Show WANTS MORMON ELDERS DOVER tenn april xyth 1897 perhaps you will be surprised to hear bear kom from one so far away aud who is as yet a non mormon I 1 live in stewart county tennessee and never saw but two mormons in my life until about one year iago when a couple of humble elders fuwa utah called at my house and left a tract I 1 was not at home at that time put on reading it I 1 found that mormonism ista was quite different to what I 1 had bad board beard it was so a few days later the elders w were ere passing again I 1 had just finis finished lied my dinner they called to me and said they were going to hold meeting at a schoolhouse I 1 invited them in iad and we had a conversation until they had finished dinner they then left with ime ne a voice ot of warning these two elders were E E brown of salt lake city and raymond wentz of provo cly cip utah the first two mormon elders that I 1 ever saw I 1 have seen two since and would like to see more the last two were elders olef C olson of hooper and james H yardley of beaver city utah all this time I 1 have been investigating mormonism I 1 was a baptist minister but I 1 now belong to no organization I 1 was convinced of the apostasy and withdrew from all and now I 1 am almost a mormon I 1 lack baptism and confirmation it is no use tor for me to state that I 1 have but few friends in my neighborhood I 1 dont know of one that believes in mormonism right around me the elders tell me there are lots of friends to them in the county and one lives but a few miles away from me the elders have went into another county to labor and I 1 do not know when I 1 will see any more of them I 1 hope it will not be long my latch string is on the outside for them when they do come I 1 have but little but they are welcome to share it we are now mourning over the loss of our youngest child a boy nineteen days old who died march we have one child a little girl left to cheer our home C C JOHNSON |