Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-25
In OGDEN TOMORROW
REUNION Of the " blF County Sunday
Schools Tax S Pace.
sUPr. BAiLaSriNpS BIRTHDAY.
Brief R,yi,w Of the LattCI's Work In
Organ y ug sunday Schools
Throughout the state.

The reunion OF tie Weber county
Sunday schools to he held in Ogden
tomorrow, Aug. 90 besides being in
stiiuted TO smuse tho children and to
give them I'm outing. is also designed
o celebrate the birthday Of Supt.
Richard Ballautynr, the funder OF
5 Sabbath Schools In Utah. Bother
Ballantyne was born 10 Whlterdge.
bog, Roxhurghshire, SC ,tlanu, Aug.
26!b, lsl7--sigbly years ago. He
intd the Church in his native land
and was baptized in the waters Of
Deith, Edinburgh, In Dec, 1912; a.
the following year came by way Of
New ORLEANS to Nsuvoo, Ills. Here
he became the manager OF the
Coach and Carriage Maluiacturiug
association. IL 1876 he went wiz the
r. mnants of FauvJJ to WiGtet q l.
ters, where he remained until the 18th
| Of May, lS43, when he came across
the plains 10 President Young's com
pany, which arrived In the valley IN
Seplembe OF that year.
Supt Richard Bsllaniyne was thus
a Pioneer OF 1913. He went through
mary hardsnIIs in NauvoU, and on
Ihe llains IN the urney hlther, as
well as In Previous journeyings from
bis native LAM, Scotland. He bore
them all without u murmur, because
ne recognized In II the hand OF PrOvl.
de ce, md was 81 thoroughly COM
vlDceu hat God favored the move
ment, that every obstacle became to
hlm pleasure, or an incentive TO re-
ewed and greater L fort to overcome.
II any OF the PioLeeIs OF UIah were
fred with zeal Tor the WORK, he st0ol
amUrg the ioTemssl anu continues to
stand there to this day, for there IS no
a stronger advocate OF tho cause than
he lie. Ii was tnie zual that lac him h.
undertake. the task OF teaching the
children the principles OF the Gospel
Ia the hrst SuaIAy school IN this Stat,
then barely transferred from for
gu government To become q valuable
domsin OF the United Slat 8.
ELDER BALLANIYNE's HOUSE.
Soon alter ms arrival in the valley,
he begp "A the laUor oil getting logs from
tue canyon, 10 build him house. II
was well understood that all who came
10 the country In those days must SCI
to WORK at anything tnat they c0ulu
nnd to dt; an iIes mat lie not yet fully
Jvercome, tor Classification OF work
nas scatceiy begun here even at this
late Gay. Hence Elder Bsliantyne
Jecame the logger, The builder, the
teacher, tue Sunuay school founder,
.ne missionary, or the ythlug else
Ia tie form OF work that seemed essen
tial OF was deemed most important.
In due time The logs We're cut,
hauled to the mill up Mill Creee
canyon, ana converted into tn,
material from whIcn was tuilt tue
iirst Sunday school meeting house In
Ulsh. The cut herewith kives fret.
class representation oil tnls house,
which, in ADDITION, served as n iesi.
Jsnce for the family Of Elder BaiiaL-
tyne ior II years, 1ne building was
.ituuteu ON the southwest corner o.
FiEsI West ami phIrd SJutn reefs,
salt Lake Cuy, al q was hull. In tue
summer OF 1919. 1t was is by 20 feet
IN slze ana $1,000 about twenty feet
rom the inner curb o! the siuewaik, h
regulation eslsb isued by tho Pioneer
nuiid re, anu scIupulOusiy foil, weu,
ar appears by the Oh houses stanuing
Al ms dale. Ii faced the wesI, nnu
nsd NEE stens ieadIng up 10 the one
ANNA Ah NShhNiI hhSAN 10 pho WI u
low on either siue, In which were
we've lightr. Tue sash were PAT nj ed
white, rs were also the door france,
| but the door was OF a brown color. II
The emu facing the south, one window
was set on tue wesI vi the panel doUT,
tue upper half OF which WAS OF glass,
The wide chimney rose from cum
( I q 10 fGe place, on the Inside VI thu
wal, anu endeu some distance from
| the root, big ana ater-beaten, in
| form stranyely familiar to all old resi-
dents. AT the back there was u "leau-
| TO-" hsvI.g one win iav t. the s0uin.
| Nne walls were OF large adobe or sun.
| dried brick, leu feet ~ the square, anu
| rested upon found alton OF red sand
| stone eighteen Inch "a from the ground
| hauled II III the Cottonwood quar-.
ries by Elder Bailautine himself. rhe
alt bes he purchased with an exchange
of work. The roof was OF dirt, with a
slab cornies. The floor WAS laid with
pine lumber, but tue benches whicn
servei for the drsI Sunday scnooi
| children were made OF slabs with the
Hat side upheli from the floor by
round siicss which mai been bored
into the slabs al eacn cad at au
angle Of 40 degrees. There was
Il seating cspsciIy OF fifty In the build
ing anu Elder Bailsntyne delights In
telling how proud he was to be able TO
gather the children about him on Sun
day mornings tO tescn them the prin-
.cIples OF the Gospel. His school SION
became popular place for the CHI
uren, who came from all parts OF toe
| town TO attepd.
SUNDAY SCHOOL OPENING.
The school was fret opened, ss near
as Elder Ballantyne eau remember,
on the secVrd OF December, 1850
From that day, Rllh ugh for msuS
yeaIs slowly, tue SUNDAY schools nave
grown, until the sem centennial OF
their organization, when many Will
soon witness. The hUsts enrolled anu
interested In their welfare will num-
yer l06 900 ana the tsachers aud pupils
now number over 10000, 10 oil the
| wuTlg.
REASONS FOR oRGANIZ INC.
Asked why ho was so uesifous
organizing a Sunusy school. Elder
| BsllaDly4e Tepileu: ~ had passed
lbr, ugh mucu trouble, had been surely
,risd by friends aud foes, and IN ali,
he Gospel had proved suon a solsce u
me that L was very desirUus that all
he ohiluTeu OF the Salute sh ulu
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