Show IN BUSY manchester no 14 A HAMPDEN GB VR patri croft near manchester lancashire england enel 1 and june 27 1898 1893 it was waa a few dilute alter after I 1 saturday june when I 1 arrived at the victoria station manchester after a lone roundabout tedious ride of three bou hours 8 and a half from shipley near bradford yorkshire looking around at the magnificent and spacious wandered to see if I 1 conlu my eyes find and one of the elders whom I 1 hat hac written but I 1 looked in vain the train being late was waa perhaps the cause I 1 was like Is a sta al ranger tranger in a strange land making way as best I 1 could I 1 was wa soon amo the bustle and din of the buby toretta of man oater ob ter it being saturday bus business inesm was more lively than any other day of the week manchester is the third largest city in En england glands and joined close to ballord with her two blundred thousand inhabitants Inh abitante makes makei it look like the th second bond largest in england the tb population pu lation of london is VI liverpool I 1 mer cht stel sunday june I 1 attended meetings at moorside Moor MoO side rolde seven miles from manchester words are aari almost oat inadequate to describe the good time we had bad it reminded me ol of the old time meetings we ei joyed enjoyed when I 1 first became acquainted with the gospel it was a time of rejoicing a time of gladness the spirit of the be lord was with us in rich abundance the saints in this conter eLce as a general rule are striving to live up to their religion according to the he light they have received and it is a pleasure to be in their midst aney are very poor and their m nas are not burdened with the wealth of this world to bear them bear their humble testimonies and sing el OK the songs BOOKS of zion is in soul inspiring they flee feel so full fuli sometimes that tea tears roll down their cheeks aud and their prayers pray era ascend to their heavenly father that at no far distant day they may be gathered to that lano land they have so BO often sung about the pleasure derived from amusements and from wealth cannot be compared to the rich influence enjoyed by the latter day saints at their meetings when they are living up to their religion and keeping the commandments command mand mente ments of god at moorhouse they have a small email meeting house recently they have had an addition of three by baptism bap tiem last week I 1 attended an open air meeting at heywood hey wood nine miles irum from manchester there was a good attendance I 1 notice there is considerable prejudice against the saints in win part of the country on account of the bitt bitterness ernets and hatred manifested by jarman and his associates about four years ago it will take 0 nold erable time to allay that prejudice still we are hoping the lord will assist us anu ma y souls be bon convinced vinced of the truth we lave removed the conference licate six eix miles from manchester to Patric rolt our address you will find at the head of this article I 1 shall be pleased to in my trav travel elp to visit any friends the saints in utah may have in this conference it if they will seno nano me addre addresses sies ot of the same name there are nine elders in this conference two twi al ac patricroft Patri croft two at faro worth near bolto two at heywood Heywoo a two ut at maecle field and one tit at oldham old ham the weather recently has been very not some say the hottest on record at Mac macclesfield clesfield it was the means of 01 producing many cases of scarlet fever rain nas nae cume at last and it looks at ai though we would have changeable weather the warm weather him hao affected vegetation ROBERT AVESON |