| Show THE WORK IN VIRGINIA UNION MILLS fluvanna Fluva noa county virginia api abill il 20 A few notes from part may ba b a of interest to the readers of the NEWS especially those who are in teresio 1 in the pro mulga tiou of the aspel Gs pel for as paul said to the corinthians where one Imer member imber suffers all the members with it if or one member honored all the members anemi rejoice with it ou on my recent visit through gt tt the several fields of labor I 1 had cause to rejoice with many ethers lu iu the grod god work which is being flone done in this part ot of the vineyard on april I 1 left my field of labor to visit elders in Gooch goochland land county while the there re we held several meetings and badt zed one sister armstrong elder Q G A smith performed the ordinance f then visited the elders in louisa cou ty and found a great interest being manifest among the people in ila the gospel we held a number of meetings meet loes and on april we had bad the pleasure of baptising baptizing bap twelve of the honest in heart of th that at locality who had thoroughly come to a knowledge of the truth of the goa gopel by diligently seeking and invin gating the doctrine there were among the number baptized a brother sims sima 78 years yeara and wife 77 years of age with all their family it dt di i a look well to see the old folks take lead and set act the example and the children follow it caused the elders elden to think of the jailer when paul and ami sila shan baptized him and his hie after the baptizing zin we held meeting with a good attentive congregation elders smith and the writer were the speakers A very convincing spirit prevailed fiden elder W W richards and H W find findlay I 1 ay entered that field ot of labor on the ot of january 1898 1893 and have since siloe labored there anere are many r nore more in that locality who are read ready y f for c r baptism and will soon unite themselves with the church of christ tola this field Is ie located ear the hanover line had ana within three miles of the pl pi tee ice where our elders were driven out of hanover last summer it must be that the lord h hs 9 some honest in heart lu in that part if so 80 we will try to io gather them out I 1 then went over into county and visited the elders there but the people there are very much opposed to the latter day sainto still we have bad the privilege ot of warning them of the gospel require ments from there I 1 visited orange county where two elders have labored eighteen months with but little success as far as baptizing is ia concerned but bus we have done our duty we have been very successful in allaying pre prejudice U dim 00 and we find a muco tetter better feeling existing among the people than formerly and the more the people become acquainted quain ted with us the better we are treated many of our worst one rales become friends when they learn learno of four our true condition still we have many mgt ri Y unreasonable charges hurled against us which will no doubt be the ease until error is ia abolished and righteousness reigns we feel to say to the young men of zion prepare yourselves a d come out and help us warn this generation or of their condition we have plenty to do 0 o for all t the ake goo cooj I 1 elders eiden we can get two years ago we bad six elders in this thia conference and now we have twelve and ana room for several more but we think it would be a good ajea i iea for our oar elders to stud study v at home and prepare themselves there for the work then they will not have to study and drill six flix months before they can assist their companion I 1 hope those faw lines will encourage the young to inform themselves on the gospel R C HARVEY |
