| Show A AX X interesting F experience CE ay 4 APOSTATE muses CAUSES PREJUDICE TO BOIL OVER BY nis HIS falsehoods CULLER stokes co N U C november iss issi 1 editor deseret mews mems at our conference which convened in this county on the lith and of september iwas changed from the wilkes county field where I 1 had labored for about seven months to travel with elder cook in this field which comprises the counties of surrey stokes and forsyth for Por syth on the dist of september we haa had an appointment at union hill church stokes county some time previous to this mr nir swaine king who some nome 15 years ago joined the burch church was ordained an elder and for quite a ion lon long iong time preached our doctrines even bap some ile he went to utah in the spring of 1870 and returned in about six months having apostatized from the church sent a note to elder cook T I 1 I 1 challenging nin HIM TO A DEBATE elder cook paid him a visit and told him he would not debate on the subjects he wished to discuss bun bul would talk in private with him all he wished on the said of september we were there to MI fill our appointment we founder found mr klug king icing present also and the news had been spread all through the country that we were going oin oln to dacuss in PU public ile ilc on the csar clar character acter of the L latter day saints as a people and their doctrines there were about about SOO people present we told them we would not discuss with mr king and gave them our reasons we held our meeting in pece peace after this mr king said we would woul d have five minutes recess when he would talk some ile he commenced about I 1 and continued till I 1 nearly dark clark during this time he D OUR oun PEOPLE in ina lna a shameful manner we did not intend to return again for we thought if the people would believe what he said they would not wish to see another mormon elder let alone hear one we stopped in the neighborhood all night the tile next morning one of the most influential citizens came and asked us to leave another appointment deac we accordingly left an appointment for four weeks f froin roni that time the time c came e for us to till our appointment octo october tl er dill dili 1 lh we did about as last month only read a letter which had been written by mr kin kinc kins while in utah in this letter he represents TILE THE PEOPLE AS PER rek ile he occupied the afternoon as before in misrepresenting the saints he told things that were not decent to be spoken in public lie he would tell a very black story and then say that I 1 tom told it him hun and tomaas tom was a good mormon ile he knew this because he had left for I 1 tom I 1 to collect and he had collected it all and sent it to him therefore I 1 tom I 1 was an honest man ile he misrepresented us worse this month than last we left another appointment for next month mouth on the of october brother cook who is now president of tile tiie north carolina conference leftie left me i handmade and made his way up into virginia where he was expecting to meet some new elders and was to send one to labor with me on the dinst I 1 was joined by brother win wm 11 gibbs we I 1 had a nice time together and were joined november by brot Biot brother ller iler win wm al webster on tile the loth we proceeded about ten miles across the country into the neighborhood where we hold meeting on the morrow and expect mr king to meet us on the morning ot of th the we made our way to union hill church where about people had bad as sem bled commenced our meeting as usual in order to show the FEELING FUELING AIND CONDITION OF TILE TIIE PEOPLE or OF utan UTAH I 1 read the discourses delli delivered ered over the remains of elder J 11 gibbs in paradise cache county I 1 also read a statistical account of the crimes committed in utah as given in a discourse delivered by president taylor also an account of the old folks excursion of 1884 the general idea in this country is that tha tithe the mormons cormons Mor mons put their old people in a dry kiln and them up and other things as ab up which mr king handmade had made and showed the absurdity of them then spoke u upon on the principles of the gospel for a lew few few moments brothers gibbs and webster ed a few f ew minutes each bearing their testimonies to the truth of the gospel mr king said after we dismissed that we would have a f few ew minutes recess when he would talk some he moved the seats out outside sl and about p in he commenced he stated that Dr Roueche had said this is a I 1 itle they give us because we believe in the power of the gospel that in order to receive the Holy Ghost people eople had to go to the temple in utah this I 1 denied lie he then called on a mr joel allen alien who testified that I 1 said so I 1 told him there must be a ini mistake stake oi or some misunderstanding ile he then called on a mr redman who said 1 I had said it I 1 asked for 5 minutes to explain but they would not grant lt it I 1 then went to mr redman and explained it to him ile he acknowledged it was something but was not sure pure etwas it was the lal on of hands two months ago in conversation with these men I 1 had told them there were certain blessings sin sings S that could not be obtained in any pla pia place ce e except a temple but did not say baying lay lne ine on of hands was one of them mr king read a great many pieces f from rom ann eliza youns youngs books ile he JUSTIFIED TILE tiie TENNESSEE MASSACRE ile he continued in this strain for abou two and a half hours mr joel allen alien then arose said the people all knew kings character that ele ile elasan was an honest gan gln man etc and tb then en for f or dr roueche to call him a liar had he been near me when yh en I 1 said it he would have knocked my may teeth down my throat etc t again asked for permission to explain as there was some gome mistake he hald haid a mistake from bouls you is a lie ile he called us liars rogues vagabonds etc and an d all that had enough of these fellows and wished to have nothing more to do with them to leave tim THE PEOPLE FLED prom US as though thong gh we were reptiles I 1 jumped upon a bench and said 1 I thank god I 1 have the privilege of occupy occupying inc lne this position as I 1 read of paul occupying a similar one many times by this time we were left alone there was one f family amily in the neighborhood who were friends to us W we proceeded thither and were made welcome we realized the truth of the old saying I 1 A friend in need is a friend in deed I 1 we feel justified in leaving these people in the hands of the lord Lor lorland dand and to say may the lord reward king according accordia ta to his works this abir affair was quite an introduction farbro webster following so close upon u his arrival but he feels well weil and like ilke a te pressing on in the good work we feel that our heavenly father has been and is merciful in preserving us from harm we have an interesting field and lund feel well we had the privilege of baptizing baptising bap one person on the ath of november we have a great many friends who make us welcome whenever we call upon them your paper does loes toes a great deal of good in allaying prejudice and is a great comfort and consolation to us on ola the dinst brother win wm II 11 gibbs in company with prest cook started for W ikes county leaving brother wm win M webster and me in this field joun jolin E roueche |
