Show A discussion IN 6 gracz GEORGIA karch march 1887 wor daitor deseret news during the last few weeks we have been reviewing our labors in the new held many seem to drink down the waters of life freely for a while but the first thing we kno know 1 W along cornea comes tile the devils emissaries with a cart load of his and the majority of people being so ao in love with them swallow them down for grave truth sas a young robin swallows worms its amouta mouta stretched at ull all capacity while its eyes are closed and they spew up the light of the gospel that we have bel betm n days and aid weeks explaining on the testimony of one drunken sot others reject it not because they can produce any scrip tural evidence but bui because father or mother went to heaven t and try to justify themselves by doing what father did like the young farmer who when asked why ahel toted a rock in one end of his bis sack and a pumpkin in toe the other oh t replied the farmer 14 father always a done this way and he be made a living and as we wended bended our way towards river to visit some who are about as much interested in their souls salvation as a hop is in astronomy the spirit prompted us to turn tura to the ight and visit a family by the name of Evana who are interested and our experience has taught us to obey it ad d we wended bended our way in IH that direction they received us kindly and we were soon engaged in gospel chat mrs evanca declares with great emotion that the doctrine as taught by us was something that she had been seeking for years thought she had it when she joined the baptist church and now she was P pleased leased to think that she had a taste of it and felt positive that she had children that would embrace it after supper her husband and his bis eldest son both hap baptist deacons were all to join us in conversation the latter being bitterly opposed to mormonism so we enjoyed ourselves goble splendidly in showing i 11 t apostles and prophets etc in the church and how man had taken them out and put a deacon in ill which is declaring they had the whole body when they simply had bad the foot but neither man produced ro a single quotation to hv hold up i his bis tottering frame the next clay day we were invited to a logrolling log rolling 1 t the he two deacons an interested te rested brother a baptist preacher and several other persons were present in toting logs we generally managed to keep up our end of the lever I 1 and when it came to gospel topics we had a double power to back us the baptist preacher commenced by asking unimportant questions such as Is the devil sin was it itaf arteach each or apple that we stole I 1 the devil is the cause of sin the other is none of my business we do not want any of 01 your doe doc trine among us ns roared tile the preacher do you think we are heat heathen heri we have bibles we live in a bible land we are aware of these facts sir air but paul tells us that those who deny the power of the gospel we w should turn tarn iway away from so it is our duty to reach preach the gospel and the honest in tearl will heed it 1 I dont believe any of these miracles can be done he e continued 0 lituss inked my book tells me that w we e must beware of false prophets that they ley will come in the d day ID of f judgment saying 10 lord 0 r have we not done many wonderful works in thy name cast out devils raised thedeas the dead etc hobill answer depart from me ye workers iniquity just so preach reach erand we believe that the world is bullof full of that class today to day but bat if the sips signs do not follow the believer as the savior promised chef the should in the chapter of mark why it proves either aves him or us false ah 11 said this scripture twister those signs follow us there therb was a great miracle wrought conise ionise on me I 1 was dead tu in sin and I 1 was raised from the dead by tile the pr preaching eachin 9 of the gospel Gosp lel many are ain sick and are raised from that affliction ty by the power of preaching look here my friend you yon nave have lust just now proven that you are one of those false prophets you denied a moment since that any airy miracle could be Ny wrought rought TIOW now you try to to fill ali up your gap by falsely saying that that is the way these miracles are arb shown you sir air twill be oneff ene of those who will cry aza lord lave have we not wt out out devils in thy name have we not healed the sic sick and many wonderful works and he will give you yon the answer that you yon quoted and justly deserve depart from me ye cursed worker of iniquity and we would warn you yon to repent icile while it is yet called day the discussion continued for some time and it ended by one of them say lag bg well wella I 1 am in a hurry we cant agree anyway st do not hot be in a hurry I 1 remarked but heaed his little cup filled and running over so he book took to his heels lad aad we gave out an appointment t to preach at W E R evans on the of march let me come and conclude for you the retreating parson certainly I 1 replied after we have dismissed peals feals of wild laughter came from the spectators as an we all took ur routes fo forborne rhome gig G S |