Show SUNDAY SERVICES i Tke openiag hymn at the services in the Assembly Hall OR Sunday I afternoon was on page 16 Tex Him frhe made the world The sun the moon the tars And all that in them is With Jays and months and years To Him who died That we might live Our thanks and tongs We freely give I i Prayer by Pishop S A Woolley The choir sang the bvnin 5 OR pag 161 Ye children of our God Ye saints of latter days Surround the Uhle of the Lord And join to sing his praise ELDER J P SORENSON addressed the congregttion giving a brief account of missionary labors in New Zealand from which land he recently returned Soon after the arrival of himself and companions at Auckland their presence created something of a sensation and no sooner did they begin to preach the gospel than persecution set in However some believed and accepted the truth and were baptized bap-tized and a branch of the church was organized After a time the elder was called to go 300 miles from Auckland to Napier having been inspired to go there through a dream which told him that a certain man would embrace the the gospel His dream was literally fulfilled A branch of the church was then organized at Napier The elders then went into new territory not yet visited by the Mormons where he baptized some into the I church and was here also persecuted perse-cuted The elder had traveled extensively ex-tensively in that country and whenever when-ever opportunity offered preached the gospel He with his compart ions had been frequently persecuted I I perse-cuted with rubbish driven from houses and unwillingly permitted to lie down at night in their own blankets Notwithstanding the vigorous vig-orous opposition encountered they baptized many and organized several sev-eral branches of the church Elder Sorenson was rejoiced to be at home in Zion Elder J H Moyie next addressed the congregation briefly concerning concern-ing his recent mission in the Southern South-ern states He had labored chiefly in North Carolina where he had preached the gospel to people who had never before heard of it and who were grossly ignorant as to the Saints and their doctrines Although there were some difficulties difficul-ties in the ministry he had greatly enjoyed his labors which had first made him sense to the fullest the benefits of the gospel When he went to North Carolina there was no organization of the church but when he left there was a flourishing conference with fourteen elders from Utah laboring in the district The baptisms in the south were not numerous though the work was gradually spreading many being now investigating the truth In his experience he found that when conversions con-versions were more numerous the opposition and persecution were more pronounced The southern people as a rule were kind and hospitable hos-pitable The elders usually found among them friends and these who would treat them well but the people peo-ple remain divided among themselves them-selves religiously and politically Contention ruled in the land and it looked as if anarchy were to prevail I among them The choir sang an anthem and Elder J W Cummings pronounced the benediction a |