A snapshot of Mission news across Tennessee.
October 1899
Rachel L Baird who for some six or seven years had been an
invalid was instantly healed by the power of God through the administration of
Elders Reeve and Stewart. This occurred in Pickett county Tennessee. The sister
had been confined to her bed for these many years but she arose was baptized
and came up out of the water exclaiming “I am well now!”
On the night of the 4th President J. Urban Allred and Elder J. A. Kirk were holding meeting in Nashville [Davidson County] when a minister interrupted them and
vilely accused them of being guilty of defiling houses. The Rev gentleman was
promptly challenged to there and then prove his accusations but he suddenly
disappeared.
Elders C. H. Wentz and Thos Halls while laboring in
Fayetteville, Tenn. had notice served on them by the Dough Society of that place
to leave the city. The Elders did not leave and were not molested.
The Elders in Marshall county Tennessee upon entering
Petersburg, [Tenn] were notified to leave at once. The notice was served by a colored
boy who said he was acting in behalf of the city police. This was the result of
an agitation started there by a local preacher who swung high in the anti-Mormon
crusade.
The Elders in Houston county Tennessee were denied the right
of laboring in Erin, the county seat and even prohibited from remaining there
longer than the calling for their mail required. Some of the citizens remarked
that if this injunction was violated that they would enforce it not beneath
masks or blackened faces but in the full light of day and in the garb of
citizens.
(Excerpt from Southern Star, Volume 2:367)
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