| Show SOWING THE SEED BRADFORD yorkshire Yorks nire june 14 1893 file leeds i deeds conference embraces a large tract of country and of we tue greatest portion or of yorkshire IL ii haa bag ton ten elders in the fi la 10 tour four laboring in the bradford bradburd Brad two in shipley two in selby anti and two in hull george D merkley is president ol of the coi conference derence elder bluer charles charlt s tillotson fil ril lotson and myself art are laboring buring la in the shicley district h avion but rec recently outly commenced to in that neld hold of labor prospects are avo adorable rable for doing good we find a very intelligent class claas of bouet hearted people but the words of isaiah have almost been literally fulfilled which says saye darkness covers coven the eart anh tanh t h and grosa groin darkness the people abere are so many creeds and beliefs existing today that it is a difficult matter to distinguish tue tae difference bej tween the true gospel sod and the doctrines ap ot men but if searchers after truth were to take the advice ot of the apostle james it if any of you lack wisdom let him bak of iou god that to all oien men liberally and ucb aideth not and it shall hall be given him and ask aak in faith they would readily perceive pere elve the difference lt it ito is said there are about seven hun dred religious cret ds clis upon the earth and they not seem to realize that hat is i ut one lord one faith one due baptism they will tell tall you in the manner that they are all aim jiji 1 tig for one pant p int heaven jl 1 have spoken to several in this wine ayou you believe in the biblo ob yes do you believe that jesus came from galilee to jordan to john to be baptized of him and in doing so go he glet us an example which we should jollow lol low ob they would may baptism was a custom in those days daye but it ilia is not liot necessary now I 1 bouli trieu quote quota them the third chapter of john fifth verse except a man be born of water and of tuc me spirit he cannot enter the kingdom ot of god and they would tell me they were satisfied BatiH fied to remain as they were they were blind ir unbelief and could not me there was any necessity to receive baptism it reminds one of the savior lorta ta worde word oh jerusalem jerusa lem how bow often would I 1 have gathered thy children together as a hen gather jtb tb her chickens and yo ye would not we have recently been holding opeo open air meetings and it is amusing to wit dean tile the timidity by the they seem afraid to come and kople ilten ten to us we nave tra oten 9 certain streets twice and then notified the people to come to our meeting and listen to us and the result has baa beau very discouraging I 1 will give an account of the first outdoor meeting we held io in Sui pley it was on june eth that day we traded about one hundred houses and notified them that we would hold bold 81 meeting in the evening we posted up dp written notices in two of we tee prominent stores in the neighborhood where we were going to hold forth which read as foll follows aan an open air meeting gt by elders of the church of jesus christ of latter day daiute will be held at the bottom of Beam beamsley road shipley tonight at upon the principles of the as an taught by the savior and his A apostles po aties all are kindly invited to be present Y in order to secure a good sized audience we notified about more families at the time appointed elder teon arid and myself were on the spot ready to do our part but found no audi audience euce in no wise daunted we commenced our metting with singing then offered prayer and again sang by this time quite a number of children many unla eight gathered around this was encouraging as 89 iffe if we could impress the first principles upon their young mind sour efforts would not be in vain tile te people in the neighbor did not have tile the courage to come out and gather around us ad yet they were anxious to hear bear what we had to say they opened their doors and windows and stretched their heads out to lisen two or three came within a short distance from us but went back again their courage failed there was one brave man who came up and stood bis bin ground like a hero he eared no oie and stood there alone we occupied near an hour on the first principles of the gospel A t the close ot of the meeting mr danei i the attentive listener referred to came up and we were having a pleasant conversation when we observed emerging to the right light of us a specimen of humanity who appeared to be under the she influence of liquor lu io bold tones be ad res sed no as 1 I have put upon a plan whereby the these so lads lade referring to some toy boys play tug at cricket a short abort distance away can have a 8 place to play cricket with wilb out fear of breaking windows win dowa I ob said dawes we are talking about religion not about cricketing 11 1 1 if that to la so BO why not read the thirty nine articles of faith of the church of englund there is evaugh in them fur for any one said eaid the it intruder he then went on to insult us when dawes interfered took our part and a lively discussion occurred bei the two dawes also received his bis share of insults from the unwelcome visitor when we deemed it wisdom to leave dawes then raked the man down in such a way as he be little dreamed of and will doubtless be a ira latler tida impression upon him for many a day four baptisms were attended to last saturday the firt first in the conference for several months As no place could be secured in Bradi bradford ord the ordinance was attended to at leeds ten miles distant I 1 have just juat recently visited the street and saw the house where I 1 was born a small low row of one buildings it to is named faw bert B reel un on wakefield rad biad B iad bradford Brad furd it brought to my memory scenes and in of over forty years ao ago bluer oliver dodgeon Hod geon of salt bait lake city arrived on the steamer alaura alaska june feeling well and hearty and has been assigned to the leeds conference oon ference june 17 1893 having recel vou the appointment to preside over toe the manchester COD conference forence I 1 bade goodbye to tile elders Jl ders saints relatives and acquaintances acquaint ancen and took the train ibis his morning orning na tor for old manchester Mati chester since my arrival la in the leeds conference I 1 have spent a very pleasant and sociable time and otten often look baek back with plean pleasure to the experience obtained during my short sojourn there my address will be as usual until I 1 am settled down iu the manchester conference and mail matter will be forwarded to meiron me from bradford your ti brother lother in the gospel ROBERT AVESON |
