The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-04-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5 TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.


II is stated by church authorities
that nearly half Of the second half
million issue of church bonds have been
placed.
The spring conference at Coal Gate,
l. T., was well attended, and most
enjoyable time was had by those in
attendance.
General Superintendent Maeser Is
preparing a revised edition of "Relig-
ion Class Instructions" for use in those
rapidly increasing organizations.
About 1870 missionaries of the Church
OF Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
will leave for different parts Of the
world during the present month.
In few days Elders John Henry
Smith and NJ. F. Cowley of the council
Of the apostles, will start on visit to
the churches in the southern states
mission.
Elder Herbert Il. Smyth of Fountain
Green, Sanpete county, has just return
ed from successful mission to South
/ Carolina, where he has been laboring
In the interests of Sunday School work.
The small company of Utah immi-
grants who left Glasgow on the 9th
inst, brought with them the body of
Elder David NJ. Muir of Beaver, who
died while on a mission TO Scotland,
on the Goth of October last.
No religion classes have been organ
lied in the Salt Lake Stake of Zion
until the present. DIR. X. G.. Maeser.
as general superintendent, paid visit
TO West Jordan on the 23rd inst, In
order to inaugurate the movement in
that progressive ward.
Elder L. j. Wood has returned to his
home In Salt Lake City from mission
to Samoa. lie has visited, besides
Samoa, the Friendly Islands, vavau,
Hawai-, Togatabu New Zealand, Aus.
tralia, the Fiji and Sandwich Islands.
Elder Wood says he has enjoyed good
health during his absence and found
the missions in the various places WIS.,
tied in a prosperous condition
The annual Sunday school confer
ences to be held during the month of
May are as follows: st. George stake,
May and 7; Parowan, May 10 and IA;
Malad, 20 and 2l; Juab, % and 2s. A
uniform program of singing and con-
cert recitations, as arranged by the
Deseiet Sunday School Union board,
will be observed at all these annual
conferences during the present season.
The attendance at the tabernacle
services Sunday was unusually large.
After the singing of hymns President
Angus NJ. Cannon introduced five mis-
sionaries who have just returned from
their fields of labor
Elder Albert Is. Kimball, who was
assigned TO the Southern states mis-
sion, said the Saints would be the most
contented people on the face of the
earth, and that only those who have
been out into the world can realize the
great contrast that exists between the
people in the valleys of the Rocky
mountains and the people of the world.
Eugene Lewis, also of the Southern
states mission, had greatly enjoyed his
work among the people of Florida, and
characterised them as a kind, courage
Gus and maguanimous people; but the
prejudices of the southern people are
very intense, and their opposition often
takes the form of violence when deal
ing with the Mormon elders.
Elder Lewis referred to the spirit OF
love and forbearahce that characte ter.
ICES the Mormon people, and said Il
they could live in Zion as they live in
the world, Zion would be invincible,
and the stranger within her gates
would be constrained to yield the
palm, because there would be the in.
vincible force of example"
William d. Neill has spent the past
two and one-half years in Germany.
He was well pleased with the success
of his mission, and considers the field
a good one for such work. He spoke
OF tract which had been published in
1881 and sent broadcast through Ger.
many, which was very detrimental &c
the Mormon women but said that the
Germans had changed their opinions
very decidedly in regard to Mormon
women since some of them have visited
the fatherland.
Elder James f. Jack spoke briefly OF
the work in which he has been engaged
in the Southwestern states mission.
He advised elders in the missionary
field not TO write home their failures,
but only of their successes, for the
man who publishes his failures broad
cast to the world is known as failure.
Albert p. Kessler of the Eastern
states mission, then related his expert.
ences. He said that the inha bitants
of Washington, Philadelphia, New
York and Boston seem mach amazed
at the approach of the Mormon elder
aud many times ask why the elders
have come among civilized people &c
teach their barbarous doctrines. But
despite the opposition, he expressed
the opinion that Mormonism is grow
ing in the east, and men are becoming
converted right along.
Five thousand Indians, dissatisfied
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