Show AN EARNEST INQUIRER the truth of the doctrine that the servants of god who go forth to preach the gospel should do so without purse or scrip and the moral or spiritual power bower that attends the elders who do this are well illustrated in the following letter the writer of it is intelligent and educated as is plainly shown by his letter he has never heard a sermon preached by a latter day saint but the silent yet eloquent testimony expressed in the manner in which they leave home travel abroad and trust in god for food and shelter has made a deep impression on his mind judging from what he says I 1 ott times wonder after reading so closely the columns of your paper why 1 I who was reared to regard the mormon religion as a farce now find myself being interested in it I 1 at first read your paper to find fault but gradually I 1 became interested and today am more so than ever I 1 say I 1 often wonder why these things are I 1 have never heard a norman mormon preach in fact dont know that I 1 ever saw one yet when I 1 read of young and middle aged men giving up profitable business and going out into the world to preach their religion without money to pay lodging or traveling expenses and without a salary enduring the privations and hardships that conie come to them in hostile countries ikno as any sensible man would know that there is a great motive column pushing them onward and up word ward r when I 1 read in their different reports from their fields of labor that they travel without purse or scrip and come in contact with all the prejudice and opposition that they do I 1 exclaim ohl oh that our churches had such devoted consecrated ja laborers borers tn in their different fields of work ork I 1 sometimes think these men Iro dergo difficulties that some of our lib hostile stile church workers would not dare dt attempt tempt J want to know more of the mor mons mono and their religion I 1 want to learn of the mormons cormons from themselves hereford therefore he mr editor with your permission ni I 1 make this request of your readers who are disposed to comply I 1 ask all who will to write me letters di describing scribing your home life your city or anything you may want to write upon I 1 am a young man only twenty but it to is my desire to know more of every phase of life I 1 bould be glad lad to have letters from young people gle or older ones on any subject they may write upon and would appreciate chate any tracts or books pertaining ta the mormons cormons Mor mons that your people will comply with my request and ex expecting pectin g many letters from them I 1 am very truly W T MORGAN guin ala such an appeal as he makes for further information concerning the lat ter iter day saints and their religion should be responded to and we sug gmt that any of our readers who feel like flke writing to mr morgan or sending him some tracts or church works would be doing good by complying with hie request he does not write like a man who to Is disposed to hide un der a bushel any light he may obtain and good to others besides him is likely to result from furnishing him the information he desires no doubt some of the elders in alabama will call upon or communicate with him but in the meantime some testimonies from utah butali will likely be of value to him |