The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-20
MISSIONARY WORK At HOME
DISCOURSE BY GOLDEN KIM
BALL AT THE TABERNACLE.
Says All Is Not Well In Zion, and
That Some Deviltry Is at Work
Among the People.

Elder Golden Kimball, in a brief dis
course at the tabernacle Sunday after
noon, expressed his inclination to
! speak out plainly in meeting whatever
he felt to be needed among the Latter
/ day Saints, and in this line declared the
Importance of missionary work at home,
pointing especially TO married men be-
tween the ages of 80 and 40 years,
among whom. he said, the most diff
Guilty had been experienced in arousing
an interest.
Regarding his p%lainness in speaking,
he said there had been some criticism
which was not charitable, but came
from the other place.
The last time l spoke here" he con
tinued, some friends came to me and
said: 1t won't do for you to talk to-
day 'Why?' l asked. Because we
have strangers here 1 wish they would
come and tell me what to say and say
it. 1 welcome strangers and have re-
spect for all religions, for 1 have been
treated kindly by strangers
The speaker aid he realized that
many people are afraid Of popular clam
or; that they would go to war with
Spain as brave warriors, but We're
afraid to meet public opinion. The only
thing to consider, however, is to have
ones conscience clear.
In declaring hat all is not we'll in
Zion, Elder Kimball said that the
priesthood had never muzzled him and
that it was not the place for Latter
day Saints to tell what he should say
or should not say. He knew h a some
deviltry was at work among the peo-
pie. Last winter a great missionary
work x-oC 1Tndprfo ION Il Dr0E diGeoN-
cred that a certain percentage of the
young men were going wild. Commune
cations were sent t. 800 young men,
who were called just as if to go n
preach the gospel. One hundred and
fifty had responded, ninety-nine had
been excused and thirty have not an
swered yet. From four to ten of these
young men who responded were placed
in each stake for three months As
missionaries they have visited hundreds
of careless young men n endeavored
to convert them. One report from Uin-
tab stake was the most flattering and
showed that four elders had baptisen
e~ighty-five young men, which was a
good work. Great and good work had
been accomplished, but there had been
Encouragement also. Much difficulty
been encountered among young
married men who have settled down to
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in the work, and fathers and mothers
have justified them in their conduct.
There is a greater field for missionary
work at home than anywhere else, and
the priesthood should be looking after
the people.
Preceding Elder Kimball. Elders
Salisbury and George r.. Baker, who
have lately returned from a mission to
the British Isles, made brief addresses
On -ha V-arl- rcOnrn1fSna1 Tho 10 %far
said the elders in England were not
prosecuted, but had much opposition to
against. This condition, he
said, was the life of the elders, for OPP
position brought out all h good there
was in them. He said a man who should
try to preach the gospel without scrip
purse in England would be a pretty
sick man when ne got through.
Elder George f. Hill, lately returned
from a mission to the southern states,
also spoke of the work in that part
of the country. The people of the south
were somewhat behind the times in re-
gard to improvements and in many re-
spects were lacking in literary advan-
They were very religious, how
though generally Directing to any
innovations by the Latter-day Saints.
Two elders working in Atlanta have the
freedom of the best hotels and are
otherwise ~courteously treated, so that
in some instances the people We're be-
ginning to become more liberal. About
l. 500 people were added TO the church
from the southern states las year. OF
course. said the speaker, there is a good
deal of opposition to the missionaries
On account of the Roberts case, but
the agitation is doing more good than
harm. The elders get a better hearing;
discussions Of the Mormon religion is
and the result is always in IA
vor of the Latter-day Saints.