Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-19

Rockwall is city OF about 1.500 people
ana is model town. No saloons, no
nghiing on the streets, no rowdy boys
10 make the stranger feel uncotn-
Portable. We entered the city fastlnE
ana praying. resolving not to break our
!ast TIL we had done all in our power
10 get a Place in which Ia preach We
hfst went to the mayor, who told us to
80 ahead and make ourselves at home.
we next had Interviews with the coun-
tly clerk. city marshal and the sheriff.
inc sherin gave us the use Of the court
room FOR our meetings. We now felt
entitled to our supper. so went down
to the house Of friend by the name
OF IRVINE. whom we had met before,
ana partook Of good supper.
Next DAY we commenced our labors
ny visiting all the business houses.
we We're treated with great respect by
~ the leading men. being asked by
me proprietor of the hotel to call on
MN We ate with the superintendent
OF city schools, the county attorney
ana the pastor of the Christian church.
me newspaper men were gentlemen,
ana the editor OF the Success gave us
an advertisement and made a few re-
marks in regard to the object of our
mission.
After holding forth three nights In
the court room the Christian church
was opened to us. The deed to the land
on which the church stands was given
70 the church by Brother Boydstun,
who died Mormon. There is a clause
in the deed which states that the house
shall be open for the Mormons to
preach in. We held four meetings in
TINS church and visited every house in
town. We also held many meetings in
private houses. We enjoyed our laborg
IN the city and made many friends and
have countless invitations to call again,
tod 4.
ungentlemanly remarks about us In
one of his meetings and we called on
MN few days after, and he was
ashamed to look us in the face He
hardly knew what to think about those
two honest, unassuming boys. He cx-
pected we had come to quarrel with
him.
After our public meetings were closed
we stayed a while to gather the fruits.
When an Elder sees the seeds of truth
spring up and put forth fruit, then his
heart swells within him and he feels
IKE his labors are not in vain. We re-
1oiced In having the privilege of bap-
tizlng some honest-hearted people who
had been drifting along waiting for the
Lord to send them the truth.
ON Nov. 18th, the writer's BIRTHDAY
Elder Taylor and / We're separated
through the arrival of two new Elders.
Elder Taylor took Elder Hyrum O.
Pack and went into Kaufman county.
while Elder Francis a. Wadsworth and
myself remained her t. finish this
county.
Several families are now investlgat-
Ing the Gospel and We have hopes of
several more births Of the water and
the Spirit soon There are sixteen FL
dcrs iii this conference at present Ell
der Coulam visits us frequently and we
are stimulated by the spirit of zeal
that he always imparts unto us.
Elder Wadsworth and I came to the
town of Fate and tried TO get n place
in which to preach but found the peo-
pie were opposed to us. We then re-
solved to lay the matter before the
Lord, which we did by fasting md
praying for two days. ON Monday
morning we set our faces toward the
town resolving to tract 1t and hold
private meetings, IL We could do no
better. AS we walked along we were
wondering how we We're going to send
on our reports, as we had no envelopes
and no stamns We came to the post
office and while we We're waiting for
our mail, an old gentleman came up to
us and put 80 cents In Elder Wads-
worths hand. and rs we thanked him |
and shook hands the tears came to |
his eyes and our hearts swelled with |
to our heavenly Father |
above. We bought stamps, paper and |
and then started in TO tract |
ing. We We're led in a certain drec-
tion and found man who offered to |
furnish lamps If we would hold meet /
ing the school house. We then went |
to the trustees again and they gave
us the use of the house. which we We're /
very thankful to get. We had three
public and several private meetings and |
found several families of honest inves-
tiFators
The Elders In this conference all seem
to be enjoying the Spirit of love and
we look forward to n great harvest of
souls this year.
Your Brethren,
J. l.. WORKMAN and
F. A. WADSWORTH.