Show THE missionary FIELD I 1 I 1 the following excerpts ar are taken from a letter just juat received from bidet lder joseph W manor Musser now laboring in voit bern alabama tell father that mr grisbaum was very grateful for the books seat gent bin bani fie ele has bag been ft a good friend to us and I 1 relieve belleve will always be and toll tell him further that mr grisham brought a sample of lucern grown grow from we the beall which father gave me to distribute lamong amoda the be farmere to the Dick dickson soi ditore for exhibition it was wa planted about may lt lot on an ordinary piece of ground and it was about a foot loog long with healthy roots and lea leaver veip the people are beginning to be interested Interest ou in its growth and development we held a meeting at Alla borough last sunday we doured secured a meeting house and made an appo lumens but when the preacher learned ot of it he be raised a rumpus and sons or 01 a of his members embers va who had bad consented cousen ted for us to nee ces the house to tell us we could not have it we considered tale cowardly and so did many of tue mer members abers ot 01 his church it seems as though the preacher jo boss boas over everything though to in fact he be has baa nothing to do with church houses the people hire him bim to preach and reserve the right to oust him at their pleasure but he be gets bem worked up with his foolish preaching adil they are aie frightened land and come and xo KO at his bi bil iding imagine elder john de visiting one of our ou wards as a and nd after learning that some man not to in sympathy with him was la tending to hold bold a meeting there during the week and suppose john doe were to 0 o tell the bishop that the house mut must not be let the cases are similar but bu the people are different in the south in most cases the bishop would liete hats to john doe and take his advice but not mot so in utah where they would listen to him loog long to get worked up over his and then tumble him out of the window we held bold a meeting however in the schoolhouse and bad an attentive audience ud lence and made many friends frie nils the person parson in the morning hail bed referred to us ous indirectly from the pulpit and we took up his bis subject and hats hail no ui dl alty culty in showing the people the dafler encee between his bis man made system ut of belief and our divinely in alired we message ariage the lords and Is spirit was upon us and the congregation cpr appart elated our labor leaving Alla borough we meta met a man who asked us to bolts a meeting in bin abut six miles from dixox we made macle an appointment for saturday evening aad sunday morn ing anu and arriving at dixon we made soother nobber appointment for sunday afeei gooon in the she methodist church and one aoe 0 an o the evening in alie negro the rho colored people have been after us for some time to preach to chev vile the negroes here as aa a ruie are not permitted to attend meetings sabbath or day schools with white people and do nut dot associate ahe white of course they vole vote and nd when their vote is in tyronn they hold bold ulace and iu a some places athey hey are ahead 4 0 the whites bites in aduca tion und mud general intelligence but of course this is not much tot for either race we 61 expect 60 soon to go to the eastern port part of we the tate state about miles mil from bore beret to spend some flome weeks among the saints there at alter for our trip fast eat we will resume our labor in county mississippi you will notice that this country is i on the extreme ouita of mississippi and by reason of its fikher altitude to if much healthier altbier be ghan farther mouth thle this county I 1 presume has baa never been visited before and we will appear as ai strangers in their midst it was last laet january that bat elder mason and hubbard first set bet foot tn in colbert county this state and a cool people it indeed seemed to be to them no friends leode fr no money the smiles oi 01 heaven seemed their only companions today we can travel to in most moet any direction and the warmest of friends frienda greet us |