| Show 1 labors laborg CEDAR GROVE ga gaa 1 may agy 30 th editors deseret news I 1 have bave how visited all the bran branch ch eg ea of the church in Georgi abut one and can report the them thethis thiP if good condition and all feeling well weli the bp position opposition during the winter has haa been strong and anti determined but it seems to be giving way before the tl teaching aching preaching preach lif lii and festiman testimonies of the eiders elders who haye have recently come into this field of labor our ou books pamphlets and tracts are ate being scattered and widely read aud and many people who are thinking earnest men aro are being led to investigate the gospel when I 1 look around and realize that here in this state of georgia there are two arid and more people only a small email portion which ever even heard the sound of the gospel and that we are surrounded by states almost as populous whose thousands and thousands bave have no idest ot the doctrine e taught by the church of christ I 1 feel the he ne thero exists for fur earnest elders eiders to carry therie the news newa ws and preach the tho principles of plan of salvation elders who feel the responsibility of their high and holy calling elders who come not to simply fill a mission but preach the and who go they were commanded to go of old without purse and scrip crp who will nol noi nov nor hesitate to mountains crus cros cru cro s rivers walk wear wern weri go hungry and poorly clad endure scorn acorn and contempt bat abd i wll wil ili lil addition addi sound 1 l tr tramp dj ip aniway 1 1 loud lluu l ind and ipuh force power arad authority tho to convincing of the honest in he heart art the power of the evil one has not been lying still for everywhere an elder goes he finds that newspaper editors have misrepresented ua us and the doctrines of the church books that deal in falsehoods and slander against Us are to be found everywhere yet when w we e raise our voice esthe athe truth troth and the honest embrace it many thousand of god fearing honest people are ato so ap wrapped up in the teachings and traditions of their fathers that it seems seema almost impossible to clear awa ava away awny y the fog and mist by which t they he y are environed about but the word of god will cut like a two edged sword and it an elder will only walt wait and have patience he will find th that at scores will eventually duall flock round the standard of cruthi truth and rind bear their testimony that this is the I 1 gospel of jesus chhist it a strange thing yet I 1 id dd know that it is true that many thousands sands of people lu in the south scarcely know whether we worship a god or not whether we are civilized or barbarian they do not know scarcely a single tenet of our faith only duly from rumor and that rumor springing from the vilest source edh ii it is slow work to uproot these raise false ideas and plant coi col correct principles and and doctrine but tilis this I 1 su suppose estrue is true of every nation kindred and tongue it la Is as it was in the days daya of paul laul we know nothing of your sect sald vald said vaid the jenty gewo only it is everywhere evir spoken against ast z ut this did not deter paul it should not deter us if the youth of zion could only realize the thu great field of labor there is in this land they would surely barely seek to fit an and prepare themselves as spey lily wily vily as possible for the labor that must soon be required at their hands cum for tease and the thu association ut of those we hold near and dear to ua us uro are plea plem pleasant sant baut but if we do the works of abraham sonje something thing more than these things will fall to our lot if the gospel is entrusted to our care aud we bit sit down in zion and quietly take our ease will we cot iol have buried burled out talent and incur the nek of having it lateen from us and given tu to him who lin itu proved ten ten millions of in the houth douth aud and ten elders eldera to 0 o f preach to them one to every mil mi lon ion we might preach to them all gill if we had bad the time but a six months mission will not accomplish the objects object the brethren and sisters bisters here do a wi riat rist irl lul w gospel gospe they write letters send papers visit friends and reia rela relatives relatives tives anu and lu in every way seek to bring the principles to the notice of all they au and are doing a good work iu in this way rayj sowing heed beed that will eventually spring up and produce a harvest to be gathered in the future many ate making preparations to emigrate the comine coming fall and I 1 am satisfied that there will be quite an