Show A FAR aun wi WE learn leam from an english paper that mr A smedley a gentleman who paid i allt to this Territory and kept his eya al a and n d hi mind clear during kaa sojourn recently delivered a lecture att and the city of the saints ailts intas hadiat Ha beeper belper Bel per england ate were remarkably free from prejudice as awhile he had many I 1 words 0 oj praise jor the saint and the bearb xe arb wort ZAVY have performed alter after I 1 points qt of interest the report r p art says bay s the concluded by corn COM mending ne ding the sobriety and persever eme of these e people who va tu forty hada ploughed sloughed hed and tilled barren baen and aad thirsty desert coa conducted ducted the rhoun mountain tain streams from the meeting oil all over their bareis ra reis orchards sad and gardens who had sown their corn broadcast ever aver the plain planted their ort harda and gardens w with choice fruit trees and flowers who have turned what was once a sterile debert into aa the eden of the west where peace plenty contentment and hap reigns and all this in the face of the most gigantic difficulties 11 notwithstanding the lecturers com of ft a people almost every v etere spoken a against I 1 dinst 11 the audience a appeared X eared phased his ats straightforward 4 statements and at the close gave him a hearty vote of thanks mr smedley is a gentleman to be com Imen derd for fm telling the truth at the risk of being greeted with popular sneers which however were not in th this is instance dardat him I 1 J S |