from the situation of assistant organist. He
was occupying a position as assistant to
a physician as he was training for the
medical profession. One day he saw a
scrap of a newspaper with a letter from
a Mormon Elder writen on it. He had al-
ways believed the Mormons were a wicked
people. He was impressed to inquire about
them and he wrote to the Glasgow Mail to
make inquiry about the location of the
"Mormons" in Glasgow where he could gain
information concerning them and they
directed him to the "Millennial Star Office"
and he wrote for information. We sent him
some tracts and referred him to President S. T. Whittaker. A correspondence was open
between them and Bro Whitaker let him
have some tracts and he got quite interested
One day he went out to visit a sick child
leaving one of the tracts on the desk. During
his absence the physician he was with
saw the tract and read some of it and
when Bro P. returned he censured him
exceedingly for reading such stuff
Bro P. defended himself and the princi-
ples advocated in the tract and this
led to the his dismissal from the physicians
employ. Up to this time he had not been
"Letter from George Teasdale, 23 October 1889," p. 6, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/gDvG