| Show TAKEN FOR REVENUE INSPECTOR HAMILTON marion county ala july ath 1896 perhaps a few lines alaba alabama would be interesting to your man many u readers as there have been many othe others from the west down on this part of gj t b globe I 1 left salt lake city on th the of august last on a mission to the southern states arrived in C chattanooga on the night of the iff company with twelve other elders we r with delight the wonderful 1 beijes scenes of missionary ridge and look bout oat mountain where two great battles iw Y fought in the late civil war also the national cemetery where so many f soldiers were laid to rest oa after receiving instructions from our yort fay y president E S kimball we A I 1 wbk the parting hand for our fields of ar elder james A lee and myself swem assigned to north alabama with bird murphy of salt lae city as our president who met us i tupelo lee county mississippi befit t some interesting hours to after which 1 I appointed to in marshall county missouri wa ft mider lder C L haight from biorn idaho W labored faithfully together lor for two 8 until conference time which D place in alcorn county mississippi of october 1895 amter conference I 1 was appointed to with elder E christenson in county alabama we labored for six months aghany many friends and we baptized agnest est soul while we w were to ve ire had some little experiences e will never forget as long as ry lasts VV bile laboring in the acm rupart part of the county w we egorin got in t one dauw day where he rethey they we were revenue marshals judg 9 came on and we found it very to iret get a place costay to stay all night it dark and cloudy and a drizzling jqames i up we got lost in the woods we came to a road which led up a aws house of course we hot gain admit admittance thrice there so we t on our way rejoicing until we came here re the road forked we stopped n ng which one to take we down wn and offered a few words of no sooner had we arose when ire j saw a man com coming in g wi with th a torchlight torch light he welcomed us to his house those i have been on missions can imagine blessings les sings towards him and towards veat great creator 4 have had the privilege of visiting some of the saints among the oldest sister farmon who has been td about forty years the late filber r A 0 smoot of provo assisted in b baptizing 0 0 mizing her she is i in in fo good D 0 d faith and y makes dakes a welcome home tor r the elders elder albert matheson is our worthy P president now lately he be has been tp to 7 y foft ft us holding a series of meetings we held severa seve at sarah bickerstaffe Bicker staffs her husband died last fall lall he was a 10 believer in the mormon doctrine bw but had not been baptized yet has ouide a home for the elders for twelve years yeam I 1 have seen the prints of guns on his door where the mob jamed their aws against it in search of the elders two of his family belong to the church aad ml more of them have applied for baptism the elders are beginning to reap the harvest of the seed that was sown years ago the honest in heart are hunting and the wicked hide bide jiom it this is is the latter batters lat Is condemnation light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil I 1 have found out while I 1 have been laboring in this part of the lords vineyard that those who are so hard on oa the Mormon sare not the best oi of how often do the elders have to bear we are civilized here we hive have the goshell got no use for you we are christians if they were christians would they act that way by their fruits ye shall know them the sinners as they call them will say to us come in and stay with us all night we would like to talk with you and they will invite us to preach in their house which is the christian I 1 am now staying with professor A J adams he is teaching school this summer he has made us welcome whenever we have been in his vicinity he is examining the faith of the latteri day saints carefully which every person ought to do before condemning or rejecting the counsel of god ag t themselves V your valuable paper reaches us regularly and is highly appreciated by its many readers who are anxious to read as soon as aa we get through with it 1 I have enjoyed good health ever since 1 I have been away from home which is in scipio millard county utah E E reid from irom manti is now laboring with me 0 L L MARTIN I 1 |
