| Show A VOICE FRON FROM THE SWAMPS mormon missionaries mobbed in mississippi LT IN THE STAMPS OF mississippi may loth 1888 editor deseret news dont be startled by the sound of a voice from the swamps for it is not like one that rang in the writers ears on an occasion that we were about to celebrate with blackberry pie for dinner I 1 believe the nest first voice that I 1 ever heard from the was sorter terror lying a soto oto speak but I 1 ho hope this win will not b be e so I 1 W will I 1 ii just briege briefly y mention the time I 1 heard a voice from the swamps and tell you what I 1 did when it saluted my ears and see it if you wont say I 1 pursued a wise course you know we are mormon elders and are very unpopular so we have to be as wise as serpents and as harm less as doves there were two of us so I 1 will say we and not 1 I we were situated I 1 just ast like you would be it if you were placed in the swamps and lumped JuMpe dup up bya by a band of ch christian stian who were striving to take your life just because of your belief and it boere to see them slipping up on oil you and you were to te start off on A BIG mix with your hat in your hand this was what we did and af course when wt we started they followed they caught us but we had bad the honor of heading the procession for about two hundred yards amid the yells and wild war whoops of our oar pursuers and the tee barking of hounds we were beginning to c congratulate ourselves on our success and and powers of locomotion when all ah of a sudden and to our great joy we ran into injo a herd of cows all of which ad bells on and stampeded them this drew the dogs from our heels but the poor cows caught it we did not feel a bit sorry for them 1 though chough we might have won the race it the cows got the start of us it you know anything I 1 a about out what kind of a noibe noise the boys make la in chart a newly married couple youcan you can guess what kind of a noise we made I 1 mean us and the cows dogs bells and savages or civilized barbarians falsely called christians we most mus shave been POWERFUL GOOD RUNNERS ftfe for in leas I 1 ess than 15 minutes we were almost out of ef their bearing bearin gout but it so happened that we were going in the wrong direction we were nearing the opposite side of a cotton field when from behind the fence appeared the muzzles of several shot ahot guns which said bliek click and add something else ele said bald halt I 1 halt haftl well of course w we halt halted bat would rather have been excused we had bad time now to rity pity the poor cows but we never thought of it I 1 expect it they flad find a jumping off place wey aney are running yet and I 1 know if we come to the muzzles of those great big gunste would have crossed the state line in 24 hours THE SIGNAL was given and aad the mob came running in from every iside eide puffing and snorting and swearing but yon yet know th thy y were out oat in the swamp where the preacher hear them some came running in saying saving where are they I 1 want to see them I 1 have hate never seen a mormon yet when we were pointed out to them t they seemed to be surprised at not seeg seeing any horns we go got A up on a log ing and took our gar hats in fir our hands bands and they all got a good look at us we were marched on to a church about a mile distant amid the jeers and insults of e our captors there we e were ar rested by a 4 gw gang who had been at the same church a few days previous and partook of the sacrament of our lord and whose heads beads were blossomed for we the grave it was a houch bench warrant and a bogus bogias one too which called fr for the bodies of mr and his part ner mormon preachers well you see we got beat out of our blackberries that we had picked in the forenoon barwe had LOTS OF the rest of the day and till it if that night at which time we were alb liberated without a scratch it I 1 were to send you all the questions that were propounded you would have to convert your paper into a catechism you yon know we are in a land of rell religious gidus toleration and a boasted land of liberty where all may worship God according to the dictates of their thel own rown conse consciences Maces but here in this part of the land your conscience must dictate to you to be a member of some popular sect for it if it you are denounced and called a heretic fool knave etc we are asked to lay down the pure principles of the gospel and accept a mess of stuff in the place of them it if we will not do this the cry is raised run them out run them out for our creed is in danger dan 11 1 OUR UR conference is in a prosperous condition at present many are investigating the truth and occasionally one accepts it quite an accident occurred a short time ago age which I 1 suppose resulted in the ruin of a couple of sunday goto go 0 to meletios suits A couple of elders found a pond of water and in tills this pond was a boat in a few moments there was a man in this boat who rowed around and came back to snore all right and took the other man on board with him the way went and the way they capie cape back is quite funny or would have been lor for bystanders they got out in the middle of the pond and the boat stopped mule like and rolled over ever and oh ob what a splashing it will oe be a cold day when they try that boat ata again I 1 have just bad a conversation with a darkey who believes in shouting and says it right to Equen f quench eb down de spirit till and says he be when de gospel is ed to me ise ilse gwine to shout I 1 sho is sah bab we are often invited to preach in their churches but have to refuse them we are now in a neighborhood where we are not ailo allowed wed to preach our friends are all tenants and the land owners have all forbid us as preach preaching ing on their plantations they are all christians too and fol followers lowes or of christ who says love jove your enemies tod d ry pray tor for them that despitefully use U it ainu amoded sed us to read in the NEWS the account of ef the SECTARIAN convention lately held bald in utah for the purpose of deciding how to convert the mor almor mons I 1 guess their boiled carrot is not tempered hard bard enough to dig down li a moun mountain tsin 11 it reminds one of the pig that hat decided to steal his bis way into the field by crawling in through a bow shaped trough it lay in a semicircle with both ends outside of cot the fence he went wed in at one end and followed the trough around till he came out anthe same side of the fence and had bad nothing with him but a grunt grant |
