Newcastle Conference

Newcastle conference. The work is progressing despite the tirades of persecution waged against the elders. He says: "It is my opinion that these tirades help to further rather than to hinder the good work. It also acts as an aid to purge the local organizations by culling out the weak and undesirable members who appear to have accepted the gospel for selfish purposes, and not for the glorious principles themselves,

in the plan of salvation —people who may be likened to those in the beautiful parable of the sower: 'They are they that fall upon stony places where they had not much earth, and when the sun came up they were scorched, because they had no root, and they withered away.' I am pleased with the outlook. The elders of this conference are up and doing. The opposition puts most of the elders on their mettle and makes them alert, causing them to fortify themselves against the ever-expected attacks. The persecution also enables us to present the gospel to many people who otherwise would not hear it, since now they come to hear and see us out of curiosity."