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Show Eider James A. Romero Writes Interesting Letter Pear Editor: I am very greatful to you for sending me the Pyramid. It is like uieeling one from home to read the tontents, and I have certainly appreciated ap-preciated it. Perhaps a little dis-:rlption dis-:rlption of the country, and some of :ny navels and experiences will interest in-terest your readers. Thanking you for your kind consideration con-sideration and your excellent paper, 1 Remain Respectfully, Elder James A. Romero "Australia A Land of Tomorrow" A land of resources and great possibilities, pos-sibilities, a place for millions, where scientific farming is understood and :he right kind of inducements offered. of-fered. Australia has a greater area than the United States, its average rainfall rain-fall is 32 inches and all kinds of Climate can be found' Jrom tropical to frigid. ' ; There is only one person to every 677 acres of land in Australia or less tl.au one to every square mile. The only thought of the people of the crowded contries of Europe, after the discovery of the New World, was, Emigrate to America. It seems now to be changed to Australia and em-migrants em-migrants are landing by the thousands thou-sands and the government is looking for. this country to grow as fast as America. '.: In Queensland The Tropical State." There are only five states-in Australia, Aus-tralia, Queensland being the largest, .he area is 428,120,000 acres or 870,500 square miles; its population .s only 614,000 and .most of the yeople are in a few large cities. The country is divided into large Srants, and they are held by extensive exten-sive sheep and cattle men for which Australia is noted. Most of my missionary work has been done in Queensland. Landing in Sydney, the largest city in Australia. Aus-tralia. After a few days in the city, we took a boat to Brisbane, the capital cap-ital and largest city of Queensland It is located about ten miles up the Brisbane river and about 7 00 miles from Sydney; its population is upwards up-wards of 200,000. Here is where I ;pent the first year of my labors. A Trip to The North At the April conference my companion com-panion and I were chosen to go and open up a new field of labor. From Bisbane we took the train to Rock-liampton. Rock-liampton. This .city is known to the world as the city of three S. 3in, Sorrow and Sweat and I think It is rightly named. It is 400 miles from Brisbane and is located on the tropic of Capricorn. When a person is separated from his friends and kindred and is in a strange land representing an unpopular unpop-ular religion, without friends, and meeting opposition on all sides he .hen begins to think of home and the environments and "Oh!" he will :ay "When I get home will I not appreciate ap-preciate conditions," he has the feeling feel-ing that Howard Payne must of had .vhen he composed the words to "Home Sweet Home," but duty makes a man forget his feelings and iie senses the responsibility and knows God is back of his work and f he does his part success will be the finish. My companion and I started our work in Rockhampton with a...de-ermirjation a...de-ermirjation 49-dQaH--W: eetiid, the people knew nothing of our religion only from newspaper talk which was written by our enemies and we were .he' first ones representing our thurch to work in the city, and when hey heard that two "Mormons" were ?-i town, it seemed the whole city, in one voice, cried, expell them from the town. Seven different min-.sters min-.sters spoke in three different churches about us and warned the people against having anything to do with us, they also put some very ridiculous and disgusting things in the dally papers which the editor ;ave us the priviledge to answer and for two weeks we had a correspondence corres-pondence with the ministers. This ;;ave us an opportunity to get oui jrinciples "before the people. Much interest was taken in the controversy ind 'Mormonism' was the subject at hand. At all gatherings street corners cor-ners and public places. We made he ministers appear ridiculous fo; hey had no facts and we offered :hem in tractform a reward of $1,000 ,or a case that they could provt hat they had accused us of doing We expected this and had material o give them facts quoting from historians his-torians and educators and backint iit principles up by the Bible. One -)l the ministers was sent to America to find out all about the "Mormons" We made hundreds of friends and ince that could see the truth ana ire ready for babtism. The Lord .lid bless us. "A Trip To Sugar Cane Fields" I was unexpected!- called back it Brisbane; on my way back I had the priviledge of stopping off at several sev-eral places and seeing some of the sights. I passed throug "Gladstone," the ihlest settlement of Rold. It has a beautiful harbor and many places .t interest, its history parrelle!s .hat of the settelment of Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, U. S. A., by the pilgrims. In Uudaberg. a large farming town, I . toped a few days and was taken by . friend, out into the cane fields, hey were just cutting it and I took he knife and cut a few stocks. It ,as a beautiful sight to see hun-Irerts hun-Irerts of acres on both sides of the 'oad and it was a delightful ride, "rom the fields I followed the cane o the mills'an-aliowed it through 11 the processes until it came out efined ready for the markets, this vas a day of intrest and great worth o me. Through the Great Fruit Belt From Bundaberg to Brisbane a iistsance of 150 miles, I passed through the great ruit growing re- lions of Rold and having members ilong the way I made several stops ind I had my share of pineapples, iranges, bannas and other tropical fruits . After having permission I went into the orchards and picked aid ate lor myself. Arriving at Brisbane I thought I had spent the most interesting week of my life. I am. well and enjoying my work and ?-Jh now located at "T. B. A." TeorscmfibT" " tfeeTTTOefr.jity-' D&-Aust.ralia. D&-Aust.ralia. I James A. Romero. r. 1 |