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Show r m rAr tiffih.wrir.-- s i 'Tut han't st truly YOL. 2. hid in e laborers are few. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. APRIL, 1885. an euucaticn. After a short devotional exerese Re. Mr. Seward of Echo gave the Association a valuable paper on The Gospel Method cf Fighting Error and Wrong. pioperty. When this is repaired and lifted up it will make Devoted to Evangelical Christianity commodious and comfortable, rooms Education, Temperance arid 0 cneral for the High School and KinderNews in Utah. garten departments. Such is, in brief, the history of board of managers. Salt LakeCollegi ate Institute. LO;f Bishop YJarren, D. D. Without making invidious E- - T. Jayne. W. Lincoln . P. A. H. Franklin . J. 1. Giliilan. Nelson. F. Brock. M, G. M. 0. Jeffrey. Ccpeland. E. J. I Black. S . J. Carroll. IT. THE PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOLS IN SALT LAKE CITY. K Prof. W. Boyle pari-son- . April 12, 1S85, is the anniversary ot the tenia year of the Presbyterian school work in Salt Lake City. The liev. Josiah Welch, the pin neer of the Presbyterian Church in Utah Territory, bygan his work as a minister in Stdi Lake City in the fall of 1871. Through the efforts of this earnest and indefatigable worker fcrChiist, a church was soon organized, and it was not long before a suitable building for holding services was erected. In the spring of 1875 Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Coyner, assisted by their daughter, Miss Emma M. Coyner, who afterwards became the wife of the Rev. Mr. Welch, opened school in the basement of the chrueh with thirty pupils. Death, with unsparing hand, soon removed from this held of labor the Rev. Mr, Welch and wife, when they seemed to be just enter ing upon a wide and active sphere of usefulness; but the school thus begun under such discouraging auspices. in the damp basement of the (linrch, with scarcely any appliances in the way of school furniture, with ordy thiee teachers and thirty pupils, has grown until it has an average attendance per year of more then two hundred and fifty pupils, divided into live distinct grades, and employing a corps of seven regular teachers, besides occasional assistants. Instead of the damp banv-nt- , the bool now poses?es a commodious brick and adobe braiding, capable of seating the entire number of ps pupils, with the different gradro rooiii-jfn- i wf-iil ventilated, and vvi lighted, plainly but comfoitabl furnLlied. L;v-- 5 fall m experienced Ivinder-gaiPmn- . Mbs Elizabeth Dickey, GENERAL REPORT Olivet; Bulge.-?;- , Utah Christian Advocate. Ill my early ministry, how 1 en- Cleveland, 0., Mein 25. j joyed large families, and what Provo City. pleasure I had in family worship, when parents and children reverProvo is the county seat of Utah ently bowed in prayer, and heartily joined in praise. A large and pious County and has a population ol family seemed like a little church, about 4,500. It was incorporated where father was the first who by act of tlm legislature, approved daily offered up the morning and April, 1801 Municipal elections sacrifice. how And evening pleasant aie held biennially fn the second it was to hear parents and children Monday in February in each y ear. Provo is pleasantly situated on testify in class meetings and and also take purl in prayer the Provo River, at the base of tho I trust tint Wasatch Mountains winch at this meeting exercises. your missionaries in Utah may have point rear to a tremendous height. a similar experience as they go from It is by visiters frequently styled house to honse and from chapel to the Garden City of Utah, the1 chapel. These pious households e tceths being well and uniformly how they welcome and cheer the planted with innumerable kinds hearts of those who come to them of shade tree1?, which render the with glad tidings! Family relig- appearance of Cue city pastoral, ion is the foundation of good shady and extremely pleasant. churches and good government. One characteristic of Provo is the May God, by the preaching of the the number of large and elegant Gospel and other agencies, cover dwelling, of which it can boast. your territory with Christian homes They are built mostly of substan in which Tils name shall be revered, tial brick. Provo was the first to and where daily worship will be begin the system in offered. Our Drenchers Meeting, the terruory, the present a operafur the past few weeks, has been tive mercantile institution, estab discussing The best Methods of lisked March, 1809, being the first incorporation of the kind in Utah, It Preaching Christian Perfection, and the subject has awakened a is in Prmo that the largest woolen great deal of interest. Our church- mills between Missouri River and. es have generally enjoyed seasons San Francisco are in opeiation. of water it is in adof refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and hundreds have been vance of any city or town in the added to the membership in the territory, which rendeis it admicity and vicinity. This week the rably adapted to the pmprwes of evangelist. Rev. J. II. Weber, com- manufactures. Provo is the seat of the First Jumences another serB of Revival Meetings, with Taylor St. Church, dicial District Court, which holds Rev. A. J. Lyon, pastor. As th its beginning the third. fruit of his recent work at Broad- Monday in February and Septemway, 102 were added to the church. ber in each year, the two other Ills manner is peculiar and eccen- terms May and November being tric, but he has great faith in God held at Ogden, the beat uf the and pnwer over men I think northern division of the Disirieiv The Territorial Insane Asylum it would be well to have such a on a beautiful and man visit the towns in Utah for i c. of XVovck IJLAA OllA nr. fl st this of i item re when commake tlmm think the Man who cost turns the world up side down has pleted will be over $200. OOP. At Provo is local ed tic Brigham come hither also. It would sureth-- ; AN Ring Academy, founded by ly