| Show CHAINGE OF FEELING ST johr JOHN T kansas june irth 1897 having returned recently from attending conference in indian territory and arkanas I 1 am pleased to state that I 1 found all the elders laboring there in good health and enjoying the spirit of their calling I 1 was pleased to notice that the lord has wrought a wonderful change among the people during the past few years where bigotry and intolerance used to predominate and prejudice prevented people hom from listening to the truths of the restored gospel now meeting houses are opened to our elders and filled with eager list listeners enem who invite the mormon parsons to tb their homes showering upon them hos ali vitality pita bality lity that proclaim the good will and kind nd feelings existing people are becoming weary in the forms of worship that are constantly shifting shit ting and dividing becoming a more easy target to the shafts of infidel and kee free thinker hence preachers get through their sermon with as few scripture references as possible preferring pre fering to enter entertain tain their audience with seme s c me quaint story rather than assume the ridiculous position of teaching from a book bisbe lieveld in in by many ot of their chui chuich ch members it almost looks as it the time is upon us when the bible will be scouted and unable to stand upon its own merits in in the minds of the people as a history of the dealings of the lord with a na tion of people although many people refer to our eighth article of faith and say yon mormons dont believe beleve in the bible the fact exists and will be recognized some day that the mormons cormons Mor mons of cfall all peo people ale are believers believe in and d teachers of the gospel truths contained ed in the holy bile and with the book of mormon we will save that sacred record irom from what appears to be its inevitable fate utter disuse people are putting away prejudice and the lord is blessing them with wisdom so that they see in the book 0 of mormon truths tra t hs made plain that are only hinted at in the bible an infidel remarked to me a short time since that he has learned more by reading the book of mormon over once than from the bible durin during g his life th the e 4 stick of judah and the stick of joseph in the hands of ephraim spoken of in ezekiel 37 are abroad amongst the people may god speed them in their mission of salvation WILLIAM T JACK |
