| Show Sv gym mym co north carolina april 1 1679 editors deseret news agreeable to release and appointment on february let I 1 left liverpool for the southern states mission to spend a few months here in promulgating the principles of the gospel after an agreeable trip I 1 arrived la in borne gaion ga i n the of february I 1 met elder ralph smith of logan and we spent a few weeks very pleasantly and prod profitably in visiting the branches of the georgia conference visiting and making friends among strangers as we went along we baptized three persons and blessed several children I 1 found among the saints somei some very good people manifesting manifee ting to a strong degree de gr ee the first love of the gospel ab abounding ou nd in good hood works and feelings toward each other the prospects of the work in georgia ate are good there are many more openings and calls for tor preaching than there ar are a elder elders a to nil fil nill fill I 1 them our missionaries in some instances are in a manner speaking almost most it talked to death imagine his feelings when the cry still comes cornea come over and talk to us 21 and when they comply the eiders elders have to talk all day and often till after midnight there was a time when our young elders at home imagined ease to themselves while inzian and reckoned on having plenty ol 01 time to eludy study u up p doctrine after being called to go on a mission but that day Is past wh when n they come out to the world work they thep they are expected to talk to the people and tell them something that will do them thern good and moreover our eiders elders are expected to tell the people that which we mcw of a surety to be of god if weare we are filled with knowledge opportunities port unities to do good hlll not mot be wanting 1 after visiting the georgia sainta salute for a vi month I 1 met our energetic president elder eider lder ider J morgan in geh gei general Leral good health and spirits ho he appointed elders eiders edlet edlef B edlefson thomas B S Hig higham harrl haril and myself to labor for the summer bummer months in lz the mountains of western north carolina agrest A great exten extent t of country inhabited by a I 1 liberal brill freehearted people who never neven before heard the tha gospel after a lengthy and tedious journey of some bome 90 miles through the thel mountains mostly performed on fo foot oty myself and companions arrived here in brasstown Bras Brass town sOWn our headquarters and present address yest yeat yesterday erda evening we found a few good saints here a branch of some 11 members that that prest morgan organized about a month ago age when he fielt first came up here to open up this new field from this point we will advance in all directions as fast as we can make fi nii openings T the h 0 prospects for a good work being done here is promising wo we made many good friends anci and effected beveral several good openings on our way upshere up here for myself I 1 feel more encouraged to go on in the good work than I 1 ever even did oa on sunday evening last we held a good meeting at a place called ottia some 15 miles back in the house of an ic acquaintance of elder morgans named jas jaa collins he invited the neighbors and we had a good turnout of people peopled A gentleman told us next day that when we came again he wished to be baptized we expect et by the help of the lord to do a good work there and raise up a thriving branch after a lengthy and agreen agreeable bie ble tait talu talk talt with a baptist minister here yesterday be invited us to come and visit him at his home some ten ton miles mile away and talk with him bim on the gospel he is reading up and investigating our doctrines very earne earnestly itly president emt morgan mogan received many invitations which he hadano had bad no time tima ta nil nii which we will have to fulfill fulfil the field Is BO so wide and extensive that we hardly know where to begin but we are expecting some help soon and we have room for all that will come they will nind find it too one of the best fields of labor that id is now opened that is for tor plenty of work the people how however oven over are poor but are very kindhearted kind hearted and liberal and an elder eider E ider lder will seldom beldom go hungry or sleep without shelter the nearer he complies with the law going without purse or seilo scrip 11 the better he will feel the greater greaten blessings will he reap and he will ewd find himself thrown in the way of the ibe honest and upright oftener tener and he will receive better treatment than if he had hild money if he be gobs goes forth with implicit falth faith in the lord we had bad noi not come many marylles miles lles into the state before the rumor spread eiders that three mormon elders had bad advanced into the country and were going to take the state other wild are spreading like the winde wind we hear of threats tomoe to and drive us out bitt fitt uttered buttered ered by some of the people particularly ticul arly from tho the religious classes the ministers themselves incite the people from the pul do us violence some threatening to tar and feather feather us if we do not quit the country but arthe lord being our helper we will not move moves but as the spirit directs and then it will be a move after bome some of bf the honest in heart who are heatter scattered