed to come here oct 15 T left for nashville tenn whee 1 was met by bro morgan andio and 10 of tiie tile elders that were called at the he t october conference fi I elder alma harding of willard city having been appointed as my companion we started for the land of swamps and cypress trees we vve have held four meetings since an adiv iv ing here it was in this neighborhood that elders H G boyle and T D HM cAllister gathered 8 such uch a harvest in 1876 and they seem to have gathered so clean that even the gleanings are very poor still now we are here we are determined to give them another chance the people here are the shyest that I 1 have met with since I 1 have been in the field but trust that they will soon get over their scare and then we shall be better able to judge in regard to prospects what few saints are here are ate endeavoring deavo ring to dispose of their farms so that they can emigrate but on account of the failure of crops the past pasta eason prospects are very poor for selling at it all people generally where I 1 have traveled are beginning to tremble and their hearts are bailin failing g them for fear still they will continue to shut both eyes and cars and will not see nor hear the only way there is for them to esea esca escape P e the calamities that will ere eze long sweep ovela ove the earth the few saints that are here feel bad that their friends that hye haye have gathered to zion do not write to them but seem to have forgotten them tour your brother in the gospel JAMES H WELLS s birthday anniversary NEPHI december 1881 editor deseret wems on thursday the esth being the birthday of our stake the teachers of the female relief belief society got up an excellent party in their hall president george te teasdale as and president A Golds bourgh their gratitude to the sisters for the deep respect and love that was manifested towards them in getting up so agreeable a party on the annl anni anniversary venary of their birthdays pres Golds bourgh said bald that the poor were well looked after und we had no beggars in our midst after dinner there were songs speeches 1 0 recitations all ali reit relt they nad spent a very agreeable time together patriarch ia J G bigler pronounced the benediction yours I 1 |
