The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-04-01
TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE.

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There are now 147 missionaries la
boring In the eastern states mission,
under the presidency of Elder w. II.
Smart.
There were 447 seventies laboring as
missionaries in Europe at the close OF
last year, and 443 in the southern
states.
Elders Charles s. Green and s. ].
Callan, who have been laboring In
Great Britain, sailed from Glasgow for
home on the card inst.
There were 1888 persons baptized
last year In the southern states mis-
sion, or mo.e than In Great Britain,
Scandinavia and Switzerland COM
bined
Elder II. ]. Grant of the council of
the apostles, returned home on Friday,
the cath inst, after an extended visit
to the conferences in the northern
states mission.
The Deseret Sunday School Uuioni is
preparing another Bible picture chart.
This one illustrates the life OF the
Savior from the cradle to the grave In
twelve more than usually beautiful
pictures.
DIR. James 4. Talmage expects TO de-
liver lecture, illustrated by stereop-
ticon views, at the tabernacle, on the
evening OF Thursday, April 8. His sub
ject will be "Scandlnavia and Her
People," and will be eplivened with
national songs by natives of these lands
In costume.
The southern states mission reports
that during 1898 the elders laboring
therein walked 146,060 miles and Wis
tied esq, ZIG families, held 90, 100 meet
ings and distributed 49, $50 tracts and
boolss. There were during the year
ten new branches and forty-six new
Sunday schools organized in that mis-
sion.
Fifty years ago next December the
first Sunday school was opened in Utah.
The Deseret Sunday School Union
has decided to hold n semi-cen tennial
jubilee in honor of the event. II Is
proposed that on Sunday, December
10, that memorial services be held in
every Sunday school OF the church, the
actual date OF the opening of the first
school having been Sunday, December
o, ls4o. Previous to these individual
school exercises, it is proposed that the
Union meeting held at the general
church conference in October be de-
voted to this purpose.
Elder Charles w. Penrose was the
principal speaker at the tabernacle
Sunday, March 20, his remarks bearing
to some extent on the temptations
offered the missionary at home. At
one point in his remarks the elder said
he had heard of wagers being made
here In Salt Lake that certain young
men, retured missionaries, could be
influenced TO such an extent that they
would be intoxicated at a certain time.
The speaker held out no words OF COM
fort to the parties who participated In
such work. He branded them as "men
OF the devil" The time not occupied
by Elder Penrose was taken up by re-
turned missionaries.
Elder Joseph Duckworth was the
first speaker. He reported In a general
way his labors in the European mis-
sion. He had charge of the Liverpool
mission for a time and encountered
wide and varied experiences while in
the position. IL he had not succeeded
in converting any one else, he was
thankful to say his own conversion
had been thorough and his own mind
greatly enlightened by his work. He
found that God would at all times be
with the elder who was faithful, and
though there is prejudice, the people
OF England, as a whole, are very hos
pitable.
Elder Albert Matthison said, In
effect, that this church sends more
missionaries into the world than any
other organization OF the same size.
They go to preach the word Of God and
penetrate the regions where wicked
ness exists. Where the greatest wick
edness Is, there is the truth most
denied.
Elder Edwin G. Wooley, from the
southern states, reported that about
$500 souls had been baptized in that
portion of the country. The elders, he
said, travel entirely without purse or
script, and rightly place their trust in
God. The people are hospitable and
treat the elders with consideration.
They are not hypocrites, and show in
reality their friendship or hatred.
They are wonderfully we'll versed In
holy writ, but they have not read
understandingly. The speakers testi-
mony has been greatly strengthened
by his labors.
Elder Hans Peterson, recently re-
turned from New Zealand, brought
encouraging reports. The mission.
aries have been successful, but great
work yet remains TO be done, especially
among the Scandinavians of that coun-
try.
John Webb and win Toney, two
negro boys about IS years old, were
killed and two OF their companions