Show THE missionary FIELD L from elder tames Kiib kelly through alio courtesy of elder joseph hall wo are enabled to publish the following interesting letter from elder james who is now an fn a mission to alie southern states tho letter was written from a quiet beat in the woods standing stone putnam co tenn and 13 dated alarca 22 1886 I 1 take this opportunity of sitting down in tho forest with my back supported by a tree and my valise placed on my kneed in lieu of a table to write you a few lines I 1 trust you will pardon ino for not writing sooner for I 1 have been quite busy one reason why I 1 have not written to you sooner is that about the time I 1 intended t write I 1 was driven by an armed mob from a portion of mv field of labor and I 1 was fixing up to start out to open up a now field it seemed that alic whole air had become pregnant with and ahe people being overcome by that evil were in a condition to any diabolical tale circulated about alio mormon and as satan is always arcady to all eliat nea in his power it seems as though lie was wide awake in this instance formally lying tales came floating through alio country in tho newspapers and by other ways caused the people in the words of the savior to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel and they iiii of alie spirit of murder sought to take my life lint by the power of god I 1 was preserved from hands I 1 was alone at time but I 1 soon had a companion alio hl just come from lie is from ogden his nama is john V shortly after lie arrived we started to seek a place where we could open up a new bield we dedicated ourselves to god and ailed aim to guide our footsteps loot steps and we traveled along would feel blithe and happy and some days a dark feeling of despondency spon dency would come over us but wo trudged 1 sometimes beina led by the spirit we would go in di opposition 0 o tha direction we had marked out finally wo reached this neighborhood 5 miles froia our place we have been hero nearly two weeks and have held five meetings and have got two appointments ahead the people are not so prejudiced as they are in other sections and we feel that god haa led liere for we have been treated very findly and some few are tine principles the of the gospel we hope todo Bome here and pray that god will clown our efforts with success that we may have cause to rejoice in the holy one of israel I 1 lave not biad news from home later than the of february but I 1 sec by the papers up to eliat date that satan is wielding his forces in the cloud of peri edition against alie saints the cloud is getting da ker and darker thai words of daniel arc thai hum ahall speak groat 1 words against ahe most high shall the saint and think times and law etc and as peter said for when 11 icy speak i ecat swelling words of vanity they allure through the lusts of much wantonness chuse that were clean while they promise them charity they themselves are the servants of corruption the scripture mut mu t be fulfilled and if I 1 bilings aright every saint anut be and tried but tim day will come when alic saints will possess the kingdom and righteousness will for ever and ever |