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Show 1 ~~~~v of James ~ the ·superintendent in ch'irg_~_ail~ .a Henry Miller, who has charge of the work room. Mr. ~ took 0 me into the factory, took my measure, and made me a pair of the ~ finest rubbers I hav~ver seen. The too was almost as thin of ~ e paper, and they made ~e a present of these and said they were delighted to have me take with me a pair of rubbers from their fine rubber companies' ~al1;,~~ j I was invited to attend the Primaries and sunday ::>chool teachers convention at New Brunswick, New Iersey, and listen to . 4--:..~ the exercises,. 1 had a tal~ with Mr • .&;. Morris li''erguson, J4d:~ 11<f ~..xeneral Secretary of the Sunday school Association of .New Jersey, ~ and he seemed to be very pleasant. lle was interested in our (\ ,.L- / Sunday School organization. I explained it to him und then v1hen \~ ~ / I had finished, he turned b itter. He said, "I wi 1 do all I can ~~ ~ against you. Your doc~rines are different from ours, yoQr mission ~ is different. Your methods are different. You have not got the truth." I tried to explain to him the purpose we had in coming out into the world and converting ·the world to the Gospel • ..J~-h..:_ rY~ ~rz~~~ ~ ~~~~/} Wednesday huving arrived, tlie da-te we were promised the OJrec:(fl. Chapel, some eight miles out from ~ew Jersey, Brother Parley p. w~'i~ey and I took Fred Oakley's buggy and started uut for the Service in the Green Chapel. ~here was a terribl~ cold, bitter wind, and till the way, bitter and cold. when we arrived to see the postmaster and lo, what a cha1'1ge from a week ago. he promised t0 be kind and considerate and to entertain us and prepare the meeting. nut now he was so cold and bitter he refused to hardly speak to us. ~~u{~had talked with him and others and prejudiced his mind and tried in every way possible to get the trustees and those who had pro1-.Lised me the meeting to refuse to let us have the meeting, but we had definite arrangements and had their promise and we went over to the Dean Chapel. There were about fort.Y young men and ~v omen waiting for us. 11. fe.v others came, making abuut 75 percent of the population of this place, who out of ouri6sit came to the meeting. Jf-·~ o.._ ~ ~ ~~ f--A-..-.~-o-!~~j:J~::: ~ ~~-~~~~~. \ ~ , ...;. :;~~chairman of the board of trustees was true to his prom1s n ~~...------~lled to see us. A t~iss tJmith, who \•Vhen we were there making ar-r- rang em en t s said, · that if I r.;o uld pick out three hymns, she would help us in the sitiging. ~rue to her word she gathered the group · of young people together and sang the songs. Brother Parley P. 1r'iooley did the praying then I spent my time in speaking. TL.ey asked me to S)eai\. upon· "Utah and her peo~le 11 instead of on nMormonism I commenced by going over and explaining the pioneer movement, the troubles and difficulties of our people and spent an hour and ten minutes in talking to them and finally when they warmed up, I explained in brief some of the pri~ciples of the uospel. ~ hen we were through, everyone present seemed to be interested. ~he trustee ~ said, nr am sorry the other members of the district are not here to listen to you. 'l'hey have been waiting to hear such things for years. n One man said, rnrhat is just what we have been waiting to hear. We should like to hear more of just such things. n fJ After making many friends and completing our task, lecving f people with pamphlets to read an. d some books loanGd for them to J read, we took our leave of the people of Dean aad returned back to - our headquarters, at l~e-vv Brunswick, N.J.~~~~~~ --ev.~y~· -?u?t~~~~~~~ t~ on ~ebruary 1?, 1898 arose and read the papers of the blow1ng· up of the battleship Main, Havana Harbor, with two hundred and fifty killed. ~hat an uproar ~t caused. People stopping their ~ |
