| Show written Writ titis for ale pow paper REPORT FROM WEST VIRGINIA or D 0 CARTER prilipp Pui pul lipp lippi barbor county W Vs va february 16 15 1895 wes WP the under undersigner undersigned signed missionaries 0 the of hetue christ ot of litter day saint have been laboring in abb field shoe ilce october with fui ui heau headquarters quarters at mr pilip philip 0 hill hillis Is M preciou county mr hill and aamli have been very kind friends friend to the tb eldore ever since the mission opener up in ID this part they uever never turn a stranger iran geraway away from their door wi we have enjoyed rood bea th and the abe ot of the lord in our labors labore an with few except exceptive ine have received kind trat treatment ment among the people we have hold hell meetings mec tinga wherever we boub gel et a house either private or public and nd have explained the gospel to the Is families milles we have visited that wort were willing to listen ta UIL ua we find al a spat gnat deal of prejudice existing iu in the winds of the keople out our church bu reb they have read and bouru beard go eo many fables about the he marmot a that it in IB bard tj got get them to believe bellevo the truth but where we can gt gi t acquainted with them hem son ana alj listen liin to oat ue they seem beem to oba go g their minds in regard to the cormons mormons Mor mona mons toey cannot find ana any fult fault with our bibat doctrine but when we bear our testimony to them that joseph smith wat war prophet of god they cannot bellev bat quite a number have told that II 11 we would leave joeeph out of our doctrine we would got get lots lotani oi people to te juin join the courel there are twelve members ambera in bif this held field that bat are firm in the faith sod and several everal others that are investigating bat we believe will join in the neat future alother D G corter sod and bit bi younK you aRget cat soil eon julues the church lu lo may 1892 and emigrated to ulab lu in november we same year lea leaving vini bin b is wife and the obber here ber lie he brat located at dauab baue co oj his arrival thes there he be met jambo L bunting be being a stranger tra oger tu to him brumber bunting told him to come and make hla his home with him film brother carter accepts i this kinu offer aud and ith that be bad baa got among kind friends he stayed fayed with brother bunting about wo months and was waa treated veo jyo kindly day he also alo speaks very highly 0 fi Brot bera robinson Bubi naon and cram anu ana i f all the latter r doy saint that thai be mel me he remained at kaneb four month then went to georgetown kane co and secured him biru a home and re mallieu neu ber till the ul of november hu be returned to life bia hume in virginia to visit hie big guilly anu and friends end and tu to see bee it if be could any if them hem to emigrate to uth brother corter given such buob a good report ui oj utah and the saints saint that live levu there that part pan of his blo family and two ower fa families miles that belong tu to the church say aay they will go back witt liliu him it anty can tell oell their places lit bu rt sod sonae ui oi hie big friends that do not DOL delung to the church say bay they will go 90 it if they can sell bell out brother carter I 1 la a man that la IN all ail over this county end and a great many of bin bia old friends have called an him to got get some information in regard to utah and her people lit he tells celle them that all the tables fable that they nave heard beard and read about utah aau the mormons cormons are fake fairse and abd are without he ays aye the people 0 utah are for far better tuan loan be ever expected to find and them when he be went there and that the latter juster day t nave bave got thing that the worlo have bave not got or knows know anything aboul tie he says he be would rather live amouel efiem lilt hi and be poor than ban to live lire here anu be rich he is in strong in the laith faith 0 the gospel jot pel and hears bears a faithful test mody to all ail tatt will listen to him he has bus always boon been a klud kind friend t ti too me elders that have labored here bore his wife also to Is very kind to tbt tb 14 Elders they never turn anybody away brother carter has been the weans 0 allaying a great deal of prejudice lu lo this ibis 1 art an ot of our field lor for which we too to biank the lord thin Is in a very rough mountainous country coultry there being no level land except a little ou on the river bottoms the mountains are covered with umber timber ex where they have been cleared tut tur farming and otner other pur purposes possie the people live in a scattered condition except in too the railroad rail rad towns and a few other places place live on top ol of the mauu talus some on the sides and some i b the hollows hOllO WIL most all of