Show NORTHERN INDIANA MARKET ST logansport Logan sport ind may ath 1897 your valuable paper reaches us regularly and we appreciate your efforts in dispensing gospel truths I 1 have seen but little in the columns devoted to correspondence from missionaries lionar sion aries ies i r regarding dag the northern states mis mission aion an and nothing at all the northern indiana conference this fact induces we me to write you there are reasons why the northern states mission is not heard from as often as some other sections one is that we have not the time to spare the work to be done is so great and the laborers so few that our time is well taken up we need more elders among the people of the northern states are many who aiho will hear the voice of the true shepherd when the chance is offered them our elders are reaching all classes of people and honest souls are being r admitted into the fold every day blessed indeed is the who is honored with call young ung man a S ito rom a god through his divinely appointed way and thankful should he be it he is so favored as to be counted worthy to labor in the northern states the northern indiana conference convened on may and and in a very fint fine hall at logansport Logan sport indiana ithe the president of the mission elder L A kelsch w was with us our meetings were very well ell attended the prospects as compared ped with six months ago are very en couY cou raging aging there were four baptisms last month and quite a number of children blessed and now comes the joyful news that others have applied for baptism and further the prospects are very favorable for branches of the church to be organized in at least two places we have only eleven elders in our conference at present but have the promise of three more soon we need them there are a great number of cities in the northern part of indiana ranging in population from ten to fifty thousand and in these cities there has been no sound of the gospel heard from humble bumble elders commissioned to preach it for many years send us more laborers qualified to present the gospel in plainness to an enlightened people living in a healthful climate and their labors will be crow crowned nidd with success the elders who are laboring in this conference are a united band of energetic faithful men and as others come they will be heartily welcomed by us here our addresses for the present are ernest M boyer Ligan sport ind joseph E cardon indianapolis hyrum S arnoldson muncie john foote and geb barton anderson A A bramwell and J H hale ko komo I 1 L ellertson and john T gabbott steam corners comers william andrews and J L parcell lafayette ERNEST M BOYER president of northern indiana conference |