| Show olf off A MISSION I 1 J 85 ST glastonbury Glaston bury england En oland may ah the weather for th the a past severah weeks has been lovely rend rendering pring it very favor ble for holding hol dinic open air meetings distributing tracts etc in which we we have been very busily engaged of late we have generally had a fair attendance of the people at our meetings and thre has bab been seldom created much disturbance the people generally generall gone rall listen very attentively to what we hall had to say this has bag been very ing as it enabled us as to get the gospel principles before many last wednesday evening may 3rd ard was wae the first occasion for some borne time that we have been disturbed to any gre great at extent on that evening we visited the town of street a short elfr tance from here and after selecting a suitable place in one of the most moat thickly settled streets announced out our meeting aud and commenced with the usual exercises all went on very velly quietly until we were dismissing when a lady came up shaking her flat at A us and using very abusive jan guage we paid no attention to her and went on distributing some ot of our articles of faith when a young man walked up and presented a large book enquiring of us if we knew haat waat boot book it was we replied that we did uit act he said that he would in inform formus us and went on arquite at quite a rate for some tinis time about polygamy the imprisonment of women mountain meadows massacre tto stating that he read of this in the book which was written by arri stenhouse whom he said had miraculously escaped from the mormon Mor mons finding we could not reason with him we appealed to the audience which numbered a hundred or more asking that they bey give us fair play by allowing us to state our side aide ot of the question to 0 this request a re response ot of hear hear bear 01 was given on all sides we then related the facts as to the premises and to our surprise were listened to without interruption no noone one made any reply we then bade them good night and start started etl but had not proceeded far when we were overtaken by the father ot of toe tho young man who had bad been talking he made use of some very abusive lad guage and brought forth the book which his bis son had sod aad with which he do seemed to be much more ta t mil lar than with the bible he waved it in the air at the same time informing inform inic the people of its contents ai he was even more unreasonable than his son we again appealed to the audience which now filled the street tor a chance to state our side and again received the hearty response of heal beat hear 11 after we bad finished out our 0 opponent took the stand and delivered a lecture on the city of utah where he said the mormons cormons live jive after listening and replying we took our departure we enjoyed a pleasant walk of about three miles through the country to OUT our lodgings praising god and rejoicing that we were accounted worth v to be numbered with those who were spoken evil of falsely for the gospels sake eake 0 P BLACK |
