The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-30
Mormon Church Receives Permit
From Mayor of Vienna.
AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT
FIRST ATTEMPT TO PRoSELYTE
IN AUSTRIA.
Concession From Vienna Mayor Linn
its the Number Attending a Meet
ing to Twenty-fve-Third Effort
Will Be Made to Establish Nor
monism In France.

Within the next year or two the
Mormon church WILL. for the first time,
open the Austrian mission, and make
third effort TO establish the faith In
France. Such is the information that
comes from il thoroughly rellaple
source, based on the contention that
missionary work in all parts OF the
world is going on with as much sue
cess as ever. A branch in Austria VIII
be something new, and an accomplish
ment that has not before been put to
an actual test. There are innumeraDle
branches of the church in countries
surrounding Austria, and good many
converts within the borders, but the
present plan is to establish a real i've
colony in the country, and to that END
the church has procured a written per-
NIT from the mayor of Vienna, allow
ing the elders to proselyte and hold
meetings where the attendance, II Is
stipulated, shall not be over twenty
five. This concession from the city
chief executive is. of course, the key 10
the work If it were not for the may
ors permit. as the Austrian law stands,
no foreign religion could be predcheu
there under any consideration. 1t is
most probable shat elders will be sent
from the adjoining missions into Aus
tria, rather than from Utah, and it Is
understood that instructions are soon
TO be forwarded for the beginning OF
the work.
Missionaries In France.
Two efforts have heretofore been
made to give Mormonism foundation
in the French republic. Neither mas
been successful, presumably for the
reason that Paris has been the starting
point, and the people are. almost WITH
out exception, diSinclined religiously. IL
is. therefore, considered more profitable
to invade France by expanding the
Swiss mission, in which there are many
colonies of French converts. a falr
percentage of the population of Geneva,
proportionately speaking, Lausane,
Nyon, Viva, Chin, Mantreaux and
other French villages surrounding the
lake, is made up of Mormons, and the
president of the mission Will have IN
hand the work of sending elders TO Ia
Dor over the borders and gradually on
through the country. That the under
taking is a large one, mourning many
reverses, goes without saying
Interest In Foreign Missions.
Quite an interest is being taken, both
at home and abroad, in the progress OF
the foreign Mormon missions. whether
or not the present agitation Is retaru-
ing the WOrk OIL missionaries III A>Ni ~
is a. subject open TO wide discussion,
and one in which the officials of the
church manifest deep concern.
The Philadelphia Times has an inter
view with Walter Dryden, in which he
is quoted as saying that the ten elders
accompanying him met with no sue
cess in Germany. and returned nome
after ten months, discouraged AL
church headquarters the missionary
record failed to reveal the name OF
Dryden among those who have left
Utah within the past two years, ana
the report of Encouragement is dis
credited.
LIE Roi c. Snow, who but recently re-
turned from Germany. said: me Ger
man mission ranks second in all
Europe. The elders have met with
great success in all parts of that coun-
try, and 1 do not believe the report Is
correct