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Show GRANDSON OF PROPHET h VISITING SALT LAKE Frederick M. Smith of Lamoni, la, la a visitor for a few days In Salt Lake. Mr. "Smith Is grandson of Joseph Smith, Jr.; founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Smith Is rst counsellor' to President Joseph Smith of the Reorganized Church of Jesas Christ of Latter-day Saints, . , , ' .. ' - - : -.y, Counsellor Smith is on a visit to the local reorganized church, and Is on his way to the Pacific coast", where be will .visit many of the 'churches that have been established there. His visit, he says. Is not significant In any sense of the -word. His church, he says. Is not a commercial or worldly organization. The leaders are not rich men, and the president of the church Js, comparatively comparative-ly speaking, a poor man, who owns but little beyond his own horns and his small farm. ' The church has no commercial com-mercial organizations subsidiary, to It; The reorganized church, he says, makes a semi-annual report of the receipt and expenditure of all tithes, and the report is published In the official organ of the church. . .. . - . |