| Show one ceals labor in ill lie tile missionary Missi field held I 1 A saint louis daily gives a full ac count of a meeting of mormon mornion ciders elders 11 ME incle in poet post dis patch thero ft etin event ment altogether out of tile ordin tir nt tit prof bill Clark ki big and pine Pinea directs sunday sunda loraw it aae as so strangely ely and solen ditte rout from those that usually occur there anch ne as lake like malks o 0 sparring nestles that tilt do Belfast Chicken i himself it with ime we no lie at th eliw ilour dor auml al courteously allowed showed lim like maithre i inside thero a ii am not more than half a hundred pill told mostly anian and leoh lem than linna a dodou do wu ladies who theasel thew sel eg along alon the railings aioo the lon lou pool while three clerical looking luuy inell with bible and hymn hook book in hand bank stood near the tile pool gate o 0 waiting to perform ati ates they had work ed so diligently to they elders of the chun li of jesus christ of latter da dal sainta and the faret co nerta in st louis to the mormon faith five in la 11 number aber were to be baptized tho tile ceremony cerenio cy wits nt at 9 30 0 clock an hour so aluch earlier ban than eventa events that are billed to occur at natatorium the begin that hat only on ly those immediately interested were present aare save a few stragglers who I 1 seeing prof clerk dropped in to inquire what weis hie ilia sunday scheme you come in and see it may dc do you good you rascal replied ilia th evell ve ran ita its no cak walk nor punching match it its a a i straight chow and free eo so you cant lose after a foiw minutes waiting a R tall heavy net set smooth faced young man with hair heir almost yellow clad in a loose fitting shirt black trousers and course black stocking ing aped out ont of a dressing booth he was elder ez ezra ra chris ti tia neen ansen who believing that like john the baptist lie was coni commie sinned to remit eina mine by immersing penitents in water was to perform the baptismal bap tisma hie his appearance was the binnal for a choir of eix three men and three women two dixi 0 of the men being bein elders V E cand J B allard to sing the opening hymn and elder candland led with a violin which he handled like an expert when the hymn as sung elder eider candland handed hid his violin to elder ballard and then offered up a fer feneli ent pro prater er after another hain elder ballard made knade a brief address explained the mormon idea of baptism and declared that while hia his church believed in the bible they donut do not rely entirely en tirel on it as they did t lie revelations re relations elat ions mado to jo coln n smith their first prophet he said the immersion was only half halt the tile baptismal office and the remainder and most important part of it would follow in their hall at Elee eleventh nth and locust streeta an all hour later the function there would be to transmit to ohp comeras con verte the bap tiem of the holy ghost which was performed by the laying of priest ly IV hands on the hands of the cou con verts erts elder walked down into the pool and waded out waist deep then he lie waded back and reaching hie ilia barid to a middle ayed aged man who walked w down the steps and waded out into tho water until til it nid hii his waistband elder Christi imsen i t ith one band hand on the concerts erla shoulder and gripping his right bands said bala i that be r was corn com to baptize in the name of the father son and ad holy ghost tho con ert ander the water out of bight llemar C 11 II hilleau Hill mau and find following him hini cadjo T K crawford a much younger antin then thein come cam it strip of a lad ind tile 10 year old eon son of mr air the little fellow pinned plunged boldly into he tile water by til tilt elders hide 1 but ae as he lie came up showed allowed that lio lie wae wits nearly strang led HH ah file elder lifted if it ed hini him beyond b a yo a d the tile ml rail to hia his father fattier from a dressing near the eutran two women both mid die dle aped sped one dressed in white mrs joaeph joseph lockett and the ho other in black mrs 0 it hillman mrs lockett went into the water first 1 and iiii after mrs hillman illman II had been L 1 I elder ballard laid said tho ceremony would bo be finished at their liall hall nt at 11 tile laying on oil of hands hand and baptism of the holy ghost ie is an tm im tf pree eive ceremonial and butay of the comella wept during tho tb mr pr nee rice elder ballard said that la in year he lie and hie hill co worlo havo been in bt st lojiw they havi fad 2 converts |