pay to get him out there, for he Pars neither men nor devmy ana laie DiuiiiivOi PiC cnt. presses in battle to the very gates Me(ho.list3 and Con gregationalhts U B rliis iJ.t l nourishing sr bools fide the si of Hell. f , churches. HO CO i (TO K 31 ui, Ox Uvil jvier in the Editors of love-feast- OT hCHOOiS. In Hie report upon Schools, by Huse, the following were some of the main points; Since the last report no new schools bavp been opened, la many places our local friends have aided us materially in meeting local expenses by labor, and fuel The reputation of our donated. schools for good work has been kej)t up. In one case a family moved into town, coming 40 miks, for the sole purpose of attending our Xew West school. In seve ral other places the powers that be have been obliged to offer free tuition in the district schools, in order to compete with our schools. Thus an indirect good is accomplished. In another large place a school trustee told me that our school was by far the best in the place. In connection with our schools to which all and Sunday-schools- , who wish may come. In many come. In ome cases the parents Hie Gentile however. place, largely numbers 125. The Sunday-schoo- l teacher there has several others to aid her, and h'dd? a Saturday evening teachers meeting for the study of the lesson. In one place, the Mr. I semi-annu- e Institute. As the scope of this article does not embrace the church work in Sait Lake City, of which much might be said, 1 will close by saying that, the srhoM work here, though carried on under great disadvantages, financial and other, has held its own. and every year sterns io be enlarging, and entering upon a wider career of usefulness. New West Education Commission. of al vi -- dif-Km- u j -r I w-M- Hy i j J j 1 j'-- Pie-dmm.n- ! O I J Vi m Ik H ia i lu iv.nastlm 1 4 i v j Miu 14 ! s 1 incc H? l l- s. com-'Dimd- s? tiff the Congregational ministers OUiiUU) nLiiOui New West teachers convened at teacher holds Bible readinj a t va Salt Lake City on Monday evening, rious houses. In connection, with established April 1st, The opening session j one Sunday-school- , a b Society was hHd at eoTiprpvaiiooal only about thiee veaif. Chute!:, and was devoted to an ad of Christian Endeavor has been At rim dress of welcome In the pastor J, orgavV-d- . prayer R Thrall, Five ministers from out meeting laid then also sometime-- , of town mrt with most of the New fort 5 alt oil' L WV.m packers. The next forenoon r.mx in ot our was vns hdi in German1,, hearing smdj 'pied ' ; ;n i ih- rim lions teacheis and prcach-- , school-- . and nii mi of the Anieri- - soimI cm ii uw some ilmfy it:'eii-iSupt n vw-can Heme MisMuiruy Sriety aim royeng Irnm two n m t i to ca ; tii!-- ! U o; age. j niriory ol m- - ai in tin At (L partim nm of our foui ynun sovcr'i! t 'in rt-Uns-- , of the New W n Hi, k, it nrd C.HumFbion.mn'e.igcneraJrepertof List fail the girl , 30 hu-fo- r iii to Tim Semi Annual Conference heartily endorsed by Bishop Tuttle and other distinguished ministers and educators. May God, by their assistance and many other contributors, make its columns channels of light, purity and power, It certainly will prove an imcannot but make an impression portant in the regeneration for good. of that territory. Let it be scattered like the leaves cf the f at Cleveland Letter. until every family in Utah shall sen a copy thereof. by the young ladies of the church. Friday was the last day, and the members and their friends had given to them three bright and interesting papers. One by Miss Benedict, of Hoyteville, on Beauty and its Uses, one by MissRuel, of Henefer, on The Compensations of Our Work and the third by Miss Ludden, of Ogden Academy, on A Dream and its Moral, in liei iueAS ut a model School were set foi th. After an hour of devi 'IAV11U.A t AUi cises, led by Supf. Leonard, the Association adjourned until next autumn, to meet at a place desig nated by the business committee. In the evening a concert was given by the Association, mostly in return for the cordial reception awarded them the night before. s, the Presbyterians claim to hare a school which is the peer of any of the numerous excellent schools in the territory of other denominations, , in discipline, thoroughness of instruction, and wholesome religious influences surrounding the students. The High School department averages about forty-fiv- e pupils, it otters for graduation d, tour years course of study, beginning with United States History and Algebra, and ending with Chemistry, Mental Science, the Greek and Latin Poets, and German. The Boarding Bept, capable of accommodating twenty boarders, has had about fifteen boys and girls under its charge for the past vears. At the close of this present school year, the institute will have graduated some fifteen persons, all of whom go cut to fill spheres of active usefninsss in life. Quite an impoitant church and school work is also being done in the West End under the auspices A of the Presbyterian Board, school-housof two substantial rooms was erected in the vicinity of the D, & R. G. Ey depot, in which a school averaging over a hundred pupils has now been successfully carried on for t.vo years, under tire energetic management of Miss Sadie E. Reed, assisted in the Primary by Miss Emma Greene, a former graduate of the Collegiate Bishop Fowler, D. D T. C. I! iff. E. Smith. - com 4; iNLO. leave comfortable houses and come out here to teach! We want to show them that we are actuated by good motives; that we want to make them better people, both intellecIn the evening the members or the tually and morally. If we keep Association were given a reception the love of Christ in our hearts we school Utah Christian Advocate. (J- h great, L'dieral h.stkutc, I'loi juliifinipu Ui the Gtu- - !u,an j Rev.uiu of F'iri:fui Service I'll ; i m n pin m ( ar ntly MV 7" 'O sfiM why ;t - t- - a bn t -pf cm : i teacher, Fna--r- l r.r r; jVI.J 1 I doinj that land rirls will glad I T ? i' J . ink n yor Crrisr. In -r- yenr An1 0 tect to renew and usl oi puosmcei j ind |