Manuscripts and Memories of Minneapolis

W. C. White to Mary White, Jun. 6, 1889

W. C. White to Mary White, June 6, 1889

[Extract p. 3]

We are glad to have them here, I assure you. Today Brethren Saunders and Kilgore go to New York. A. T. Jones and F. E. Belden to Rome workers’ meeting, and G. W. Morse and wife back to Toronto. They go out on the first train, and take a crooked course to get to their destination. Some few came straggling in. W. Williams has been four days and spent $22 getting here. He lives only 200 miles away. MMM 142.1

Today, soon after A. T. [Jones] was gone, we received a telegram from Elders Olsen and Farnsworth urging Mother and Jones to come to Iowa camp meeting. I answered, “Mother needed here, Jones in New York. Neither can come.” MMM 142.2

From Kansas Mother sent them word that she could not come if they held the same views of her and her work as at Minneapolis, but they made no response at all. They knew she felt anxious for the people there, and no doubt thought she would come anyway. Two hours sooner, it would have found Jones here. But now he is gone to Rome. MMM 142.3

I cannot describe this town. [Williamsport, Pa.] Millions of property was ruined. Imagine a piano store filled with the choicest stock, flooded four feet and the great pianos, after floating twelve hours, strewed about, some on their backs and some feet up. One street is completely filled for 20 rods with houses and immense lumber piles and debris. MMM 142.4

The one who brought Mother is now ready to go. He carries this and other letters to Roaring Branch. Goodbye. The Lord bless you. I thank Sister M [McOmber] for writing me. Goodbye. (Signed) W. C. White MMM 142.5