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Show . Betwoen the nets of the legislature the' legislators go our, pretty often. j TEMPLE AND TftBERNftGLE,. About 300 more souls were baptized in the European mission during 1808 than during 1S07. There are now about 1,100 more souls in the church in the Scandinavian than in the British mission. The number of the members of tho church (including children) in Germany, Ger-many, is almost exactly the same as those in Switzerland. Windows in the Nottingham (England) (Eng-land) Conference house have been recently re-cently broken, without any apparent cause, by an anti-Mormon mob. Elder Brigham Young, of the council coun-cil of the Apostles, is so far recovered from his late sickness- that he can attend at-tend meetings and visit his friends. Three missionary conferences have been organized in the state of Oregon: Baker conference, with Elder Joseph Geddes as president; Portland, with Elder Monson; and Salem, with Elder Peck as presidents. President W. T. Jack, of the southwestern south-western states mission, started on February Feb-ruary 23 to visit the southern conferences confer-ences of that mission. He expects to return to headquarters at St. John, Kansas, by April 1. Elder Gottfried Eschler, of Thomas Fork, Idaho, now laboring in the Swiss mission, was arrested a short time ago on the charge of "girl stealing." steal-ing." He was held in custody two days and then released. The Barusley branch of the Sheffield conference of the British mission is talking of building a chapel of corrugated corru-gated iron. If they do so, in all probability prob-ability other. branches will follow, as these edifices are becoming quite popu' lar in that country. Some delay is likely to occur in the removal of the bodies of the brethren who lately died in Europe, The authorities au-thorities there require written instructions instruc-tions from the relatives or others whom they recognize as interested parties before they will disinter the remains. Elder A. P. Kesler has been released from the presidency of the eastern states mission, and Elder William H. Smart, who is now laboring in that mission, has been appointed by the first presidency to succeed him. Elder Kesler Kes-ler formerly labored as a missionary in Great Britain, and was only home about a year when he was called to take charge of the eastern 6tates mission, mis-sion, which position he has occupied for about two years. The proceedings of the Sunday school convention, held in Salt Lake City in November last, have been published by the Deseret Sunday School Union. It is a well printed pamphlet of 108 pages, and contains all the addresses, etc., made during the six sessions of that body. Four thousand copies are now being distributed gratuitously to Sunday Sun-day school workers throughout the state. Any desiring additional copies can obtain them at the nominal price of 10 cents. The riotous demonstrations against the members of the church at Bristol did not entirely quiet down for thi-ee weeks. At last advices they had measurably meas-urably subsided. The result of the disturbances is that the meetings of the Saints are now crowded with interested inter-ested visitors. The trouble was all caused by the malicious and inflammatory inflamma-tory speeches of the anti-Mormon League and the distribution of Jar-man Jar-man posters and inflammatory hand bills. At the tabernacle services Sunday, February 26, Elders Harvey C. Carlisle, recently returned from a mission to the southern states, and Uriah Miller, who has been filling a mission in the northern states, were introduced by President Angus M. Cannon. Con. trary to the usual custom, these young men did not speak of the success or failure of the missions which they have so recently filled, but confined their remarks to the doctrines preached by the Latter-day Saints. Apostle Mathias F. Cowley was the next speaker, and addressed the assembly for more than an hour. The aim of his remarks was to establish that the church of which he is an apostle is the living church, the church everlasting. To substantiate substan-tiate his remarks he quoted many passages pas-sages from Scripture and from the sacred sa-cred writings of the Mormart church He declared that the Latter-day Saints are a people of honor, a people of industry, in-dustry, a people loyal to the institutions institu-tions of the government, and said that God inspired the founders of this government gov-ernment to lay its principles broad and deep that the down-trodden and op-pressed op-pressed from every race and clime might come to this country, w 1 e re they could worship (od according to the dictates of their conscience matter what they might be. ' Elder Lewis A. Warren of Pnce, Carbon county, a missionary to the southern states, died in Louisiana, of pneumonia, February 3oth. l!r0 War ren was born in Spanish Fork and left for his mission last July. IIU rc.ain8 are be.ng brought home for burial |