them uie sleds winter and su summer almer some dome i f be mountains sire are su so steep that the nave lave tj ti rouan lock a biej to got get very few of the me farmers have any ny farm diug machinery tery the harvesting jr done by hand when they clear earms they pay no attention to 10 ati points of too comatas but clear iu in any ani every bbate and burn u the ibe timber and waste it most of timber is hard bard wood and would be b valuable ahle in utah tny they fence their i arine with the old fashioned fasulo ned rail rauf goo duo when we are on top of some of abb mountains we can au see them jotted jolted with daims claims thai have best cleared in every shape for miles lit in every direction tie the houses bouses are arc somewhere about the cent center r oi 01 b anti and they have school in ID them tour four or of AV months iu in tie eai and nd that in the fall all aud and winter when it to is impossible fur for so seme me of too toe childred childr er 10 0 o attend rei regular gular that live a long way aff from the building ane ore re paid icum 18 to SM 35 a mouth mo ac cording to their quality toey they have h iree free eab 01 ol iol m here bere a elitie out to that in utah we be apar is divided up we districts accor ing to 10 the i taxes axes paid sod and not flog according t tue number of children ob ildren lu in lue dittri district ct taut is the reason they only have lur ur or five mantho lu iu bome ot of ins as that is 18 ate 81 tar as their appropriation will reach WO we have met WIM whole families ol of uh ob idren that could neither read nor noi write rho people as aa a rule are kindi hearted aud bad pi tables especially the poorer class too the exceptions arr are among the rich in one part of our field eners all of toe people aie age well we could scarcely got get a place to i tuy over highl oue one bild ii 11 december we were comp compelled elied to stay slay in an via old descried house that we fou lobua flu beside hearde the road we cu could id A and none that would keep Us u either for love nor money we were also unable to got get a house to hold meeting in among them so no we concluded that the time lime bad not yet arrived for the rich to receive the gospel aud abd made our way to other pane one man tolo told u 48 tout that it if we were preachers prea chera of any other denomination they would lot let ua me preach but they bad n use for u us or our doctrine doo irine in that part of the cou coun 0 try adoler told us ua to go back talt into the mount alna where the be people snow know any batter and mayto we could bet t to listen to us another toll told us ua that they bad enough religion now dow to go save eave all of the people it they the wal waited td to be saved and bad no use uee for our doctrine door lne these are home of the re of missionary life IQ in travel lug ing over these mountains we are often reminded of one of the predictions of jeremiah where he be alter after I 1 will send end for ninny nanny hunters anel and they shall ahall bunt them off from every mountain and off irom from every hill and out of this th holes of the rooks rocks we 0 auld not see ae at t first brat how bow the last part of the uy or was waa going to be fulfilled bit whom when we were bunting for a man our oue day eliat ih at we wished to see and found him blua in if a coal mi mine ne then we could see e where out of the holes hole of the bockes came in the people say bay that this thin la Is the hardest winter they hey have had for years jear some dime of their cattle and honea borsen are abol on the liflie lift and a md ma oi of them have frozen lu 60 death two men tutt were out hunting froze to death a abon birbe aro we were out mic in the gains azzard uz zard three hourie tr treze zo but i we waa the word BLOM that ither either of a 4 was waa ever out iu in tho the roalo are ara fitted lull full to the too of the anee la io places dolob makes traveling tra velinir difficult most ol of toe school houses housea are eloped cloned agalice agali ct us and aad all or of the churches ex capt boije la in our neld bela that to la what they call me be union church we held one meeting in it but very lew few came out to hiten to us and most mol of them were school obi clil lareo luren this field bag baa been pe tty well canvassed in the last wo rr r alres years yean by brothers J Jh nuu HUM td o Rubi Rubis Bou cu crichl w B R I 1 luuy and others oiher fl batse brethren have V a arfat 9 rest many friends in this field who would be pleased plea eel to bear irom from them once in a while the above named oret brethren bren did the harvesting in ibis nj field and they did it ro oo well thai we nave not been able to glean guy any yet but we trust tru that our labors will be like bread cast upon the it will tw seen en alter after many dalp we have hold held eight meet lne its