Show THE WORK IN TENNESSEE de db kalb ct anty may 22 1893 jaet saturday at 33 83 p ai bro gillard bean and I 1 held a meeting on the bank of the carney fork river and after a few brief remarks by each of us to a small but attentive congregation bro bean went down into toe the water with mr jolln john W creel and baptized him which we cn confirmed firmed him at the wat va edge your cr correspondent respondent 0 being mouth bro lives in blither ford county this state but had n never 6 v e r talked with one of our elders he however had bad read tie book of mormon anti and has been taking the news fr some time lime and after being convinced con ceil by prayer udd and by merely reading the above named publications of the truth of the gospel he decided to choose that be better ater part I 1 lu U bollig being associated in the church aud and kinglon ot god and to that end wrote to smithville inquiry ing about the elders El derei there are quite a number investigating gating ghere here i i this county and I 1 aan satisfied before the summer is ia over many if them will lie be baptized ox or course the great majority of the people care but little one way or the 06 other but we are very kindly treated and ia I 1 1 2 z am m thankful to our heavenly father for the kind friends that he has baa raised up to administer to our comforte W we a have lately made a tour through the southern part of this de kolb kalb county where nona of our eluera have been before helu belu three meetings preached to full houses and had bad much private ate talk on the principles of the gospel and distributed tracts pamp campb b jeto etc while in that section we met a preacher who is the leader of his bis sect in those part A areat ince aur ur meeting with him he be has bae been lecturing on or aga net mormonism trying to show that we are de jaded deceived deceive dg etc and that mat joseph waa ao an impostor imposter we learned bo however through one of our friends who pho alt aued one of his hia lectures that ze lie lie is injuring himself and that thai he can mot make his audie audiences noes believe everything thin g be tells them bad about the lor mou we propose in the i ear future to visit his neighborhood and awe ee if the seeds of the truth cannot be induced to find lod gement in the hearts of some of the people your brother A B R THOMAS |