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Show - b2 - that night and at daybreak the next morning a:vrived a t rJa ra01ie for breakt·ast . The weather was very cold and unplea s ant , but in the train , trave ~ ing all day , he was comt ortable and by eve ning , Decem- . oer 7·th , he was Ra-ilroad and here trans f erred to the Utah Central 8 :20 p .m. ~ere £ e went directly to his ... in the Morgan College Building , where he met his bel oved wi~e and children after an absence of two ye ~ rs , one mon 1ih and ten days . -.!( ) And so ended John Morgan's f irst mission . While so engaged , he had traveled "through and devo"tedly preached to the people in s:.:z--- ., eas er - central Illinois_.,. n western orth I'Y! Georgia and Al abama. n ~ad l aid the foundation t or him- ~ a career o~ ch~rch ministry that was to engage him practically all the remaininB years of his life an~ during which he was to make a protound impression on church growth and de velopment and especially upon the promulgation o~ the Gospel truths in missionary work throughout "the worl d . f ound his I·amily well and his home so "cosy and neat ," tha t heart was tilled with deep grati"tude . During his intensive missionary labors, he had of ten wondered and felt much anxieliy concerning his mission and how it would result. These concerns , however , disappeared. 11When the Lord , " as he wrote in his journal on December 24 , 1877, "saw f it to show me that I should do a good work and r e turn home welcomed by all the Saints . My mind was at rest from tha t time on . 11 The remaining days of December , after his return , were filled with many pleasant occasions which caused him to rejoice gr eatly. on Sunday , December 9~many f riends called "to see him . Although the rooms in the Morgan College builuing which his family occupied , as their home , |
