Show FROM A missionary unusual proceedings of a sunday school marshal county tennessee june 5 editor deseret news aliat more missionary experience yes more missionary experience while ic may not interest the casual reader it will cause those who have served their heavenly father in like capacity to turn the leaves of memory and glance do down wp the pages oage of the past and perhaps again in imagination ailua i they will rind themselves roaming over the ae bills of virginia in search ot of the ri righteous oteous or wading wadim the swollen streams streams and traversing traversia the woods of tennessee to call anners to repent 0 ance anceto to warn wern ot of pending judg ments mentis and to 10 invite them thein to put on OB christ IN CHILDHOOD our joy and pleasure consists in looking forward tor ward in middle age the time pass passes es swiftly and suddenly we find it is gone in old age our pleasure or grief is sustained by our memory of the past we were on the afie platform in the depot of a small town iu iii Te unessee the train had given the usual sig signal URI had bad steamed up tad stopped received its passenger gerej 6 and freight freig nt bad sounded the bell aad and na pulled out tile the happy an visit of ill our president ot 0 the conference had come to an end with slow movements and meditative mood we retraced our way back towards our there was a feeling ot of lonesomeness containing about teven and three tenths per cent bome sickness with traces of about abbat us that I 1 could not explain to my satisfaction not that the ram rain which had commenced to pour down and the 16 18 wiles miles that were yet ahead of us had anything to do with it oh no such things are TOO COMMON to the missionary we got to a friends house before dark and bein being fatigued we retired early next ne at morning mor fridays friday brother K R MY mj companion and I 1 went over to pleas ant hills hill a small place six miles from froin where we were staying to see it we could get a house to nold hold meeting in after walking all day trung tring to find the men who have charts charge of the house we postponed our eff efforts borgs in that direction and found a place to sleep saturday morning we renewed our endeavors and at two f found all the school trustees in a bunch at this we rejoiced but our joy oy was short lived tor for they informed us as we could not hm have e the house on any consideration I 1 quoted the second and third verses of the sixteenth chapter of st john to them but bat it had no effects effect at least not the one I 1 wanted it to 10 the spokesman ot of the trio said we allow were worshiping god ai all ri ngat and it if you think you are go and worship him we can get along without you I 1 replied 1 I am satis satisfied tied I 1 am worshiping god right and furthermore im no not afraid to compare my belief with that of others we would like a chance to be heard beard and thought you gentlemen would be liberal enough to lo hear both sides of a question before forming an opinion and taking the stand you yon take with a good evening gentlemen we left anem it was n now 0 w after dinner time so we concluded that to be in time I 1 FOR SUPPER we would start for our oar friends house we got there mere about sundown and to our dismay found the doors locked and the folks gone where we knew not nor did we know when they would return this was unlooked unlocked for but we made the best of it we went to the next house and told the nian man who came to the door we are ministers of the gospel traveling as the bible directs without purse parse orpe or crip rip having been accidentally thrown out late and being strangers in these parts we would like to tot get accommodations with you tonight if f we could he asked io in a gruff voice what kind of ministers we represent the latter day saints youre mormons cormons Mor mons faint you we explained that was a nick name that had beep applied to us well you cant stay here all right good night 11 no answer to be brief we called at fourteen places at which we got similar replies e he it now being half past aint wa an and the people having gone to bed we went in woods to pass the night the ground was still wet f from rota recent rains so we selected a large flat rock on which to make A PALLET OF CEDAR BOUGHS the next question we considered was how bow to get along without getting the gum gain of bf the cedar on our althes clothes we decided to turn tarn our linen dusters inside out and then put them on it was quite cool and we were not accustomed to the like so we converted our handkerchiefs into night caps by tying a knot in each corner you who have passed over the 1 sands of time must not laugh at our crude ways as it is our first night 11 out aut all being ready to lay down we earnes earnestly thanked god that we were well strone and happy and asked tor for flis protection theroun a tile tae iii night we didiot sleep much f W gilld be asleep pe haps three minutes wb when a n brother K R in turning over endeavoring to set get a more comfortable pos po siHon bion would wake me and vice versa before morning dawned it got cold lighting a lire fire we sat there till daylight la in wins along the road we came to a pump where we arranged our toilet while passing a house bouse I 1 heard the grating sound of a coffee mill THE BELL of the south it reminded us also that a breakfast would do us good as breakfast the morning mornine before was the last meal we had partaken partaker par taken of galling calling the man to the door I 1 told him if he be had no objections we would eat breakfast with him he said that b b be e bad none and told us to come J in sue OWN nice breakfast we had attar after our aasc this man is what to is called in this part of the country a sinner in other words a pon chardi h member it is almost invariably a mission arys experience to find such people more and kind than pro professing lessIng christians a sad commentary on the sects of the day leaving this mans house we went baciak to south berlin our friends mr ball and family were glad to seal see us learning that we bad had bad no dinner they wanted to get us some but we objected as we could wilt wait for supper very well we sat on the porch talking and singing hymns watching people go to sunday school etc I 1 had just finished copying a son sons 11 for one of the family when a crowd of 01 men mea and boys came up to the door the folks in the house bouse rustled around setting out chairs the family thought thou bt the men and boys had come to visit visit them there were between THIRTY AND FORTY of all ages by this time I 1 had recovered sufficiently ray my surprise to say well gent gentlemen lemell have you 1 just come from sunday school I 1 I 1 tho the one nearest the te door then said yes the sunday school met and organized gani zed about a hundred of us and we nave have come to tell you jou you had better get out of this country we dont want you ja in the community I 1 replied with as much calmness as an american citizen conscious of doing BO wrong could As long lag as this courtr y is free and we break no laws of it we will stay till we get ready to go some one in the back ground said dont doat let him sas sauce you yon bro R then asked him by what au dhority jae he did this he replied the sunday school and it i you dont get out you will have to ta take the consequences quen ces 1 I 1 I 1 thanked them kindly for the information they then turned and left the family were so sorry it happened we told them we knew they could not help it we talked about it before supper and we talked about it after supper I 1 it t was hard to believe our senses but ales alas it was too true I 1 walked around the house once or twice of course I 1 was not exited I 1 went back into the house where I 1 found mr ball LOADING A SHOT GUN wt h u choti shot I 1 help laughing at the si situation tua ion but said nothing atte after ra loading oad Z thi one hewen t into the other room and got another gan gun which he loaded the same as the first he was not satisfied with this for he stepped over to his bis sons and got a breech loading gun and 3 i belt f full all of shells I 1 ex postulated with him told him we would much rather suffer wrong than do wrong and said anyhow there is ia not a particle of danger of that sunday school class cias putting their treats into ear execution ec ution in various ways I 1 tried to show him the error of his bis way his only answer was an all right pm im not going to be run over en my own property it if the law wont protect me ill protect myself and those who are in my house 11 I 1 was satisfied no one would molest us that night at any rate so 80 thought it best to let him have his own way every effect has a cause what then the cause of these very unchristian like actions of the sunday school it was one J C jackson who when we first came into this county sent to some PARTIES IN UTAH and got by mail some yellow back literature toese these pamphlets he received and circulated while we were away tor for a few days he Jackson was careful not to let any of our friends have a book he read some to them out of one though this also accounts for our not being able to get a place e to stay the night before M B S JR |