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Show TEMPLE AND TABtRNflGLE,. j Including one lady, 1:.'S missionaries left Zion for various mission fields during the month of April. Elder Ed. J. Wood, lale president of the Samoan mission, is preparing a new series of gospel tracts in the language lan-guage of that people. Elder F. F. llintze, who has been laboring in Athens, the capital of Greece, for a short time had, by last advices, returned to Constantinople. The meeting place of the Saints in London has been changed to Clerken-well Clerken-well Town Hall, Rosebery avenue, London, N. This is a great improvement improve-ment on the old place. The elders of the church have commenced com-menced laboring on the Marquisas Islands Is-lands in the Great South Seas, under the direction of the president cf the Society Islands mission. Elder Brigham Young is about to take a trip south, but will return in time to be present at the family reunion re-union to be held on the anniversary of the birth of his father, June 1. President George Q. Cannon left on April 30 for Washington, D. C, on business connected with the erection of the new Federal building that is to be shortly erected in Salt Lake City. Elders John Henry Smith and M. F. Cowley of the quorum of the twelve apostles, left Salt Lake City on the evening of April 28, to attend a meeting meet-ing of the conference presidents and other officers of the southern states mission at Chattanooga, and otherwise visit in that mission. Missionaries writing from Meridian, Kansas, state that the work in that section of the, country is progressing nicely and that the elders are able to perform their work with less difficulty than six months ago, popular feeling having undergone a vast change in favor of the church. Elder L. A. Stevenson, of Brinton, Salt Lake county, returned April 21. He has traveled in Florida and southern south-ern Georgia, and for a year and a half has devoted his time to Sunday school work. Elder Stevenson says he has enjoyed fair health and met with good success. He has gained an experience he considers invaluable. An Hawaiian correspondent says: The elders and saints of the Hawaiian mission have enjoyed the outpourings of the Holy Spirit in the semi-annual conference, which concluded here at Laie, April 9. The house was crowded to overflowing, there being between four and five hundred in attendance. Representatives from most all the branches throughout the islands were present, while Sunday schools, Mutual Improvement associations, Primaries and Relief societies, from West Maui, Honolulu and Waikiki joined with us in making the good time we have had. The Sunday school conference of the San Luis stake of Zion was held at Manassa, Colo., April 1 and 2. There were present of the general Sunday school officers, Elders Karl G. Maeser and L. John Nuttall. In the absence of Stake Superintendent Ira B. Whitney, Whit-ney, who is on a mission, First Assistant Assist-ant M. O. Funk presided. Reports from the superintendent showed the Sunday school work to be in a good condition generally in this state. The instructions given during the conference confer-ence by Elders Maeser and Nuttall were timely ane very pointed. The semi-annual conference of the Sacramento branch of the California mission was held on Sunda3r, the 16th of April. Elders from all parts of the conference, which extends through the Sacramento valley from Red Bluff to Fresno, began to arrive as early as the Thursday before conference and on Sunday eighteen missionaries were present. Besides the elders gathered, there were also many members who came in from the outside counties to attend the services. Many of the elders are to be released in the near future and only these spoke, owing to the lack of time. The remains of Elder David M. Muir of Beaver, who died a few months ago, while on a mission to Scotland, reached Salt Lake City ou Tuesday, April 25, in charge of Elder Hector McQuan-ie of St. George. The body was forwarded for-warded the same evening to Milford in the care of Elders Rulon S. Wells and Joseph W. SIcMurrin of the first council coun-cil of the seventies, the deceased being at the time of his death one the presidents presi-dents of the Twelve Quorum of Seventies. Seven-ties. Elders "Wells and Mc.Murrin were also the presidency of the European mission at the time of Elder Muir's death. Funeral services with appropriate appro-priate ceremonies were held at Beaver on Thusday, the 27th of April. Conjoint Mutual Improvement association asso-ciation conferences will be held during May as follows: Ou 13 and 14 of the Utah stake at Trovo; on 1(5 of the Star Valley stake, on 21st of the Weber stake at Ogden; on 21 and 23 of the Davis stake; on 23 of the L'intah stake at Vernal. |