ed through this mountainous country we yve fear not what man na n can do if th the lord eLord has a few of Isra israels eils ells blood in this district and il it be he sustains us in our calling we will gather them into the true fold and leave the roat real in the hands of the lord andi andl will clear our skirts of the t be blood of this people till then we wont be driven the climate of this part of the south livery healthy itis it is much cooler than the lowlands andela and aud flat cods of georgia and I 1 think it t will agree with our boys quite well wel the soil boll as a general thing is ve very p poor here but is better than in we georgia orgia what would our farmers th think ink it they could get got but from 3 to 12 bushels of wheat to the ac acre and other crops in like proportion yet this Is all they make here year after year till the soil wears out then they will take in another piece eyen eyer EV r praying for tho the welfare of the work fo the lord dord I 1 am your brother in the ge geipel JOS april 2nd respecting the liberality of this people I 1 think I 1 ought to qualify an expression I 1 made in the first fir s i part of this thia letter they aie ais are not f bil all liberal in tho the evenin evening gElder geider elder eider edlet Edlef edlefsen sen seB and I 1 went out for a walk and metra met it commit 11 tee of nine mine armed men meff headed by byr a methodist minister named henry henrys 1 1 greenwoo Green who read kead to us the following resolution we the undersigner undersigned under signed have decided will not put up with the doctrines of a class of men called latter day sainta bainte and it Is decided that if jf they dont get out within 24 hours of this date we will put them out given under our hands and seals this let day of april 1879 this christian document was signed by the minister and 20 others but he was ashamed to read the names but I 1 have nine of them they said they did not want to hurt any of us but we must eo go and blence hence this warning we then let in on oil them and gave them such strong testimonies and such a powerful preaching as they seldom or ever heard before showing from the scriptures what what men they were and of whom they came the picayunish Icay unish minister bald said list lust fust what I 1 knew know they would do quote scripture for fou it dorthey sor for they are BO so well educated and versed but we wont stand island it gentlemen you must leave us in peace you must be on off you are disturbing the peace with your strange doctrine of laying on of hands bands of apostles pro and revelators revelatory which we will not believe in will you goal go we then told them our business and calling our duty to god and our fellow follow man and answered them calmly and emphatically gentlemen we cannot and wui will not leave we are here on the lords errand he bent sent us here and cewill we will stay here till ho he tells tella us to go hence we fear not n ot ahu what you can do the god who whom in we berve serve will see ua us through they fairly quaked when we answered them thus after relieving themselves of a few oaths they left ue us and we went our way rejoicing add and held a good meeting yours J H PARRY chris Chrls danity in india following is ia an extract from a letter we have received from mr john coggle of newport mon mouth shire who says be he is 15 is ls a f frequent reader reador of the tho leeret as some somo years yeara in bengal east ast indies and havu have observed these nuble noble sacrificing walking with a big whip and a dozen natives at his heels to show AS chisim his hib importance R to advantage they cry PO polygamy agamy here against the mor mot mons mono I 1 wonder what aney would bay say to bee aee as I 1 have seen about women and all thew the wives ives ivea of one rajah the ther radah rajah aJah ot of cawn pore and yet protected by the english government let any man mau dare to interfere with one of them theta and the english law would punish him for the of fence but though polygamy is very extensively tided there among the heathens athens he not till the in introduced trod dogmas could you see whore doms or drunkenness practised practiced amborg them A native once sald said to me in sahib how is it that the christians are such a drunken lot of men aud nud cruel with it polluting po the women and even chil dren uren of our country this was waa not practised practiced among black people till the christians came among Us we dont get drunk nor take our neighbors wife we have wives it is true of our own but wo we keep them aud dont abuse the law of allah by going after strange women I 1 have traveled thousands of miles in bengal and seen all this and much more though tilo tho touch of christianity to tilo tho heathen is is ilko like the of tho the pas tree it poisons und pollutes ca u ail all that come curne within ith ita touch or under its influence where whore the tho native enjoys unmolested their own native instruction and practises practices shall ahall I 1 say it yes I 1 will venture it practice polygamy he is happy and is a stranger to drunkenness and whore doms he Is only mado mada acquainted those accomplishments through vaunting christianity and yet the christian ministers try to t 6 teach te a c h him to bing aing B dare to be a ddniel daniel safe saoe in the arms of jesus sweet bye eye and bye etc |
