Show IN THE CUMB camberlain ERLAIN MOUNTAINS winesap cumberland co august 1897 knowing that your valuable paper is read by most of my frienda and associates at home and not having time to write to each of them I 1 hereby drop a few lines to your paper I 1 am now in the very tops of the mountains where the waters and breezes are almost supreme if there is any place in tennessee where the atmosphere is pure right here in cumberland county is the place the soil is not so good as it to is in the valleys but the people are doing well they have a fine range for cattle and this industry is carried on extensively my labors since writing you before have been mostly in henderson decatur 1 and perry counties where we have made many lasting friends the sentiment of the people has taken a wonderful change and if the elders would return who were here about ten years ago they would think it was another country I 1 why a man is not up to the times unless he invites a mormon elder home with him and treats him wu well there is hardly a night that we we do not get two or three invitations to come and dine with the people we have out two invitations today one tor for dinner and the other to come in the evening and eat water melons and fruit with a merchant so you see the fulfilment fulfillment of the prophesy of president woodruff are holding a protracted meeting this neighborhood starting in mor night and will finish up sunday nl we are arc having good audie audiences they seem to be very much I 1 enters inters t and the seed of truth which w 1 sowing will some day bring foeth bounteous harvest my companion and self have sized thirteen honest souls all ft people in the last five monn months there are more in the same I 1 kocah who will soon be buried with lift baptism we had the pleasure gleasm 1 organizing a sunday school in PW county which was in a flou rishi when we left it and with help of the saints in the same courtl we commenced a church building finished it to the square and the a expect to finish it this fall I 1 wish to mention here brother I 1 kiel inman to whom much cire att due for his help he is the MBA donated the land and also helped purchase the lumber if you will notice the reports at different elders you will see that tl are sticking their picks and ch so high that the elders of two ae ago would feel entirely out of i among them now yes miss labor seems to be work work or will be left in the tog fog it is h night and day in the defense of tl and righteousness and the people 1 being reached as they never waft fore and those who are fighting and his servants are almost t ram with fear they know that mighty and will prevail well to my friends I 1 cannily can labors are getting dearer to me day and my health seems to be IN than ever before so brethren i dread a mission for we are eft plenty to eat and our dreams am ahei aled with soft white feathers ay need to do is to prepare bursel up our rusty brains and god w the rest S I 1 would take pleasure in letter from my friends and I 1 special invitation to write to hf friend and brother S S SAND SANDERS Cr ossville cumberland co |