| Show HORMON MON CHURCHES IN NORTH CAROLINA kenly N C march 9 1898 ring the last six months and a Vio upwards wards there has been a decided yut put forth in north carolina to the little branches and sunday ig 9 of the church here by the arec neat peat substantial meeting houses bine jig over a year ago the first one erected ted at colon chatham county ach ch place we have a nourishing flourishing ch and sunday school ting ng more of importance was done ji a ai direction until sometime last when elders henry W stahle stable and fh A williams in connection with baines ants at cameron moore county to work with their own hands r contributed from their own pockets in a very short time a neat frame fling was erected wherein a sunday KH meets every sunday some ety bers are enrolled in the school the tta baptisms were made at Cai cameron neron 1 attle a over a year ago and last june w bove Ve named elders baptized some r souls ROWS the fire thus kindled d throughout the confer conference ende el r D kilpack ck jr and W C hunter to work in rockingham county soon a church building was the it ring ng the last three weeks we have bated three church buildings one airna mal wake county we named adoo 0 has a membership of some 10 to thirty souls just lately el 3 D kollpack ck jr and W M ley have made mad e an opening on the and baptized over fifteen souls ift t two wo sunday schools were organized i church building erected the elders entered that part last de r three months ago a ira barker and A E huish ecklon action with saints erected our ful ul little church at valma which mill p on tuesday M march arch lot n 11 emit woodruffs birthday we have e seven church buildings or ss jig houses and some twenty five toy schools in the conference last by the blessings of the lord we nixed ed fifteen sunday schools and iced one hundred and ninety three expected the enemy to is on the ever er ready to retard the progress fr lords s work to show the aarm alarm which some come of the ministers are ing the startling success the mori elders erx axe meeting with I 1 append acta from an article from the pen of minister wo thousand mormon missionaries are told are making their head arters rs at chattanooga and from this ce as a center they are sent through georgia geor a mississippi alabama virno north and south carolina mcf it is a known fact that we have not jaurd elders in georgia for twelve or teen n years but as though fore Ika dowing wing unconsciously the purposes at elders are now being sent into georgia and a conference will soon be or organized in that state he goes on to it is useless to deny that we are fronted ted in these facts by a crisis in home mission work of our church eady y they have made startling be 8 and it is success that has ena enabled led m to storm the very centers of tian culture in our state in in wilkes Wilk ets surry burry and randolph aliey ow have organized strong churches and have erected substantial church buildings they have come to stay while our church is neglecting the sections oft off the railroads these zealous missionaries of a false creed are walking like genuine apostles and visiting from house to house going out into the highways and hedges which alas no other church to is successfully doing A fear is taking hold of many that mormonism so called will yet take this country they already hear the grinding sound of that little stone cut out of the mountain as it rolls forth in its destined course to fill the earth respectfully EZRA C ROBINSON |
