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Show Having spent about. s:bc weeks in p reaching to the people, he returned to Heywood Valley in North Georgia on June 1, 1878. lt wa.s here that he had first met signal success . in hie initial mi.esiona.ry labo:rs in the South. lt was here that the dream which he had had while living in the Heywood home in· Salt Lake .. •,' ~~ City ten years bef.ore had come tru.e . lt was her.e that he had converted prac .. tically t he entire community to the chur.ch, including the pastor of the local church' a nd had organized a new branch which soon was to be incorporated into the Souther n St~tes ~is si on ab out to b.e organized.. Fitting., · indeed, was it then that . the nelCt project he had in mind shohld be consummated at this particular place. lt wa a on the mornb1g of June 1, 1878, in compliance wit}.t the w.i ihe$ of ~he Saints, that he started the writing of an epistle to the Saints of Georgia and Alabama in particular and to the people of the world in general, setting fo.rth clearly and · intelligently the answers to the questions uppermost in the minds of men as to, 1. Whence we came 2. ·\Vhy we are here l . Where we are going At that particular time he was staying at the home of a :Brother Lawrence. Most of. June 1st he spent in writing. The next day, being Sunday, he met with and p reached to the people. On June 3rd he continued 'his wri'ting on the epistle and on the afternoon of June 4th, he completed it. F ourteen years before, John Morgan had been a Union soldier attached to the army of General Sherman. a.s tt ~ pattered its way south from Chattanooga, Tennessee, into Northern Georgia ,~ through the bloody battlefield of Ch~ckam.auga on to Atlanta. Fourteen years before , these 'very people to whom he wa.s no\v preaching the first principles of the everlasting gospel and fo:r whom he was now |
