Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-30

After the conference of the Iowa Ell
ders, held at Council Bluffs, October 9th
to nth, 1897, the Elders were assigned
to labor in the cities of Des Moines
and Marshalltown. the first being the
capital city and having a population OF
about $1,000. the other about 1900.
Four Elders labored in Marshaltown
during the winter, eight performing a
similar labor in Des Moines.
During our labors in Des Moines 7
have made the acquaintance of the edi-
tors and reporters OF the leading papers
OF the city, all OF whom have treated
me with courtesy. Some of them have
given me space to say a number of
things through their papers, l have
contributed about fifteen articles all of
which have been published, some in the
form of interviews. others as communi-
cations, and dealing with such sub
jects as the character and attributes of
the Deity, mankind, a common brother
erhcod-the offspring of God, faith, re-
pentance, baptism, the nature and office
of the Holy Ghost, laying on of hands,
apostAsy. divine authority, religious
consolation offered criminals on the
scaffold, Christ and the thief on the
cross, preaching to spirits in prison, and
salvation for the dead.
In the latter part of February, 1898,
in company with Elder Samuel IL. Nc
Clellan of Colonia Juarez. Chihuahua,
Mexico. ' visited Union county. We
called at the pleasant home of Mr. AL
bert c. VIII te. who owns the land once
occupied by the wandering outcasts of
modern Israel as a temporary resting
place. and known by them as "Pisgah,"
in 1siT-s-g.
This kind gentleman and his equally
KIND family gave us warm welcome,
and made us feel thoroughly at home
He showed us around over the lands,
NtWsr 49,. IA
OF interest. ] saw The "old Mormon
tra'T' which the rains Of fifty years
nave deepened in places. Gs If to make
u more indelible. The old spring at
me foot OF the hill, short distance
east of "Pisgah," for which water for
domestic purposes and Cor stock was
obtained was pointed out to me
saw the foundations Ot their
houses, their old cellars and -dusouts,"
and plucked Wild grapes from n vino
ellnging to tree near the spring.
while snow lay on the ground ! saw
NE grove whore they used to listen to
me proclamation OF the Gospel by au-
thorlzed servants of God. / ate honey,
MADE by bees whose ancestors rode In
wagons from Nauvoo and made honey
Ior the barefooted children who
walked that trail In tracks of blood
az munger and exposure. ! saw the
a.inlnutlve homemade mill stones that
f,NuHu lnelr corn into meal, that their
lVes might be preserved in the track
rs Wilderness, into which the Chris
tslans Of this boosted land OF the free
haa driven them, while they them
nyEes moved into the homes from
when the lawful owners and occu-
pants mad been expelled. All, IL these
stones could speak!
81 was Informed that, az their teams
~ TOO weak to break prairie sod.
Ivy removed the underbrush by grub
p,ns, ,Sirdled the larger trees, and
tnh""td and planted their corn amid
W, ie plmher. and that, until recent
s,uars; the old stalks could be seen
lsnulng among the young timber
WI now covers the former fields.
., three years or little more, some
!ne poor Saints dwelt here. and. m
them. 'eeh ih"hy VI
TN it'll. plot Of ground, a short dis
h,,,. south of Mr.. Whites house. lie
i.'leu some three hundred OF those
VIZ, Mo once dwelt here. Whole families
btehts ara children, died from d,selse
bS15shht on by hunger, exposure and
nnnniiI,shlps consequent upon their ex-
mi. its'on from their homes In Nauyoo.
sn1 9emetery-for such It isis fenced
III Us grown up in young timher
,hAuny oak A monument sbaft az
"h'te stone, eighteen inches square