visited seventy five families distrait u ted ellith ty tracts iraola and walked miles some borne amay think that the eidene do a steg jeal deal of walking walf cing tor for so no little preaching iud bamily WAr but it uan can be vory very basily easily accounted tor for we have the abile of barbor and tucker and X part of preston and taylor counties to bravel irav elover over the people live jive iu in a scat goat hered condition a d we have to revel ravel from one ODO to too ten milea to see the truet teea teg if f a school boutie aud and abon three finito alm out of four we tall to got get permission permia sion to preach iu in them the families we violi re reth those oae we stay atay over digit bigi t with we atay two or of with one family who aben n it la 18 tuo too to travel some or of the learned script bave tried to show us ua rum from the bible that we are wrong but before they got through with us ua they found out oui that the be lord has baa chosen the weak things of the world to confound the we w one of those learned gentlemen a german baptist came to 10 the house where we were strying and or nr aed with us till eleven V we e finally got him corne nereu rou up and he denied all ail 0 the old bible and all cf 0 the gifts anu and blessings bleiel nga that christ said baid should follow the believer about two months after that we were back in abbt neighborhood again conen cohen founts out that we were there he came to the house where we were staying in we morning lie he had big bia bible WILD alta him with the corners of 01 the leaves turned down on a groat great many passage of capture thai he bad been studying canoe wo wd were t jere before too toe arst thing ne as tried to co prove was wae that john the baptist was endab spoken 0 ui iu in the laai isal chapter oi of malachi Mala ob and fulfilled that bat prop prophecy becy anen he was ov on OD the earth he read au numen merub ue passages that be thought proved bit doctrine we asked him it he b that a man was wag born more than once jle said eald no be did not believe tha ana then we asked him how jobu an eilsie EIl sis could be the same bame he could riot not explain that thai but he be sull bt b liever they were be abs same ame por perrou soli he failed to go convert us on wat that point but he I 1 was not yet he be bad everal other points oi of doctrine tuat W b thought convince Us 0 he aid paul was waa the angel that jou u tut tue revelator saw aw flying through the he midst of heaven having the doepel to preach to every nation I 1 kindred tongue and people and fui filled that prophecy when he barrieu the gospel to the Uen gentile tiles and that t je a were the other sheep anat of and th at they beara the voice of god through psul and aau were gathered into she he uld laid he nad bad also alao found out from reading the jubilo thai the jews jew would never be mat leathered bored again and a great miny other points point too dumere nuDa araua 8 to mention me nilon all this he be had learned by obeying the of the savior duek and nd ye shall ball find knock and it anaid be opened opo ned ox he had bad scripture to piove giove what he be he showed bowed from the on every point and told old him bim that the labin a of god berou only by the ae spirit of god and tol toll I 1 him how he aull obtain abs tbs he spirit of gid and explained to him be true plan of salvation aal and bore our goligh toony to him that me gospel that we lor preached clied was true and was being preached to all the darld to as a bitnes that gha ghq end will soon floon come and tout oat hose wat reject it will be among those that will call lor for toe rooka MILD to fall on them to bids bide them irom from the presence prea enoe of at the lord when he cornea comes to reign on the tho earth he with us ua till four in abs tbs afternoon afier nuon hl his arguments mento are a fair sample of what we have to meet with very often we feel truly thankful to the lord lor for the knowledge of the he gospel that we have and that we have been beba counted donby to proclaim it 91 t some ome of those chat it in dar knew we know that gajko he lard sustains taina us in our labon aali baw AM fie be hwe and answers out our prisms prayer whom when we in faith faigh we would ad vise sit all of the young men of out our church to got get a too enyim imay ay of the gospel and aad make themselves familiar with the scriptures before they are airs balled to ro fill a mission ml aslon and leave off all ot of their bad habile babits as the scriptures nay he ye clean that bear the vessels of the loril it if they will profit by chis advice they will escape some oma oi 01 the bard knocks and humiliations wat that a whole who is not prepared when he is ia caged for fear we will weary your patience we will close ever praying fir ajr the welfare ot of A J allex ALL EM HER BALLS |
