The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-10
MISSION SCHOOLS.

Almost from the beginning we saw the
Importance and necessity of mission
schools in connection with the more direct
church work; With few exceptions each
Held occupied by US had a day school for
many years. These have not been con-
tinued except ina few pIaces.and for two
reasons. FIRST, the improved condition of
the public schools renders it unnecessary
and lgrwise unless 1t be exceptional cases.
The Methodist Episcopal church has al
ways been the friend and champion of
the public schools. She halls with joy the
rapid strides made BY the public schools
| IN all parts of the new state of Utah.
Second the embarrassed and overdrawn
missionary treasury has compelled large
reductions in our appropriations, 1ad L
/ have generally recommended that the cut
be on the SCHOOLS rather than ON the
3hurches. It is an argument III favor of
| and rot against the past necessity of the
mission schools that the e.celIency of the
puciic schools is rendering them less and
less useful. The mission school has been
the silent but poten5 factor in bringing
about the increasingly satisfactory condi-
! ton of the public school in many paris
Of the state, if not throughout the entire
state II has not been q waste of mission
airy money IN the past and it will not
be a waste in the future for some time
at least # special care is used in tts-dis-
tribGti0n.
favored three years ago, what I now
believe was a providential movement, the
merging gradually of the Woman's Home
Missionary society school work into dea-
pertinent br's q success generally. | wish
we could put Is trained deaconesses at
work in the mission Immediately. l be-
lieve they would do more successful work
Just now IN many places than any Other
class OF workers. Their garb would
protect them. their quietness digarm on
position, their sympathy find a response
and their devotion would impress and con-
quer everywhere,
The general conference at its last ses-
sion .assed the following: 1.-THE Utah
district and western Norwegian and
Danish conferences may be transferred to
the Utah mission during the next four
years with the consent OF the above
named conference" I am strongly of the
opinion that this ought 70 be done for
the reason that the work in Utah IS so
different from that in the further north
west s3.at its peeuliarities and needs can
not be understood at that long distance;
and also for the reason that 1t would save
the expense and time of a long journey
to conference and the additional support
Of a presiding cider. l believe that all the
work and ali departments of the mission
work proper in Utah sl1ould be under one
general management. 1t could be better
ard more economically handled. There
/ OF the ScondinaYian work from the
American. There never ought to have
been. an Ogden district
| shall not review the work of the mis-
/ sion for the past year, but ask tout each
brother be allowed to represent MS re-
spective field. In this way the bisnop Will
I SeL g lGllfE ara D6tLer 10ea IMAM Dy any
brief outline I might submit. He is anx-
| ious to get Information direct from the
worker and the work. Brethren, tell it
! all. trials and triuHlnhs; defeats and VIC
tories. disnatrs and hopes; darkness and
| light; sorrows and joys. This bishops
heart is big enough TO take you all N.
Bear with me in closing while speak
briefly Of my attachment to Utah and
SAT- Lake, City feefingly of my love for
you my co-worker6 frankly of the req
sons for MY request to be relieved of the
! SUPPLEMENTARY and hopefully of the fu-
! ture for the mission. l have travelled in
many lands, and have seen every state
| OF my own except five, but I care more
| for the familiar peaks of the Wasatch
| the city which these enrich than all the
mountains and valleys and cities of the
! old or new world But what are these
! TofcelesS and perishable surroundings as
| compared to you my brethren beloved,
! with whom have counseled and Wept
! and shouted SO long. I would be very sad
/ II no more I was to see your faces. but
/ we are to meet again and meet forever.
I lnsY and may not leave you now. The
| powers that be have not yet spoken.
/ Whether | stay or go. my star of destiny
I is fixed which points beyond the clouds,
my home. my rest at last.
! Why should l ask to be relieved from al
most life work, surrounded with such
ss,ttaehments and and loves? l @m Influenced
been Superintendent for a good While and
| / bel.e:e the mission would be benefited
| by a change. Second. [ believe it would
be a good thing for me, as l desire to
devote my time more fully to certain lines
1 of study. also to the pulpit and the lee
ture field. Third, my family think that
! after a quarter of a century roaming up
and down the land I should stay home
long. enough to get acquainted with them.
| Fourth, the official board Of First church
Salt Lake City still holds over me resoiu-
| tons and protests passed at the time of
| the Mabry trouble against my having
| anything to do officially with the First
! church-thus necessitating two districts
| badly needed elsewhere, and also affect
! ing the harmony of the mission 1t is bat-
ter for me to step aside than to permit