Show from A IN ENGLAND oldham oldiva MILLS STRIKE expenditures poi FOR DRINK AND ANK A and TOBACCO VISIT TO A SUNDAY SCHOOL E ETC TC LEES lens BROOK oldham england C rett rest 55 asa aiu ta i t july editor netos As is well known oldham in cotton manufacture is the leading town in Euro europe pelf if not inthe in the world and seen from a distance with its hundreds hundred sol ot tall chimneys sending forth clouds of smoke i it t reminds me of a forest through which a fire lire has swept leaving 11 only the ie larger trees standing I 1 there are 9 spindles in the cotton mills ol 01 of but ansome as pome some mills are stopped and al as the dispute between the ro asters masters ana anc operatives has today to day ilay resulted in a large larger strike throwing peo people ae out of work many of these spi spindles tige S will stop for a time and the people will certainly be forced to see many of the bad and but few of the good results of strikes the streets of oldham are crowded with people this morning I 1 giving the I 1 town a holiday appearance appe apps arance there is some excitement and a few rows are expected of the thu dol doi dollars larg lars worth of drink annually I 1 consumed in the united kingdom of great britain oldham gets her share and drunkenness shibli blighting litin curse of the home and nation i a alike ilke is s by no means confined to the male portion of the tile community and for the filthy weed pipes etc this great nation yearly spends the enormous sum of our meeting room is in one part of the oldham temperance hall we baptized two more persons last saturday and yesterday had bad several strangers at our mee meetings tings open air preaching is the order of the day and frequently we find people std stop to hear us who have never heard our doctrine before although they have heard beard any amount of lies concerning the character and practices of the mormons cormons Mor mons in utah anything in print is readily accept accepted edas as truth by many people and genera generally those hose who oppose us are arc filled wit prejudice by reading the reports of sectarian missionaries it iu utah only the other day a base and li bellous article appeared in the oldham Uh ronicle written by mrs A G paddock to the he chicago Sian siah standard dard and of course as eshe fhe was vas right in Sali sall salt sait lake city and engaged too in baptist missionary would be he impossible for her to pen an untruth we called on the chronicle editor who is liberal in his treatment of public 11 questions and he published our reply pl which we some of our open air meetings of late have been in villages where the gospel has not been preached for several years yeara anywhere and where people pay more attention we say altho aitho although uh I 1 in Brooks bottoms a village near bury without a public house and owned by some large cotton manufacturers our meetings meeting shave have been stopped by order of the owner of the place influenced by BIGOTED whose narrow minded unchristian actions have resulted in preventing us from standing on a piece of spare ground to preach the gospel of christ had we preached in their chapel and then gone off some distance and said we bad had to preach to them with the bible in one hand hard and a pistol in the other as was said by the first sectarian minister I 1 ever heard in mt BI t pleasant when be he went east cast we would have considered it just bace hace hautboy they then stopped us from preaching and compelled us to make a I 1 public apology y for lying or take a sound thrashing on the dinst I 1 visited the STOCKPORT SUNDAY SCHOOL it was founded over one hundred years ago I 1 Is patronized by her majesty queen victoria and has over scholars and teachers enrolled on its books it is under ehe ebe control of no religious denomination deri derl derives ves most of its support from voluntary subscriptions ab script ions of generous people is attended by children of all religious societies but the catholic and has the name of bein belu beins the largest sunday school in the world the tile building is very large and males and females occupy separate departments the many rooms of which are admirably adapted to the accommodation of the thousands of scholars who regularly attend the two sessions of the school each sunday its three library rooms are well veil supplied with good books tracts and periodic periodicals alsand and it is pleasing to see the interest and pride taken in the bythe by the hundreds of men and women who attend it now is the time for every man and woman in our church to look around and help in the noble work of training the children in the way they should shoula go on invitation I 1 spoke to one class of men in this school on the great work of the sunday school in utah they were surprised on finding themselves addressed by a native uto nian jlian and to hear that we are interested in the correct training 11 of our chil chii children dren after I 1 sat down a teacher arose and said he was astonished though glad giad iad lad to hear such a f favorable report of a people who as they had always understood paid no attention to sunday schools or anything of an ela bating nature they wanted me to speak to the whole school some sunday on utah and her people etc I 1 told them owing to inexperience I 1 was unqualified n U allfred for such a task although atvas hou I 1 would not decline their cour tevus invitation I 1 gleaned some good ideas from and felt well paid for my visit to the stockport sunday school my aly prayers are for zion and my assurance is that if the saints will strictly rit rib their duties they will never be deceived by the sophistry of a pre pretending tending prophet though he be the son of that prophet loscon Josept who iwho predicted the removal of the he saints to the rocky mountains where they are arc continuing 17 the greet latter atter day vork york under the direction of 0 the genuine priesthood presided 0 over V er by y gods favored servant who gat gal and bled with our oar martyred marty red prophet and patriarch your brother in the gogoel S 11 allex allyx x |