| Show AN EFFECT OF opposition nottingham august 1896 jarman came to nottingham last evening and gave his first lecture against us in the mechanics hall some of the saints here attended and said the place was crowded and the congregation hooted and yelled A august agust 20 1 I wish you would thank atil all our friends for me toy lor their kindness during my brother arthurs sickness and at his funeral we were sorry to hear of the death of elder abraham H cannon god called him away and we all have to submit to his will wib so in re regard gar d to my brother jarman is yet in nottingham lecturing against us at the mechanics hall there is some excitement he had a packed backed house bouse the first night but since then his audiences have been diminishing it is said that he cannot meet expenses although his bis books have a great greaf sale his own audiences go against him and people men and women en tire strangers to us call him down and ko go upon ane platform and refute 10 statements even those who sent fw for him are disgusted with him and some express a desire to meet him in debate themselves we had 2500 tracts defending our principles and they are nearly all gone we have not distributed one of them people come to us and ask for them and of course we give them out in the midst of it all I 1 we have h ve had two aepli cants for baptism sm and aal some investigators we shall probably meet considerable opposition while out distributing our tracts one of our bitterest opponents is very much put out for he be is afraid we are right and he be is is wrong he told u us last night he had resigned his position as a baptist local preacher lor for we were causing him much anxiety he says he b would be a mormon it if joe smith was not in it that is something he cannot yet comprehend we have five applications for baptism in derby and some more in dif different terent towns around the conferences conference we prayed earnestly to our heavenly father that our enemies might have no power over us and now we see ow our prayers answered remember me kindly to all our relatives and friends F J A JAQUES |
