Show IN MA MARYLAND burning the salute saints meeting place to impede the wok goshen may r edit editor 9 deseret news hews it may not be uninteresting to those of your readers who are watching the progress of missionary labors to read the following extracts from a letter by elder milo A hendricks now president of the virginia conference which includes maryland regarding how thin things s are shaping themselves in the first field in the latter state the letter is dated april 1887 the reference made to the 11 mormon tabernacle 11 after the writer sad d bis bill i companion had bad opened the T eld last december and held possibly a dozen meetings sufficient pressure was brought to bear against the trustees by PUBLIC PREJUDICE to cause them to close the schoolhouse but the gospel seed had bad too flo firmly taken root in many honest hearts to be thus easily choked out by the weeds of prejudice mr air jacob an honest inquirer after truth gratuitously f furnished urnis hed the elders an empty house bouse which their friends soon fitted up with benches and a stove their enemies ever on the alert for mischief making wrote at once to the county paper that on the following sunday services would be held at 2 pm at tho the mormon tabernacle thus framed and named the bal budding ding soon attained a widespread not notoriety a reporter of the baltimore american coming even three hundred miles to inquire to what extent them the mormon 0 rmon plague was spreading here ar are e THE EXTRACTS 1 I left irish creek I 1 va on the lath dinst for this field and uter after seeing a great many y prominent places and objects of interest I 1 arrived here in safety the next day thigh owing to the distance being great greater r than I 1 anticipated and not being overloaded with filthy lucre 11 1 I was compelled to fast three meals however I 1 arrived at brother reimars We imars about 1 p in sunday and after being propped up by a good square meal accompanied a number of our friends to the mormon tabernacle er 1 here 1 imet baders williams WilU Willig aras ms and mecham were very much surprised as well as pleased to see me at the close of the meeting we called and stayed over night at brother reimars We imars and were made happy during the evening by sister weimar making the announcement that HER HUSBAND wished to 0 o be baptized the next day you may not have heard that brother williams on april lath baptized mathias biddinger and wife john feik and wife sister durst sister weimar and sister thus making eight members now in the field quite a number now earnestly investigating will we hope hop 0 ere long be joined to the fold brother mecham has been released to return home and a new companion will join brother williams here in the near f future you yon having been on a mission know that where the beep are there the wolves wim howl and as there have been quite a number initiated into the fold ot of christ here the question will arise WHERE IS SATAN and what Is he doing well let me say he is still alive and active after the regular meeting in the tabernacle last sunday we gave out another appointment for the following sabbath but the question now is 11 bow aw a shall hall we make our word good bonnay monnay mon nay morning revealed wal ed the fact that all that was left of the once famous building was an am immense pile of ashes and a a few should ering logs the building undoubtedly f fell ell a prey to wicked anca malicious individuals n divi duals who cannot endure sound doctrine we do not know what satan will do next to accomplish his bis hellish designs but we know this that if we lose our lives in the defense of truth we have the assurance of a glor glorious ion resurrection with the just and the privilege grivi privilege lege of associating with our lord lor and savior jesus christ mr and sister take ke joyfully t the be spoiling of their goods I 1 knowing that they have laid up in heaven a better and more enduring end dring substance N L N |