emigration this season those who went outlast out last fall are writing en coura glug letters back to these of the taints here aud and seem we well weil pleased with their then location wo vve hold our conference for the saints of georgia and alabama on the dt jtb ba loth and of august argust when we expect that chat all the elders within reach will be present resent and an organization of ta the southern conference will be effected so as to have it districted off aa as much as possible and regular a appointments point ments to be made that will b be filled by the traveling elders eiders both native and from utah with regular conferences ther thereafter witter spreading out from this our central point bome bume rome howe ua Brot brothers eiers fiers david wil liagund li lia ila amand A 8 johnson are aro at rak mart polk county ga brothers brothels Bro theis russel rogers audi aud and A W we at red apple marshal co ala Broi brot brothers liers 11 W Y barnett and mathias co coley cowley ley aey are arc doubtless in vir bibi 3 by thib this time but I 1 am cot ot informed as to their 1 P 0 brothers edward stevenson and arid H cark clark are at shady grove grovie hickman hick man co myself ana brg jo stand ing log will labor in north georgia rome our P 0 for the ther present I 1 it t any of the sain hain ts J ave relatives or friends within reach of 6 us and will inform ua us we will try and visit them and do alithe all nil the good we can con times are steadily growing growling worse and worse money searce scarce and crops failing the poor getting poorer and tb enich orich grinding down tighter and tighter while the very air seems rife with the idea ot of strikes mobs communistic mi mt venion venlon ts and other devil deviltry try there appears to bt be a gen senai eral feeling that tiie the foun loi 0 4 is slipping api tig framl from i under them and they scarcely can an tell teil whit whitner lier hier they are drifting or what a da day will brim bring foit forth b 1 1 trusting we have the prayers of the saints s 1 I 1 vf very r truly your brother in the gospel J MORGAN I 1 I 1 I 1 aw the tha convict oconnor A correspondent says in response to our account of the romance in iu the ohio legislature where un ex c convict and bounty jumper made a pathetic appeal to h his Is brother members not to crush him in his effort at reforma ion and appealed in vain that oconnor committed an error iu in turning to politicians instead of a seeking refuge in the church where he would have been received with open arms I 1 ald arid treated with the greatest care 4 perhaps I 1 our correspondent has r reference ete efe rence to the church of christ as us our sav br bir organized it that wius was not a respectable i spec table church however it wa waa I made up of shiners sinners ten ted tent t makers and abd flaher men meu who were not shocked when christ took the thief from the cross into nto heaven with him now if it oconnor YC onnor or any other but repentant sinner can lind rind tha church we would advice him to take sanctuary there but I 1 may ay satan seize us if we can tell oconnor OO onnor onnon where to find it true he can run to the tha nearest house of god and clinging to the altar attar or table or pulpit or any other sanctified projection cry out have mercy on me a sinner and he will be received as a member and be prayed over and sung bung to and nd admonished to without erasing 4 but they will not associate with or tolerate him for a minute other than as the ex convict and why because it would not b be respectable Is there a church or chapel or gr meeting house in all washington in which christ with his twelve soiled boiled and footsore foot sore disciples disciple a would be received as associates we have asked that before and peculated to ourselves as to the effect of such an entrance on any re spectacle congregation what an elevation ele eje 0 boses noses and a bat gat gathering heling bering in of skirts there would be anti ami wouldn that solemn sexton by fly round and notify our savior and his bia ragged twelve that they must get out out tot too no indeed L not much christian charity in that direction the church of today to day like that of jerusalem wants its savior to ho bd respectable spec table and come iii in the glory of purple and fine linen with a proper assortment of choice upholstery we are nothing unless jesper t table able unless heaven has a diplomatic gallery for the higher circles of rich or official families it wont be a ai heaven to a goodly lot of us in W washington we shall say to st peter dont care to go in old fellow it seems to be a low sort of place we prefer that