| Show encouraging REPORT FROM mississippi STURGIS miss jan 4 1896 the opposition to so eo called IQ this community exhibited at the visit of dotson haight and pardue last summer has baa cooled down wonderfully in a lormer former communication I 1 gave a abort t frketich of the state of affairs here at that time the parties most outspoken jn in their opposition then are quiet now DOW elders eider donaa and rick bicks are with us and have been for the abe past two or three weeks and from the abe quiet that now reigns in the community I 1 imagine that their opponents are ashamed of the stand eta ad taken last summer however this may be we acknowledge the hand band of the he lord in it the people are toft softening ening down to a great extent without knowing the reason why they don dont donit it know what they are fighting against agai ost and perhaps on oa a second sober thought bought they 0 conduced n to await further developments develop mente but while the world rages and dectar bans are carried about by every wind oi 01 bert ben anu and lo 10 there the work of the abe lord goes on OD space apace ea cathering in the blood of lerae le rael an ana friends are raised an un on every hald who shelter and feed the elders they gt gl and doubtless many are led to treat them kindly without knowing why it la is quite a puzzle to the sectarian worlo that the Elders give all their time and talents to traveling and preaching without purse or scrip while themselves cannot afford to do so GO they are many MADY of them fine biblical scholars he well as aa up ID 1 all the sciences and a common settee sense view it beems to me is that thai all human must be run with money ang and when that supply to is cut off the scheme enterprise or calling comes to naught this is a strong evia evidence ence of the mao made system of theology theo loey lovy as taught by sectarian pre achere many boldly de dire clare that they will not preach except they are paid for it this they must have bave or the wo wok k will stop so far as bey are concerned god gods Is plan I 1 Is I 1 it il a man is called callea to this office by the b proper authority the sami sam i power will put it into the hearts of the people among whom be labors to see that he be Is ig sustained if he be is faithful tobie to bis call ching and this Is ia how the machinery of theol gy of the astler aay osty saints Sata teia is run rud H P DOTSON |
