| Show opposition IN pennsylvania new era bradford county penn nov 4 A voice of warning sent from utah to relatives herer here has played a prominent part in the opening up of this missionary field the readers manifested a spirit of 0 lf investigation a letter was written to the authorities at salt lake and elders were sent here by the brethren presiding over the northern thern states mission thy they arrived less than a year ago labored several weeks baptized two readers of the voice of warning and returned about march lot to montour county this state the elders names are walter P rich of paris idaho and george W parrish of woods cross utah these elders are the first thai that have labored in this part for some years about the last of june J 13 waldron and charles giles of morgan county arrived to labor in this county and hold meetings with the two saints S I 1 to shortly after their arrival nine persons were baptized and now the evil one and his aids are it at work wrong impressions are given by newspapers and from the pulpit regarding our doctrines and our people the following lowing fal article was published recently NEW ERA normon mormon mormonism some of the mormons cormons are ara to be baptized next sunday for the sine of their ancestors such subh a sect of people should have a good coat of tar and feathers fo athers are all our men cowards now new albany mirror a a paper published tn n this county reverend mr taylor to Is the editor of this paper brother Lax larrabee one of our mern mem tiers belongs to the same lodge as does the editor and being acquainted lie he cal called ledat at the newspaper office re he was asked of course if he wanted to subscribe tor for the paper upon being asked regarding eg arding the enclosed clipping the reverend editor said he was not responsible for the publication of the swe same that it was sent in adya dya ay iy a correspondent pon dent he was asked it if he would publish blish such an article regarding preachers of his hie faith and he replied so no welli dont want your paper brother larrabee replied rev wo me bullough lough attended one of the litter leatter day saints meetings and af ter warda preached from the pulpit ahlm that he would have liked to have seen a cannon ball go through the congregation rev mccullough was wad to speak on the spirit of mormonism shortly after attending the meeting but an accident caused the postponement of this discourse he was thrown from his buggy and knocked senseless and remained unconscious several hours shortly after this a meeting was held in the woods reverend mr lane made some erroneous remarks regarding the book of mormon plates at the close of his remarks brother waldron asked permission to correct some of the statements the rev W mr r lane only turned to the congregation and requested those who endorsed his remarks to arise then pointing to brother waldron he said heres one of those false prophets and rev mccullough ordered him off the platform although the elders have been here but a few months they have many friends opposition helps the cause here as elsewhere elder D R gill visited the saints here lately and ana at his su the brethren were set apart interesting meetings were held elder crow recently appointed to labor in place of elder giles recently elder giles returned home on account of sickness and elder gill in coming here journeyed part of the way along the banks of the beautiful susquehanna river in the year 1829 near the banks of this river occurred one of the most important events of the dispensation pensa tion of the fullness of times the app appearing eaTing of the ancient apostles peter james and john to the prophet joseph smith and oliver cowdery and the conferring of the apostleship and priesthood by the laying on of hands pennsylvania is very hilly and in william penns days was a vast forest and in some parts today there axe are vast forests no wonder the indians disliked to leave this part of the country here was plenty of game in the woods plenty of fish in the streams and rivers plenty of huckleberries huckle berries blackberries raspberries rasp berries and strawberries growing wild during the berry deaso nand plenty of nuts in the fall shortly after the frost had nipped and colored the leaves it was a beautiful sight to see the hillsides hill sides covered with many varieties of leaves since commencing this letter we have held a meeting in a school house usually sunday mornings prayer meeting and sunday school is held here but the people kindly gave us the time and requested us to come again the gentleman who presides stated he was pleased to have ud come in closing will state that more laborers are needed in the field and that home is the place to study and prepare ourselves J 13 WALDRON GEO R CROW |
