Arizona republican., 1921-11-23

up 10 Gou law as dellVefed Dy the | Master. What of them, as well as all the balance or mainkind, who live l and have livt d?
 The mission of Elijah was "to | turn the hearts of the children to | the fathers to inspire and inaug | urate a revolution in the hearts of l the children of men, and send them | ancestry hunting with ever increas- l ing fervor. This was what Elijah's | coming meant, and have the children of men responded?
 Joseph Smith might proclaim the coming of Elijah and his mission. but only God could put into the hearts of men to carry on."
 Joseph Smith might inspire close associates, but only God could touch the heart of mankind throughout the world, unknown to each other, to full fill the promise.
 Has there been turning of the hearts of the children to the fathers since the time of Elijah's visit? For if there was necessity for his com ing. then the signs of it should be manifest in the world.
 At the time Elijah came in 1886, there was no general knowledge or interest in genealogy and there was no genealogical organization in all
  there was only three publications that had anything to do with family research and tiey were utilized for the most part in tracing landed titles and claims to established land grants and to protect from spurious claim | ants, family lines.
 There was no baptismal font fin l the Kirtland temple, as the proph- 1 ct had no knowledge of the work. un- ] til after the keys" were delivered by the Prophet Elijah. But as soon as the saints made the settlement of Nauvoo, H.. and became established 1 there, the prophet was commanded 1 to build another temple and was l given by revelation the construction l and dimensions of the building. In it was to be constructed a "baptis- l nal font" the first in this dispensa- tion, to be used for baptism of both the living and for the dead" The first baptisms for the dead oc- cured at Nauvoo in 1S44, and con- temporapeous with these first bap- usms the first genealogical organiza- ton In the whole world was organ ized. "Tne New England Historical and Genealogical society," of Boston Mass.
 F'olloVing the appearance of Elijah and the first baptisms for the dead. a great wave of genealogical interest and research swept over America and by the year 1874 there were 40C genealogical publications listed in the | United States alone. And a grea1 tidal wave of ancestry searching swept over the country. spreading i from America throughout England France, Germany. Holland, Switzer- } land and the Scandinavian countries and the islands of the sea-wherevel the blood of Israel had been scat. } tered.
 3 Great volumes of genealogical lines . family histories, city, county anC ? state vital statistics have multiplied ] until such is the interest now in thes' r matters that most great newspapers l have a genealogical department, ant |. all great libraries have a genealogical l department, and many of which, tn, ) librarians claim, are more generousl, e sought after than any other depart : n1ent
 f The librarian of the first grea genealogical society organized in tn e world, as above stated, says: v Nobody knows now many volume V of genealogical works we have. Gu : chief concern is to secure everythin . in American genealogy called for" The Newberry library of 'Chicag had, six years ago, 5000 volumes c genealogy and 5000 volumes of tow history. The library of congress Washington, D. C., had 4500 volume of genealogy, besides many works o \ genealogical subjects.
 The Genealogical society of uta
 has about $500 volumes of genealog
 and family history in their librar, ' and are assembling others as rapidl K as they learn of their publication. The first genealogical congress wa | held in San Francisco. Cal, in 191 \ during the worlds fair. at which th | writer was an accredited delegat E Representatives from 66 genealogic;
 organizations in the United State
 and delegates from foreign countrie E numbering 297 accredited delegate
 besides many not listed, were pres \ ent.
 Many forward movements genea E logically were inaugurated and bt \ fore it's adjournment there WE \ brought into being a great interns \ tional genealogical federation of a the world, whose object was to uni the intelligent energy of the who world in advancing genealogical IT
 search and improving the systems \ keeping the records of cities, countie states, nations and the world, and \ advance the spirit and work of gen, alogy in all the world
 Another remarkable coincident 2, \ nealogically is that the membersh = of the church is made up not on = of representatives of many natiol rs but representatives also of maI families fit is said there are repr
 sentatives of more different famili in the church than of any organiz ton of like numbers in all the worl often only one or two of a famil fulfilling the scripture wherein says that there shall be gathered 70 of a city and two of a family" befo \ the coming of the Son of Man.
 As result of these condition \ however, a veritable stream of gene
 logical and family histories are pou
 ing into the hands of the families
 the church (and often the interest ' genealogy is coindicent with the fiji
 baptisms performed by members the family in the church) thus pla ing in the hands of the saints, oft
 without effort on their part, and nominal cost wonderful accumul
 tions of data and genealogy, whi
 they transfer to their temple recol
 and proceed, as rapidly as possible do the work in the temples for the In Mesa there are a great many su
 family histories and genealogi Stewarts, Davis. LeBaron, Stapl Phelps and Pomeroy, etc. The ger aiogy of the last named, the fam name and line is carried back withC
 confusion for 960 years, and throu
 q collateral line the ancestry is c; ried back to 350 A. D.
 With the worlds stage thus
 and with the responsibility rest N sduarely upon the shoulders of nov GaintS tn Cp1rgh ont