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Show CONDITIONS IN AUSTRALIA Elder and Mrs. Kay hunt Write Interesting Letter to The Record. Adelaide, So. Australia, June 4, 1917. Iron County Record Cedar City, Utah. Dear Editor ; We receive the Record every three weeks when the American mail lands at Sydney, and we surely sure-ly enjoy reading news from our native land and home town; we even read all the advertisements and notices, something we seldom did when at home. iter laboring some three months or more in Sydney, we were sent here to Adelaide, which is about one thousand miles away but we like Adelaide very much. It is a very beautiful city and resembles re-sembles Salt Lake very much in size, cleanliness and population. We appreciate our being in this beautiful land of sunshine when we hear of such severely cold winter at home; we would like to send some of our weather to you, but not just at present as it is the rainy season here and this country has been getting more than their share we think. The average rainfall rain-fall for the coastal cities for the past year is about six feet, and no snow the year around ; a person would think that there would be no poor here, and, indeed, there is DO need for any person living in Australia to be poor. Hut the trouble trou-ble is they all like city life and, therefore, crowd to the cities, while thousands of acres of beautiful beau-tiful land is being left to produce what it will by nature; then the cost of living is still going up, making mak-ing it harder every day for the people peo-ple to gain a livelihood, but still they stay in the cities. We see the results of this terrible terri-ble war on every side of us. Enlisting En-listing is now a thing dreaded by all; at the outbreak of the war every man was more than willing to enlist but now it's a serious matter mat-ter and they are more fully realiz ing it's outcome. I am enclosing a little piece printed in the "Adelaide Advertiser" giving one result of the war. We suffer some persecution as Mormon missionaries but not more than we aie able to stand. Oui greatest trouble we have is at our street meetings which we hold every Friday night. It draws a crowd, I assure you, when they see a Mormon girl from Utah, standing there jn the circle with four Mormon Mor-mon Elders, the people whispering to each other, saying, "Oh, they've got one girl already." Last Friday Fri-day night we had probably over I three hundred people listening to I us and we were able to hold a I splendid meeting, but just as soon las we dismissed, one of our "Jos- Lephite" friends then held the crowd by idling them terrible thugs about US and Salt Lake City, but there happened to be an American in the crowd from North Dakota, and. by the Way, be was a Catholic, so he steps up and tells the people thai In- just returned from Salt Lake City, and that this man had been telling lies from start to finish. He told the crowd that the Mormon people were the best, loyal citizens in America. ( h, I tell you, he told the people there just what kind of people the Mormons are and before be-fore the meeting was over which was about 1 1 :. p. in. there were over five hundred people there listening lis-tening and, of course, we came out on top, and I am sure that Mor-monism Mor-monism will always come oul victorious vic-torious in the end. We are both enjoying good health and feel thankful to have the opportunity of coming to this strange but beautiful land, thereby broadening our view upon life, and meeting so many different kinds of people and religion . beliefs. It is a grand schooling and we appreciate it more every day. We are always more than plea-ed to hear from home and to know that Cedar City i- pushing to the front. W ith best wishes to all and thanking you again for the "Record," "Rec-ord," we remain sincerely yours, Mr. and Mrs. Ray I, tint, 107 |
