UTAH by W. A. Alway

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1900

UTAH

By W. A. Alway

LOGAN AND HYRUM.—June 8 I had the privilege of baptizing five persons at Logan, as the first fruits of the present truth in Cache County. Others are keeping the Sabbath, and still others are interested. Brother Charles Nelson has worked faithfully in this valley during the last two years.

July 12, in company with Brethren C. Nelson and L. J. Burgess and Sister Anna Hammond, I began a tent effort at Hyrum, a country village of about fourteen hundred inhabitants, eight miles from the city of Logan. The visible results of this effort were not large. One Mormon family signified their purpose to obey all of God's commandments. Every house in the village was visited, and provided with literature upon the lasting truths of the message, and in many instances we pressed home these truths with personal appeals and prayer. The Lord gave us favor with the people. The bishop of the Mormon Church was especially kind, allowing us the free use of the church-school campus, and of a sufficient number of the chapel seats to accommodate our congregation. I learned that this kindness was due to the Christian method of our people in dealing with the Mormon problem. The son of the bishop, who is now on a mission in Michigan, upon being informed that we had pitched our tent in his home town, wrote to his father, urging him to special kindness; for, he said, “They are a just people; and when we are cold and hungry and tired, we are not turned with insult from the doors of the Adventists.” I thank the Lord that our people are sufficiently Christlike to be kind even to those whom they know are in the wrong.

W. A. ALWAY.