| Show missionary WORK IN ALABAMA HAMILTON MARTON MARION co ala feb 1888 editor deseret news knowing that the ga iines in zion are ever anxious to bear from toe the elders abroad I 1 take pleasure in communicating to them through the columns ol 01 0 i the NEWS a few items which I 1 trust will not prove uninteresting when I 1 1 came into alabama in april 1886 there were but seven elders in th the 1 conference that the work might bel be prosecuted more successfully the conference was divided November last and there are now nine tri traveling elders in the northern part of the 8 ate aie and I 1 believe the same number in the south mouth during the last six months there have been twenty one members added to the church of christ through baptism as a result of our labors for which we feel to thank our oar heavenly father realizing that paul plants apollos waters but god gives the che increase several new fields have recently been opened which are provi proving g much more successful sf al than older flews s in the interest of this is truly a day of warning and of not many words when the seed of abraham are being gathered two of a family an and d one of a city in fulfillment fulfilment of ancient predictions As AB a rule we are very kindly treated by those who will receive us and quite to the contrary by some of the unthinking elder amasa M rich and I 1 were visiting a friend of ours oura a few nights since sometime after we had bad retired to rest we were aroused from our sl slumbers ambers by the report of a gun and the shouts of men at the do door who demanded that it be opened and a light kindled that the house bouse might be searched 11 this our host bost refused to do but went out and met ao an armed mob mb with their faces blackened after giving us all the abuse they could with their tongues and exhausting various schemes to get us out of the house they withdrew leaving the good man of the housel house I 1 waster master of the situation the elders in this part seem to have the spirit of the great work in which we are engaged resigning themselves into the hands bands of god and leaving the result with him hoping to again soon be with the saints in zion and ever praying for her welfare I 1 remain your brother in the govel gospel geo GEOW W BAKER bakerjr jr |
