Show THE MISSION BOX I For the Poor Little Half Starved and Ragged Mormon Boys and following lesson was in the Home for and a similar one will be in the issue of LESSON FOB DE-A Christmas For 1 Why do we love I I Because it reminds Jus of God's great gifts to I L. What does he want his children to O. To live and love and give as he people give all their Christmas- presents to those who have Is C. ought to of those who or L. What do the missionaries in all our Homes try to C. Keep Christmas in the L. HW can they get Christmas gifts for so many C. Friends all over the country help them by sending Christmas barrels and L. Where do many of the and Jewels send their Christmas To our Homes for L. What is often found by C. That the children in the Homes have never known what a real Christmas was L. Who are looking forward now to a good time at C. Little New colored white children and little my dear christian missionaries in please don't forget to send many boxes and barrels of old junk to the ragged Mormon children in this Send a few boxes and barrels to the poor little Mormon children on South Temple and north streets in Salt Send a few boxes and barrels to the poor little children of the Mormon mining men tin One poor Mormon there is only worth and his income is only per His children may suffer if you do not act Won't you please get some of the overfed factory children in New Jersey to send one to the children of a poor Mormon bishop at Woods That poor bishop has never been able to ship more than two train loads of sheep per week to the eastern Won't you please get some rich and over dressed girl who winds bobbins eleven hours per day for the enormous sum of three cents per hour in the silk mills of to send some little sugar toys to the children of a poor Mormon who lives on Fifth East Salt that poor man is not worth over a and his yearly salary is only And O Mass Mission in especially that one in Don't forget to send some old worn-out wooden toys to that very poor lumberman in the junction who is worth only a little oyer and his net yearly from lumber alone is only You would better send for some of the cast off toys of the children of the rich machine hands in the factory at those bloated who get the enormous sum of for 10 hours and board m i tea cli please do your duty for If you do there may be a great deal of sorrow and suffering among the children of the Mormons T have Just if they do not get their Christmas forget the little I saw a Christmas box opened and as I looked at its contents I thought of an expression that old Aunt Sally Swipes would make on such an stars and what liberal people those eastern Christians do The first thing that came to view after the cover was removed was a corset that had done heroic the canvas on the steel stays in front was worn off and the whale-bones on the sides were It was stained under the arms from much it had never seen any soap and and was largo enough to go around a barrel and lap The next article was an From its great age and long service I could not tell to which sex it The next things that cae into view were several pairs of what were once white I hope is the night name for those I would hate to give the wrong name to so delicate a Some of those had torn and ragged ruffles around the and others appeared to halve had at one time lace in the same Some had buttons on and others had long strings around the top to suit the occasion Then came old coats and then stockings One pair that struck my fancy had the bright red and white barber-pole style of The stripes wore about one inch wide and nan around instead of up and These stockings were large and long in well preserved and quite between the ankle and the Ift a Salt Lake Barber could get hold of that pair of stockings and hang them in front of his every mining man from Park who saw them would go in and get shaved whether his whiskers leaked or There were several cute little animals playing around the and were quite rapid in their they seemed to play but occasionally one would get into a rent iu one of the garments These ac-Uvo and play little animals were shaped like a but were much wens about size of a baby's thumb nail and brown la They made me think of a juno bug has its wings of gold The fire fly has its The led bug has no wings at Hut ho gets there just the Underneath these habiliments were some toy animals for poor Mormon boys and The first a very poor little it must have been pastured In the marble quarries in It was its cars wore and its tail had caught in a barbed wire I think this was the same horse that King the third called for when he n my kingdom for a or words to that The next little animal looked somewhat like a but it it was one of Thomas the beautiful island of The next was a little ami it looked coming out from under all those under As I looked at the poor little I I It ought of Miry and her Mary had a little lamb of fleecy She trepanned its skull And bisected its Then chucked it in the mission or as a poet has had a Its head was like a It Mary through the And she got awful Time or space will not allow mo to describe any more of the contents of that mission Such a conglomerate mess of trash make the little and older coons in the Southern States hut a northern nipper would dynamite It do for the little on the plains of or it might accepted by the mushy muck Mongolians on the as we mission department a home Johnnie Little one to church lis father to a cw took up when they Lion home John After they return do the hea why M tion box this The poor benighted ne does the best he kin And if by chance ITe should want some TTe simply lets his skin The Home put the people of Utah on the same level as they do the New Koreans and Think of picking up old clothes and in the Eastern states and shipping them to Utah to educate and Christianize the shipping this trash to a State where they live and where the homes are freer from than in any other Utah has letter public school buildings and better high schools than any other She has a. greater percentage of children attending school and a less percentage of criminal illiterates and inebriates than any other Utah stands second in although the youngest I want to rev to the tend cut of the Methodist mission in and to the mission teachers in your that when you gather mission boxes in the Eastern states' for the poor people in you are the language of the darkey at a a saw Tours V. 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