Show returned home this afternoon we wb had the pleasure of meeting with elder william G phillips who returned last evening f adm a mission to england he left this city lor for that country in april 1886 and has consequently been absent two years and a ball when he arrived in great britain he was appointed to labor in the london conference where be remained fourteen months he met with lao success Bucce ea and baptized nine people ople some bome of whom have emigrated we he next received an anointment to preside over the manchester conference and held that position asi 1 11 up to the tima of his release ai daring rin t ape e dime time he be had bad charge of the cantere conler erice ce some where about a hundred peo people were added to the church elder had bad charge of et the company of saints with whom he be returned homp home the journey was pleasant and prosperous with the exception of the unpleasant episode at castle garden abe detention of twenty of the immigrants without any sound reason the officers who acted in the matter conducted the proceedings in a most arbitrary manner elder phillips returns in good health and spirits gratified with the experience he has gai gained Redin in the missionary field |