| Show IN NORU NORTH CAROLINA N MT AIT OLIVE N C july irth 1897 A few items regarding our labors in tb bis Is conference might not prove tilting og to the readers of your esteemed paper we are beng blessed of the 1 ordin ord in a marvelous manner the icy bern barriers ers of prejudice are fast melting beffre afore us du during the month of june through e goodness of god we have baptized fifty y souls and organized four our sunday oils the membership ranging from ten tot to thirty persons we believe chii kad ad will mil yet be literally bonev combed with ith sunday schools and branches of the church as means tor for gathering the f honest in heart and for preserving in in the faith those already members of the I 1 church 1 though the outlook is bright and there is an ever increasing interest f the people in the message we f L s to io them yet satan is spreading his work rk industriously among the people t 46 destroy the reputation of the servants f god and to blind the eyes of the peo 00 only lately there appeared in a a imminent paper a sensational and beerly Bt erly fouti found dati mess account of the wg of a man by a mormon preach S we know the quarter from whence tame and the intent of the piece it as tr from a a section where the elders akie been doing a considerable work lii e many other lies it dis discloses cloes the daven fiven on the face of it for ine knee oce it caysi afterwards meeting wr JL j IL along the road he cut his I 1 broat oat f from rom dar ear to ear and then dragged nan out in the road and left him for 4 fad ad mr J p revived and realizing fate e took his n notebook note book and pencil wrote te the cause and who did the shing and then rolled and dragged as near the road as he could t failed led to quite qubie reach the road before 6 died As if a man with his throat 04 from ear to ear could revive and like write out the cause S As a usual accompaniment of such begins with the report is a it se seems and upon that fou ada the falsehood is built 1 ast week elder W E hunter and I 1 neat tot into the county seat of greene afta snow hilland obtained the odthe efto the court house in which to hold hod at our first meeting we were with an audience ot about zoo wt lio lao persons and gave gae out appoint ata 4 tor sunday at ir a m and 3 p ms on sunday morning we met a eniy ka sized audience who seemed abidi interested in what was said and he close we sold six copies of the of warning 6 travel without purse or scrip in lEies at as well as in the country and i u is opens up the way before us t the people in cities are very solicitous of good will and it is not popular to have anything to do with mormons cormons Mor mons consequently we find it difficult to do very much in cities popularity is the very breatta of many people and it is noticeably so with southern aristocracy the finger of scorn outfaces out faces many otherwise apparently good people it requires a sublime courage to be a true follower of the meek and lowly jesus and to accept the gospel as taught in its purity by the latter day saints conr annual conference meets on the and of august we appreciate the receipt of the NEWS as cold water to a thirsty traveler so is the from our loved mountain home EZRA C ROBINSON prest north carolina conference |