other where there is butier butler society so close your tollgate old man we talk a good deal about harps white robes and the purer life fife in heaven but we take precious goo good d a care to have nave as little lit tio of that sublimated ma ted music musie of the future here as possible on the contrary we cast our dur earthly possessions as near th the boundary of that other world ai we can get got them there is caste in the cemetery itself and the aristocratic corruption seems to cry out against the impudent interment of plebeian corruption understand Unde Und estand asand us the church does not object to fellowship with ith the minner binner I 1 provided the sinner be respectable spec table hempst he must he a wealthy or wellborn well born einner dinner and pay his dues and promptly meet his hia money obliga obligations tlona tiona in such cage cae w will HI not only be condoned but wt forgotten 90 aten bless your innocent soul boul sweet respondent correspondent eor the church otto of today to day is made up of that sort and at the ther great day when god jud judges geE the living and the tho dead after sen sentence tande two thirds or three fourthia of the church churchwill will NAM drive d dowry awil the smooth broad way to hell in their i carr carriages higes then look took at the woman n of the church sho shu is infinitely better than the man of the church foz fot for he be has haa no ghe she i she he has every virtue under the sun but humility and charity she would die and be damned ere shed a pear before the congregation in a shabby bornet bonnet or au an old dress drees As for charity charit letta lut let thee b cham chastity ity of one of the sliters bisters bo be suspected and see the woman wom a n of f the her 1 when a 11 wolf gets wounded all the other wolves tear it to pieces that is the charity of the church woman woman were you ever a prostitute a poor girl giri of a r was urging her ber wa no oco 0 course ulso n not ta 1 ianthe bus wag the answer 0 o io arit then you dont know what you are talk taik talking in 0 about I 1 c ant cant reform for I 1 am n not ot permitted to reform the women wont let lot me shero there are ure two houses louses open to me fane fine au 21 where I 1 live and the other 6 a prison where I 1 can die mid and when ado id I d die ill uil hunt up mary magdalene aud and the woman taken in la adultery 1 and w we e three will a ask 1 I our savior aa vior dior to put us laamar ina in lna a pan par of heaven hea ve A g r 0 o e there are no good women to id cdo clo us i i 1 fru true we hayo bayo pur nag Nug magdalene dalene asu and our good shepherds but if 1 ia Is understood that the peni dill dili tents must not only be seif self support ing but convicts till re released lemed byi byl death J n u V pa I 1 we weirdly hardly think we will wil wll advise oconnor ta to try the aureli washington faan foz fot toz ca ital fc I 1 ts i J 1 l jini Unfounded an charge til ift one of the meanest slanders afloat is that w which charge charges s that one of our clergymen swore aff ann an oath th theother t nigh highel tl I 1 the circumstance circumstances al are simply these act went into the house and attempted to make ills his way iu in the dark th through rau ii we to the pantry tb a buech of rhubarb presented bimby a parish loner ioner for getting that house cleaning had commenced the wretched girl had iett left a pail of soft boft soap i near ear thedoor over which he accidentally stumbled making an herculean ellor tAo bava sava himself jihei ho grabbed for something wih bath bands and slid as he alighted d firmly on his stomach he ho pulled down on top of him stable a table tabie full bf crockery rising promptly to his feet he made a pitch for he ho match safe but happening to plant his hia fool foot in a puddle of the sott sot soap he promptly prompt sau sal down in a tub of preserved nga fruits its his poor tired fired kirej wife who had hid yet iet retire li ed early was roused from her bei V nim rim 4 bers bera arid and thinking thi that at burgia ra 11 eu 11 were abroad shrieked for help to which the hired girl responded rushing into the room and tumbling m 4 be adiong headlong ove the man in li ibe washtub these are the naked facts in the ca seand caseano case and that ja is all there ib is of if it our good friend did d 1 ad not say a word that could be con sti ati u ed into he ejai pimply dl j sat flimey anh and quietly amp ng the preserves until abight alfet aliel wa wap struck J and ilien then mildly inquired ha how W niue nine much 11 r 0 oar far luce joce hoe hop hope e cl cleaning last il jlii 7 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