utterly destitute of reason and sense as to fail to be perceive his
inconsistency and falsehood, ^he^ having told them two stories, both of
which cannot possibly be true. An apostate, of the name of
Parrott stirs the Elders up occasionally by raising a mob when-
ever he can to annoy them and to disturb our meetings. He gave me a chariavari early in January, while visiting Bristol
to attend a Conference; but he did not succeed in interrupt-
ing our proceedings or in preventing us from enjoying ourselves.
Since then, he has paid Elder Bramall and the Saints in South-
ampton a visit and issued handbills of an exciting and in-
flammatory character, and has delivered public lectures against
us for the avowed purpose of interfering with an putting a
stop to all our labors in this country. One of his handbills is
headed "One Hundred Guineas Reward" to Bro. Bramall
and some others of the Elders and myself, if we will meet him
and prove our doctrines true upon a certain night, named in
the placard. That night he had a large audience in expecta-
tion of a discussion; but there being nobody there to meet him,
and the people being disappointed in seeing the fun which
they expected, they left as many as twenty at a time and at
the conclusion of his lecture there were scarcely any present.
He disgusts every decent person who goes to hear him, and though
he succeeded in obtaining a "Reverend" for his chairman in
his first lectures he became so ashamed of his connexion with
Parrott, that he left him. I counselled Bro. Bramall to
refrain from noticing him in the least. He and the Saints
have adopted this policy and thus far it has been attended
with the happiest results. In Bath our people are much
persecuted by a mob incited and headed by members of an
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utterly destitute of reason and sense as to fail to perceive his
inconsistency and falsehood, he having told them two stories, both of
which cannot possibly be true. An apostate, of the name of
Parrott stirs the Elders up occasionally by raising a mob whenever he can to annoy them and to disturb our meetings. He gave
me a charivari early in January, while visiting Bristol
to attend a Conference; but he did not succeed in interrupting our proceedings or in preventing us from enjoying ourselves.
Since then, he has paid Elder Bramall and the Saints in Southampton a visit and issued handbills of an exciting and inflammatory character, and has delivered public lectures against
us for the avowed purpose of interfering with an putting a
stop to all our labors in this country. One of his handbills is
headed "One Hundred Guineas Reward" to Bro. Bramall
and some others of the Elders and myself, if we will meet him
and prove our doctrines true upon a certain night, named in
the placard. That night he had a large audience in expectation of a discussion; but there being nobody there to meet him,
and the people being disappointed in seeing the fun which
they expected, they left as many as twenty at a time and at
the conclusion of his lecture there were scarcely any present.
He disgusts every decent person who goes to hear him, and though
he succeeded in obtaining a "Reverend" for his chairman in
his first lectures he became so ashamed of his connexion with
Parrott, that he left him. I counselled Bro. Bramall to
refrain from noticing him in the least. He and the Saints
have adopted this policy and thus far it has been attended
with the happiest results. In Bath our people are much
persecuted by a mob incited and headed by members of an
"Letter from George Quayle Cannon, 24 February 1863," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 28, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/5V1Z