| Show SALT iia lla KE CITY july 1883 remember thi the tho the sabbath day to keep it holy editor deseret bews I 1 am sure that no citizen of balt bait aske city would re rejoice joice jolce more than your correspondent to see all the churches of this city unite with the mormon church in selecting a delegation of leading christian and moral men to visit the officers of railroads cent in this city to ascertain if bome some arrangement cannot be made to put a stop to the run ning of excursion trains on the sabbath day I 1 was about to bay say something as to the why and wherefore wherefores of thib this but here hera is a paragraph much more to the point 1 from a new now york city journal ait ail alt honer to col COI bennett young president of the louisville altany chicago tali railroad for his order that so BO far as possible no work shall be done or trains be ba run on that road on sunday bunday the only passenger train that will be run ran on that day Is for carrying the malls malis and efforts will be made to arrange for its discont discontinuance inn ian in cases of perishable goods or live stock freight trains traina will run necessarily only the order further ways siye you will in future run no excursion trains of any kind for any purpose on sunday this order applies also niso to camp meeting trains if christian people cannot find other places for worship this company will not violate the divine sud aud ovil civil laws law and deny its employees the es ea of the sabbath to carry them to the camp mcewing mooting ground grounds exen even in mith all an ita its wickedness ed nessa I 1 am not aware of excursion i trains running on the lords lorda day the sunday funeral train Is is of course an absolute necessity great and beneficial changes in the running of 0 sunday trains have been brought about by 1 earnest christian men of that great city pen persevering evering in their efforts to petition ti leading onn off officers leers of railroads to unite with them in sustaining the sacredness of the sabbath and now officers of railroads are bound to acknowledge that such changes are a blessing to themselves the employees and the public generally and aid best of all have t the he approval and approbation of almighty god now who will be the first to call a consultation meeting of good and earnest men to act in Ws vital matter BAPTIST BROTHER monticello MONTI CEILO oelno WEIGHT cos CO coy july IM baltor balmor deseret news newn thinking a few words from this part patt ot at the lords vineyard would be ibo perused with interest by the renders readers of your paper we take this opportunity of writing a few lines i we are enjoying good health and spirits spirit and feel teel determined to press on in the good fight of subduing error and establishing truth in our travels through this state we observe a great change in the minds of the people since one year ago then the edmunds bill was fresh in their minds and we had that to meet both la in private and public but as it did not accomplish the object at which it was aimed in the time predicted by many of the leading paper papers the keople wish to know what all the excitement was about and know of no better way of doing so than conversing with our elders eiders so many of them are anxious to do consequently we have a number of invitations from various parts or of 1 our field to come and visit with and preach to the people we have just returned from a abort trip to the eastok easu east of this place through anoka and mille lacs Count counties lea fea where wo we succeeded in holding a number of meeting meetings some bome where for the past four years i the elders have been unable to preach on account of the strong op 1 position othera where the gospel rad gad nad never been introduced and we were wore received with kindness on every hand auld arld harmany had many invitations to come again and some are hinves ti gating our doctrines the papers are noticing with what favor we are received by many of the people and are advising them to take tike the esme same course with the elders in this state as the people of north carolina did with the elders there but this is nothing more than we may expect for the evil one is sure to rage the hardest when he sees the work of the lord progressing m but so far the people have not taken the advice of the press to use rigorous measures against us and have satisfied themselves with making threats which we would rather they would do than put them into execution the work in this state is gaining ground very fast and this conference Is in a more prosperous condition than it has hitherto been four were baptized last jasi month and others us are now ready for the ordinance as soon as the elders can get around to visit them we hava hav ejust ajust completed arrange ments for holding our fall confer ence in the city of minneapolis on sept ath and ath as the gospel has not been preached very extensively av e Y in that city and it wag was though thought t that h at would be the best if means 0 of f effecting an opening there are twelve elders in this conference conferences and tho the general report from them thom ia an increased inte interest rest fest in regard to our doctrine doctrines and new now friends continually springing up on every evers every side bider ever praying for the welfare of zion we are your brethren in the covenant G JR BELNAP BEL nap SAP H M PAYNE loa flute county utah july ath 1883 editor deseret news dear sir the two days meetings at fish lake on the 3rd ard ath ina ins really subjects worthy to be recorded the tha first meeting was called to order by president franklin spencer ot of the tho sevier stake at 8 3 p m there were present at the bowery on the shore of the lake president P F spencer and AR A K thurber eldered elder eider E Steve stevenson tison of salt lake bop nod bishop madson of gunnison Gunn ison lson the bishops and councilors councillors Counci lors of koo roo sharem freemont and thurber bishop wm king and two brothers volney and john of kingston an and people from sanpete San pete Mine minersville Miners raville ville cleople holden hoiden and moat if not adlof all ali of the bettle bettie settlements ments between the places named and we noticed one gentleman from salt lake beB besl ldes des elder stevenson and perhaps there were more it is estimated there was over wagons and carriages there after singing the opening and dedicatory prayer was offered by councilor A K thurber franklin W young was waa sustained as reporter of these meeting fi and wm Nl john king kings E K i hanks jos B meeks and isaac hatch as marshals mar shaia ehala to keep order jn in and about the camp As it began to rain the meeting WM was adjourned adl until the storm was over or until 9 a m tomorrow to morrow it proved a wet afternoon but bat towards evening the more active part of the pleasure seekers indulged in a few foot races wrestling and horse races but as tu the crowd wals waly somewhat scattered the reporter did not try to write down all that was sald baid at 9 o a m on the ath the people assembled to the call of the drum after singing and prayer the he declaration of independence was read by lion llon A K thurber Thur ber who also addressed the assemblage assem biago blago for a chort short time in a very interesting way about the discovery of Americ america 3 national existence political and re helena liberty etc the names of the speakers ware elders eiders edward stevenson and president spencer in the forenoon and bishop madson of gunnison Gunn lson ison elder john K R young ef lyoa lyos and fresl fresi dei del dent spencer in the afternoon they testified fled that christopher columbus was inspired of the lord to discover this brind land that the constitution of the united states was given by the inspiration of god ana their will wili to support port it belated related many rich bits of church history and predicted many glorious things for the children of zion an opportunity being given for short and sentiments I 1 F W young pro posed and the a assembly arose and gave three hearty cheers for the flag of our country E K hanks hanka sentiment in god wo we trust sentiments and short speeches were given end and made by J sterry NT erry arry J 13 young wm win Bur nur burge burgeno gebo geso fia bishop wm win hing eing A E hyde of or bit lake E stevenson and A ak K thurber the singing was performed alternately nl by the koosh arem and Vre freemont emont ward choirs and both choirs are deserving of great credit for their promptness and their happy selections and pleasant rendering music by the koosharem Koo kog sharem hareln martial band was a plea piea plesiant taut tant feat feature ure are and with horse racing foot racing feasting singing laughing and shouting with glee and merriment the glori ous oud fourth on the shores of the forest reflecting lake rounded surrounded cur by majestic and towering moun mountains beautifully dotted over with lotty lofty 0 t pines aver gner moving aspenes never falling streamlets stream lets of sparkling bpark ling water and wasting but never absent banks of snow enow closed with a pleasant rain zain nothing occurred to marthe manthe mar the peace pence of any one save one case of sa lck ness nesa of brother wm king son of bishop king who had bad a severe attack of cholera but was recovering when we left I 1 had almost forgotten to mention a vote of thanks to the committee of arrangements yours respectfully F W YOUNG |
