Show Mormon Centennial Eff uY a r y y k t 4 Adv y aly w a v. v 4 R M r t ta a F i h y n Z aC g x nail A wn i a. a C Y p a j yN C wow t own v T w r. r a it N C v w. w n y act d. d a a jh Y a F r. r Y F f t e L EVEN EYEN hundred thousand members of the Church Church of Jesus Christ of Lat Lat- ter Day Saints commonly known as the Mormons t will observe the one hundredth anniversary of the organization organIzation organization organ organ- of their church In a tion which is to begin Sunday April 0 G 1030 1930 at Salt LaJ Lake e City r and which will last a week The celebration will be probably the largest religious event ent ever r held hed in western United States and will Ill attract more people than any other religious gathering In America with the possible exception of the recent Eucharistic congress of the Roman noman CaU Catholic church In Chi CM- cago Thousands of visitors will attend U the m major jor celebration celebration celebration cel cel- to be beheld held heid In Salt Lake that thai we week k comIng coming coming com com- ing from all nIl over oyer the Union from from from- C Canada nada and land from Mexico while representatives of of congregations congregations congre a- a of the church In foreign lands will also be present Dally Daily sessions will be held in the great Salt Lake tabernacle and ever every evening e a pageant pageant pageant will he given there depicting g the UIe rise and progress of the church Taking part In this pageant pageant ant will he a cast of scores and the tabernacle choir of voices heard during the winter winter- er over national radio bl broadcast wl will l sing under the direction direction direction tion of Prof Anthony C. C Lund accompanied by bythe bythe bythe the great t tabernacle bernacle organ pla played ed by hy Prof Tracy Y Cannon This pa pageant will be repeated nightly until all aU who desire to see it have seen it The tabernacle will accommodate about each night On the opening day of the celebration April C G every Latter Day Saint community In the world Including those In la all an European countries In North and South America South SoutI Africa Australia New Zealand Hawaii the South Sea islands and the Orient will hold simultaneous gatherings c celebrating celebrating cele cele- le- le brating the event At each of these gatherings will be heard read a message from the presidency of the church In order to accomplish this the message will be translated into a n score of Ian lan lan- One One- feature of this world-wide world celebration will willbe willbe be the illumination by use of Qt huge flood lights of t the seven temples of the church Most these of structures are situated on the highest or most prominent parts of ot t the e cities clUes In which they stand and when Illuminated d thus at night will be vis- vis visIble Bile Ible for tor miles around These These- temples are located at Salt Lake Logan ManU Mantl and St. St t. t George Utah at Mesa Ariz Cardston Alberta Canada and Laie Laic Hawaiian Islands President Heber J. J Grant will be in general charge of the celebrations On April G 6 1830 six men assembled on the farm of ot Peter Whitmer near Fayette In Seneca county New Y York rk and th there there re formally organized the Church of ot J Jesus us Christ of ot Day Latter Saints Tho The men who signed the paper width which legalized the church as as a religious h body dy in that state were Joseph Smith Jr Oliver Cowdery li Hyrum rum Smith Peter Whitmer Whitmer Jr Samuel H. H Smith and David Whitmer In December 1830 10 the f founders of the church decided deckled to move mme to Ohio and they settled near Dear KIrtland In that state where the first organization organ organ- n of ot a first presidency took toole place on March 18 1883 with Jo Joseph eph Smith as ns president presIde t and Sidney RIgden and Frederick C. C Williams as counselor coun coun- In June of that year the first temple of ot the church was ag beg begun at nt KIrtland Th The history Isto i of the church has has been on one of steady growth and repeated moves westward Soon after fter building the temple at nt KIrtland and nud the the body of ot tb the church was moved to the Missouri Missouri- Illinois region with headquarters In the town of ot Nauvoo III Ill a ft city which h the the Mormons practically cally cany built up themselves and In which they erected elected erected erect elect ed their second temple But religious persecution persecution tion forced them to move westward again and In 1840 the movement to the Rocky mo mountains was projected In the spring of 1847 the Mormon Pioneer com corn pany was vas organized by Brigham Young anti and Rn on April 14 of ot that year ear set out for the Rocky moun thins The party consisted of 73 wagons men meri t three ree women and und two children all all' P persons In all After Atter a tr trying Journey of