The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-25
PRosELYIING IN SOUTH
ELDER TALKS OF KENTUCKY
HOSPITALITY.
All Express Themselves As Well
Pleased With Their Experiences
and With the Result of Their La
bors+Cultivation of the Art of
Singing as Means For Success.


the gift of song. as being valuable
Accomplishment and powerful aid in
the presentation of the gospel TO
humanity at large the world over.
Joseph E. Taylor presided at the
meeting Elder LIE Roi Snow offered
the opening prayer.
| Elder David A. Affiick Of the Twenty
| first ward, recently returned from two
years mission in Kentucky, was the
| first speaker. He prefaced his remarks
by affirming that he had enjoyed mis-
labors while absent from his home.
People had often called him a fool while
in the Blue Grass state but he said he
rejoiced in being so called for Chfists
sake.
The speaker said that persecution was
the heritage of the Saints now as it was
in the days of the early church. There
was nothing strange in being perse-.
cuted, he said, for IF we were of the
world the world would love u.s. The
young man exhorted the parents and
| friends of those elders out in the mis-
tsion field. TO be of good cheer
and not to worry regarding the
welfare of their loved ones.
They would get along all right just as
long as they did their duty. Tho
speaker said that the work was spread
ing apace in Kentucky and numerous
converts were fioclxing to the standard.
Kentucky Hospitality.
The people of Kentucky were. taken
as body. hospitable. Illustrative of
the fervor of the missionaries in that
state, Elder Affiick stated that he had
received letter from two young men
who were recently whipped at the
hands of a mob, and that they said they
rejoiced in the fact that they had been
beaten for Christ's sake, and that the
next morning they were instrumental
in baptizing three converts. After
bearing his testimony as to the divinity
of the work in which he was engaged,
the speaker resumed his seat.
Elder Rulon NJ. Owen followed, and
in the course of his remarks said he
deemed it to be a privilege, to have full
filled an honorable mission as it was one
of the responsibilities which devoived
upon the Latter-day Saints to go out
into the world and throw light upon
darkness. Elder Owen stated tnat
among the missionaries operating in the
southern states it was the universal
custom to travel without purse or
script The speaker said that when he
was called to perform his mission he
journeyed to Kentucky where he trav-
eled for seven months, after which
period he was sent to assist in the
The speaker said he walked the en-
tire distance and never once lacked,
during the journey, for food or a bed to
sleep in. After reviewing the marked
progress manifested in Georgia, despite
the prejudice prevalent in some places,
the speaker dwelt at some length on the
subject of persecution, upon the same
lines as the previous speaker, and adj
vised the congregation to place no
credance in the exaggerated newspaper
reports regarding alleged mobbing in
the southern states.
Horace Ensign Speaks.
Elder Horace s. Ensign. the well
known baritone singer was the next
speaker. He stated that when he was
called to open up the Colorado mission
in company with Apostle John w. Tay-
lor, Jan. 2. 1897, it came as a great sur
prise TO him as he imagined that his
mission was in Salt Lake City to sing
at missionary farewells. Coming down
to the spread of proselyting in the
Centennial state, the speaker stated
that since the little band of elders
started to operate there nearly three
years ago. 400 converts had been bap-
tized, three fiourishing branches estab-
lished. together with numerous Sunday
schools, NJ. /. associations and Relief
societies, and that at the present time
there were promises of further growth
daily
Elder Ensign paid glowing tribute
to the hospitable side Of the people of
missionary who had travelled in Colo
RADIO for the last sixteen months and
during that period he only received $50
from home.
The speaker went on to state that he
wished to denounce the idea prevalent
among some people at home to the eff
feet that the elders in Colorado were
of a worldly turn of mind; Elder Ensign
cited various cases of the healing of the
sick. blind. lame and halt that oc-
CURED under his notice and argued
that such miracles could not occur
under the ministration of worldly
elders. He concluded by exhortng his
hearers to cultivate the gift of song;
he said that many door was opened
to him, many heart softened and
bed and meals Forthcoming through
the power of song. The elders in Colo
RADIO. said the young man. had only to
advertise that members of the famous
Tabernacle choir were to present at a
meeting when the hall would be packed
to the doors.
Joseph E. Taylor's Remarks.
Joseph z. Taylor occupied the re-
naming fifteen minutes of the time by
endorsing the remarks of the previous
speakers. Listening to these young
men, he said, carried him back to tho
time when he travelled in the east of
England alone, fifty-one years ago.
where, untutored and inexperienced, he
baptized $50 members into the church
and established seven branches in four
months. Mr.. Taylor heartily endorsed
the question of the cultivation of the
human voice as a means of spreading
the gospel. Then he related how in the
old cathedral city of Lincoln, Eng. he
sang a hymn of thirteen verses upon
the streets and collected a crowd of
J, 500 people. seven of whom he subse-
quently baptized.
Regarding the spread of the plan of
life and salvation. he said: THE
Christian world combined, the heather
world combined. all the world combined
cannot put aside or Illustrate the work
of Joseph Smith which he started ON
earth. it has come to stay and never
will be taken away
Mrs. Lizzie Thomas Edward. assisted
by the choir then rendered the anthem,
1.-The Nations Bow TO Satin's Thrall."
and c. w. Penrose dismissed the meet
ing with prayer.
They're OFF.
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