Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-11
~ THE CUMBERLAND MOUNTAINS
,.,a,tering Success and Prospects building
"a Meeting House.
winesap. Cumberland Co.
August 25th, 1897.

Winesap, Cumberland Co,
August 25th, 1897.
10 the Editor:
xnowing that your valuable paper Is
,.,u BIS most OF my friends and assoc
,tates nj home, and not having time
e., write to each of them. / hereby drop
- few lines to your paper. am now
q, the very tops of the mountains,
where the waters and breeZes are
almost supreme. If there is any
,iaca I'm Tennessee where the atmos-
,bere is pure. right here In Cumber-
land county Is the place. The soil is
unt 40 good MS II Is in the valleys, hut
the people are doing well. They have
IA dne range for cattle, and this indus
nv is carried on extensively
Nv lahors since writing you before
have been mostly in Henderson, De
,ntur and Perry counties, where We
have made many lasting friends. me
sentiment of the people has taken a
wonderful change, and If the Elders
would return who We're mere ABOUT
ION yenrs ago, they would think 1t
was another country. Why man is
moi No to the times unless he invites
" Mormon Elder home with him and
treats him well. There Is hardly n
night that we do not get two or three
invitations to come and dine with the
nanple. We have out two invitations
,odav one for dinner and the other TO
rnne i'm the evening and eat water
melons and fruit with "a merchant.
So YOU see the fuliilment OF the
nrophesy of President Woodruff. We
are holding a protracted meeting III
mis- neighborhood. starting In Monday
nirht ard will finish up Sunday night.
We are having good audiences and
they seem to he very much Interested,
And the seed of truth which We are
sowing will some day bring forth
bounteous harvest
MY companion and self have hap
ti2ed thirteen honest souls tall grown
neople) in the last five months, and
iheie are more in the same localities,
who will socn be buried with Him III
hnntism." We had the pleasure of
organizing a Sunday school in Perry
county, which was in n tlourishing con-
ditlon when we left IL, ana win the
help of the Saints in the same county
we commenced u church building and
finished II to the square, and the saints
expect to finish 1T this fan:
/ wish to mention here Brother Eze-
kiel Inman, to whom much credit Is
due for his help. He is the one whc
donated the land ana also neIpeu l'
purchase the lumber.
II you will notice the reports or tht
aifferent Elders you viii see That theS
are sticking their picks and climbing
so high, that the Elders Of two years
ago would feel entirely out of place
among them now. Yes, missionary
labor seems to be work, work or yot
viii be left In the fog. 1t is labor
night and day in the defense OF trutf
mud righteousness. and the people are
being reached as they never were he
fore, and those who are hShting voc
nnd His servants are almost trcmhiinl
with fear. They know that truth IL
mighty and viii prevail.
We'll. to my friends | can say,that my
Iabors are getting dearer to me every
dav. and my health seems to be bette
than ever before. So brethren. don
dread Il mission, for we are hnNln'
rlanty to eat. and our dreams are MN
rled with soft white feathers. All We
iced to do is to prepare ourselves aus
up our rusty brains, and God VIII III
the rest. a.,
would take pleasure in reading
letter from my friends, and ! give then
special invitation to write 10 lnel
friend and brother, ,,,,,>,
rrnesyillp Cumberland Co, Ienn