The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-01-25

TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.


French speaking part Of the Swiss
mission.
Elder Brigham Young, Of the council
of the Apostles, who has been seriously
sick for several weeks, Is now rapidly
improving.
1t is understood that the lectures
Madame Mountford is about TO deliver
in England will be entitled "The zions
OF the East and West" and will deal
with conditions in Utah and in Pales-
tine; Jerusalem vs. Salt Lake City.
The members of the Deseret Sunday
School Union board attended in a body
the Old Folks gathering at the Salt
Lake theatre on the afternoon of
Thursday, January 10. The comic opera
"Thc Bells of Corneville, ~ by the Home
Dramatic Co., occupied the boards.
Elder Charles o. Card Is actively en-
gagged amongst the stakes and settle
ments drumming up settlers for the
wide stretch OF country round about
Cardston, Alberta, over which he pre-
sides. Finding that his duties as presi-
dent of the stake, and also Of the Mani
toba mission, could not be properly
attended to by the same officer, he has
requested the First Presidency TO find
n successor for the latter position.
The Latter-day Saints of st. John,
Kansas, rendered dinner to the Old
Folks January ?. Forty TO forty-five
Of them enjoyed an elegant dinner,
which was followed by an entertaining
program. Elder WIN. T. Jack, of Salt
Lake City, president of the southwest
ern states mission, presided. Those
who managed the affair were ably as
sisted by the citizens of st. John, and
all had most enjoyable time.
At the commencement Of the present
year there were 46s missionary elders
laboring In the southern states missioni
1872 elders and four sisters in Grent
Britain; rs elders and one lady mission
airy in Germany; 2s elders in Switzer-
land, and 25 elders and six sisters on
the Sandwich islands. Altogether, the
world over, there were about 1, roo mis-
sionaries in the field on January l.,
1899.
Quarterly conference was held at
Huntington on the 18th and 10th. The
most important business was the cleo
ton of Hon G.. II. Miller as president
of Emery stake, vice @. G. Larson,
who, on account of his age, ill-health,
ETC., had resigned. Mr.. Miller chose
John Pace and Henry Matthias as his
councillors, both of Price. Apostles
Lyman and Lund were present, and
besides giving the people much good
advice concerning the use of tea, cof-
fee, tobacco and whisky, Apostle Ly-
man paid u good tribute to the work
and labors of ex-Presicent Larson, OF
whom he said: "Well done, my good
and faithful servant The attend
ance, despite the cold weather, was
very large, the largest, perhaps, In the
history of Emery county. Judging from
the reports of bishops throughout the
stake, the people are generally pros.
porous and healthful, and anxious for
improvement and knowledge.
Possibly no other Sunday school
} superintendent was ever accorded such
funeral as that of Elder George God
dard, at Salt Lake City, on January
| tEtL IFo. N man tuho nractioa II ~ Va a.
sold by his brother for fifty pounds
because he was ashamed of him anC
wanted to get rid of him, the attend
ance of eight or ten thousand persons
on such an inclement day, and so many
, of them little children, shows how
. deeply he was loved, how widely re
Q spected. There was also a peculiar
fitness in the proceedings. The speak
ers were either his associates in tn,
Sunday school work, or on the OIL,
Folks committee, his pupils in the Sun
day school, his bishop and the young
est member of that remarkable ban,
: of missionaries, of which Elder God
dard was clerk, who In 1887 crosse,
:. from Salt Lake City TO the Missour
river drawing a hand-cart. The bene
diction was offered by presiding Patri
arch John Smith, the deceased belong
ed to that body of the priesthood.
Returned missionaries occupied tn
crater portion of the time at the taber
l nacle Sunday, January 29 the speaker
: being Elders Thomas Naylor, Andrew
I Smith, Theodore Nystrom, Thaddeu
Naylor and Joseph Carr. They wer
followed by President George @. Can
non in brief address, delivered II
: such manner as would indicate tina
4 his recent illness had had but littl
effect Elder Thomas Naylor told o
his experiences in the Indian Territor
; and the progress that hih faith hal
b made smong the Chickasaws, Cherokee
and other tribes, while Elder Andrey
, smith spoke of his experiences in Soutl
= Carolina and other southern states
D Both agreed that their faith was RAP
y Idly spreading in their respective field
T Of labor.
: Elder Theodore Nystrom, who's
fields OF labor had been France, Gei
a many, Switzerland and the continen
4 generally, said that the faith of tn
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da
8 Saints was being very rapidly sprea
L throughout those countries, and ne ha
good reason to predict that great r.
= suits would follow the work being don
: there. Elder Thaddeus NaYlor. VIII