Show MABY experience IN STATES klens trembles Trem blese f 0 cull cullman C co 0 ala ra 2218 1487 ST editor deseret iveas I 1 left salt lake city on the of october Octo bei 1885 in company with twelve ocher elders tor for chattanooga where we arrived on the met I 1 received to go to clay county alabama where f X took up my labois with elder A T augell angell with whom I 1 traveled about four mouths iu in cleborn clay and randolph Ra udolph counties alter which I 1 traveled with elder eider reuben W allred in talladega and ana Counti esin in which neld field during d the eighteen months there have been twelve baptisms six children blessed and a branch organized we had many friends and the rhe prospects looked bright tor for a good work to de be done when qu on slept 27 the mob raised in arms it against us as described by bv W J woodbury Wood buryin in his letter ehigh was published in lilt of nov 21 we then shook off the dust of i our feet tor for a testimony against them and sought other fields we made several efforts in different directions without success on one occasion we went to Lani kaniers laniers La erld mill near lincoln Lined fia talladega county C where brother H D I 1 harrison garrison had sec secured ureda a job of naori work and ad lodged with him the next ne at day being failing weather sr we kept indoors pretty dose in ili the evening I 1 went to the store where I 1 was wa assailed by the will mill hands bands who were tacked by the superintendent who said that was no place for mormons cormons Mor mons and that we had better git gil 11 I 1 told them aftem we were strangers but had secured lodgings for the night and it was a rough night naghi to be turned out oat they said we would think it rou rough gh it if we di decint diant cint skip so bo we waded on through the darkness and rain without supper super but two miles brought us to brother robert irwins erwins who gave us buelter belore before day the next mornings morning brother harrison came MUS and a aid after alt 1 er he put out his light and went tp bed tile the mob came but we were gone they said he was a good hand band ou iu the job bu they had no use for fora a mormon however brother 11 toad bad no notion of his hiis religion for money as aa baa acl as he wanted it to emigrate daring ur travels we told the clerk of a missionary iso louary baptist church that vie aught thought of attending their the next day anen the time arrived we went into a log cabin not chinked the cracks afforded afford edus us an opportunity lo 10 see tl tle the e clerk coming and slipping his gun under the corner of tile the church quite a number bad assembled but our appearance seemed to disturb them bo they all left the arouse with two exceptions exception sand and plotted against us i one of the reverends said he would take off his buggy lines and hang us it if he could get help another drew bis knife anti and said he would cut our ibro ais presently they asked a friend ik we could be got alvay without a 4 row wi a 1 answer was cesor with wita one ast as they ey pleased when we saw they would neither preach nor let us we quietly retreated in good order without evening the threats they had made until afterwards after several failures in trying to open a r new field we went to bluff springs cloy clay county on the ath of january and ad found Irie friends evidently prepared id receive the gospel friends wb who 0 wil they believed gewere the lo 10 lords r ds people and aud who testified to us tt when tey saw us they chev knew us u to be men they had seen in ia a dream three years they had bad received letters filled with the spir spirit itol of the gospel and the tender noras of relatives pleading avith alth them to receive any of the elders and their teachings which produced a good effect in our experience newspapers pa pers ang and church works are also productive ot of good atar one years missionary toil with brother auben I 1 received instructions 0 o pirt parc pa rc with him leaving him in our new field while I 1 went to cullman county among strangers on vi visiting biting my friends at Silv erRun I 1 found that john job MOI who led the 50 60 ino boers that sought our lives had bad bad his oath dinv inv invalidated ah dated by the testimony of said mo robbers mob b bers some bome of whom have lied bad family and neighborhood quarrels been in lockups and many had become ashamed that they ever took any stock in mob law so I 1 went openly about abou t held some family meetings among my friends and some the ordinances ot of tile the lords house honse on the of february I 1 took train at silver ran kan and reached here on the last met elder A 0 lee my present eom companion panion and several families I 1 of 1 I the saints I 1 have seen the miraculous power af god made manifest in ia many ways in my short missionary experience and like ike job jab know that my bedee redeemer iner li hoping that the blessings of heaven will irest upon all the institutions of the saints aud and that the rising genera tion will be prepared to shoulder the responsibilities of their po parents rents I 1 sub myself your brothe brot herand rund in the cause of christ REDICK R AILL |