Show TEMPLE BE at the quarterly conference of IV weber eber stake the presidents and other to official of the church urged strongly u upon poll the p people eople the duty of paying their tithing 1 in a 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 penn land from philadelphia tor for liverpool july 1 29 9 they are nil all young men in a speaking peaking of their missionary work in foreign lands R G one of the party said there are now 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 friday president george Q cannon spoke at boulder colo before the texas colorado chautauqua Chatau qua on the subject perils of crossing the plains in 1847 ile he dwelt at some length on the persecution that drove the 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 hie journey across it a then unknown continent throughout lie was by the closest attention by his audience and was accorded cordial and prolonged applause at the conclusion of his lecture president den ben E H rich of the south ern states Missi Mission has been notified of the destruction of three churches near middle creek ky and ono one at beech burg ky two were fired during services and the elders ciders and worshipers driven from the burning balding bul ding the following night an attack was vas mado 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 the mob cut it to pieces to prevent the collection of insurance the religious books in the churches churche 8 were torn to pieces in the presence 0 of f elders eldera who were ordered to leave at once or be killed one of the missionaries was shot and it is feared he be 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 times has an interview with walter dryden in which he is quoted as sayings saying that the ten elders accompanying him met with no success in in germany and returned home after ten months discouraged at church headquarters the missionary failed to reveal the name of dryden among those who have left utah within the past two years and the report of di scour argement is discredited le rol C G 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 1 do not believe the report is corre correct cL 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 that has not before been put to an actual test there are innumerable branches of the church to ID countries coun trici 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 from the mayor of vienna allowing the elders to proselyte and hold meetings where the attendance it is stipulated shall not be over this concession from the cites chief executive Is of course the key to the work if it were not dot for the mayors permit as the austrian law stands no foreign religion could bo be preached there under any consideration it is in most oat probable that elders will be sent from the adjoining missions into austria rather than from utah and it it I 1 Is understood that instructions are soon to be forwarded for the beginning of the work two efforts have heretofore been ma made do to give mormonism a foundation in the french republic neither has been successful presumably for the reason that paris has been the starting point and the people are almost without exception dis inclined religiously it is if therefore considered more profitable to invade france by expanding the swiss mission in which there ate are many colonies of french converts A fair percentage of geneva lausane nyon vivla vivia chila and other french villages surrounding the lake is made up of mormons cormons Mor mons A telegram was received at the southern beau quarters of the mormon church chattanooga teufel from the postmaster at flovilla PI ovilla go GIL in which he be stated that elders rogers and porter perter who were mobbed on july 26 appeared there the morning of the 2 almost naked the elders told an awful story of their treatment at the hands bands of the mob and their escape by swimming a swollen stream fri friends ads of the elders elder have recovered their grips and their property they will abandon jessup county for the pretext |