| Show Sont southern lierd mission fields EDITOR EDITOR HERALD being behig informed by prest jolin john IN morgan forgan that you espres expressed ased a desire to hear from the missionary fields I thought a few lines from froin this confer conference enoe would not be bo out of place the statistic ici of the conference show as follows follow sw members 74 num ber of branches organized additions by baptism since june 1879 83 during that time above persons have emigrated to Sout southern heni colorado in ili 1880 there were five elders laboring in the conference since that timo time they have gra gradually duall increased until we now have N 13 faithful energetic defenders defend cra of the t truth who are traveling in some 15 counties count iea disseminating the i plea pies of the gospel by which means a vast amount of prejudice has hns been removed and many friends have been won to the cause TO be sure there hae has been some opposition caused by the spreading of books and find pani phleta written by opp op anze posers rs to the truth yet this only tends t to advocate advocated the gospel and cause a great inan many t to investigate i I that oth wise woultz would have av e re remained in igo ignorance we find prest john morgans nos ono and two pamphlets P P pratts voice of warning I and other church publications agrest a great benefit in spreading the gospel through the land as thoy will enter the houses of many of the bonewit in heart who have been blinded by the cunning and craft of the hirle ings 11 of the day we held beld a two days conference it t this place on april and may 1st ast when there were present on the stand an prest presto s J morgan JR J R Murd murdock and twelve traveling elders A good spirit prevailed much instruction was given which will be of bf gi great eat worth to fall till P ic properly carried out the general authorities of the church were presented and sustained prest J it murdock was honorably released to cretu return rn home and hyrum belnap was sustained to fill the vacancy the elders arc are all feeling well vell and left for their several fields of I labor with a renewed determination to fulfill their missions honorably before god the weather during the past altwin win ter has lias been very ch changeable ea t le and consequently disagreeable ante the last three weeks it hns has also a iso rained so much that the farmere farmers have not been boen able to work only one ne or two days dayo the little that haa has been planted looks very yellow in ill fact it IB is becoming ve very serious serious with the ril farmers HYRUM anum BELNAP DUCK DUCIC RIVER PO II ickman co tennessee mav may alth 11 th 1881 |