three months across the great gluf plains this party arr arrived ed in Salt La Lake ke valley TaUey on July 24 21 1847 1547 and camped on the the pres prest ent site of Salt Lake City W Word rd was sent back to the tho other traveling rumps ramps that a resting place lace had been fo found nd and the site Bite for a a new temple selected During the next the work worl of colon c 1 z a tion went forty forward aces rapidly In ISiS 1855 and 1856 hun hun- reds of Europeans were fleeing from their native na- na tive lands ands been because use of the Crimean war and the high cost of food tood Among them were were to many who had J joined th the Mormon n church and who wanted anted S In to in the reach western the IG Zion n whIch had been established wilderness It soon became a seri serl serious ous problem for tor Brigham Youn Young how to get et these people from the Missouri river to Utah Most MOB of them were poor and had no money with which to buy wagons and oxen So he devised th the a p plan an of having them build hand-carts hand and use these to transport theIr belongings across the plains The result was the now-famous now cart Hand cart en 1 1 s arty iT 1 Jy l a fI t 1 x a kj t tf II f i y Z S. S 1 Y 1 This 1 This Is a view aview of the famous Salt Lake tern tem p In thc the grounds ground where the centennial f celebration of the Latter-Day Latter Saints church will willbe willbe willbe be held This structure was built in pioneer days and required 40 years In the construction It was was built at a cost of This 2 2 This Is the Interior of the Salt Lake taber taber- nacle Its seating capacity Is Is At the far end is shown the great organ one of the most famous org organs ns of the world an Instrument that has been frequently heard on national radio broadcasts broadcast This 3 This exterior view shows the tabernacle e at Salt Lake Lak City the building In which the principal principal pal gatherings of the centennial celebration of the Mormon church will wilf be held This structure Is feet long and feet wide and has a self self- supporting shaped dome-shaped roof Co m tion an epic In American history of heroism pathos and loyalty to an Ideal If It this migration 1 I IS an epic no less a one is the story of ot the colonization of at the Intermountain region region region-by by these people In a wilderness ss filled with savage tribes of Indians of ot uncertain temper and carried on amid all aU the hardships hardship's and privations of pioneer life But their trl triumph mph over oyer all difficulties difficulties cuI ties is written in the history of ot the state of ot Utah and It was aptly summed up by Theodore heodore Roosevelt when he once said Here In in inthis this state the pIoneers and those who came after them took not the land that would ordinarily be chosen as asand asland asland land and that yields return for fOI little effort You took tooka a 0 territory which at the outset was called aIled after the desert and you literally not literally not fi figuratively figuratively- made maIe the desert blossom as I the rose So It ft Is this achievement as well weH as the anniversary anniversary anni anol of the founding of ot a religion that Is being celebrated In Salt Lake City eIty In In April There Isa is a also so being celebrated a social order which Is perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps unique In the history of mankind The Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon has always held the he principle that people who ar are contented content vocationally make better better bet bet- ter citizens and church members In order to assist its membership to be contented contented con con- tented In Its various vocations trades and IndustrIes Industries industries Indus indus- tries the church has hns fostered several Indu industries trIes and promoted agriculture sari awl manufacturing as a ame me means ns of Insuring profitable le employment t for It Its members and to help build up Industrially the localities wll where ere the tile church members settle Kettle This policy has resulted resulted- In In- In occasional occasional charges being hurled at the tile rh ch that It Is bein being commercialized commercialized commer but the church hurch in carr carrying in out the above mentioned policy lu has bo's s had only the welfare of ot its members at heart As a result of this so called business policy of the church the leaders of the chur church h have ha assisted assisted its members In the construction of ot many miles of ot Irrigation canals In the building of 01 railroad tines lines and in the establishment of factories Before telegraph tele tele- tele telegraph graph lines were well established In th the mountain districts by commercial companies the church built Its own telegraph lines to serve sere Its Us members and other pioneers of ot the tile region