. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . ever hav-ing read it, always having been a 40 THE HOME MISSIONARY slave and drudge. She had no Bibleso I gave her a Gospel. Speaking about a call on a Mor-mon woman, one of our helpers said:I asked her what she thought wasthe most essential thing to do inorder to be saved ? Answer: Doinggood works and living a righteouslife and being baptized. I askedwhat she thought the new birth was ?Answer- I do not know what youmean. This question drew out howlittle they know about vital Christ-ianity and how they are in the dark tian services and work which
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . ever hav-ing read it, always having been a 40 THE HOME MISSIONARY slave and drudge. She had no Bibleso I gave her a Gospel. Speaking about a call on a Mor-mon woman, one of our helpers said:I asked her what she thought wasthe most essential thing to do inorder to be saved ? Answer: Doinggood works and living a righteouslife and being baptized. I askedwhat she thought the new birth was ?Answer- I do not know what youmean. This question drew out howlittle they know about vital Christ-ianity and how they are in the dark tian services and work which prevailsover great sections. One of ourwagons traveled over 1,100 miles in itswork from village to village duringten months, visiting about eighty-fivesettlements in a region as large asthe whole State of Ohio; but in hard-ly more than a dozen of these wasthere any Christian work. Manyvillages are twenty-five and evenfifty miles from any Christian ser-vice. The writer has in mind amonogamous Mormon family inIdaho, of sixteen grown up children,. TYPICAL GROUP OF MORMON SCHOOL CHILDREN about the real truths of God. Mrs. was a Mormon; was very anxious to know all there wasas to how a person should give him-self to Christ. I read passage afterpassage to her from the Bible andshe asked me to put them down onthe blackboard for her. She askednumberless questions as to the truthand how to obtain it. I spent twohours answering them. Another thing which the mission-ary traveler willl be impressed withis the absolute restitution of Chris- of which probably not one ever at-tended a Christian service. Thenearest church is eighteen milesaway across desert sand and sage-brush and there has never been atransient service in the little villageitself. A neighboring village of from1,200 to 1,500 people, never had asingle Christian service until wecame two years ago last county is over 100 by 50 milesin extent and has only the one Utah Gospel Mission wagonwork had visited ab
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