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Show ninloeary Letter. Uiamii, Tcnn.. March 16, 1000. EnnoiTnaait Thlillnglthat a few worda frama (rieaJiadtowntman would prove In-tereitlfg In-tereitlfg to the reader, ot your highly apprJratedj'ip.r, 1 thui have briefly naratikt, 'travail. Alttr'atflvlng at Chattanooga, Tenn., the headquarter, of th.EoutbernSlate. mlialoa,Iwa.aulgned to labor In th. North Alibima conference, which com-prlieitbite?rltory com-prlieitbite?rltory In aorthern Alabama and MIiiImbdI. totelber with weitern Tennenii. I landed In Mliilulppl about Ftlnary 1600, where I met my tint companion, and we Immediately began our labor.. Day after day we caavaned (rem home to hoote, convening with the people when It wai ponlhle;alio leaving leav-ing wltk them tract! which treated upon the gotpel aa we bellev It. Where It wat poitlbl. toobtaln icbool boumln which to preach, we delivered unto them our menage, and through the power of God (rlendi were railed up to provld. (or ui the neceiilllei ol life, torn, .(whom, lam happy to lay, hav. aic.pted the Gotpel. A month later wo began on a 160 mile Journey to conference. Belog umccllre-ated umccllre-ated and not accuitomed to walking and wtdingtwampi with mud and watar (rem two to three feet deep, I wai tired and worn out en arriving at our deitl-nation. Conference convened with 40 Elderi preient together with Treildent Ben E. Rich. We held our meetlngi In the Aberdeen court houte, and never In my life did I enjoy a greater aplrUual fcait. Tbote who addreieed ui were oiled with th. iplrlt otUod .nd tpok with mighty power, Alter l'rleitbood muting at the dote ol the iecondday,I wai aiilgn-ed aiilgn-ed to labor In JeOcrton county, Ala., a dlttance of about 176 mlltt, Our Journey Jour-ney from Aberdeen, Mill., to my Held of labor, notwithitandlng the Interne heat, wai quite pleaiant. Bometlmei we become foottor., but In a week from tb. time w. left wo were In our county to work. The people were quite bitter Iniomedlitrlcti, but we lucceeded In waking frleudi, and the oppoilllon wai Jmt luffident to cam. ui to enjoy our labor.. Frequently our attention waa called to illpiol paper lacked on tree. and icbool home. In which we had appointment! ap-pointment! lo prticli, warning ui to leae the country. -After working many country town! we dtciiled to confine our labun to the I mining cam; i, which we did. TTe re-l reived fair treatment In all but a few Inrlanree, One night, while preaching In a church building, aome men out-tide out-tide with hickory eappllngi pounded the 1 ulldlng Thit cieated a nolle wit) Inrriemblingacanonadini In a battle; finally, by the punuailou ol a friend, they ceaied and weiontlnued our meeting. meet-ing. Alter being rcluied food a eufficl-eut eufficl-eut number ol timet lo enable tu to appreciate ap-preciate a meal whenwerecelved It, and having to lay In Ihe woJi a night or to, w. lelt for Chilton county, about 60 rallct dlitanl, where we held a diitrlct conference. After conference, I wae called, In company with Elder . II. Tanner of 1'ayion, lo return to JetTerion county and work railroad lownt. After being mobbed and run out of Benmer, an account ac-count of which appeared In IL Newt, Elder Tanner wai rtleared and I want into Birmingham, the county teat el Jeffiriun eounty, to labor In company with 1'ieil. Huruphcryi and two other Eldert. Birmingham It a city ol about 40,000 people, the piinclpal part ol which have come there the pail ten yean to obtain employment In the mince and torround-Ing torround-Ing f urnacee, To lay that uiany of them are rough, would be potting It In a mild form, Th. Mayor wai afraid of hit popultrlty andrefmed to grant nt either permtiilon to eanvan th. city or preach en the ilreett without a letter from each ol lb local mlnlitar. laying that In their ettlmatlon our pretence or work would not Injur, the dtlieni ol Birmingham, Birm-ingham, notwithstanding the lad that hardly a week tailed without tome one wet killed, lay nothing ol the hideout 1 crimci perpetrated daily. W thought thlaan lojuttlce and appealed lo the city aldermen (or redren with the remit re-mit that w were permitted to hold lervlcai on the itreel corneri. Eich night at 7.30 we eaiemb!d on the tree! corner! and lor a month preached the Ooiaal ot Chrtit. reople were very much prejudiced and entertained bitter feeling! toward ur, but beleri leaving in November for conference wi bad tome (rlendi and rainy enUrUlnnl different Ideal concerning Utah and tb Mormoni. About 40 Elderi convened In Tmca-loota, Tmca-loota, Ala., for coaler.nc November nth and 18th, The firil meeting wai poorly attended, but lb two thereafter were cowded and all were troely mr-prlied mr-prlied at th plauilble ecrlptural and rational doctrine which the Elderi taugt I. The Elderi were anlgned their field! ol labor and amid ihouti of "Goad-bye, and God bleta you," all departed de-parted for their fieldi. I In company with my compinlon we I itarted far thli city, a dlitanc of about 1 100 mllee. Thre week! later we met two of the other brethren, and hav line been worklngMempbliwIthtbem. Tblt li a city ol about 1:5,000 Inhabit-anc, Inhabit-anc, part ol which are colored; It li iltuated on the eait bank of the great Mliilulppl river, and I. known ae the Bluff Olty i It poeieu many magnificent ' bulldlogt, tipeclally church edlflcet. Molt every denomination throughout the U. I. li fairly reprfiimeo. u " alio noted lor Hi cotton exportation, manufacturing eatabllihmenli and commercial com-mercial advantagei owing to Iti iltua-t'on iltua-t'on ai a river port and railroad center. In concluilon I am pleatsd to lay a few wordi la regard lo our labor and tuoceiiof thl. city work. Our force conilitt of five Eldenand out preitdent in attendance. Owing to the flattering outlook for the future growth of the divinely Iniplred work here, the work bat been lyitemlt-ed lyitemlt-ed at to bring about the belt retultiln the lean time. M '"o" ha,e been InttrucUdlo tract from 10 a.m. to 3 p. m., the remainder ol the after-noon after-noon it generally devoted to vliltlng people who are friendly and are reading our llttralure. Evenlngi w hold meetlngi meet-lngi on the city iquare and rein our voice, in the cam. of truth. W. feel that w have brilliant protptcti and thatmaay will tc and embrace th. truth. Reipectlully, UB,U E. 8. Filllxa. i |