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Show I TEMPLE ftND TABERNACLE. Over 500 persons have been baptized iH the Samoan mission since January 1, 1S97. The following elders, who have been traveling as missionaries in England, will sail for home December 29: W. A. N. Challis, Ueber T. Booth, John Houston, Isaac Nash, D. B. Thomas and Arthur Gardiner. The statistical report of the Southern South-ern States Mission for the first six months of the present year shows that during that period, in that mission, 37,148 meetings had been held, about 363,000 tracts distributed, about 22,000 books disposed of, while 751 persons had been baptized, 610 children blessed, 3 Sunday sehools organized and 157,-100 157,-100 families visited. The Southern States Mission is now possessed of a representative newspaper, newspa-per, the first number of which was published at the church office at Chattanooga, Chat-tanooga, December 3, 1S9S. It is known as the Latter-day Saints Southern Star and will appear weekly. It will contain con-tain the general news of the progress of the mission, articles on the faith and doctrines of the church, historical reviews, etc. Like periodicals are published in thj l'.ritish, Scandinavian, German and Netherlands missions. The Church has decided to issue 6 per cent bonds for half a million dollars dol-lars to liquidate so much of its floating float-ing debt, considerable of which bears a higher interest. These bonds will be secured by church realty, and Messrs, L. S. Hills and David Eccles are the trustees. They will be of different dif-ferent denominations to suit the pockets pock-ets of those who wish to lend the church money on this security. The desire of President Snow is to see these securities find a home market, and the present indications are that his wish will be gratified, as it is understood un-derstood that already one-half have been subscribed for. In a letter to the Deseret News the president explains ex-plains the causes that conspire to place the church in debt, and the arrang-ments arrang-ments that are being made to extinguish extin-guish the indebtedness as soon as possible. pos-sible. The Beaver branch of the Brigham Young Academy is already a pronounced pro-nounced success. Although only opened this fall it has now 1G0 students in attendance, more than half of whom are residents of Beaver City, while respectable re-spectable delegations come from Ad-amsville, Ad-amsville, Parowan, Paragoonah, Pan-guitch Pan-guitch and other southern towns. The school occupies what was formerly Fort Cameron, about one and a half miles east of Beaver. . The officers' quarters, seven two-story double houses, are used as boarding places for the students. The principal recitation rooms are in the building which was formerly used as a hospital. The grounds embrace 210 acres, and offer facilities for the establishment of an agricultural college. Six instructors are engaged with Elder E. B. Partridge Part-ridge as the president of the institution. institu-tion. Five returned missionaries spoke at the Tabernacle services Sunday afternoon, after-noon, December 18. Edward Midgley, who went east with B. II. Roberts and lieorge Hj. iryper to seek converts to the Mormon faith two years ago, told of the work accomplished in New York City and Chicago. In the latter place Mr. Midgley ssid the missionary mis-sionary work was carried on under great difficulties, and on occasions the preaching was done with a band playing play-ing "A Hot Time in the Old Town" on one side and a dance going on on the other. Leon B. Hampton described the work in Mississippi, and Joseph Stringfellow that in the London and Nottingham conferences in England. Herbert A. White, recently returned from Colorado, and Brigham Haslam, from Florida, likewise gave some of their experiences. President Lorenzo Snow 6poke upon the good results shown by the returned missionaries, and said that it would probably be a good thing if every young man in Utah could at some time in his life labor for a time in the missionary field. The speaker also dwelt upon the importance import-ance of the saints taking and following follow-ing counsel, Elders John Jones, Dan Muir, Niel L. Gardner, Robert F. Gilchrist and L. George Clark, who have been laboring in Great Britain, sailed from Glasgow for home on the 15th inst. The new presidency of the European Mission, Elder Platte D. Lyman and his counselor, Elder II. W. Naisbitt, arrived in Liverpool on Sunday, November No-vember 27. They had a long and rough passage across the Atlantic on the steamship Adria, but when they reached their destination were in the best of health and spirits. The Graham, (Ariz.) Guardian tells of an accident whereby Presidents Seymour Sey-mour B. Young and Andrew Kimball of Salt Lake City, engaged in church work in Arizona, were injured so as to confine them to their heds. They were driving w-hen a single-tree broke and struck one of the horses on the heels. The animals became unmanageable and President Kimball, thrown to thf ground, was rendered unconscious. President Younrr suifered a broken nose and was injured further by con-tactw con-tactw ith a wire ;er:i;e. Apostle Woodruff, Wood-ruff, who was with thcra. jumped from j the rebjcle and was uninjured. |