The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-01-27
TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.

80 a'' H''NiaA NtfFHt ~ NOW IhplulN
improving.
IL Is understood that the lectures
Madame Mountford Is about to deliver
In England will be entitled "The lions
OF the East and West" aud will deal
with conditions Ia Utah and In Pales-
tine; Jerusalem vs.. Salt Lake City.
The members OF the Dcscrct Sunday
School Union board attended in body
the Old Folks gathering at the salt
Lake theatre ON the afternoon OF
Thursday, January 10. The comic opera
THE Bells Of Bonneville. 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 a. 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
a successor for the latter position.
The Lattcr-day Saints OF st. John,
Kansas, rendered dinner TO the Old
Folks January ,. Forty to forty.iivc
OF them enjoyed an elegant dinner,
which was followed by an entertaining
program. Elder WIN. r. 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
oil had most enjoyable time.
At the commencement Of the present
year there were i6s missionary elders
laboring In the southern states mission;
iDa elders and four sisters In Great
Britain; IS elders and one lady mission.
AIRY In Germany; % elders In Switzer-
land, and 20 elders and six sisters ON
the Sandwich islands. Altogether the
world over, there were about / 200 mis-
sionaries In the field on January /,
1899.
Quarterly conference was held at
Huntington on the 18th and 10th. The
most important business was the cleo
ton Of Hon. q. II. Miller us president
Of Emery stake, vice c. q. Larson,
who, ON account OF his age, ill.health,
etc, had resigned. Mr.. Miller chose
John Pace and Henry Matthias us 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 good tribute to the work
and labors OF ex-President 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 aud knowledge.
Possibly no other Sunday school
superintendent was ever accorded such
a funeral nv that OF Elder George God.
'dard, at Salt Lake City, on January
18th. For u man who practically was
sold by his brother for tlfty pounds,
because he was ashamed OF him and
wanted 20 get rid OF him, the attend-
auoe Of eight or ten'thousand persons,
on such au Indictment day, and 30 many
OF them little children, shows how
deeply he was loved, how widely re-
spected. There was also peculiar
fitness In the proceedings. The speak
ers were either his associates in the
Sunday school work, or on the Old
Folks committee his pupils In the Sun
day school, his bishop and the young
est member of that remarkable band
Of missionaries, OF which Elder God
dard was clerk, who In 1857 crossed
from Salt Lake City TO the Missouri
river drawing n 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 the
crater portion OF the time at the taber-
nacle Sunday, January 90, the speakers
being Elders Thomas Naylor, Andrew
Smith, Theodore Nystrom, Thaddeus
Naylor and Joseph Carr They were
followed by President George O. Cam
non In brief address, delivered in
such a manner as would indicate that
his recent illness had had but little
effect. Elder Thomas Naylor told OF
his experiences In the Indian Territory
and the progress that his faith had
made smong the Chickasaws, Cherokees
and other tribes, while Elder Andrew
Smith spoke OF his experiences in South
Carolina and other southern states.
Both agreed that their faith was rap
idly spreading in their respective fields
OF labor.
Elder Theodore Nystrom. whose
fields Of labor had been France, Ger
many, Switzerland and the continent
generally, said that the faith of the
church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day
Saints was being very rapidly spread
throughout those countries, and he had