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Show VWVWWVWVWVWVWWW 5 TEMPLE AND TftBERNAGLE.. 5 Elder .lames L. McMurrin, first counselor coun-selor in the presidency of the European Euro-pean mission, reached Liverpool April 11. Dr. James E. Taltnage has been elected elect-ed a member of the Philosophical society so-ciety of Great Britain, better known as the Victoria institute. President Snow and Dr. Karl G. Ma?ser were in attendance at the commencement com-mencement exercises of the Weber Slake academy at the Ogdcn tabernacle on the evening of June 7. The meetings in the sjalt Lake stake on Sunday, June 4, were conducted exclusively ex-clusively by recently returned missionaries. mis-sionaries. They were supposed to be in some foreign land trying to make converts, and they were listened to with wrapt attention. Elder D. P. Felt, of Springville, who is on a mission in the southern states and is conducting the Southern Star at Chattanooga, writes that he is soon to be released, and will be home by the 4th of July.. He will then resume the publication of the Springville Independent. Inde-pendent. The whole church in Norway has up to this year been included in one conference, con-ference, but during the late visit to Scandinavia of Elder Platte D. Lyman, president of the European mission, it was divided into three, to be known as the Christiana, Bergen and Trondh-jem Trondh-jem conferences. Of the Sunday schools reported in the organized stakes of Zion, 93 have an enrollment not to exceed 50: 191 have between 50 and 100; 199 between 100 and 200: 97 between 200 and 300; 48 between 300 and 400: 25 between 400 and 500; 13 between 500 and 700; one above 700 and one (Lehi) above 1,200. The Pennland steamer, according to a dispatch received at the office of President Snow on the 7th inst., has safely arrived at Queenstown. Among the Utah people on board were Joseph F. Smith, Jr., and Richard Smith, William Wil-liam B. Armstorn, Arthur A. Woods and George Bowman of Salt Lake and D. H. Robinson of Pleasant Grove. The services of Colonel Willard Young-, of the Second U. S. Volunteer Engineers, having proved so eminently successful in the sanitary Improvement Improve-ment of Havana. Cuba, he has been engaged, since his retirement from the volunteer services, by an extensive New York company to be their genera' manager in a like work in the city of New Orleans, La. President Lorenzo Snow, with Pres. ident Joseph F. Smith and Elders Brigham Young, Francis M. Lyman, Seymour B. Young, Charles H. Wilcken, Arthur Winter and LeRoi C. Snow, attended at-tended a special conference of the Millard Mil-lard stake of Zion at Deseret June 3, 4 and 5. President Snow intends to spend much of his time during the coming summer visiting the people in the remoter stakes of Zion. Congressman B. H. Roberts left June 6 for Alberta, Canada, to look after some land interests and attend the stake conference of the church. Ecclesiastical Ec-clesiastical work in line with his duties as one of the seven presidents of seventies sev-enties will be performed, several quo" rums remaining to be organized In and about Cardston. Mr. Roberts will be away from Salt Lake for two weeks. President Snow and party returned to Salt Lake city from a visit to Deseret Des-eret June 6, very much pleased with what they found in the south. The president states that the people are comfortably situated, and have built a new meeting house, which was dedicated dedi-cated June 4. The church farm was visited and the party was much interested inter-ested in the enormous new reservoir recently buiH there, which will give the farmers ample facilities for irrigation. irriga-tion. President Snow shook hands with 700 people a day, and is in excellent ex-cellent health. He visited Morgan last Sunday and. attended conference. The president may visit Malad the latter lat-ter part of this month. The latest lady missionary to leave Salt Lake City for England is Mrs. Lydia D. Alder, widow of the late George D. Alder. Mrs. Alder has always al-ways been prominent in church circles and the authorities believe that her work will be valuable. She has been a member of the Relief society of the Salt Lake stake for over thirty years, and is also a prominent figure in the Woman's Press club. Mrs. Alder has been set apart for labor in England largely, but it is probable that she will spend some time in Germany, where her son Walter, 18 years of age, and who is spokeD of as one of the brightest bright-est young missionaries that ever went abroad, has been laboring for the past eight month. The Richfield tabernacle committee has decided upon purchasing a large, handsome organ to be in place for the dedicatory services. The instrument decided upon is a vocalion illuminated pipe organ with pipes equal to a 152-pipe 152-pipe organ. It will be seven feet one inch across, ten feet, ten inches high and three feet five inches deep, and i contain a double key board and latest J improved foot pedals for swel'.e. etc. Miss Baker will be sent to Salt Lake I to receive special instructions on the j instrument from Professor Daynes. |