Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-17

on the 18Th OF last March. after the
close 0f the Wisconsin conference at
Portage. Elders James Knopp, James
Anderson. n. A. Thompson aud j. n,
Alfred shook hands with Elder II. J,
Grant, Elder l.. A. Kolsch and the local
Elders. and then boarded IN, Chicago
Milwaukee and 81. Paul railroad Tor
their fields of labor. The FIRST two were
going 10 JunrHylllc, the last two On
Bolult AZ Madison % change was made
90 the Chicago ana Northwestern rail-
fund. These changes are sometimes am
nCylnr. one OF tho Elders had pre-
Niuuely been rldptrnCkvl and carried
fifteen miles out NJ his way on a trip
from ChlcuEu 10 Fond du Lack. hence
De- was listening carefully 60 the rtu-
tlon callers HgnalH. Jlncsvillc was
reached ana there another hnnd-Hhako
aud separation came. However careful.
the iioluit Elders did not eaten the sig
nal for change u cars 90 their dos-
tinution, but took direct route toward
Chicago. Soon the conductor cried
tickets ana ON examining the Elders
tickets said. lyon are on the wrong
road, You should have changed at
JancHvillc' The Elders. mortified ut
the mistake. asked counsel or the Con-
ductor. II viii help you he said, Il
Will take you 20 Harvard Junction and
put you on a train going tu Caledonia,
there you viii change cars TO Belolt"
His good nature and kind words CONF
fortcd uH and We thought II would be
a good time 90 begin our trncting. We
made ourselves known, told our huHl-
and explained IN brief tho principles OF
the Gospel just then the station cricr
came up and We told him our mistake
and asked him FOR our sake 60 be- plain
Ia his signals. We had a nice Gospel
conversation with him and he accepted
our cards and tracts.
Al Harvard Junction the conductor
took us TO the train going 20 Caledonia
and explained TO that conductor our
mistake. and We boarded his train,
taught him the Gospel ana gave him
our cards and tracts. We had TO walt
twenty-five minutes at Caledonia and
were introduced by the conductor 10 the
station agent With The request that no
would tell our sad story to the next con-
duCtur ana ask him TO carry as to
Bulolt Al Caledonia we gave tracts and
cards 20 the agent and hyHtnudrra, and
having little bread and buttcr IN our
grips which We had carried Ave days.
We broke our eiEht hours fast The
station agent went about thirty or
forty yards with us 10 the Bcl1it train
and introduced as 90 the conductor. He
was real gentleman and we con-
verscd ON tho object Of our mission and
the principles " tho Gospel and gave
him our cards and tracts We also had
told him 90 be- SURF and give the Beloit
signal with emphasis which he did nud
uH % reward took our cards and tracts.
II was now 10 o'clock and our tracing
not done, We made tracks for a ho-
tel, whcrc the proprietor kept us Tor
"a little more than half price aud took iu
part pay our cards and tracts We
had but one fear on our long Journey.
that was that the people would not am
know that We were Mormon Elders.
Had we gone direct from GAINESVILLE 20
Bclolt. the distance ~ thirteen miles:
but the road we took was about eighty
miles ana not @ word spoken about eN-
ira pay, The Lord was certainly with
us All the officers were very kind ana
treated as with the greatest respect
and we We're thankful 20 reach our dcs-
tlnatlon for our cards and tracts were
nearly gone, We had supplied ourselves
for tracing on foot ana not by train
Success 20 an kinds OF tracing by the
Elders OF the Church OF Jesus Christ OF
Lattor-day Saints In an the world.
Your brethren In the Gospel
Y. T.. THOMPSON.
J. r.. ALFRED.