1870-02-07-Springfield MA Republican-Mormons

Mormons

Springfield MA Republican, 7 February 1870

MORMONS

The Mormon missionaries at Freeport and Hempstead, L.I., and other towns in that vicinity, are working with great vigor, although they have not met with the success they expected. At Freeport, the center of operations, Burton and his colleagues have only converted twelve men, who were Mormon backsliders, but are working with unremitting energy, holding meetings three times a day, and preaching in the streets as well as in halls. The elders there expect reinforcements shortly from Utah. Ar River Head, last week, some of the Mormon agitators were so coldly received that they left, but at Williamsburg, Sunday, Elder Jackson’s services were largely attended.