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Show A MISSIONARY FIELD. It is rather amusing to the unbeliever to hear men who have been serving out a term of imprisonment for violating the laws of their country speak of their imprisonment im-prisonment as a mission. But such was the manner in' which Parley P. Pratt and James C. Watson spoke of their imprisonment imprison-ment when addressing the congregation at the Tabernacle last Sunday. These two men had been convicted for violating the law, and were sentenced to pay the penalty for such violation They could easily have' escaped the, im-: prisonment part of the sentence had they promised future obedience to the law. But this they did not do, thereby becoming self-elected missionaries. This is rather a new method of calling missionaries, mis-sionaries, and as they are appointed by the Court, it may very properly be said that Chief Justice Zane is a missionary judge. The field for missionary work seems very wondeful and of wide extent, ex-tent, and certainly it must- be preferable to those who are filled with missionary ardor to labor in the Penitentiary to laboring la-boring in the Congo country, or in China and Central Asia. As we heard a gentleman gen-tleman .connected with one of the Mormon Mor-mon Sunday schools remark some time ago on a similarcase, Pratt and Watson have been preaching to the spirits in prison. |