Show EAST q P V conference salisbury N C march 20 1898 1899 but little has appeared in the news recently regarding the progress and aad development of the work of the bordin east bast tennessee conference our silence may indicate I 1 that we have learned and adopted the old rule that example to IB better than precept I 1 have been in the mission field just twenty two months during that time much af the elver experience lence which is invariably associated with missionary work has come my way war we are at present meeting more opposition than for some time past it is of a kind however which adds double diligence to our efforts effort IL and a corresponding increase to our success our elders were all moved two hundred miles east after our conference held three months ago in johnson city tenn this move placed forty humble servants of the lord filled anew with the spirit of determination and love in half us as many cities in part of north carolina prom from one to four papers were published in each city and all had a good deal to say regarding our work As the papers ae e gan to circulate from one city to another our newspaper friends began to express the fear that the mormons cormons were about to execute one of their famous maneuvers with a vein of capturing several thousand fair females these stories always the production of an overworked imagination a are now dying out t elder D W jeffs and myself are laboring among the elders of this conference in thir various coun counties we did some preaching here in rowan county two months ago and upon our return recently found that the tae seed which we had sown had already brought forth good fruit just as we arrived the two leading deacons of the baptist church were being tried and cast out for what was called the infamous sin of having entertained mormon elders several others withdrew from their church and all of these have signified their determination to be baptized each expressing joy and thanksgiving that the lord had revealed to his mind concerning that straight and narrow path which unto life eternal M H WELLING |