| 659 the meeting with the Saints in the afternoon of Sunday the fifteenth. We held meeting that day in the little church, where a few interested listeners came to hear the word, morning and evening. . . .
Bro. Alexander Smith came on Monday, and together we revisited the scenes of our boy and manhood days, long gone, and met and passed reminiscences with the comrades and friends of the time past. The many are gone, the few remain. In the bowed forms, the faltering steps, the wrinkled faces and whitening beard and hair of many whom we met, we could see how rapidly we too, were approaching the thither shore of time.
On June 30 Elder J. S. Roth wrote from Runnells, Iowa, that a debate had just closed a few days before between Elder E. L. Kelley and Professor Dungan, of Drake University, of Des Moines, Iowa, who represented the Christian Church. The subjects discussed were church propositions, each disputant affirming that the church he represented is the true church of Christ.
July 5 Elder Thomas E. Jenkins, missionary to Wales, died at Dowlais, Wales, of acute bronchitis. Elder Jenkins united with the church in 1861, near Council Bluffs, Iowa; was ordained an elder in 1862, and a seventy April 8,1864, at Amboy, Illinois. Was sent to Wales as a missionary in 1866. Of him his colaborer, Elder John D. Jones, wrote:
If in all my experience in the church I ever met a true, honest-hearted lover of the latter-day message to poor, erring man, Bro. T. E. Jenkins was one. A firm, able defender of the cause, a hater of sin and despiser of unrighteousness; a lover of honesty, he practiced it, and a steadfast admirer of purity and holiness; he bore with the weakness of men and faithfully did all he could to aid and benefit man, spiritually and temporally. He was of that saintly number that strove diligently to do good to all men, especially to those of the household of faith.
Elder John J. Cornish, under date of July 7, wrote that he and Elder Francis C. Smith were mobbed near Applegate, Michigan, having rotten eggs thrown at them.
On July 28 a four-day discussion began at Tunnelhill, Illinois, between Elder T. C. Kelley and W. W. Woodsides, of the Missionary Baptist Church. Church propositions were the subjects of controversy, each affirming that the church he represented is the scriptural church.
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