| Show THE BRITISH MISSION in south wales having I 1 now im am welsh walsh the cardiff to attend come to which will be hold held hero here conferences conference there are but few saints tomorrow the energetic through but in this thin part missionaries there are a labors of the who seem investigators of number of the witness our to test anxious and I 1 have of the gospel restoration fruit will be borne that some som no doubt in the increase of a slight alight in the way here church membership of the from your recent are aware but as you field there observation in the mission who care to are few people other than con treat us with the over tempt or indifference of the inhabitants whelmine whelming wh elming majority their of this land have made up minds to abide by a gospel that much of their too does not occupy with a faith content time they are not and are satisfied that wor keth to believe that the lard has performed for their salvation necessary all the labor possibly so they can have more time to devote to worldly matters as these lie nearest their hearts the limi ted in number frumker claw class of people whose desire is to work righteousness by the traditions are re so hedged about of f men that it is next dest to impossible to obtain a hearing from them from which I 1 took the great seaport yesterday for a few days say my departure is not exactly 1 the same old liverpool that those bhoge whose busl business ilef 8 frequently calls them there usually find it in one respect at least for there is au an unusual amount ot excitement over the cholera of which there are four oases cases in the parkhill hospital at the south end the affected persons are russian jews and two of the four tire are pronounced by the medical officers as beyond recovery the papers erf j first announced them as mild ISEp oases besof of bowel complaint abut but the hurrying them OIT off to the hospital and the hasty removal of a dozen pa tier to of the institution suffering from other diseases to give the whole place up to the few new comers was a con diction tra of the mild 9 there were po no local cases in liverpool the activity of the health officers is commensurate with the uneasiness of the public and immigrants both for great britain and those en an route to the united states and canada are sub eted to rigorous sanitary regulations german and russian jews and dutch butch and italians are given a thorough soaking and so scrubbing rubbing that to is doubtless a grest seat surprise surprise to them judging by their air usually bally untidy appearance all their heir old and badly worn underclothing is ia burned and in necessary ames new articles of apparel are furnished the baggage that is embarked on vessels leaving here for american ports JB in thoroughly infected disinfected dis by various chemicals and is subjected to the teaming 9 process looese Is for this purpose one of t the a cunard company companas comp anys large freight skips ships has been enclosed out in the river and there the steam ing is going on day and night by the method used all baggage goes through an operation of turning and shaking and heating beating to a temperature of degrees fahrenheit by means of steam boilers especially provided for the work and to is then packed in boxes and sent aboard the outgoing vessel without again going to snore shore each trunk or box for a united states port must have the dis infected label of the american consul before the officers ot the transatlantic boats will receive it by this means it is hoped that an extension of the epidemic will not be caused by the liverpool steamship companies the town of bridgend bridgens Brid gend through which I 1 passed on my journey today is a few miles west of here it is the seene scene of the park ship colliery disaster which occurred this week and of which the dispatches have probably given you the awful details out of the men in the mine were killed the cause of the catastrophe is now admitted to be a neglect to properly ventilate some old workings the dead bodies are still being brought to the surface but they are so blackened and distorted that identification Is in almost impossible except by some par nicular article of clothing they might have worn one feature connected with the frequent recurrence of disasters of various kinds is the iner increased eased callousness of the people not imme mediately affected what formerly would have shocked the whole community for weeks is now looked upon as an event to be expected in the natural course of things and excites but passing comment the mass of the people seem blinded to the signs of the times among which calamities are enumerated and familiarity with them if it does not breed contempt at least leads to indifference As a body the people of wales are probably more averse to the distribution of the printed word and the preach ing of the gospel by the latter day saints than are the inhabitants inhabitant of either england or scotland in wales the elders are being almost constantly molested in one way or another aud instances of violence though fortunately without serious effect have bee LI quite numerous the past eighteen months N no particular section more than another la its given to this but here in djuth 8 mth walea Wale alln in mid kid wales and in north wales the bitterness bitter neBs and hostility to the latter day SA saints 1 ants an and d their teachings are about the same bame an outbreak from this cause in which the treatment of the mission arles was rather more severe than usual owing to the mob having better opportunities to engage in their lawless new nes occurred in Denbigh shire on the evening of august and two days later the same brethren were ordered out of their lodgings elders thomas D roberts of logan levi john of Porta portage gei box elder county and Tal taliesin lesin evans of scofield emery county have been laboring in the Denbigh shire district the following is an extract from a letter written by them to the president of the conference here elder thomar thoman B evans of ogden describing what took place cewe we have been trying V tj do our duty but find it is getting warm we have had opposition in every meeting but one and very bitter at that but last night is the worst we have witnessed in wales we went up to ceans an 4 i most of those la in attendance listened very good while we spoke but after the meeting they brought forward an old copy of the mar and also some of the words of our leading men teaching that god has baa a body the man who read this thought that god had no body he then called out and asked the crowd if he had they all shouted not nol they would not be reasoned with so we tried to withdraw from them but that would not do and we held our own for half an hour about this time the crowd began shouting away with them etien the mob started onus on us and roughly pushed and kicked us about aboul brothel roberts was waa thrown down several times as was also brother john it was only after a very painful experience that they succeeded in getting away from the crowd and reaching their place of lodging brother evans managed to slip through rh an alley and escaped unhurt we have all this district ances once and had partially gone over it a second time intending to complete the work next week they warned us not to come back again this morning it la Is all brother roberts roberta can do to use one hand and both he and brother john are quite eore from the bruising they received notwithstanding experiences that are sometimes decidedly unpleasant the elders laboring in wales and those in other parts of the mission as belij well are filled with an earnest determination to do their duty they are diligently calling on the people to repent and are seeking to thoroughly warn them the inhabitants of this part of the country will not be able to find an excuse for not receiving the gospel in any neglect of the few missionaries now in the field to disseminate the truth wherever they have opportunity the offer is ia marked with unfailing diligence and is being as af i persistently i rejected the weather to is fait faix today this subject may be a topic of common conversation but it is not a common thi g to 10 have many successive days of fine weather along the west coast of britain however we hope for sunshine tomorrow so that none may be unwillingly detained from bearing the wor of the lord preached JAMES H ANDERSON CARDIFF wales sept 3 1892 |
