Show missionaries IN SOUTH CAROLINA ELDERS influenced BY THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH editor deseret news howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will snide guide you into all truth and he will show you things to come these were the words of our savior to his disciples by way of encouragement and tile the f fulfillment fulfilment of the promise is experienced by every elder of the church ot of jesus christ who performs a mission to the nations of the earth the manner in which the knowledge knowledge is imparted is clearly explained by tre the prophet joseph in the following I 1 language A person may profit hy by noticing the a first rat intimations of the spirit of revelation for instance when you feel pure intelligence flowing unto 0 you it may give you sudden strokes of ideas that by noticing it you may find it f fulfilled ul the same day or soon ie those things that were presented unto your mind b by t the he spirit of god will come to pass a a and nd thus by learning the spirit of god od and understanding it you may grow unto the principles of of revelations until you become perfect in Christ jesus observance of the above injunctions has developed incidents which to me are testimonies to the divinity of the work in which we as lamer day saints are engaged thinking some of these occurrences might benefit or at least interest some of the readers of your valuable paper I 1 will relate a few which I 1 trust will find space in your columns in october last elder W G cragun and I 1 started out to open up a new field of labor in this state the first night out found us in what is ampro lately pristell called the dark corner of 8 greenville re enville there we held two meetings in private houses and an appointment to hold the third in the church was made it being cotton picking time and the people very busy we de elded to spend the day in sightseeing sight seeing consequently visited glassy mountain a prominent resort for pleasure seekers while there we were plainly shown things to come and the intelligence dencell that flowed into us was so pure urell that our time was occupied in r relating plating to each other what was going on below and how we would find things when we returned we returned to the neighborhood at 4 p m and found the people to in a perfect panic the church was locked the preacher rallying his host of christians ti ans to mob us and our curfew few friends in a state of excited frenzy all 0 which was predicted during the the day the result was we hadbo had to sleep lathe in the woods and leave the I 1 dark corner 11 next morning the I 1 things shown ui us had bad their literal fulfillment fulfilment f last june elder gardner and I 1 started to a neighborhood where we have a few members and where we hold semimonthly semi monthly meetings when we started which was on monday morning I 1 told him we would baptize some one that week in answer as to how I 1 knew I 1 could only reply that intelligence had bad flowed unto me to that teat et el eject we visited amongst our friends until saturday the day appointed for preaching with no indication of realizing what I 1 had so unequivocally stated slated to elder G on monday meeting time arrived and still baptism was not mentioned after singing the first hymn and aeki praying and while in the act of singing the second hymn dmn imagine my delight at seeing seeing through the open door a venerable lady ady coming up the walk with a small bundle under her exin arm I 1 recognized her as being a woman who had attended several of our meetings after services she approached me and said 1 I have come to be baptized the ordinance was performed and we returned to headquarters with an unmistakable evidence that I 1 had been shown things to come these are only two of the numerous instances ol of the kind we might relate which assure us that we are truly the disciples of christ we are meeting with encouraging success in as people become better acquainted with our motives and teachings prejudice gives way for friendship and comsea consequent treat protection from n we celebrated celebrate A pioneer day in a 8 sunday school jubilee which passed off satisfactorily ily to all concerned there are at present seven elders IH a this statland State and aud we all feel determined to continue to raise abe the warning voice that perilous times are coming HEBER WRIGHT mountain y S C july |