Among the kinds of fact factories rIes s established by the church hurch ar are several woolen mills it has Ims assisted assist assist- ed In opening up the sugar beet business In the mountain mountain regions and assisting in the financing of construction tIn of 01 several sc large sugar r factories and beet grinding plants Flour mills were dished with church assistance even hi in pioneer days and at least one line Hue was partially financed with church funds because It was being built through a region where members of of the church would be greatly benefited by hy such ce con cap cap- Two of the largest st and finest hotels lintels Iny In Salt Lake City y were built by the church anti and S 'S v j jone one one of t ls them is operated by the church T tOday Not ot only have hav these projects been encouraged in n the Rocky M Mountain area but bul In other states as well Also in Hawaii the sugar cane and other plantations have hae benefited by Latter Day Saints church assistance A large part of the Hawaiian n island population is Mormon All money spent spent- by the tle church in Industrial activity such as here mentioned comes comes right back to members of the church who are the principal beneficiaries the chur church h Itself not participating to accumulate profits for itself through a large missionary system has been a feature n e of ot iI the e Church of H Jesus sus Christ Christof of Latter Day Saints ever since I Its S organization The s system as os a at t present carried out is as as fo follows follows fol fol- lows Young men and women are called caned by the pres pres- presidency presidency of t the church to go to some various missions of ot the church These missions are to be found in all all parts o of Europe In North and S South Uth America In South Africa New Zealand Australia Hawaii Samoa and other South Sea Islands In Palestine Armenia and missionary work worl has been carried ou on In Japan and China The time length of missions fulfilled by the men and wo women en called ailed as above m mentioned varies from two to o five years although re recently a six sl mont months months' ls' ls missionary term has been inaugurated for persons having previously filled a l longer nger term mission The missionaries narles for the most part ar ore are young people ranging In age from el eighteen te n to thirty yea years of ag age although there a are e a f few Y older men and women in most groups All the missionaries pay all of their own expenses for travel board and room and even e for the literature which they hey anti'S distribute TJ They y receive no salary or any kind of or financial remuneration fro from n the church hurch ane and give their time and service as well as their expense funds as as' as asa a free will offering n f to the church When a n missionary is call called cd whether l he lie e comes from some sonic Utah town ton or from some city In In some ome other state or from Canada or 01 Mexico he comes to Salt Lake Lalie to receive preliminary Instructions and to o be ordained as M a n missionary He th then n is assigned to some missionary territory There are sev seven n of these missionary districts or missions in the United St St. States Stites one In do Canada and until the Calles Canes regime barred d missionary work in n. n the southern republic by non non citizens there was a mission in Mexico Tile The h missionaries distribute mt much ch literature e bya by bya I a a house to house to use canvass canvass' method also at meetIngs meetIngs meetings meet meet- Ings held In halls chapels and on str streets ets where open air meetings are conducted In cases where i Americans go on missions to fo foreign lands they Ic learn rn the language as as' as quickly as p possible after their arrival In that foreign n land but In Jn the meantime meantime mean mean- tI time e the they do much in III the line of f distribution of ot literature Each territorial district known as a mission is Is presided over b by a president and subdivisions of these missions missions' are presided over by district presidents In each city or other locality within a district brunches branches are organized with one of ot the resident members of the church usually acting as the presiding officer there In the these c organized branches and districts within the missions all rill of the work of the ch church Is carried carried carrl car car- rl ried l on among the members of or th the church there just as fiS it Is carried on In Salt Lal Lake City among the members of the church In to that city Sunday schools are arc organized ed mutual improvement associations asso- asso cl which are arc young peoples people's societies and primary associations which hold V weekly kly y weekday week week- day desY ny meetings for tor little children In which th tb j t I children are taught principles pf pi 1 ni I |