| Show MEETINGS IN SCOTLAND ROAD BOAD wishaw elshaw september SeDi ember 4 1696 we send you a paper with the account of an open air meeting held bold at garrion bridge sunday august 80 1896 with the request hat bat you pub eteh abe same sagas in your paper the day was waa very wet for it had bad rained for two of three hours boun but in spite pite of the wet weather some people came for nine allee so to attend that meeting you will see gee dom the account given that luttin batan sought bought to use uee them for his bli own tor for be know knew the servants ol at bod were there and that they were preach preaching log his gospel we made fatany friano a there who began asking us tr questions about the book of and t e pr phot joseph joeeph smith and as an a result we think some are in the gospel or lor which we iback our father in heaven wears we are an open air meeting every night this weather berwill will permit land and two me they are advertising us ua to in good shape in front from a 0 very overy news shop they have it posted oa be the bulletin board mormons cormons Mor mons at we feel agrati gratified fled bothem to them for us and the cause of truth so 0 o well we tool eel as aa though this part is lea a beautiful field and in 10 the be oear near future will wing borth truit fruit to the glory of 0 god ROBERT CAMERON HARVEY E COLTRIN 1 I HOMAS W JONES STEWART WISHAW Lanara shire scotland Scot lanil sept 1 we are holding open air meetings mee tinge at 24 garrion bridge on the river clyde three miles from wishaw and are re belving much attention arom the newspapers new mews papera papers anu and othere other brother ceorge stewart of malad idaho idabo and myself and thom thoe W jones jonee of mont moat peller idaho have been laboring in id district tor for the last six BIX months we have bave bold belli open air meetings mee tingo on the bank of at almost every sunday the people fining irom from different parts pan a of the ili surrounding aur rounding country to hear bear us ua the word of god the crowd of people increased every sunday until they reached upwards of three thou aelyas souls different denominations ent a their speakers to oppose us we fiad nice quiet meetings on our part we occupying from one olle hour bout to an feour and a naif half then others would follow us ue trying to show where the cormons mormons Mor naoni were wrong which they failed to do one preacher a Comp Campbelll te said ald he be would exit ms mormonism the follow lot sunday the excitement grow grew so 0 o much that on 00 that sunday we paper mid aid there were four thousand people here the following sunday he be corn com menoid geneed to expose 11 mormonism by fading from a hook book entitled rocky Aloun mountain tsin saints written by F B H at the moon mauu fiam idne meadow massacre which he be thaw no 0 o much agrees tre on OD that the people hia him I 1 and told him to acut tl N that t they my did not net wish to hear best web aach b zt it they could not show labow nat the mormons cormons were wrong to keep qudel this enraged him an and ho he bo be gan to ill us as importers Imp Impo stalks false falo teachers and INV oil t gentlemen after ho blaar brewart replied saying ay log it is was the somo me old story as he know knew just bow the preacher berok or any one el would expose mormonism that they would refer to stenhouse or on bob such writings writing which were faulty from beginning to end and we read a few remarks from a book published labed in englana by phil pall neon which gave a very flattering battering account or of the saints in utah we then proceeded with our own meeting as usual gave the people a good sermon on the principles of the aspel 3 bore our testimonies to the truth of the gospel and that joseph smith was a prophet of gd GA at this meeting some said there were ten thousand people deput we put it at eight thousand after closing our meeting we staled that we would have soother another as usual on sunday at 6 elock o at wit thai place when sunday arrived we proceeded to the brit 1 we did not expect to see say any one onel ifor for it had rained all al day we arrived there at p in and to our surprise there were about a thousand people both men and women with coats and umbrellas to keep them dry before six o arrived lc it quit ra faiai og the Campb elit asked us aeto to let him have the first hour and we to take from 7 p m on which we did he spoke from the sixteenth chapter of aota acts picking up what ire we had said on it the sunday previous he ha i spoken about 30 minutes when a speaker of a different denomination sald said that what he was saying was not correct they bean to quarrel be tween themselves vea calling eacek other liars to and iro fro for thirty minutes ana was still going on whom when we stepped forward and said our time had come to commence our meeting they gave mray away very reluctantly and we commenced by singing 0 my father Fathe fP then played brother steward spoke a short ehart time on the holy ghost and I 1 rollow follower follow eu stating that it if it was christi Cn risti anity so called that had bad been going on for the last halt half hour by those who came to expose the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 did not wish any of it I 1 stated staged the spirit of god aou wise was not in such proceedings they commenced to interrupt me but we the crowd old gold them to keep quiet and lot jet us fl niJa which we did brother C coltran and robert camrow were there bore two E dorm ders present besides our selves we all bore our testimony to go the t be work of god and a ad that joseph J smith was S prophet of god we had bad at least two thousand people to go listen to us it if a fine day next sunday we will at jabot two wo thou aud raud people to hear bear us UL we have a meeting on the street corner every evening wat that tot the weather will permit and litener two wo meetings we asked the he president of the scottish conference to go send good in two more eldera alden which he did brothers jamrow and Co coaltrin AtrIn as we bad so much to do and so many places to visit we could not do it Is alone we expect good will be done here bore before long THOMAS W |
