Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-18
wimlAw, Lanarksbire, Scotland,
Sept. /, 1895.


TO tho Editor
We arc holding open.air moelinga
at Clarion Bridge on the fivef Clyde,
three miles from Wlshaw, ana are 70.
celving much attention from the
newspapers anu others. Brother
George Stewart Of MalaJ, Idaho, aud
myself, and rhoe. w. Jones OF MOnl-
polief, Idaho, baye been labofiug In
said district for the last six months.
We have held open.air meetings ON tue
bank Of theClydc almost every sunday,
the people coming from different paris
Of th5 surrounding country % hear ~
preach tho word OF Goj. The crowd
oi people increased every Sunday until
they reached upwards Of throb thou.
SANDS souls. Different denominations
sent their speakers TO oppose a.. We
had nice quiet meetings ON our part,
We occupying from one hour 10 an
hour anu hall. Then others would
follow ~, trying 10 show where the
Mormons were wrong, which they
failed 10 d..
One preacher, n Campbollltc, said he
would eXp MormUniem the follow.
iug sunday. The excitement grew w
much that on that Sunday tho paper
said there were four thousand people
there. The following Sunday he com.
munced to "expost" Mofmoniim by
reading from book entitled Rlchy
Mountain saints, written by H. n. IA.
5tenhousc, commencing at the Noun.
lAins Meadow Massacre, which he
threw =, much stree on that the people
hiseed him aud told him 10 "ahnt
u >" that they did not wish 10 hear
such trash. 10 they could not en- ow
that the M0rmons were wrong 10 keep
quiet. THIS onTagcd him aud he he.
gan 10 call us importers, false teachers,
aud everything but gentlemen. After
he finished Brother Stewart replied
saying II was the same old story, an he
knew Just how the preacher or any
one else would expose Motmoniam-
that they would refer 10 stenhousu OF
some such WtltiugH, which veft
iAulty from beginning 10 Uu1.
We read few remarks from
book Published IN EnglAnl
by Pail Rlbinson which gave a very
Watering account Of the Saints iu
UtAh.
We thon proceeded with our own
meeting ~ usual, gave the people !
good sermon on the principles OF ia,
Gospel, ooro our testimonies 20 tn,
truth Of the Gospel anu that Joseph
smith was n Prophet Of God. At thil
meeting some said there were tot
thousand people. We put II Mt oigh
thousand. After closing our meeting
We stated that We would have Anoihel
A. usual on Sunday nj 0 O'Clock at tina
place.
When Sunday arrived we proceeded
! % the "btig.p We did not expect q
sec any one,lf0r II had Iained oil
day. We arrived there nj $3.50 3. M
and TO our surprise there were about I
thousand people, both men anu wo
men, with coats anu umbrellas TO kooI
them dfy. Before six O'Clock arrived
it quit niniug. rhe Campbeliit
asked Ne 10 lot him have the fret nou
ana we 10 take from 7 y. m. on, whlol
We did. He spoke from tue sixteenth
chapter Of Acts, picking up what "
had said on II tho Sunday previou
lie la spoken ahlpt 30 minutes whe
a speaker OF a different denomination
snid that what hB was saying was no
correct, They began 10 quarrel bt
tween themselves. calling vGcu othe
liars 10 and ITO for thirty mlnutes, an
was still going on when we stepped tot
ward and said our time hhu come
] commence our IN Httiuu. They WaV