| Show LIVELY IN KENTUCKY oakton fakton hickman co ky feb 25 1898 we have just passed through some very ivery interesting experience and ia r thought a short sketch of it might be of interest to your readers A few weeks ago elder israel C canfield of ogden utah and myself vent one fine sunday morning to hear a sermon delivered by a methodist minister pot for some cause he did not come and we were asked to fill the appointment which offer we gladly accepted we were requested to speak on the tha fruits and gifts of the spirit and though we do not like to speak on as signed subjects in this instance wl so therefore the people of the railroad town of oakton fakton fron pulpit of the new M E church 3 heard by special request the the holy ghost explained by two ders who had been called of oda 1 was aaron T after the morning services we given permission to use the house i we e commenced a series of mee meetings tinga U for a few nights all was as ca 1 I a waveless sea but as a calm bettt e al ally ly prece precedes d es a storm 0 on n the ocean we also found it a sign of a berh temp on an land as well as at sea only the A among men was the forerunner oh tempest of words not of wind ai waves I 1 was speaking on an the and object of baptism aban my rema remarks Irks also said that if neca saxy sary peter could easily have attend to the baptizing of three tho thousand half a day even if he had been 1 l alone to begin with bec attrie had been given authority to oada e loo seon earth and it would be lo 10 loo seated in the heavens above t the he could have gone down into t the as philllp phillip and the eunuch dida did and he could have immersed b buried ed baptism one of the male bellev upon him he could have sealed dhority to baptize and then as others were baptized peter C gi given ven them allt authority hOritY to b baptise ap believers I 1 also noticed that mr 1 who had first invited us to an seema a little ill at ease wh philex ae speaking but as I 1 knew W what t I 1 was true I 1 paid very little atte to his restlessness we gave 0 bouc point ments for four other services i missed and until next evening 1 l unconscious of any particular then we heard incidentally that were to be cast out of the syn we saw mr rash and he ca nal nfl ft rumor so we preached in a paw house that night next day at it rained all day until toward ing we then went to see a fri on our way heard that mr methodist big gun fighter a ana bater would speak sunday night nigh had heard of this man before BO 80 pretty well what he would da d ing true shepherds we thoughts thought it if A to be present when the eamy maxw sc scatter atter the sheep so we went to alu we elders call our funeral ser front seat was waft selected and the th der began to rattle thick and the hall hail of falsehood nearer thre net i 1 drew the clouds of slander then lightning of hate was turned K upon us the people were scorch A even giving us food or shelter aa and to to give us neither food nor a plaes lie down in the future and then in mal we would go back to utah where belonged we could not refrain from elpi and we felt that friends not e were being made by the railing B causation cusa tion of the speaker who elm be a teacher of peace and good ft to men after he closed I 1 arose V aa asked for the privilege of say saying sayings inge ati words no sir sit down av jt answer several arose to their tt te cries ches of let them speak let speak came from all over the c ci came from all over this the a building but the answer caan came they cant speak in a me house then to me 1 I was waa still ing sit down I 1 remained feet long enough to tell the con tion to remain outside for a few utes after meting and we would i a few minutes as I 1 had been grossly misrepresented after the benediction I 1 tried to af talk with mr pig but he would W i reason at all several people anatoli whom was waa a school teacher r n s humphreys tried to get him t with us but he would run away time we approached him woo ft ae nothing inside we went att bufe safes alq tto do eliat Is right and both ski for a few w moments one young hedlum who tried to disturb us was quickly silenced As soon as we coni shirled shit led several prominent men came a and invited us home one staid said come and go over home with me you dont have to lay out j never did I 1 see a congregation so much enraged as this one was and mr pig came very nearly getting his ears tooled by some over zealous friends j r aird for some cause not made public he arose very early next morning and rode away several miles before he breakfasted this was not all the grand jury ury met and the case was reported to them and fourteen witnesses were summoned to appear and tell all they knew of the case cage the result of the investigation has not as yet been made public but we hardly think anything will be done because mr pig is such mch a prominent man every one has some friends and those friends often try to shield the guilty and punish the innocent but I 1 think he win will see how thick the ice is before he slides on it next time this has served to advertise us in a favorable way among the people and we are finding friends on every side people seeing we were not per bitted to use the meeting house pre pared paced a room in an old mill and it be 5 tug too cold and open four private houses were opened to us so as the i angle said the more it is opposed the more it will spread t ye we have been in this country since jan 1st ast present year have baptized one and have several others seriously thinking on account of the threatened chills elder canfield was removed to another county and elder P P eldredge of Ogden Utah took his place and tor for the last few days we have been labor laboring ipg in the mississippi river r bottoms where a few years ago elders dould get neither shelter nor food coir several friends are there and t those who were once so prejudiced are I 1 now becoming less bitter surely the lord is causing the hearts of the peo 1 ale to soften and eer long many who are ace still kicking against the pricks abl 10 like paul turn and build up what they have been striving to bring to naught yours truly JUNIUS J TANNER TANNE clinton hickman county ky |
