Show missionary EX PF IN N ii LIME arto anz covic COVE valcoi co tenn march 10 editor news bews I 1 left ray my home in ia salt lake lity on the ot of april 1886 to is company with elders hendrichs Hendri cbs Leks jand and son baker bennett and midgley we came by way wa y of the D R Q after a pleasant journey of about live five days we arrived sate safe at chattanooga abers we were met by president Pros ident john morgan and after a bath and a goo A dinner he spent about three hours with us visiting the most important points of interest in the city the next I 1 day d 11 we were assigned to our different fields of labor I 1 was sent to wilks county north carolina where I 1 labored with elder beard for about three months after that we labored in burke county until our conference at which time I 1 was appointed to abor labor in alexander and wilks counties in company with elder condie coadie I 1 only remained there a short time when I 1 received a notice from president morgan informing me that I 1 was wanted in another place so on the slat of december 1 I 1 lauded landed in this section in company with wit it elder merkley this to is a new field there are no here at present but we have many good friends and also some very bitter foes some of our friends are very much interested in the principles of the gospel and I 1 hope soon to see some of them come forward and take upon U them the name of christ not long since we made a trip to brans creek C mitchell I 1 county N W C for the purpose ot of trying to open up a new i field while there we met IL a I 1 gentleman 7 who seemed to be I 1 very friendly he be asked jae us to hold i meeting and said he be thought he be could get us tile the schoolhouse tor for the next St sunday inday so we left an appointment and the news was sent far and wide saturday night found us back at mrs 8 1 but the next hext morning we hecei received v ed word that the schoolhouse was lo 10 locked aked and guarded mrs S then offered us the use of their house but only two or three young boys came out at the close of the meeting mr S left and as it was near ni night lit we laup supposed poseR he had bad gone to teed lits bis stock but as eight and nine cam came einings to look rather suspicious and the spirit seemed to say leavel leave we were obedient to its voice and that night we slept in a barn and the tee next day came back to headquarters A few days atter after we learned that we hid had had bad a very narrow escape about three weeks ago we received the following notice accompanied with two large bic hickories koRes I 1 you had better get youra yourselves elves away from these parts soon for we are comine to see you also old man Wil Wilha hants oas will tare fare as you do you are lying saying you are pread preaching hing to t the h e people people but you never tell them a man shall eat t bread by the sweat of his face T go and go now for it youage found GO in these parts again in six ili months your hides or nee necks wi will I 1 pay the debt old man williams take warn me oy by this mis lor for your laie fate win ue aaa ahe the old min man of to the ren ken aleman with whom whoa we were sleeping and who has been a good friend to us as on february eth I 1 went to near bear the mormon question debated but it was 1 a complete azzle fizzle on both aides at the 1 close of the arguments the chairman who was wag a methodist minister arose to speak I 1 have visited quite a number of places since I 1 left home among them the state lunatic asyl asylum am at mor ganton N C where all kinds of crazy people are confined but I 1 dont remember seeing one that could compare with that minister in fact it if st mark kad had not told us that the legion when cast out entered the swi swine lite I 1 migu have thought the minister had can caught some orall or all of them jae he was 0 no sooner upon his feet than he began to get ep excited cited ho he trembled from head to loot foot bis big eyes bulged out and he be turned tell colestrom a blumish white to a lunatic purple and he poured forth such a torrent ot abuse and lies that even some of his own gang were disgusted with him his sickness lasted about 20 minutes and when he be had bad purged himself of the filth that the devil had pumped into hitup him he sank back into a chair completely exhausted and was r ready beady for his royal master to char charge r e him im for or pother another skirmish atals tois brought the evenings entertainment to a close ther have been a great many threats made against us but we are on our Fat fathers herts business buni he has sent us as out to preach the gosp gospee elof the king ki nedom doth and to warn mankind of the judgments that god has decreed shall be poured out upon the nations idt of the earth in the last d days a and nd with his help we hope to be a ablerto alt to clear our garments of the lite blood of this 1 generation the health of the elders in these parts is good ever praying for the of zion I 1 remain your brother in the cause of truth HENRY C |