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Show - 40 - great moment, and I s ca rcely eve r ari se ~o speuk to an audfu nce but the weight seems to grow heavier and heavier. The responsibility is great and we need the prayers of all I s r ael to strengt hen us, f or the powers of darkne s s seem to be making day by day a more ob s ti nate f i ght, leaving no stone unturned to de f eat the building up of the Kingdom of God , but the work goes on slowly but Enrely. In this district, I baptized six persons , belonging to f our dif±'e r ent f amilies, and will baptize as many more next week . Brot re r Lisenbee writes me f rom Al abama tha t his prospects are good t~re, and a general spirit of inquiry ha s s prung up throughout this rro untain country. The opposition has been bitter and unrelenting , prlnci pally urged on by· a corrupt ·and hirelin~ priestcraft , that do not scruple a t the measures that they take to accomplish their ends. From the pulpit they send f orth their prevers ions o± the Gospel , a1 d slanders of the .TYMormon" side by side, even advocating mob law in the ir wild frenzy to stop the work of God , but the blood o:t' I s r ael hear tre sound of the Gospel , a nd no power on earth can turn them i 'ro m it; ~he harder the s t orm of persecution , the more determire d are they to obey God . We expect to hold a confe rence meeting of t he Ge orgi a and Al abama sa ints on the 6th and 7th o:J:' October, 1877, a t t he HayV\0 od Branch of the Chur ch, and t hen complete our a rrangements f or emi gr a t-ion. Asking f or the prayers of the saints in our be hal±' , I ran ai n very trul y your brother in t he Gospel of Chr ist, John Mor an |
