Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-07-26


IN the evening meeting. The spirit OF
the Lord was poured out in rich
abundance upon both speakers and
hearers, and we had a great season OF
rejoicing. Apostle Lyman In partlcu-
lar was full Of the spirit Of testimony
and preached the Gospel with great
freedom and power, Between the fore
noon and afternoon meetings two new
converts were baptized by Prest An
thon H. Skanchy In the new baptismal
font built In the basement OF the new
buildlng-the first baptisms performed
In that font-and another convert was
baptized Immediately after the after
noon meeting. Gay add that the
singing by theCopenhagen branch choir
in all the public meetings was exselIent
and the presence Of Prof Evan Steph-
ems, OF Salt Lake City, and Elder Will
lard A. Christophersen, who during one
Of the services sang 1.-THE Holy City"
gave charm to the musical features
Of the occasion which Will long be re-
membered by all who were present at
these memorable services,
PRIESTHOOD MEETINGS.
The conference concluded with two
interesting Priesthood meetings on
Monday, July 7, at which all the breth-
rem present who labored In Scandlna-
via about 100 In mum ber) spoke briefly
and Presidents Lyman, Fjeldsted and
Levi II. Young gave good advice and
counsel TO the brethren. The general
authorities Of the Church, as we'll as
the mission authorities and officers
were sustained, and some business per-
tainlng to the Copenhagen conference
attended to-.
According TO reports read by prest
skanchy, 1902 souls had beeen baptized
in Denmark, 60 IN Sweden and IFS Ia
Norway during the past seven months
II was also shown that the most -four
ishing branch OF the Church In Scandi-
nayia at the present time was the
Chrstlania branch in Norway, whore
crowded meetings were held every sun
day in rented hall that was capable
Of seating nearly thousand people.
NEW MEETING HOUSE DEs-
CRIBED.
The new mission house In Copenha-
gen consists OF fine three-stOry edi-
fee, Of which the main building Is 7l2
feet long and nearly AZ feet wide. In
the basement story there are eight
gOOd-slZed rooms, besides Railways,
namely, a kitchen, with two pantreO,
dining room, two store rooms (Which
at some future day may be used as a
book bindery), a baptsmal room, two
dressing rooms, and a large furnace
room the two lower stories of the
building being piped so as to be heated
with hot water The second contains
meeting hall, 37XlS feet in size In
which Priesthood meetings, Relief So.
ciety meetings, Y. M. e. Y. l. NJ. l. A,
meetings and other smaller meetings
Will be held This story also contains
seven other good-sized rooms, intended
for the use Of the mission presidency,
the writer's for "SCandnayiens Stjerne'
and "NOrdstienan,' and the conference
president. The other four rooms are
sleeping apartments. The third or up
per story is occupied entirely by the
large meeting hail. which is capable OF
seating at least 500 people, and In case
Of necessity 700 people could be accom-
m0dateG I'm the hall a stand elevated
two feet above the floor Is built In the
west (southwesO end Of the hall, large
enough to accommodate the Priesthood
from Zion and the branch choir. On the
opposite end Of the hall Is a gallery
which win accommodate about 10 peo-
pie. The hall Is % feet high from floor
to ceiling, and there Is a private wind
ing) stairway leading up from the Of
fee floor 20 ,the rear of the stand In
the hall for the use Of the Priesthood
besides the two main stairways, which
are built In the wings attached to the
main building on the occas sion OF the
dedication the hall was tastefully dec
GRATED. and on the wall behind the
stand the ornamentation consisted OF
raised beehive, guided on blue-black
ground encircled In golden wreath,
and surmounted by star and the
Danish, Swedish Norwegian and Amer
lean flags.
DESERVES CREDIT
Prest skanchy deserves great credit
for his lndefatigable labors and his close
attention TO details in the erection or
the house, which throughout, Is solid,
well built and handsome structure
The scandinavian mission Is prosper
Gus. and the Elders who attended the
conference all seemed to enjoy their la
bors. Besides Prest. Francis NJ. Ly-
man, Hugh j. Cannon, president OF the
German mission) and Levi Il. Young
(president Of the Swiss mlssion) there
we're ~ other visiting Elders from Zion
from Germany. Priests, Lyman
and Young leaves for Berlin on the
10th inst, and Prest. Cannon for the
same place today. sister Susa Y, Gates
arrived in this city tonight as n repre-
sentative Of the National Council Of
Women from the United States
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