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Show ' Removing Predjudicc. Recently Elder Joseph S. Broad hen1 had the privilege of visiting some of Jargoat towna in Yorkshire, England and seeing the many placed of interest inth'enl. Ho reports having, a very . . pleasant trip. Speaking of a visit to Halifax he says: ElderaMoss, SchoOeldand I left Bradford Brad-ford and wont to Halifax to see some h:ilf-oouf)in3 of Inine. It is a town of 100,000 people. We looked arourd the town and also went to the Town Hall. I told the janitor wo were Americans Amer-icans add would like to be shown through the Hall. "Certainly," said ho, "would you like to see tho Mayor?" "Certainly," I replied. "Very wel give, mo your curds and 1 will introduce jou to him." This done we were show" cd into the Mayor's parlor in the Hall and met him. After some little talk about the two countries, he asked us what part of America we weio from AVo told liim from Utah. "Oh, that is where the Mormons arol" "Yea air.'' "And arc you Mormons V "Yes an; wo are Mormon ciders." Then follows d -an half houra talk about Mormonisui, After this he tool, us each by the banu , ' iind aaid: "Uentlemen, the Mormon t people are welcome in Halifax- from now on." He then told the janitor to ,' ahow us round'. VVj went on top of the ":-, " tower and spent some time looking at '$, the tower clock works. Tho pendulum $- weighs .'530 pounds, tho hell weighs 5 $ ' tons and everything uccoidingly. This :f -was very interesting to me. We cnt on top of tho tower which is 325 ft high f' , and from here we got a nieJ view of tho town. On i:oimngdoYkn our guide waB i told to take ua where we could get a J ' -wash and then brush ua down as Wo were dusty. This was done and on leav- ' ing wo gave tho honorable Mayor some ,., of our Mormon literature to read in s " exchange for his kindness . |