Show NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA conference following is is a synopsis of the northern west virginia conference held at big run wetzel county may irth and 16 h big run is situated about ten miles southwest of littleton there are no members living at the place yet it was filled with many warm friends who received us with open hearts and smiling laces faces on account of the distance from the railway all the elders did not arrive until antii noon we began conference at 9 2 p m the following elders being present president L A kelson keisch of toe the northern states slates pis mission cission sion president A P kesler of the eastern states mission the president of the conference joseph bindrup kind rup emanuel hoff joseph hansen Wil william liani anderson george W worthen james M brown and peter fox elder bindrup made a few remarks appropriate aate to the occasion elder hansen spoke upon general and individual salvation elder anderson treated the principle of faith after which elder kesler spoke upon the principles of the gospel generally in the evening the house was full elder worthen treated upon the subject of repentance after which elder kelsch spoke very interestingly upon the personality sona lity of deity at 9 a m next day the people held sunday school which we all atten attended the super nten dent kindly asked us to sing for them we complied by singing beautiful day and 0 say what is truth by request we took part in the exercises and at the close we sang in our lovely deseret conference was resumed at ten the house being crowded with people who seemed to be greatly inter ested in our meetings elder bindrup spoke at some length showing the necessity of entering in in at the strait gate and elder kesler making a few remarks in the afternoon elder hoff spoke upon the subject of baptism after which elder kesler spoke the universal apostasy from the primitive christian church the nece necessity sity of the restoration the divine mission of joseph smith and the necessity of the book of mormon to all of which the people listened with ane most profound silence at the evening meet meeting mine elder brown browa treated the subject of divine authority elder kelsch spoke upon the workings V of the spirit and authority restored after which elder kester kesler in behalf ot of the elders thanked the people e for the hospitality which had be been e n so f reely freely extended us conf rence was then closed by singing we thank thee 0 god for a prophet with benediction by elder keisch the next m morning orning we were loth to leave our many friends in that part but compelled us to go we bade them adieu and went to litt eton where we held a priesthood meeting at the house of elder fox the elders gave a v very e favorable report of their past lab labors az elder bindrup reported members in ir A this conference con terence elder kelsch keisch stated I 1 that he was well pleased with our past labors and that owing to the largeness of the northern states mission this conference won woud d go into the eastern states mission under the direction of im president A P kesler who then spoke very encouragingly and gave us some timely instructions sacrament was them administered by elders kelsch and kesler we sang adieu my dear brethren adieu and the closing prayer was offered by elder kelsch keisch in the evening we held a meeting near littleton quite a number of pe le came out elder kesler made a ac few opening remarks elder worthen spoke upon the principles of the gospel after which elder keisch dwelt upon some ot of the prophecies of isaiah and bote bore a strong testimony the next morning we received our appointments point ments and with a renewed determination mi nation to do our utmost in the advancement vance van cement mint of the work of the lord we baue bade our worthy presidents adieu as they left us to visit the maryland couer derence Je ence rence v the addresses of the elders at pres ent eat are as follows william anderson And ereon and emanuel hoff rodamess Ro damers preston county joseph bindrup and james M brower beverly randolph county george W worthen and new elder grafton taylor county joseph hanson goes to minnesota JOSEPH BINDRUP president JAMES M BROWER secretary |