Show written for this paper PREACHING IN mississippi MARTIN STATION wee Decem december bei 24 1896 1895 thinking that a few lines from this able part of the lorda vineyard would be of some interest to the readers of the I 1 as it is ia not very tory often we bear from crom the mississippi conference I 1 send abis ailder grantham and myself started a house bouee to house canvass of this claiborne county the day of october holding meetings and pres preaching ching the goppel goepel of christ wherever we ac buld get some one to listen to us ue leaving our literature tracts no 1 anti and 49 4 also the voice of warning with all those who would accept of it at first ve found considerable prejudice ud ice among the people and at times it become became very tard biard for us ua to ret get a place to stop atop over blent but after becoming a little beetter acquainted and some of the pec pie aple began to read the pamphlets we loov aou made some friends and had bad no trouble to la getting places to stop atop at I 1 mufti say ay that the southern people are very hospitable we had bad no trouble in procuring private sad and school housep to preach it in and in our efforts to do good we made many believers but it seems eeme hard for the people to embrace the truth for fear that the saying ol of paul tim 8 12 might come to paw pate thus we labored till january when my COMP companion was released to ago homes borne on account of sickness in his hie jamily family having oiled fillet a mission ot of wenty two months I 1 was wai then to meet my new companion ap nion elder william martin who 6 toad just bet arrived at pine bluff copran conrah county from his bia home borne in Colors colorado do I 1 arrived bluff on the where I 1 met elder bider J W walker then president of the mississippi appl conference big compa companion nion elder bider and elder martin we had aim n enjoyable time till next day when elder aelier martin and myself started off fot for claiborne county again to take up the labor where my former companion and I 1 had bad left it we continued can bassing vas Bing sing mud and stopping with the peoples people having gospel goepel conversations with guem by the be fre arede sido till we haj baj seen aaen and given them all ail a chance bobear to bear toe warning voice of the go goabel leaving it to themselves whether to accept or rijt dijt it to judge for or on april the lach we doled closed the bounty though before closing it we baptized two honest soule oula into ibe tolu told of christ and blessed one child we tabeh had a call to go to warren bounty joining claiborne on the abe north where elder eider martin and myself labored till the lot let of june when he received a call to go to lincoln and elder D M Fadd Faddie les fi who bad been laboring there for a short abort ame was vaa nee aae gnedko ened to labor with me to in warren county there we till the alth of july when we left for Frati kiln county where we were to have conference on the and which tte NEWS had a brief account of after alter conference elder bider faddies anti and A i were assigned to visit the saints saint and friends in claiborne county where we stayed till the of september during which time vie we held meetings and made a few more friends leode fr also baptized two more into the church leaving claiborne agati again at the above mentioned date we arrived in warren county the next day ready to take up the ibe labor where we left it in july canvassing hunting out the rom from the caverns ca verne holes and hlll bills which there are many of in warren county especially around the city of vicksburg Vicka burg thus going over the he entire county all but vicksburg Vick eburg as we are to have a special call before presenting the ibe gospel to the people there we did not nod flad much prejudice in warren county so HO far being as aa we have found but very few investigating the dospel but we hope bone the booi gooi seed we have sown will bear fruit in the lordi own due time the lost we received a call to no Roto to vicksburg and will be ablerto able to take up ibe 1116 labor there properly a tittle little before now new year so BO we would b bb pleased to have the NEWS sent to wat that place after thir i have eL enjoyed joyed my labor very well the fourteen months I 1 have spent in the south and am pleased to have the privilege of boar bearing iLig the gospel message to my follow fellow man which I 1 think every elder bider in israel should prepare for for a great work la Is to be done yet among the nations of the earth the rho NEWS is a welcome visitor and we read it with the gien greatest test interest after which we give it to salute saints sou aou friends who are just wo au eager to read the valuable news from the aldere and rocky bocky mountains sins be as we drys boys are AXEL NIELSEN |