Show work of the elders in california PRES US he is proud ol 01 the world accomplished complis hed how it was started president partridge presided it tho tabernacle services cervices vices sunday the choir sang the glorious day is growing etc opening prayer was offered by elder james E daniels the choir rendered an anthem jaaes carried the soprano solos in fine style her voice was clearly heard above the combined chorus elder H S tanner was the first speaker he haa just returned from the californian mission oyer which he presided he haa been absent for about twenty eight months the speaker felt he has fulfilled a said with honor to himself and the people he reu resented when first he went there 4 was difficult to get more than from eight to ten in attendance at the services and they were mainly from utah who had met with persecutions at home the early part of the mission was fraught with many difficulties among which was sickness on the part of the president for six weeks with typhoid satan was evidently trying to thwart the work of the mission it was a little peculiar how the people became eventually interested in the mission by the use ot a little guile speaker and his companion got into many of the better churches and by taking part in the singing and exercises were invited to speak having thua made the acquaintance of the church they were invited to a and free advertising was edvenin tin press of the city the result was aug attendance oi fine people and the newspaper reporters invited to be present thinking the eer vices representative save glowing reports in the morning papers after that it was an earv matter to get a good at at the services and for a year or more the newspapers pave regular synopses of the remarks of the mormon elders at first it was represented that the elders were young intelligent and handsome persons a little different the the stero cormona of utah but the elders did not think it wise at that time to deny the reports tracking Tr acting was taen taken up and some sixty five or seventy five thousands of cards distributed little by little popular interest was aroused and now the mission hall is filled every sunday there are about three hundred abuls added to the church among them some of as five young people BB can be found in any part of the country the elders are in demand in many social ways and can go only a short i distance without being asked in for con veraa tion the people enjoy the company of the elders ane mission has spread from san to many other parts of the state and is in a flourishing condition at Bernardino San the elders could do nothing because the tants there believed a few of tho apostate cormons mormons Mor mons who remained there atter the move in the were depre of the people at babi buee a was who was preaching a series of discourses on and the prebi dent of the mission wilh local elders advertised a number of lectures in reply it stirred up the josephites and in the discussion that followed several families of that fact were also secured ane were often encountered after tat and they were always abu ive tive t seeking to prejudice the people their tales of massacres blood atonement polygamy etc finally grew old with the people the result was thui aba elders had wel attended meetings aheu the josephites had few at their me enga their challenges for debate wee met by meetings on alternate highl ai which each ade aa heard the ati fornias forni ap grission iris sion is today one or the iceal of the church mo intelligent men are there met in than in any other mission p iipp young aaen going to that field ought to know well the scriptures and blittle of nearly all kinds of rali gioan beliefs many scientists and other believers in modern philosophies are met daily in the californian mission speaker had found of great force the fulfillment of prophecies of tho bible the details given of the destruction of the ancient of sodom babylon By bylon tyre and other cities are of force when presented from a historical to who do not believe the scriptures the same spirit that prompted the prophets ia with the church of god today the goabel was on the earth even in abo days of adam and be looked forward to chnat as we now look back to his mission and adam offered sacrifices typical of iho macii dicea cf the son of gud patriarch 0 D edans expressed his deep interest in ane report of the california mission it is true that we have the truth and it is able to meet the moat learned one man and made the remark to the speaker a few days ago that he saw nothing iu this life but sorrow and woe all awas a scramble here for wealth to the natural man all ends with the natural laws but the gospel of christ teaches that all is connected with the plans and purposes pur noses of omnipotence god overrules all the choir sang an anthem miss Wilk insina sweet boico sang the solo benediction by pres reed smoot |