Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-09
THE MISSIONARY FIELDS
The Eiders In chicago.
Chicago. H., Aug. %, 1893.


10 he Editors
The chicago branch Ia making rapid
strides nt present. our force of Elders
81 Increased from to q. Al are work.
lnF cncrrctically. calling at the homes
OF the people during the day and hold
ing street meetings IN the evenings.
Some nights there are as many as
seven large street congregations as
tsmbIod. listening 10 the Elders cx-
pound the principles u the Gospel.
Tho Increased Uffort on our part ~
having effect Ministers come out ON
M corners TO refutc our arguments,
and by that means make our crowds
many times larger. Such commotion
Causes the newspaper men so come OUT
tal quite lengthy articles appear ~ the
leading newspapers uH result, am
rHi 10 be able 10 state that In most
cases th, papers give us a very fnir
t.UrrHontatiDn.
0uf iolnt meetings are always begun
hy the Elders as our worthy opponents
have no one TO sing Tor them. bclng
the FIRST TO spcak,' says the inter
ueaan" "tho Mormon Elder tries 10
thut out all argument by taking up an
un one corner there H. Methodist
minister. who gets up and rUNlleH the
Prophet Joseph Boz % terrible manner,
After he has finished. representative
OF the "llcptRnn.Tod. church Eel up
and tells Old stories about our people,
uut people art beginning Go ma out
that the "Mormona' are In town. our
Sunday meetings IN the halls are much
better attended now than ever before.
In this conference we had the privilege
of biptiKug nine last month. and nine
tha month. and i've others have ap-
d. d o. a.. "a NHHH
In H. f6ro mart 81 this month we
rented a church large enough 90 scat
90 people. n u situated ln "a residence
portion of the city, ON the corner OF
oakley and Jackson boulrNardH. our
oFifta In securing this church were re-
vlricd beyond our eNpeelat'ohi Wv
inst two evenings by tho attendance
of large audience of strangers ana
fHguls. The establishment % our now
church has not affected materially the
meUtugn IN Wicker Park Han, 40 our
attendance there ~ Htill large In the
near future We expect 90 hold meetings
eyUfy night in the week Ia the church,
ana besides this we have "a place 10
h0li our mutual Improvement RELIEF so
cr.y and branch mectlugH,
Iart evening Prof VIM NJ, stewart
gave IL lecture here ON the Roberts
question:" and thore were present De-
tWae1 100 and 200 people The pleasant
N|I NNNNNNlNA llAllh'A NA Wv q. Wv
seemed 90 impress the people thal
every word he spoke was true, ana l
faa that many went away hoping that
Iuh.H congressman would receive tair
treatment in Congress,
A little disturbance was caused ~
Mr. Cooper, OF the "teurghulEnd
church Ito stood up NJ the close OF
tha lecture and made the statement
that Utah people are unputrlOtlc. and
expressed the desire NJ meeting brother
stewart In debate on the question
WhllD ON his feet IL was his Intention 70
make "a bitter speech against ~, nut
being called to order he remained after
tho meeting and drew large crowd
around him and began his abuse. He
got into a discussion with an old gem
tennn who hnd once been a member
Of h.s church. and the language soon
became such that the president was
Obliged 20 order tho reverend from the
house He was 80 violent IN his at
ilcks. that he had little or no eject on
any OF the people | Will state that
This man, Cooper. stood up on the street
corner one night before large ASSEM-
ply and raised his right hand ana said
IN O. very imprisoned tone that he had
dgll'atcl the remaining days Of his
w, DO the determination OF the utnh
'AlIfmons"
Tho Elders on the south side will soon
rent e han In that vicinity and VIII
conduct meetings. every night during
~. and winter.
we expect soon 10 have more Elders
70 join uH here anu by tho help M the
L0rl we hope 10 be- able 10 bring many
souls TO knowledge % the truth.
$. D. BRADFORD,
Branch President,