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Show - b4 - I occa sion . In the evening , his wite 's fa. the r, Nichola s Groesbeck , called and s p en~ some time with him in pleasant conversation, but l a ter le f t to at~end a meeting o! the City Council in t he City Hall . On the day f ollowing , he rco-m-m-enc e-d- the operf"'t ing up of a set of accounting books f or a Mr. A. R. Wrigh t and in the afternoon wrote an article , a t ~he re quest of Editor Ge orge Q. cannon , ror the Juven ile Instruc to • h ~ tled ''Le · }!'rom An :Ea der' Journal" i n wh ~ I ~~ . ~ he delineated an experience he haftha inAJ orth Georgia~th ~ob violence while conduc ~in g a meeting in a log meeting house .. ·n ountainous re ion or~a t a re a .\ It was pu blished in the January l b th , 1878 issue, o..!_ the a!'oresa i d magat:ine . On J anuary 4 , he attended St ake Conference of Salt Lake St ake and lis~ened to d iscourses by Pres i den t Angus M. Cannon and Apostle orson Hyde . In the even in g , he had Ma thias .b' . cowley as a visitor c§?" with wnom he engaged in very plea sant convers a~ ion . John Morgan was a man who na turally liked people generally , but there were some men ror whom he had great a t· fe c~ion . Ma thias F. Cowley was one or the se . As a boy El der Cowley had been a studen t in the Morgan c ollege and it welded betwe en the se two mission. Cowley was the f irs an J ohn 1ror gan e -miss ionaryiNorK . deep and abiding a!'f ection developed between the two which 1 sted until death sepa r ated them. In his writings he a lways r eferred to h im a s "Ma ttie . " And t hat love which existed between them was engendered i n their respective f amilies . In the r emaining fam ily of John Morgan , even to this day , Ma thias F . cowley is held in ~he highest r espec t and his memory a s acred treasure . on ~he second day of ~he Conf erence , January bth, 1878 , he aga in a ttended and listened to a s ermon del ivered by Apostle Orson J?ratt on |
