| Show PURSUED BY A MOB Norto 14 naville is a small email country set foment ent and is situated on the east blue ridge mountains me of the i bently it is in a very rough and part of the country the peo wor or the majority of them are after to same game style elder B R C harvey of heber city ilka the writer have been laboring here t the past tour four months and have met ath very fair success in getting the sciples of the gospel before the peo B but the devil has not been asleep r during our last visit after an ab nce ce of a few ew days ava he ne made his oe arance in the shape of a murder land and drunken mob with a christian abber her at their backs inciting am ono on we were on our way what is called bacon hollow talking king leisurely along the road just 1 wf we were pass passing in g a field of corn near ta roadside we received a shower of ones ell most of them being as large as ups fist the mob had secreted in th the e corn awaiting our ch upon our getting out of mowing ing distance they started to shoot t up u but we vre escaped unhurt we wended bended ou our r way to a brother afo dis di s house which was only a hort t distance after sitting there for few bw minutes we were prompted to at our things and leave there ss as quick I 1 we could this being our head arters we got our clO clothes ad d after getting them packed up we rued by another way to the place had left that morning As we were ing ng through the woods we could herr hear e mob hallowing hallooing hallo f upon arriving at the house we discovered that we had left a few things EtehL ind nd so brother went after biem W cupon upon his return he told us that ob went to brother Craw crawfords fords few minutes after we left and when acey found that we had gone began vinit vengeance ce on the folks by grA rowing down the fence and pulling down t its the log cabin when sister bister ford went out to talk to them ebey fired three shots shot at her driving her serin in the house again using some of abe e mos most blasphemous and lis disgraceful graceful language that could possibly be uttered brother C was out at work and there was only two women at home the mob made their threats that they would waylay us and shoot us at sight eight they said they dreaded us as bad as rattlesnakes and would L hoot us as quick this occurred on friday morning and ami we intended leaving there 01 saturday afternoon but we felt bad to leave in the night so bo we stopped at brother s until sunday morning and left there at 3 a m walking a distance of twenty two miles to this place this io spirit has been growling growing for some time but what brought their hatred and prejudice to a focus was our preaching a funeral sermon A young lady having died her relatives asked us to preach at the funeral which we did and this raised the ire of some of these people ever praying for the welfare of zion and her people I 1 remain your brother in the gospel gospe W J P river va sept 3rd ard 1891 |
