Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-26
FROM MISSIONARY FIELDS.

the good of His Saints.
Speaking of converted Jews, DR., Sos
kins says. God forbid there should
be baptized Jews, they are traitors to
our cause they are Jews stlll though
baptized, for their baptism is for
worldly gain. II cannot be otherwise.
and really one must Dc very susplolous
of those already converted"
Brother Lund is wen and joins me in
sending kind regards Ia out, many
friends in Zion. May we ever be re-
membercd In their prayers Respect
fully, j.. i. HlNTHE.
Mormon Churches In North Caroiiua.
Kenly, n, C.. March ., 1898.
To the Editor:
During the last six months and a
little upwards there has been decided
EFFORT put forth in North Carolina to
foster the little branches ana Sunday
schools of the Church hero by the cree
tion of neat, substantial meeting houses.
Something over year ago the first one
was erected at Colon Chatham county.
at which place we have nourishing
little branch and sunday school.
Nothing more of Importance was done
in this direction until sometime last
July, when Elders Henry w. Stable and
Joseph a. Williams, in connection with
the Saints at Cameron, Moore county,
went To work with their own hands
and contributed from their own pockets
and in very short time a neat frame
building was erected, wherein a Sunday
school meets every Sunday. Some fifty
members are enrolled In the school. The
first baptisms were made at Cameron.
"A little over year ago, and last June
the above-named Elders baptized some
thirty souls. The fire thus kindled
spread throughout the conference. Ell
ders j. ID. kilpack Jr. and w. c. Hunter
went to work In Rockingham county,
and soon a church building was the
result.
curing the last three weeks we have
dedicated three church buildings. one
at Naima Wake county. we named
Nauvoo, has a membership OF some
twenty to thirty souls. just lately Ell
ders J. ID. Killpack Jr. and w. NJ.
Woolley have made an opening on the
coast and baptized over fifteen souls,
and two Sunday schools were organized
and church building erected. The
first Elders entered that part last De-
cember. three months ago.
Elders Ira Barker and A. Il. Hush.
in connection with Saints, erected our
beautiful little church at Naima which
we dedicated on Tuesday, March LIST.
President woodruff's birthday. We
now have seven church buildings or
meeting houses. and some twenty
Sunday schools In the conference. Last
year by the blessings of the Lord We
organized fifteen Sunday schools and
baptized one hundred and ninety-three
souls.
As expected the enemy ia on the
alert, ever ready to retard the progress
of the Lords work To show the alarm
with which some of the ministers are
viewing the startling success the Nor
mon Elders are meeting with. ! append
extracts from an article from the pen of
a Presbyterian minister:
Two thousand Mormon missionaries,
we are told. are making their head
quarters at Chattanooga, and from TINS
place as a center they are sent through
out Georgia, Mississippi. Alabama, Viz
ginia. North and South Carolina
Ii is a known fact that We have not
had Elders in Georgia for twelve OF
fifteen years, but as though tote-
shadowine unconsciously the purposes
of God, Elders are now being sent into
Georgia and a conference Will soon he
organized in that state, He goes on Ii
say: at IL useless TO deny that we are
confronted In these facts by crisis IN
the home mission work of our church.
Already they have made startling
gains. and 1t is success that has enabled
them to storm the very centers OF
Christian culture in our state, In
Franklin, Wilkes, Surry and ltandolph
they have organized strong churches
and have erected substantial church
buildings. They have come to stay.
while our church is neglecting the
sections of the railroads, these Jealous
missionaries of false creed are walk
ing like genuine Apostles and visiting
from house to house, going out into the
highways and hedges which, alas no
other church is successfully doing"
A fear is taking hold of many that
Mormonism, so called, will yet take
thiscountry. They already hear the
grinding sound OF that little stone cut
out of the mountain as II rolls forth
in its destined course to MI the earth
Respectfully,
EZRA c. ROBINSON.