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Show , - THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, Church, Depnrtment DECEMBER 9, 1939. 5 Milton Ward Members United .Through Successful Building And Beautification Campaign . - of what ANOTHER inspiring story - - faithful and united effort can do in a ward of moderate means is brought to our attention this week in the history of the construction and '''''''''''''ngr.;, ' beautification of the Milton '' , and grounds. " " Located on Highway 30 in Mor:, . ' ;".: '''' Otr''''i,.,(, 0.) ','::'"', I ,,,' I i of Stake, the a and 4 ;' Morgan .;...! gan , ' part ....:' t ,,?' t , t. ,.,,,,,...... ' 47 :' .' t.:'''''' the Milton Ward Chapel takes a ':''' :: 7.",,, i ..V'''4. t on the le rapidly growing pl'acq .. .: under the Church list of successes . .. , -- , I ' '' the , directed :,I , beautification program by , , :,, " :::: Presiding Bishopric. 1,4 li ' vt ,,, t r 1t 1 Milton Ward is composed of the ' 4,,,,,4 li... 1 .1,.41 Milton and Littleton Wards and for i t , , ' ' ; qi ,,k'4 It many years the ward meetings were ' alternated between the two communi' l,'' :'',''' ,,,, r ,.,, ' ' ' ' ' ties. At a mass meeting in the fall I ., , , t 1 , of 1929 the ward members decided to s. '' 4' ,, , 'S?.,;30ZWiit construct a new chapel at the site of , t :,"'''i the old building in Milton. This , structure had been erected in 1875 by 1,,'&.9,0,,,,,,'40,0e-,-the High Priests of Morgan Valley and , was used for many years as a meeting This attractive Milton Ward Chapel and its grounds, c onstructed and beautified in a short while through the of Milton,Ward members intheMorgan Stake, is a striking example of what is being accomplace by them. This building was re- - i cooperation, the direction of the Presiding Bishopric. plished through the Church Beautification program-undemodeled several times before it was finally torn down in 1930. ' Work- on Department structure was - Genealogical 0 started on April 15, 1930, and in six and a half months was not only completed but was paid for and ready for dedication. Pres. Heber J. Grant dedi- - (Address by Elder John A. Widtsoe of knowledge and possibly with the as- so filled with testimonies of the divinthe Council of the Twelve.) sistance of the Genealogical Society of ity of this work as the little I have 'A cated the structure on Nov. 28, 1930. which the about subject Utah. A great deal of time, money done in behalf of the salvation of our Almost anticipating the slogan of SPEAKING is of most interest to you, and labor are lost because we are dead. I could tell you a number of perhaps the Beautification program, "Our', the methods of getting our working independently, without the experiences, but the one that imChapels Shall Be Beautiful," the ward namely, that we may obtain from those pressed me most happened a few. -genealogies from Europe, let me begin help are , beautified and landscaped the grounds who experts in the field. , years ago when I accompanied Broth- bY saying that the sources of informa: came Books Smoot to er and Reed new Genealogical around its attractive Manuscripts EurepeWe building, apare wide and scattered. The sysIt has been my privilege to under- to Stockholm; he had his work to do; pointing Irvin T. Nelson, a native of ,tion of vital statistics seltake while away a particular problem I decided to see what I could do in the ward and now the Church land- - tematic recording of this labor. The Spirit of Elijah has the way of finding books on Swedish 250 300 or dom goes back more than scape architect, to direct the work. moved upon the people of the earth genealogy. I knew the names of the lands. In EngElder Nelson planned the landscap- - years in the European to a remarkable degree. It is an as- two big bookstores in Stockholm, I countries, land, in the Scandinavian , tonishing thing to consider the num- went to the one, made my selections, Ing and went to the head waters of records the of in and Germany parts ber of people who in every civilized and then started across the city to the the Weber river to secure native ever- are quite complete back to about 1650. country are devoting their strength other bookstore .in the hope that I of Each for trees the green project. that time no careful record was and time and means to the searching might find some more suitable books. the trees thrived and today attracts ,Before of pedigrees. Thousands of per- As I hurried along the street filled of births, deaths, marriages, and out the eye of many passing tourists as kept sons have collected genealogies of with people, I was stopped suddenly now us would facts that help an outstanding feature of the beauti- - other their own families and the families of by some voice which said to me: "Go That does ethers,- - and thousands our search r in genealogical Shriibi-foThe "groundsn ge- n- across the street ful grounds. that mano ealogies have been are there that not mean, however, tolarge were secured from nurseries. The published ,la rrow side street." I looked across the acts available by which we may go cost. Very few such genealogave street slid saw a little narrow street tal cost for improving and beautifying back. From early days courts been sold in numbers sufficient to pay I had not been in Stockholm before. further was $219. of Justice and division have been esthe cost of printing, but men impelled I thought: This is all nonsense, I "Our people take a great pride in tablished by which the property of de- by some power greater than them-- , have little time to spend here. I am the new chapel and grounds, and they ceased persons has been