Show IN ALABAMA LA PINE alabama december ath 1896 some time has passed since our last writing during which some changes have been made and a great deal of fruitful labor has been done much sickness has prevailed among the saints and elders of sooth alabama thankful are we however to say that all are now able to be around and prosecute our labors in the lords vineyard we have just passed through the withering heat of summer which say the people has been the hottest fur for many years past and will doubtless is go down in hillory as such we now have thirty elders in our conference of whom M A lewis lawrence peterson S A allen alien george T webster charles R spencer and T W andrus came since september many openings art are being made and souls are being brought to a knowledge of the truth ne notice a marked dit dil terence in the spirit manifested in localities cali ties where reone one year ago we were met by opposition in its grossest forms we are now meeting with success which bids fair for an excellent harvest in the near future we are making quite a specialty of organizing sunday schools where we have a sufficient number of saints or earnest investigators investigate rs we find this to be an excellent manner of reaching the people for when they see that we have the interest of the youth at heart they take more kindly to our doctrine we have now eleven sunday schools in our conference most ot which seem to be in a thrifty condition another important feature is that of building meeting houses which plan was adopted at our last con conference conferee feren c e held last may we now have one hoy house se finished another in course of erection and still another which was captured by the elders converting and baptizing all save two of those who owned it we are now converted to the fact that the more meetings we can hold the more converts we make many are the new suggestions that are being submitted to us from our beloved president elias S kimball which when carried into action by the elders of israel do but demon demonstrate strite the divine inspiration of those whom it has pleased god to place at the head of this mission our is success with the help of god and that without purse or scrip 11 following is a list of elders with their post office addresses iva call C H alley montgomery county alabama aaron hardy charles R spencer brad county counte alabama joseph S porter franklin W an drus warwick geneva county alabama jasper C jensen john H pace bay hy minette baldwin county alabama Ai alabama 1 I L pratt lawrence feterson eterson JP grove hill clarke county alabama george E jarvis W H redd read grove hill clarke county alabama heber ricks M A Peck eckstead beckstead stead lusk choctaw county alabama Alaba uia george A reed joseph johnson camden wilcox county alabama E E neeley joseph A braggs lowndes county alabama artimus millet john C poulson braggs lowndes county alabama W E jenkins S A allen alien kingston county alabama C A varley G T webster kingston county alabama J P jensen M A lewis magnolia marengo county alabama J S geddes S R brown la pine crenshaw county alabama D H thomas 1 F wakefield mobile mobile county alabama J S GEDDES president D H THOMAS abst pres |