| Show ELDERS REACHING THE RICH prom from reports rendered by elders who are now and have been laboring in the southern states it would seem that a marked and gratifying change is taking place in public sentiment in that region in respect to the dospel and the servants of the L aird rd who are engaged in preaching it heretofore the rule bag baa bi been een for the elders to be listened t and received by the poorer and humbler classes only they have seldom been akle able to place the gospel fairly before the rich and influential but recently the latter class have begun to receive the elders into their homes and attend their meetings meeting elder hunter who has been labor laic in middle tennessee for about two years and a notice of whose return appear la aaker abo her column states that i la in the abato na the elders make 0 a lou louse to hoew avla canvassing can go in ab fields dolde calling in person upon the people tendering tracts to such as will wall toad read them and seeking flecking opportunity tp to converse with all who manifest the slightest est spirit of la inquiry the houses of the rich as aa well as those of the poor are visited la in this way and one result Is ia a kindly reception extended to the elders eldera by many who belong to the former olaes class and who have hitherto been to the be missionaries elder hunter states that he was waa repeatedly peat edly made the recipient of hoppl in the elegantly furnished houses of the well to do and that chapels and churches in which a mormon would not in former times have been per bitted milted to preach under any circum stA tano efi are now opened to them and in some instances ces an orga organist and choir have also been provided the change which elder hunter describes as taking place in tennessee Tenne is io in progress pro greas in other parts of the south the warmth of a genial but invisible influence is melting the cold and bard prejudices and animosities that have heretofore prevented the servants of the lord from reaching with the message of the fullness full cess of the dospel thousands who at heart were worthy of an opportunity to bear and embrace it the heart of every true latte rd saint will swell with joy at this tidings it means that thai the powers of heaven are being exerted in opening abe tb way for the spread of truth upon earth and that the progress of ahe work of the lord among the nations will increase in rapidity |
