Show PRUDENCE IS the experiences or of the elders of the church of christ who go forth to preach the gospel tire are many MADY slid anu varied in traveling without purse puree or acrid their wants are sometimes pro video videa for by those among whom their lot to la cast and who are earning bea heavenly venly riches by their hospitality to the servants of god but frequently it is id necessary for those who have rec received a ived the gospel and are gathered with the bouy body ot 01 the church to supply that which la is required by the missionaries for food clothing and shelter because the people to whom they r ralee aa the voice or of testimony seem determined to reject the gospel message it is essential ti that u under all cincu circumstances ma lh buee a ere dt dacre should be prudent and consistent in their conversation and deeds their course should be marked with wisdom in order for them to be profitable servants to the master whose cause they have bave espoused an air af flippancy in their conversation or conduct or an inclination to rashness in critical times timea renders random them in a measure unsafe and unprofitable as an bearers of a divine message this suggestion is applicable to all fields of labor whether in america europe or the isles of the sea some times its especial force is shown with regard to events in the where violence has been occasionally resorted to against th eldon eldera and two or three times with the most moot serious re suits but conditions there have so BO improved that with ordinary caution there now to la probably as much free dom of danger from bodily harm as in any other field there are however instances where would produce injury ous re results and aad the elders should be ever mindful of the of the spirit keeping lu i a view as their foremost idea the welfare of the work in which they are engaged As such an instance there way may be cited one of the experiences of elder wm C winder who returned on october 27 from a mission to the Saut Sout Bern brn states he was laboring at the time july 1892 with elder bider lambol taylor A warrant was issued boned for their arrest on the charge of disturbing the peace by preaching false doctrine etess etc they were taken in custody by a number of armed mer map who started with them to albemarle stanley county N C for the trial they had gone about two and a half miles or halt hall the distance die when the posse which had increased to mure more than fifty armed pers persons onas stopped and gave them au an opportunity to leave the me county unmolested to have done so would have been an injury to the cause they were there to represent their duty was to prove their innocence of the charge absurd as it was from the fact that bat in making that proof they could explain and bear witness to what they actually did teace the elders therefore prudently declined to accept the offer of freedom so they were conducted to prison they voluntarily chose to remain in jail over night to relieve their few i friends any embarrassment anti and next morning the profitable nature of their prudence the day batore was wag plainly exhibited the news of the trial to be held was noised abroad arid abid people came from miles around to witness it the courthouse court house was wae packed and to this large audience the mie aiona rieB declared the principles of the gospel which were listened to with tin p interest by scores of people who probably ly could not have been reached in any other way the charge against the elders was waa dismie seo and those who accused them falsely had to 10 pay the costs coats after the were given their breedom luty lut y wale ordered by a mob to depart from the county under pain of serious injury this time they left slid and properly so BO there was no principle at stake iu in going no good to be done by remaining they would not have by refusing refu aing to heed the warning in giving the mob an an opportunity to commit a crime they hud had exhibited their fidelity to the cause and then did what every elder chuld du do under similar took their le its had they stayed and been the ot of permitting unnecessary violence they might have suffered terea aut severely and closed that locality to 0 o the missionaries As an it was when the excitement had aided they were permitted peacefully to visit the place PIRCO again and the mony they left was a means meana of raising up new and staunch friends trien dB care and circumspection on the part paa of missionaries are also beneficial to la other ways than in the particular class of instances cited it is note worthy that the elders eldera by thele their prude prudenco pru deuce tco aud and forbearance gala gain the confidence of those whose acquaintance they make even where the goakes message is IN not given full obe dienie to rider elder N P lee who ateo also labored in the north carolina con fo forebee reDee er enoe and returned with elder winder had an experience ons one among many that are common to the elderd which illustrates illustrated this idea at a place called chapel hill he was wa waited upon in company with elder J jaa so C Bob insor uy oy a mob who demanded that they leave the county under pain of death they were known in the place and the boys boy about in number acae to their aid they informed the half hundred orata crate that they did not propose to allow the cormons mormons to be driven cut with their teacher they insisted that they would combat armed force by armed force it if necessary this had the desired effect the basis ot of this thin action of the schoolboys was that the elders elden had gai grained by their conduct and the confidence coon denoe of the youth I 1 bus it may be the elders eldera go wherever the qualities which characterize prudent energetic missionaries will gain fur for them access to the people to preach the gospel there them their labors labora will be profitable to the cause and can consequently to them when these qualities cannot make their way the introduction of different lerent dif forces should be left to other powers |