The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-05-06
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5 TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.

| new series OF gospel TRACTS IN the IAN
guage Of that people.
Elder Il. f. Hintze, who has been
/ laboring in Athens, the capital Of
| Greece. for a short time had, by last
advices, returned to Constantinople.
The meeting place Of the Saints in
London has been changed to Clerken-
well Town Hall, Rosebery avenue,
London, N. This is a great improve
ment on the old place.
The elders of the church have com
menced laboring on the Marquisas Is
lands in the Great South Seas, under
the direction OF the president Of the
Society Islands mission.
Elder Brigham Young is about TO
take trip south, but will return in
time TO be present at the family re-
union to be held on the anniversary of
the birth Of his father, June /.
President George @. Cannon left on
April 80 for Washington, d. c., on
business connected with the erection
of the new Federal building that is TO
be shortly erected in Salt Lake City.
Elders John Henry Smith and NJ. +.
Cowley of the quorum OF the twelve
apostles left Salt Lake City on the
evening of April 9s, TO attend n meet
ing of the con ference presidents and
other officers OF the southern states
mission at Chattanooga, and otherwise
visit in that mission.
Missionaries writing from Meridian,
Kansas, state that the work in that
section Of the country is progressing
nicely and that the elders are able to
perform their work with less difficulty
than six months ago, popular feeling
having undergone vast change in
favor of the church.
Elder l.. A. Stevenson, OF Brinton,
Salt Lake county, returned April 81.
He has travelled in Florida and south
ern Georgia and for year and half
has devoted his time to Sunday school
work Elder Stevenson says he has
enjoyed fair health and met with good
success. He has gained an experience
he considers invaluable.
An Hawaiian correspondent says
The elders and saints of the Hawaiian
mission have enjoyed the outpourings
of the Holy Spirit in the semi-annual
conference which concluded here at
Laie, April o. The house was crowded
TO overlooking, there being between
four and five hundred in attendance.
Representatives from most all the
branches throughout the islands were
present, while Sunday schools, Mutual
improvement associations, Primaries
and Relief societies, from West Maui,
Honolulu and Waikiki joined with us
in making the good time we have had.
The Sunday school conference of tho
San Luis stake OF Zion was held at
Manassa, Colo, April l and 2. There
were present of the general Sunday
school officers, Elders Karl G.. Maeser
and l.. John Nuttall. In the absence
of Stake Superintendent Ira Il. Whit
ney, who is on mission, First Assist
ant NJ. O. Funk presided. Reports
from the superintendent showed the
Sunday school work to be In n good
condition generally in this state. The
instructions given during the confer
ence by Elders Maeser and Nuttall
were timely ane very pointed
The scmi-annual conference of the
Sacramento branch Of the California
mission was held on Sunday, the 10th
of April. Elders from all parts of the
confererce, which extends through
the Sacramento valley from Red Bluff
TO Fresno, began to arrive as early as
the Thursday before conference and on
Sunday eighteen missionaries were
present Besides the elders gathered,
there We're also many members who
came in from the outside counties to
attend the services. Many of the
elders are To be released in the near
future and only these spoke, owing Il
the lack of time.
The remains of Elder David NJ. Muir
of Beaver, who died n few months ago,
while on mission TO Scotland, reached
Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 25,
in charge OF Elder Hector McQuarrie
of St. George. The body was for
warded the same evening TO Milford in
the care of Elders Rulon $. Wells and
Joseph w. McMurrin of the FIRST coun-
ell of the seventies, the deceased being
at the time of his death one the presi-
dents OF the Twelve Quorum of Seven.
ties. Elders Wells and McMurrin were
also the presidency OF the European
mission at the time of Elder Muir'a
death Funeral services with appro.
pirate ceremonies were held at Beaver
on Thursday, the 9,th OF April.
Conjoint Mutual improvement ASSOC
citation conferences will be held during
May as folloNSs On 10 and IA OF the
Utah stake AZ Provo; on 10 of the Star
Valley stake, on 2lst of the Weber
stake at Ogden; on 81 and 20 Of the
Davis stake; on 90 of the Uintah stake
at Vernal.
Not Entirely independent.
Running an Independent paper now.
aren't you, Johnson?" "Er-sorter.