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Show i TEMPLE AND TflBERNftCLE. j i-VWWWV'VVW'VW'V'VWVWMJ At the quarterly conference of Weber stake the presidents and other officials of the church urged strongdy upon the people the duty of paying- their tithing in order to lift the church debt, which as one of the speakers said, was caused by the persecution of the churches. Twenty-nine Mormon missionaries from Utah .sailed on the steamer Tenn-land Tenn-land from Philadelphia for Liverpool July 20. They are till young men. In speaking of their missionary work in foreign lands R. G. McQuarrie, one of the party, said: "There are now 3,000 Mormon missionaries at work all over the world, and the number is daily increasing. Every man goes at his own expense and because of the faith that is in him." On last Frida3T President George Q. Cannon spoke at Poulder, Colo., before the Texas-Colorado Chatauqua, on the subject, "Perils of Crossing the Plains in 1S17." He dwelt at some length on the persecution that drove the Latter-day Latter-day Saints from their old eastern home, and pictured in vivid detail the long and anxious, but at the same time the happy days of the journey across a then unknown continent. Throughout Through-out he was followed by the closest attention at-tention by his audience and was accorded ac-corded cordial and prolonged applause at the conclusion of his lecture. President lien E. Rich, of the Southern South-ern States Mission, has been notified of the destruction of three churches near Middle Creek, Ky., and one at Peech-burg, Peech-burg, Ivy. Two were fired during services, ser-vices, aud the elders and worshipers driven from the burning bulding. The following night an attack was made by a masked mob on a third church, which was demolished with axes and heavy timber, after being riddled with bullets. Instead of burning the building build-ing the mob cut it to pieces to prevent the collection of iusurance. The religious re-ligious books in the churches were torn to pieces in the presence of elders, eld-ers, who were ordered to leave at once or be killed. One of the missionaries was shot, and it is feared he will die. President Rich will complain to the governor of the treatment accorded his people. Quite an interest is being taken, both at home and abroad, in the progress of the foreign missions. Whether or not the present agitation is retarding the work of missionaries in Europe is a subject open to wide discussion, and one in which the officials of the church manifest a deep concern. The Philadelphia Phila-delphia Times has an interview with Walter Uryden, in which he is quoted as saying that the ten elders accompanying accom-panying him met with no success in Germany, and returned home after ten months, discouraged. At church headquarters head-quarters the missionary failed to reveal re-veal the name of Dryden among those who have left Utah within the past two years, and the report of discouragement discour-agement is discredited. Le Roi C. Snow, who but recently returned from Germany, said: "The German mission ranks second in all Europe. The elders have met with great success in all parts of that country, and I do not believe the report is correct. " Within the next year or two the Mormon church will, for the first time, open the Austrian mission, and make a third effort to establish the faith in France. A branch in Austria will be something new, and an accomplishment accomplish-ment that has not before been put to an actual test. There are innumerable branches of the church in countries surrounding Austria, and a good many converts within the borders, but the present plan is to establish a real live colony in the country, and to that end the church has procured a written permit per-mit from the maj'ot of Vienna, allowing allow-ing the elders to proselyte and hold meetings where the attendance, it is stipulated, shall not be over twenty-five. twenty-five. This concession from the cit3r's chief executive is, of course, the key to the work. If it were not for the mayor's may-or's permit, as the Austrian law stands, no foreign religion could be preached there under any consideration . It is most probable that elders will be sent from the adjoining missions into Austria, Aus-tria, rather than from Utah, and it is understood thttt instructions are soon to be forwarded for the beginning of the work. Two efforts have heretofore been made to give Mormonism a foundation in the French republic. Xeilher has been successful, presumably for the reason that Paris has been t he starting point, and the people are, almost without with-out exception, disinclined religiously. It is. therefore, considered more profitable profit-able to invade France by expanding the Swiss mission, in which there a re many colonies of French converts. A fair percentage of Geneva. Lausane, Xyon. Yivia, Chiln and other French villages surrounding the lake, is made up of Mormons. A telegram was reeei ved at the sou' Item It-em heanquarters of the Mormon church, Chat ! ;i uooga, Tenn., from the postmaster at Flovilla, Ga., in which he stated that Elders Rogers ami For-ter. For-ter. who were mobbed on July '.''i, appeared ap-peared there the morning of the :.'(tth almost naked. The elders told an awful aw-ful story of their treatment at the hands of the mob and their eseape by swimming a swollen si ream, f riends of the elders have recovered their grips and their property. 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