| Show THC 4 I 1 new mew field of labor 14 K nem people fl marhoun the tru 1 rut I 1 vi I 1 MOUNT ROZELL limestone chanly Count als ala aped april acl I 1 iea editor deseret news V having just landed in the mi foiw the saints and not being time we are impressed to en enga ag selves iu in penning a scort 65 ort accod e now how the great latter laiter da day work or la is ering in this part of t the alobe i tatter latter dabai nta are interested i salvation of malkind ma aud and JA i spread of tae gospel as resto this generation for an express pose they no BO doubrare doubt doub tare are ale plear hear with what success the friej meet with wilh in all parts and ji a welcome and cular i of the aiom homes es t balatti baines Ba lattS this W aiu 11 b de 6 me ige burcat 09 abot acquaint all on the of march we 44 st search of a new field of elder A L fuller with the thel alter after half a days walk we louai selves in giles county tena church house pleasant bill pi by somo some of the most that lue locality allty some I 1 methodist fc hurch others ethers did y long to any church we 00 concha c try the generosity of the p pl locality con consequently wel p search of the tr tri tees in finding send dud oc the tree 0 o CON the non church churco mem members perli md started to see the christians 3 gyre as anys any 0 one way or the othe UA aa ton consent until the they y een tr taj the local preacher preach r we concluded to attend vai dl school which convened at aaili agas I 1 preaching at 11 am ar after f through cew pD achinK aching we ah ap them an asked baat waat ci was about us prea preaching ching at 9 J I 1 answer was you cant arey pr then informed them t that ll 11 at wo cipy V ejecting the servants nerv auts of goa pie were very much d very large lare to hear usa us some of the ta I 1 n a schoolhouse a short the baurch house so T we meeting eting at 3 pm A member of the meth matac took us home parson H seii going he came and ana took dianer dinner with us he of course coarse pretended to know all about our people as be had read the whole history ot of the mormon church in western wilds by J H beadle lae he started on us lis about joe smith we tried to reason and explain to ulm him that he had been wrongly informed about the prophets character and also that tbt of the saints buthe but he was badly afflicted ath the mark of the beast like many other sec tartan ministers minister st who preach for hire and divine for money and allowed prejudice to rule and dictate instead of principle and reason our conversation soon became very interest interesting ng to those present we closed by calling on him to repent and cease preaching his bis false doctrine and to yield obedience to the gospel of christ he finally said you ought tobe driven out of the country and that all who went to hear us I 1 ought to be churched we preached according to agreement and presented some of the principles ot lite lile and salvation before a large number of people after which a mr hodgesen Hodge aes ses a prominent man in that section yec tion invited us home with him and we announced another meeting for night when we talked to another large congregation the people seeming to express themselves with few exceptions as being well pleased with what they hatt hait heard A ve went ent the week visiting AMOZ among those 0 se who invited u us ui i to 10 call on them amo among ng I 1 them was a mr clem an aged aeed gentle man idab who said he heard apostle G A smith preach in huntsville alabama about ten years before the late war of the rebellion he also stated that he ired apostle smith relate the prophecy p ec uttered by joseph smith con berning the dwar but nearly all ridi caled the idea at the time he said he was a living witness that it came to pass asb just bet as the prophet said it would and he knew scores of other men who could testify to the same thing thine nevertheless such testimonies as these are not sufficient to convince the liev ers era dt df the divine mission of the 9 great ea t latter latte r day ay prophet we were invite to preach pr bac h again saturday night and after t er t the h e close ot of the meeting distribute t the he re remainder m afinder ot of our tracts A young man came up and told as that their circuit rider parson H wished to see us at his meeting pr at pleasant hill the next day sunday we wire were rather surprised on receiving the invitation and wondered what it was lor for our first impression was wa that that they had repented and were werd going to grant xia us the privilege to preach in their house again we thought that would be uncommonly rood good treatment from a sectarian preacher toward a mormon elder eider and concluded it was irom from an an impure motive we went t to the meeting and and stated slated that our teaching was lwe like that ot of the Campbe Ultes who were not popular in id the neighborhood we replied that he was mistaken and ana entered into discussion upon the principles of the gospel he finally wound up by by heaping 1 a great creat deal of abuse on the I 1 gormong mormons Mor I 1 mons mong 11 but we bad auty to to reply and he was effectually confound confounded d basl asis is usually the case with those wh who 0 b have ve not them the truth on their side your brethren in the gospel JORN jofan W i JOHN W HART |
