The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-01-11
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Madame Mountford is preparing an
illustrated lecture on Utah and her
people, 10 be delivered in London and
other cities of England.
On January 1, 1899, there were
SO elders and four missionary sisters
laboring in the California mission OF
the church, In Colorado 3s missionary
elders and one sister, in the south
western states mission 1875 elders and
one sister, and in Manitoba ten elders
and one sister.
Last year, 1898, o32 missionaries left
their homes in Zion TO preach the
gospel in distant regions. OF these,
5s2 remained In the United States, 10
labored in Manitoba, 2s1 went to
Europe and 80 were scattered among
the archipelagoes of the Pacific ocean.
OF the above total 27 were ladies.
On December 30, Elder Albert Peter
son, a missionary from Murray, Salt
Lake county, died at Upsala, Sweden,
where he was laboring. lie had been
In poor health for several weeks. He
leaves wife, TO whom he was mar
ried but week before his departure,
to mourn his loss. His remains will
be brought home.
DR.. Parry, OF Wales, who took so
,,.tt L.. ho ,.rAnaa1 N nf
the late Eisteddfod, in Salt Lake City,
has since his return home been fear
less in expressing on all occasions his
high regard for the sincerity and in
tegrity of the Mormon people. On
December 10, at Cardiff, a concert was
given by the doctors students, follow
ed by social tea party. President e.
r. Owen and Elders L. George and
Samuel Clark of the Welsh conference.
were present. President Owen made
an appropriate address during the
social, and was followed by Dr. Parry,
who then spoke in the highest terms
Of the people of Utah.
Returned missionaries occupied the
entire time in the tabernacle Sunday
afternoon, January s.
Elder Harrison f. Jenkins, who left
for Germany July Is, 1896, told Of his
travels and experiences in Germany
and other places on the continent.
Elder Fred C. Graham, who has been
in the Colorado mission field for
twenty-one months, reported consider
able interest manifested in the work
in that state.
Elder Ed. S. Sheets said he had spent
thirty months in the northern states,
devoting most of his time to southern
Illinois. Prosecutions OF the Saints"
he assured his hearers, "are not as
numerous now as they once were. l
had one curious, but at the same time
not an unusual experience for an
elder. A young man called upon me,
and asked that visit his sister. did
so, and she told me that she had seen
me before. told her l did not know
how she could have done SO, as was a
stranger in these parts. She insisted,
however, that she had; that l had ap-
peared to her in her dreams. She had
been praying to the Lord for light, and
had received IL in that wav, She ex-
pressed desire to be baptized. told
her to think carefully over the step
she desired TO take, and become more
familiar with our beliefs. We left her
tracts and other church works. She
read them all. She now has Arm
and true belief in the doctrines of the
Church of Jesus Christ OF Latter-day
Saints, and is doing good work in her
home town. Other members of her
family have also been converted to the
faith. Several cases of The sick being
healed by the laying on of hands have
come under my notice. The Lord has
the power today that he has shown In
the past"
st. Paul and Minneapolis, Elder
Sheets said, were promising fields for
Mormon missionaries. lie had been
well-treated in both these places, and
had been given access to the homes OF
had been asked TO occupy pulpits there,
for viii IN work he would have been
well-paid had he agreed TO preach
Wesleyanism, but had refused the OF.
fers, saying that he preached nothing
but the true gospel.
Elder Rulon s. Wells, late president
of the British mission, who has been
absent since June IS, 1895, was the last
speaker He gave a description of his
labors while abroad, and said there
were in the neighborhood Of 200 mis-
sionaries now engaged in England and
on the continent The work OF
the British mission had been very sue
cessful.
The Deseret Sunday School Union Is
issuing third edition Of its ten cent
hymn book. The two previous editions,
which are all disposed OF, amounted to
35, 900; this one will be 10000, making
200 in all, fhe largest issue of any
book yet published in Utah. The
Union has also in the hands Of the
printer an edition of 5000 copies of
the proceedings of the late Sunday
school convention. OF these 1000 will
be presented gratuitously to the Sum
day schools; the other remaining 1000
will be sold at a nominal price to
individuals.
Elder L. }. Willis, of Cannonville,
who recently left for mission TO the
southern states, has returned home.
II appears that he was assigned TO
labor in Atlanta, Ga. A few days after
his arrival he had the misfortune to
fall from six foot wall on the hard
pavement, near a house he and his
companion had been visiting. 1t was
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