Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-31
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methods; hence Arizona, Nevada, Col
orado, Idaho. Mexico and Canada are
becoming well known to the majority
of the Mormons in Utah any way: al
most every one has kindred, friends or
acquaintance in all these states. as
they have co-rellglonists around the
world.
A reproduction of other than local
interest is now in active development.
through the Young Mems Mutual I'm
provement associations. Some one
hundred and fifty missionaries have
this special duty assigned them for the
three months of winter; young men
from the north have gone TO the south,
and young men of the south have gone
to the north; in Weber county / had
the pleasure of meeting with such n
couple. Elders Franklin Christensen
of Levan, Juab county, and Frank
HinlSley from Deseret, Willard county.
There is quite contrast in the young
men, but both are intelligent, earnest
workers, who are enrolling the laggard
element of the rural villages. They
are making acquaintances and friends.
They find the hearty sympathy of
Bishops, counselors, officers of the
Mutuals, and among the families gen.
orally. Without any flourish of trum-
pets, but in quiet transformations and
earnest ways they are drawing toward
them the young men from IA to AZ
years old.
1t was remarked by an invited
speaker that lin his experience with
human nature, children do not always
pay as much attention to father and
mother as they might do, but the same
counsel given by stranger win some
times do good; that counsel given by
Bishop will sometimes fail OF its in
tent, but a home missionary will find
/ response from an apparently indiffer-
ent one to the very same counsel" A
| stranger may accomplish In and fol-
the Mutual" what its president and
associates have failed in, by the samt
rule.
So the visitor from Willard or Juab
| from new experience. from menta
friction. or from observation may FIND
that there is earnestness and excellence
| in the north, and the northern worker
| in the south may find friends, workers
| there, who are equal to themselves II
| theory, aspiration, love and zeal. Thes'
| timely visits, like the changes hereto
| fore noted, will tend to unity, to homo
geneity, and to good will; differentiation
| in a common work and for Il common
end will, nay must, produce good re
suits: and were It on new lines thu
observer would naturally look on will
an interest amounting to intensity, bu
on lines demonstrated already by en-
larged and often repeated experience !
simply but Enthusiastically says that on
living Priesthood, the authorities of tn
Church. are directed by that Divin
wisdom which sees the end from tn
beginning and every where adapts tn
, means to that end.
1t is evident that the forces OF Zioi
are today operating on grander,.
| broader scale, than during any perio'
of its modern history. The dying yea
may not, viii not, see the full results
| but the years to come will tell II
events, In history, In the world. as wei
as in Utah. where we may be too up
to become inpatient; and to ask a
| prophecy INDICATED, NHeIt rs nov "
promise of His coming. for since tn
fathers fell asleep all things have con
tinued even as they were?" This is not
cannot be; all things indicate n might,
preparatory work, and ere some ar
aware the cry may go forth: "Behol'
the bridegroom cometh, go ye out L
meet Him" What ever the next yea
or the rounded century may bring
every true man win be on the watch
tower with inspiration enough withi
him to discern the signs OF tn
! times."