distributed. selves.take their savings or ge to the not going down that street, I have to seem to show greater reverence for A thousand years ago records were families and ask for money, to secure do 'My work, and I walked on. Athe building," Bishop Herbert J. Whitoften kept of such divisions. These the publication of the g'enealogical lmost at once the voice came us. "Our again, as tier of the Milton Ward tells are not now always easy to find; many facts they have found. I have ever voice as inhas a marked attendance shown any distinctly , have been collected and brought into Many of these genealogies exist heard. Then I asked myself: What -crease. depositories; while others are held by only in manuscript form. I remember Is your business in this city? Are "The Priesthood quorums are asprivate individuals. Usually there is that in a bookstore in Leipzig, Ger- you not on the Lord's errand? Andi signed to cut the lawn and as a whole some information of value obtained where 1 was examining a num- crossed over; went down the little they have been quite successful In from such documents if ,one only many, books to be purchased for our ber of down, street, and there, filling these assignments. The janitor search diligently. library, I came across a very large vol- found a little bookstore that I had takes care of the watering and care I would like to say particularly in ume, written in manuscript, beautifulknown nothing about. When I asked of the shrubs. Our young people have connection with these varied sources, ly embellished with pictures, colored for books on genealogy the lady said: helped immensely in the program. of information that we need to frontispieces, and initial letters, al- "No, we do not carry books on gen-- . "The entire project has done a progress in our genealogical most equal to the fine manuscripts of ealogy. When we get such books we great deal to unite our people. Both searching. Great changes are going the Middle Ages. This was the record send them to the bookstore"naming of the on in the members and the world.- War is threatening, of a proniinent English family. The - the store for which I - was beaded. Church In the ward contributed genfires and earthquakes occur, light- book dealer told me that the author Then, just as I was leaving in disaperously to the building and beautificnings play in the heavens. We do spent a lifetime in writing out the pointment, she said: "Stop a minute. a- tion program." ---tomorrow book which came- - by deviouS routing not book- - --collectorT , Bishop Whittier points out that the or next year. Tliese are days of tre- into Germany. gist, died about a month ago, and We chapel- - and grounds are located In a mendous change. Any 'person with book will be of value bought his ithrary:. Many of his gen- every Nearly livestock country, making it necessary open eyes can- - see that the Lord is, to us itt the course of time; and if we eniogical books are in the back room to construct a fence acound the working out his purposes. The Latteshould go to the expense ourselves of ready to be sent to the bookstore, but grounds for protection. The fence, as r-day Saints upon whom has been and making the genealogies If you want to buy them you may shown in the accompanying picture is placed the tremendous responsibility collecting in the books, it would cost have them." Thus we secured the published plain and substantial and attractive to of salvation for the dead should not - many times'the cost of the books. Gen- - fOundation of Swedish genealogy In the grounds. delay the searching for the records ealogical books are usually published our library. I could relate many such The lawn is flooded at regular in- - , that will place us in possession of thes In small editions, soon scattered experiences. Therefore, when Broth- - tervals during. the summer an the facts necessary to comply with the among' the.' members or the family.' 'er' Smith tells you that I' have been '', flowers and shrubs are watered from Lord's requirement to work in the Only a few find their way into the of some little assistance in this work,a pipe .extending from an Irrigation temples for our dead. dealer's hands, an when a book on it has been for my own good, for my 1 ditch hear by. It would not be proper for me, this' family history is found, it is wise to spiritual upbuilding and the develop- - Remarkable about the success of secure it just as soon as possible, for, ment of a testimony which Is more f afternoon, to go into a detailed statethe building and .beautification cam- ment of how to approach genealogical there tire many institutions that are certain than ever before that this Is paign In'the ward is the speed. with records. That is given by the Society making genealogical collections. the work of the Almighty God. which It was accomplished in a com itself. But, I would recommend that A Spiritual Experience The Lord will help us in the work I know of no work that I have paratively small ward of farmers and just as rapidly as possible all search- : , livestock men. , (Continued on Page Seven) ing for names be done, with the done in the- Church which has been , Ward-Chape- s,:,; ,....,...-- -- - , ,.:: ', , well-deserv- ':". !:' ' .::::: :: .; .,.. ;i , ill ., .,,,ow..Y , ,. it .. , , ,..:. , , III :. ;: ,; , ... , :., ,11 "5 . - -- t'sY'::-:'::- . ti , '.' .: i'l.':':;1::1'.:: . , .. ? v.,.,::,,,,,, :::" - ,.......''''',..::::::::::.:;';:s::. .':', :...- ', ' ':.' . W., - c ' C3 , , : ' , - 4 ..,. ''' , ,,,:. , , ' - Pr', , i 1 L , - $- c. '' , r - - the--ne- Extent Of Vital Records -- and-dow- - -- - nor-ro- half-wa- w y make-rapi- -- -- - - - , 4, , , ' |