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Show I TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE,. I ltwv vvwwwwwwwwS The Beehiv-. house is now the official residence of the President of the Church, President Snow having taken formal possrss;ou of it last week. When I'residen'. Snow releases the reins of the presidency, his successor will be expected to take up his abode in the Beehive. There is ample room in the house for half a dozen families, and the plans made are of the most generous nature. During the reign of Brigliam Young it was his favorite residence, although for a time previous to his death the Gardo house, called by some the Amelia Ame-lia Palace, stood just abross the street, and was more modern and in many ways more iuviting. Upon the death of President Young, however there were many legal skeins to untangle, and as a result President John Taylor, his successor, lived for awhile at his old residence on First West 'street, between South Temple and First South, finally removing to the Gardo house, which was at that time regarded as the residence of the president. When Wilford Woodruff assumed power the Gardo house, with much other church property was tied up in the escheat proceedings, and President Woodruff lived at his suburban home in Waterloo, known as the "Woodruff Villa." Elder Phillip Mayeock, just returnep from a mission to the Holy Land, was the first speaker to address the congregation congre-gation at the Tabernacle services Sunday, Sun-day, September 16, at Salt Lake. Mr. Mayeock has been abroad for three years, two of which were spent in missionary mis-sionary work in Germany and Switzerland Switzer-land and the third in Palestine. He and his companion, Andrew Larsen, found it difficult to make progress in spreading the religion of the Saints among the inhabitants of the country where Christianity had its birth. There is a lack of energy among the people there, he said, a lack of what isknown as "push" in the western world. He spoke of the fatalistic tendencies of the people. No matter what comes, good or bad, they say it is God's will and do not complain. They are satisfied satis-fied with anything, seeming to think it is God's will and the right one. Thus it is hard to interest them in a new kind of religion, because they are satisfied sat-isfied with the religion which their fathers knew and which has been handed down to them through the generations. The speaker referred to the terrible poverty existing among the people of that land, which they know from the cradle to the grave, and said that though he had seen poverty in this country and in the countries of Europe, he had no real conception of what poverty really was until he went among the inhabitants of that once blessed land and witnessed the terrible sufferings they endure through it. Elder A. L. Farrel, who presides over the Netherlands and Belgian mission, in a letter, describes a conference held, which he says proved to be the most pleasant experience of his missionary life. Every elder and every lady missionary mission-ary laboring in this mission was on the stand, save one, and while she was, or is a born missionary she has not received re-ceived her call, or missionary certificate certifi-cate yet; otherwise every missionary, born or appointed, with or without certificate, was present. The morning meeting was attended principally by Saints alone, (it was arranged ar-ranged in this way intentionally) and the attendance was fully as large as we ever had before where both Saints and strangers have made up the congregation. con-gregation. The night meeting was well advertised, and the house as a result re-sult was full to the doors, being at least as many again present as at the morning meeting, the difference, too consisted wholly of strangers. During both the services the greatest possible quiet prevailed and all went away satisfied. sat-isfied. A letter from Chattanooga, Tenn., says: Last week Elders E. S. Fisher and N. H. Tanner attempted to distribute dis-tribute tracts and preach in Bessemer, Alabama. As usual, on entering the city, the' obtained consent of the city officials before going to work. Before they had got out of the city hall after performing this duty, they were attacked at-tacked by two citizens. B. R. Sapp and Charles Gerst. Elder Tanner received a heavy blow over the right eye. Later the elders were waited on by a committee com-mittee of three disreputable men, claiming to come in the name of the good christian people of Bessemer, and ordered to leave the place and avoid further trouble. The elders left the city escorted by the police. The feeling feel-ing ran very high and a reverend Mr. Ivy, a Baptist minister, accused the elders of "shi pping our innocent women wo-men from Chattanooga." |