| Show AHUV Till Kit Ml HEN PrIor 10 the colume cement of the if present winter statistical reports had been tendered showing that from Ir Jt 8000 to 10000 young men all or nearly at I 1 O f whom have ga cart a nominal membership In the Church are fount 1U In the various wards of the several 1 Blake of Z left whose names did not appear on the membership I rolls of the Young Mens Mutual Improvement Improve-ment association Nearly all of them I were sons of Latterday fcafnt parents 1 W par-ents yet were not manifesting by t t any works of their own active fallh In the Gospel They Were rapidly np pro ching mature manhood without I II 1 the taklns plate within them of any spiritual development ji It In I wholly Inconsistent with the Pit gen to of the Oospel to allow such a t host of the children of the king dom In grow to maturity In such a 1 state and during the fall a plan that I had for JIB purpose their spiritual reclamation I Hj re-clamation was matured b > the proper I r feature of the Church The chief feature of this plan wan the dlstilhu I II tlon under proper organization I > I throughout tho several Suites of a sufficient number of missionaries f 1 whose sncetal labor should 1 bo to 1Jt search out and enlist within the ranks of the Y It t M I A the joung men 11 I belonging to the lass lefcrred to Karl In the I winter these jl I missionaries began to too I dig rll J trlbutpd until lit the present time MV l uuoui one nunureil full twentj of them 1f1 oi rNef t fJ are 11 In I nctlie servlee Some of them nril Ia toGrIng In l every or nearly eVOrY t organized flak of ZIon and the reports I r J j re-ports they render show that file movement move-ment In whicH they are engnged I Is re I rel Ins the hlesilng of the Almighty nn 1 II Jfl the ioop ratlon of the heavens In ono Stake alone about I seven hundred young men have been Induced to Join I the Mutual and the winters work of the T missionaries In that Stake Is I by no means complete In one town In another Stake not a large town either the Illshop Joeo ely said to the min slomulos You will hae to cense sour labors hire or else we will hoW to build n larger building for the young I mena meetings The enrollment In that place was One hundred and sixty It Pi I Pro t Ifyinj to the Saints Bcner 1 nlly to learn of the progress the wall of the Lord H I making among the nations na-tions of the earth and to hear front > arlou parts of the world the urgent anu rcpentcu caiiB for more now lon nrles I whkh reach the I general I author ities of the Church every day but ran be responded to onl > In pail In funny liutnnui not half an many missionaries I 1 mission-aries can be I furnished ati are asked for Hut It la I far more gratlfjlng to parents In Zion to lines the roof ro-of a movement that la I Infusing their own sons with a lively faith In the Gospel for this means that their sons are to be Amed nod to breonis saviors I of multitudes pf the Varths inhabitants The aospel 1 harvest In man of the nation is very great und the number of harvester Is I Inadequate But God has Ills own methods of Increasing the ranks of the workers In Ills cause The oung men born among these mountains moun-tains under the covenant which makes them heirs of the bletulngs of the Gospel Gos-pel are the Instruments Ho has chosen In 1 1 vance for the accomplishment of Ills purposes and In Ills own time and way He will enllit them In Ills work I without however Intolfeilng with the exercise of their OWn agency Km oil t ment Into the I Young Mono Mutual Im r I provernent assoc Intlon I means entranc Into a school In whlih u Young mar will be I Instructed In the principles > or 111 and salvation and trained and equimed Preparatory In becoming n Messenger of IhooJrlnelple among the rmllo of the cRrth ov t T i m ir IIne reached ly the movement here o d me 1M by uny means do proved or nbindoned As a rule they arc the reverse Their moral ihsra ter Is I good und their Inlrlkcti are bright whll physICally they arc a superb race Ily nature they are brave and resolute and their chief need In an aunkening In their hearts r I of an Interest In spiritual things When this awakening Is I fully section pushed and Is I followed by pro or In structlon In the principles of the 0 pel and a testimony of the truth of the amn theno young men become ndmt ably adapte for the work they have Ioen fore Ohnsen to 010 It Is I Indeed gratifying beyond ex prrsslon to witness the > dcvclopinen that ore In prngrtfis among the young men of Zion on the lines here Indlca ed and the local 1rlesthood III all the wards and Blake and especially the parents and friends of such young men ns are being sought out for cnllitmcr In Gospel l work should tlo nil In their power to aid and iidvamo tho mission IIry incitement now under viny for tbli purpose |
