LABORS
IN THE
VINEYARD.
TWELFTH BOOK OF THE
FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES.
Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement ofYoung Latter-day Saints.
PUBLISHED AT THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE,
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
1884.
PREFACE.
The constantly increasing demand for the books of the FAITH-PROMOTINGSERIES has induced us to prepare this little work, with the hopethat it will prove no less interesting nor instructive than itspredecessors. The fact that these publications are used in many Sundayschools with most excellent results and are read with avidity andinterest by the young people in all parts of the territory, is anevidence to us that our labors are not in vain.
Some of the incidents narrated in this book are so miraculous that oneis naturally led to exclaim, "truth is really stranger than fiction;"and occurring, as they have done, in the experience of our faithfulElders, they have a double interest for young Latter-day Saints, andwill surely be the means of strengthening the faith of all those whoexpect to participate in the glorious labors that devolve upon thispeople. Such examples, too, as are herein presented will, undoubtedly,have the effect to instil a proper amount of righteous ambition intothe minds of the young, thus causing them to exercise talents which aredesigned, if properly used, to make of them noble men and women.
If this book should be a means of instructing or encouraging anyperson, and thereby prompting him to do good, the object for which itwas prepared will have been attained, and a reward will have been givento.
THE PUBLISHER.
CONTENTS:
MY EXPERIENCE IN ENGLAND.
Called on a Mission—Start for my Field of Labor—Difficultieson the Way—Travelling in Deep Snow—Reach the PlatteRiver—Procure a New Outfit—Exposed to the Cholera—Attackedby the Plague—My Recovery—Arrival at Albany,N.Y.—Take Passage on a Steamer for New YorkCity—Incidents on the Way.
Set Sail from New York—Arrive in Liverpool—Sent to Laboras a Travelling Elder—Prayers Answered—Called to PresideOver a Conference—Blessed Abundantly with the HolySpirit—Procure a Hall to Preach in—Mobbed—Effects ofmy Preaching—Treated with Courtesy—Organize a Branchof the Church in the Town where I was Mobbed—MakeAnother Appointment to Preach in a Different Town—Sendfor Help—Speakers Interrupted—Audience Quietedby me Singing a Comic Song—Prejudice Allayed—aLesson Learned.
An Amusing Episode—Obtain the Keys of a Church—Notifythe People That a Meeting Will be Held in it—A GoodTurn Out—My Companion Preaches while I, Disguisedas a Police, Guard the Door—Excitement Aroused—ControversyWith a Minister—An Anti-"Mormon" MeetingHeld—I Attend—Reply to the Ministers' Attemptsto Expose "Mormonism"—My Escape from the Building—Savedby an Infidel—Prosperity of the Work—RemarkableHealings—A Prediction Uttered and Fulfilled—MyReturn Home—Contrast Between the Condition of theSaints now and that of Thirty Years Ago.
MY SWISS MISSION.
Manner in which the Gospel is Preached—My Labors inEngland—Called to Switzerland—Join my Companion andTake Passage to France—Proceed to Switzerland—MeetElders in Geneva—Our Fields of Labor Ass