Show THE TENNESSEE TROUBLES without it two axce p dob t S the tile lord foid punishes the tinner einner and lim him wl 0 transgresses his arm firm is as much e ye saints to day as everet was 4 inthe ill days ot Mosea or the prophets and the history latter day Saint kis 41 of strange incidents incident bibich h pro prove ave to the aire care ful observer how bow the man who raises his bis hand against them receives the condemnation odthe of the god of their salvation aud protection I 1 11 IIo vever wever successful the e 1 of this people may beem to be for a time it is certano that the judgments of overtake them in the in and als jhc T thc I 1 i qi w words 0 rl s I 1 c contained an t a in e d in the re revelation i given through the prophet joeph jo eph at kirtland ohio as its found in the tile doctrine and covenants D an ts sec 84 mill will purely surely be fulfilled speaking to the elders w who bt go to preach the gospel the lord I 1 1 choso whoso receive th you on recel veth th ma me aad and the will feed feted you and clothe you and hive give you money amuil n or clothes i you or gai es yau money shall th rit n no 0 wile logo lose his reward and he lie that boeth not these things ia s not riot my disciple dk by this you may know my disciples 1116 ue that veth you not go a 1 ay iy niia him atone afon afonosy h youri yourselves elves and in i ll 11 cleanse your se ewt et even with water pure water whether in heal ilia t orin or in cold and bear t alimony of it unto your father which is If eaven and return not again unto that man and inc irr whatsoever city or village ye yo enter do likewise nevertheless diligently and spared scare not and d woe unto tinto abac house ar or vint village or city that re jet teth you ou or your words or br your testimony tiM oame aorl for cabe ahe aln baye laid my hands upon the natio nations ns to scourge them for their wickedness and arid pi plagues agues shall tz io ro fortl and anti they theys shall liall not be taken from tile earth until I 1 have completed my work which shall be cut short in righteousness P v 1 l we near were r reminded i e 1 of libil tw ls passage a few rags ago in in listening to the remarks of a sister who had lately arrived in utah from the atrocious murder murderer orl elders took tople pla plaice ce last august slie she some interesting details concerning the 1 crata it appears that parton Viii vandever idever the person referred to in elder nicholsons Nich olsons lecture the leader in themos jand the he person who catechised catechi sed elder jones upon questions baa his gone crazy a aada ar kilps A a 4 complete mental wreck ec k A see second ona ii ia leaI while Q killed in n a 0 aate row with 1 his friends in their blind zeal to destroy the servants of god they murder and maltreat their own friends friend s in their lawless law lesi raids raids throughout the coun I 1 I 1 I 1 tr try y in the early part of november a methodist wa was spass passing through the Cane 66 creek coun try on his way from little lot near shady grove to f fill ill an ap at a philoe beyond called house se he lie was mis mistaken faken bior a mormon mormon elder waylaid by balfa dozen and eliot deS jUns reported that these villains in fell fel fad over e hiie ane 1 affair r when ben they discovered covered dia their mistake and that their victim was not a mor vl u mon ino n it willbe will be remembered how el d der r jones escaped on the day of the massacre and how bow he was pur tied f or miles by a number of the mabb ars two of whom itayem over night within a couple of miles of the place where be 6 rested the fol awitin foiring ro iring thre odthe are P came across a mr mobley an avowed mormon enemy enemy who in in appearance was much like elder jones the mob seized mr air mob ley and beat bini almost to death 4 ba fore the discovered that their victim was not the hated mormon preacher 1 the lie mr bastian who was inspru 1 mental in in saving llie them life of elder jones getting getting him out odthe handa hands of the mob had always been an enemy to the mormons cormons Mor mons but for the friendly act he did he lie ITUS was corns palled to eave hia own life I 1 ife by instant flight to colorado the fla papera perg of ot tennessee artre yet much exercised over the suspicious auspicious life lif and conduct of the two elders G gibb mi g and jones jodes it will be interesting te resting here to relate how bow providentially denti ally y tho the last lut named eder E ader escaped from the mob mot it just before leaving fur utah elder jones had started to cross a field near shuly shudy graj gloyne to call t robin n i w church who was as upon big his deathbed 1 ff he passed through an or orchard ell id which surrounded the house anda on hia way stopped to to two ladies who were were picking apples five men were watching him and these have since that twice they came near blowing off his bead but hesitated elder jones went to the house with the young ladies the bobbera then secreted themselves in in a thicket near the house anxiously awaiting only one more chance at him through acme strange in influence fl aeu cc ehler oder ja jonca neg now 1101 remembers he lie was kept in the house all d day v bobin robin church died and the elders spoke hi ili funeral bermon which several hundred people heard many of ahorn were enemies the sorrowing relatives t ere not evea even screened by the funeral rites of an nl elemi a ry citizen from an incursion of out jaws laws this in tree free america in time times of leacel peace 1 the following morning the elders felt so unsafe that they and bade thady shady grove their last farewell and set act out accompanied by air church son for the nearest rail way may whence they proceeded to nashville e that very night asun sun day a mob of fifteen men rushed upon the elioue and demanded th the e birda birds who had flown gone to utah they were told we mention these things to show liow how tenderly god cares for his own and how bow certainly his judg merits will be poured out those who ft ho persist in persecuting his saints |