Show FROM THE STUTTGART your readers have perhaps I 1 heasil that germany has been divided into conference districts five in number and you ou may perhaps hear reports from some of them in the future viva five new conferences have been held since july ath of this year besides local elders there were in attendance preb plea t identa wells and mcmurrin of the BU ba mission and loutensock Lauten sock odthe of the and german the coffle rence districts are frankfurt brech den berlin hanover and stuttgart Stutt garL this year marks an era in the gernaat mission not simply because of the changes in respect to conferences but i more particularly in the fact that greater freedom is granted the JB Iders and the press in some of the large cities is making favorable reports of meetings held and the sentiment t changing remarkably in some cities to our favor on sunday aug esth the stuttgart st conference was held to show sho he change of feeling here in stuttgart Stutt gadt 1 one year ago it was thought unwise to ti t give tracts out from door to door ow MT account of the sentiment against uk tal c and the way we were watched by por lice but this year we have been traci 4 ing systematically and have c X ed several streets it is true we must ha needs visit the police at irregular ana tec f ter vals and they reciprocate and us but we keep on pleasant pleaman tea te maae ai the culmination of these plesant re rela eions is that on july 2nd and our peu petition i to hold public meetings in s future was granted in this connection emo U we are thankful to ate american consul of stuttgart wio arua irua aided us materially we told the cott coux sul that we had written a petition intended to make an effort to bettl public meetings he answered had better not try it we told 1 that as long as private meetings w held by us the police would nee feces ily watch us to find and out whether 1 ay were dangerous to the peace 0 o ithe government that they had trouble to watch us and it was un to us in being watched and yosif we could not censure the police sw AW ull all they had as a criterion were the i st slanderous derous bloodcurdling blood curdling reports 1 ahat tw fouch found circulation in america years ago and now being trans itaw for the german papers the simul ansul then ordered his clerk to write taw f a letter of introduction in which rift att iras stated that we were citizens of vibe efte united states and the wish was expressed that in the future we the ithe jt Ifor armons mons be allowed to hold public r meetings we presented the letter together with our petition to the city officials and after signing a paper at hear request that we did not teach Voly polygamy gamy or use false presentations to 0 o wase bause emigration to north eab e the petition after a few days con ider atlon was granted with the above preliminaries and titter securing a beautiful hall we advertised verti sed the first public meeting and arak conference in the conference dis ot of stuttgart embracing and bavaria we held three meet als each being tolerably well at besides our presidents wells mcmurrin and loutensock Lauten sock there were te in af attendance the following elders ha m T cannon who has corn com ficq his german mission and was on to france to learn french MK 0 W way al 11 alac g jenkins who labors in lO Beken le rot roi C snow and geo W i meldrum of munich and chas H R and d john heiner of nuremberg ZE la I 1 R barton and jos R e of backnang Back iBack nang and the under ded of stuttgart Wurt cl c aty addresses are munich henberger str aurem wills str 4 backnang Back nang ner her str 40 stuttgart schwab faT edito editor r of the leading newspaper urt wrote an excellent concerning our conference and n feel a change of sentiment in ow byor r excellent private instruct were given us in priesthood ig and we all feel to work with d zeal believing that germany destined to be a great missionary iatter w yours truly ARTHUR W HART president A jl EUGENE JONES secretary start aug 14 1897 |