The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-10-20


up opposition to, aud hatred Of the
Mormon people.
Inc annual reunion Of New Zealand
ana Australian missionaries was held
II oa't Lake, conference week, under
the auspices Of the lions Maori asso-
citation. About 200 people were in at
Tendance composed chiefly Of returned
island missionaries and relatives OF
missionaries now In New Zealand aud
Australia.
President Joseph Il. smith related
some Of his experiences while travelling
ms missionary 70 the Sandwich Is.
lands and ended his remarks by stat
ing that the church was looking for
some young men who had been TO the
Pacific Islands and knew the language,
TO 20 again. lie advised all the young
men TO be prepared to answer a sudden
call at any time. There were present
seven natives Of New Zealand, who arc
now residents Of Salt Lake City, thirty.
one elders who have been TO New Yea
land 1--we elders from Australia aud
four from Tasmania. There were
thirty members OF the church from the
three islands, and twenty relatives OF
missionaries lhboring there.
The dlscourses aud remarks delivered
at the recent conference are TO be is
sued In pamphlet form.
Five meetings were held in Salt Lake
during the week ending October ~, for
the instruction Of Mutual Improve
ment Missionaries, who were called
from nearly every stake In the church.
The objec, is TO send these missionaries
out to every stake to labor with the
officers Of every association. and they
are being equipped in all the branches
that pertain TO the work. Members
OF the geteral board instructed them
In the work 10 be done the ensuing
year, thsuse Of the manual, methods
OF concluding the associations aud all
phases 81 ihr,-orls tending to quality
then, for the work to be done.
The Young Mems Mutual Improve
nett associations throughout the dit
icnnt stakes of Zion have begun
heir meetings for tho present year
atd report a good attendance OF young
men.
The Juarez (Mexlco) Stake academy
opened this year with an enrolment o
10 students, which number has gradu
lily increased until ut present $50 arr
n attendance. Prof Guy q. Wilson
principal OF the academy, Professor
Arthur 4. Daley and Moses A. Sans
Kisses Ida Coombs, Caddie saville
esther Coombs and Mrs. Sarah A
'layson, all OF whom are very efilclen
eachers, constitute the faculty.
The remarks OF President Joseph y
smith and Elder McMurrin at the semi
annual conference about the advunt
Iges and necessity Of learning TO sing
,hould be followed up with practica
work. In the interest OF a wider, deepe
md more practical education OF on
'oung people In singing. There ar
many, very many, localities who hay
oday no better organized choirs Rn'
40 better facilities for musical improve
nent than they had twenty or eve
thirty years ago. The ability TO sim
we'll is a great help to missionaries.
There are forty stakes In the Ameri
IAN conference OF the womans Relic
Society, twenty OF which were repre-
sented In the conference recently hell
by the presidents Of the stakes. Mr'
lina d. II. Young, general president q
the society, presided, Mrs. Emmelin
Il. Wells, the general secretary, wa
present and read the minutes OF th
last general confere""e Of the Relic
Society, held In Al II. The Relief So
ciety Is an organization OF womel
whose duty II is to look after the poo
Of the Mormon church. There ar
more than 600 branches Of the society
in the world, with an enrolment o
30, 900 women.
To Obtain EmiErants for CAnAda.
A special effort Is to be made TO OBJ
tain. among the peasants OF France
smlsrants for Canada The work o.
drawing them In has been entrusted Il
DR.. T. A. Brisson, who. as agent gen
eral OF the Repatriation Society Of thu
Province Of Quebec. has been trying hi
hand in that line for some time, with
out, II must be said. conspicuous sue
cess. He goes to Paris "a one OF Can
ada's representatives to the exposition