| Show H J CANNON TELLS OF TRIP AROUND THE WORLD sunday afternoon january 15 1922 president hugh J cannon of nf the liberty stake of salt lake city addressed a well filled house at the bountiful tabernacle ho hi and apostle david 0 mackay had just returned from a trip around the world visiting latter day saints missions he first spoke t on oil their first stop in the t itji islands and told with what difficulty liis his father the late go Q 11 tannon y and other missionaries st started arted the work in in that land over 5 half century ago he said that th mission president and most of the th elders had come discouraged discourage d and thought that they could giot lot get a hearing M there the th president ent and some of the elders re turling ng home but iiii his father feitt like he could not leave those beale without further effort to 11 ring impart the gospel messa e ato the them m ile he said it would have t aken a whole vI iole year to get word acy to t ii pr president ident young and receil receive ve ve 1 so lie he resolved to rema benian in ii and preach the gospel there ile HP was vas wonderfully successful Thell speaker said that a pr ir had been engaged to gathar data to coall all of the emerent Terent inhabitants in habitan ts of the pacific islands to see if their could be connected with thi the amez Amer american iran indians winch which he said from with which lie said s aid withof wi tj I 1 lot a doubt they were related when i disked i by the speaker concer concerning nui the latter day saint people 0 of the island Te replied plied your people fare the very cream nt f the islands lie ile to japan and some other but did not elaborate on oil them put told of his stay in pekin the capital of china he told how scarce 0 that the convey 1 ances were in at city that they th en scarcely arcely sl had bad jvon ven horse drawn vehicles and oo 00 0 street car system a city of a million mi lion population lp ite aid that citA cit and arid country were livere to apostle mackay was at the held he d of the party dedicated that country c antry to the preach nig ing of the go goepel pel some time in the future hrc H e lie he referred to th h great wort wor that was yet to be ba done lie lie ile said china with and india with p pc ale the two countries conta contains contain inh ii y about half of the population of afi he I 1 globe and not a missionary dij either eitl ier country lie ile wid and t think of a half a million people being required to preach the G pel to all of these people bedfor the th c end d should ome tome t 11 ile he then du I 1 t quite a long time on Pal palastine astin ia the holy land j about the condition existing i there at the present time and how I 1 the feeling haa changed in re gards to the the jews avs returning to that country henold of the ani w that existed between the bilili c nt creeds in that land lie ile tod fold how the lie 10 ilo man mail and greek catholics had divided off one of the churches that hat the early christians built in Jeru selam to shw what animosity hatred exists between these denominations ha stated that lv ho a nig t on oil the mo hanim hamm edons of the floor had become dis dh laced aced getting gettin slightly over on oil th i 1 portion of the th e floor allotted clai clah iby by the roman in in a bi bitter tt cr fight wherein tw men were killed lie ile related haf h v the same custom exists there i bw that was in vogue in the da day C of the savior when ulim lie told thel theat more fuss full over insignificant things lings ti than tjien ey do 10 over ovel important thiap asfor or example lie he said that they haa ila a cross erected in the spot aher wh erthe the savior was crucified chieh 11 ch wis I 1 J I 1 s covered with silver and gold nd lid the letters were of di dimon monds dg le ie said that he did not think alia th a they placed any significance 0 the real mean iny ill of the cross I 1 bi on these gems ile he related ahat that jn i i a conversation with some m n what country in ill tl e world wit was s the most talked 0 like for example russia and other places that are trying ne lie forms of government ern ment to which pe e replied that lie he thought that t tape e holy land was the one which minds ds were centered and that the lie time was approaching when jews would do baek back to jerusalem which was b being cing made m de possible by the gentiles ile he told about bethlehem and the jordan and many other places af pf f much interest to the bible sf students indents ii dents in expressing the desire desil 4 to visit more remote parts of ali taj count country ry to some of the Engli rii officers who ire are still sti 11 stationed ebere they told him that ll 11 he might get th rought if he had good ilick but the other day some AsSyria us slew a number of people which shows a lack of government control |
