| Show IN THE SOUTH pleasures pleasured anil and anno ann anees of et missionary Exper experience lenee entertain tasty told ST JOSEPH lawrence co tenn feb 1887 editor deseret news where theres there 18 a will theres a way ap this familar saying receives manz many tests teats in a mission arys travels and most invariably proves true whether in pursuit pursue of a nights lodgings longings or makine a trip r that appears to be a yr formidable e an before start starting ing he be nee nce it has become a kind of golden rule in surmounting mounting sut seeming difficulties at this season of the year when emigration is 1 the principal topic that ec capies the attention things are in a kind af hurry blurry condition condit loti the elements are none the leid lead stable rain and high waters being the greatest with which to combat combar in tilts this respect jt times 11 like these that we venture to calculate a day or two beforehand what is to be done even a venture at these times seems to arouse natures entire force to cause IL a break in the gramme pro it reminds a person very much of the practice some people have of MAKING resolutions the iS individual who has for certain reasons concluded to reform in a certain matter or matters and is so delighted with the effect it produces that he must tell all can ban safely be set down as never having refy reformed ormed and in all probabilities the next news that greets the ear will be that he is worse than ever on oil the contrary the person who is the true reformer shows by his bis acts what resolutions have be emmade thus coming off by keeping quiet it appears f from rom these facts that everything is to be surmounted in order to succeed in the first case and the trial Is noto early so great in the second Pro gramme completed nine in the evening finds us around the dusky fireplace halt tired over the contemplations plat ions of a walk of twenty miles with attendant scenes on the way the coming day A song or two to py pay for a meal and we retire at four in the morning we are awakened by the sound of rain upon the root roof consequently a hole in the pro gramme or A GOOD WETTING is suggested as we listen to it day arrives breakfast over and still the rain comes with occasional let ups each bringing hope nine ocic j arrives and the misery weve undergone in waiting forces us out contenting teri ting out ourselves selves that if it grows worse by y t toe t time me we rese the post 0 office ce well return beach each this point and no rain after a short consultation we push on knowing at the end of our journey in the event of a wetting comfort is insured with our colored friends an hours walk and the clouds graw darker and all around us it appears to be pol policing poUr iring log down yet we escape and umbrellas hs have not been unfolded this peculiar freak is highly gratifying and we indulge in the thoughts that even nature la is going ta W favor our endeavors six of the twenty mil miles les are over when suddenly we are brought to a youthful river with no bridge across it here we are with water behind water above water in f rout front and mud ad infinitum fini tum underfoot experience has taught that it WILL BE USELESS to endeavor to get set across by borrowing or hiring a horse from those living close by bringing the molars together with a twitch we begin began to pull off our clothing firmer armer became the grit of our teeth as we advance in t the he waters of winter waist deep the blood forced from our feet gives t the he sharp loose rocks a good ch chance anceto to caution us to step lightly about eight rods of this and we reach the opposite shore where the best accola for dressing are a water soaked log and rain pouring down overhead our thoughts are at z zero ero and the impressions of the sharp stones brings to mind the punishment at school of the unruly youth by causing him to walk with his bare feet u upon ori peas sprinkled over tle the floor we V have now reached a point that turn back is out ont of the question and the rain has just commenced wih wib a deters deter ruination that means continuation A companion here tells the story of the rest of the road how many more streams there are to te wade etc three and our f BEST UTAH CLOTH begins to show and we feel a signs I 1 agn 8 of leaking notwithstanding umbrellas have been used for all they were worth land our jeans trousers trow sers are bespatter spattered bespattered be ea with red sticky mud up to the knees but we are still able to smile and wonder what our friends at home would an say if they could see us now another half if hour and our journeys end is reached but in this half hour it appears that the flood gates above are turned loose which taken in connection with the fact our clothes are unable to hod bold any more water forces that reflection so common to the situ aaion look likel drowned rats at last we are under shelter and the ram rain immediately ceases for the first tithe time in the last five hours strange I 1 passing strange I 1 and so uncommon the next hour we steam by a comfortable fire with no greater trouble than a very empty stomach THE surroundings are new and somewhat strange even in the south on oa a bed in one corner of the room is a i colored man in distress over a conflict with a mule in which the mule aule conquered and d sent him to bed with an aching frame and a revengeful heart with us surround ing the fireplace is another colored man who la Is pathetically describing scenes during slave times and how bow rood his master was to mal bid with a hearty lord bless him I 1 im gwinett see him some day he ceases in an adjoining room sister mary color colored 1 is cooking and singing merrily because the elders have come these three colored constitute the family what at a family of biggers nig gers I 1 I 1 yes they ere are also members of bf the church Brothe Brot herand tand sister johnson by name and in the language of the elder who abo baptized them when tormented by his friends so may aay I 1 they are the whitest people in the neighborhood sister mary was once connected with a WEALTHY FAMILY during which time she learned admirably the art of cookin cooki uz and bro isaac is just independent enough on his little farm to have have all he wilts wants it is simply impossible for them to db too much for the elders one n of t the e be best t homes hoines we have yet found in the south is under our colored brother and alsi sisters roof our bed known as the mormon bed is one a king might envy nobody else is allowed to occupy it or wipe on the towel on which cupa the Elder wipe it is here the elite of the south resort when they want a good meal notably a probate judge by the name of simms simma this mao man like makes a convenient excuse at times time to drop drol in during the evening afi wl len en be knows the elders are going to be I 1 besent his object is to talk with thea about THE principles of their belief at times he hasea pressed himself very freely about the divine calling of the prophet josepa shying saying you have more evidence to prove that joseph smith was a prophet than that jesus christ was the son of god arid and 1 I read joseph smiths prophecy about the war of the rebellion lion thirty years before it transpired if one half the evidence to establish the fact that a prophet were produced in court against a criminal conviction would woud be as sure as the sun shines yet I 1 dont believe the doctrine such is the testimony of the disinterested or rather who for tile the sake of popularity will not permit his manly qualities to be developed many do we meet who are willing to make statements EQUALLY AS FRANK betit but it is impossible by any lawful means arget tor pet them any further than a bare statement whether these things are results of a desire to still wallow in corruption I 1 or merely a hypocritical show shove aline alone will tell by this time wet clothes have become dry the thoughts of a comfortable bed and general torpor creeping over me urges itis time for a change so bo I 1 record one days davs experience in the south and yield to the request of my arm and fingers to sign W |
