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Show I asked a maid in fair Rordeax To marry me. 1 loved her seaux, Ah, me! it was a crushing bleaux When she replied, "You booby, nea." So then I journeyed to Cologne To wed a girl I long had kuognc. When I got there my bird had flogne, And I. alas! am still alogne. So now I linger in Marseilles, With cheerfulness that never feilles Hoping that soon some favoring geilles Will put new wind into myseilles. John C. M. Valentine, in July St. Nicholas. I TEMPLE AND TABERNflGLE,. WW WWW W WMUVt WW i There is some talk of changing Hie headquarters of the southern states mission from Chattanooga to Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Elder Theodore Brandley.late bishop of Richfield. Sevier county, having moved to Alberta, has been appointed bishop of the newly-formed settlement of Stirling, south of Lethbridge. The Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir company com-pany in touring the east will consist of a male choir of sixty-five, including soloists, and a ladies choir of seventy-Bve, seventy-Bve, with an orchestra of from sixteen to twenty. Stake annual Sunday school conferences confer-ences will be held during August as follows: Alberta, rth and 6th; Cassia and Woodruff, 12th and 13th; Cache and San Juan, 19th and 20th; Sevier and Tooele, 2iith and 27th. Mr. Higbee has received an offer of 812,000 for the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir to sing a week at Carnegia hall, New York. He refuses the offer, as he is sure he can better it. The offer shows how the trip is being regarded by amusement promoters. President Snow says he was pleased with the results of the recent gathering gather-ing and was satisfied that it would be productive of much good to the church. President George Q. Cannon was asked as to his views of the results of the assembly, as-sembly, and refused to be quoted. The two new Mormon settlements in Alberta have been named respectively Stirling and McGraw. The first named is on the line of the railroad, the second sec-ond west towards Cardston, probably eighteen miles from that city. Another An-other district known as East Etna is also growing into shape. Elder George R. Emery is now bishop of the Sixteenth ward, Salt Lake City, he having been chosen to succeed the late Bishop Frederick Kesler, to whom he was second counselor. Elder Heber Iverson is the new bishop of the Second Sec-ond ward, Salt Lake City, his predecessor, prede-cessor, Bishop L. G. Hardy, having moved to Canada. Elder Henry M. Tanner having returned re-turned from Ann Arbor, Mich., Elder Mathonihah Thomas, of Davis county, has been appointed to succeed him as the president of the church at that place, which is almost entirely composed of students at the University of Michigan, where the Utah delegation delega-tion has a very high reputation. The superintendency of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Im-provement associations announce the following conjoint conferences during August: Bannock stake, 1st; Salt Lake Btake, 13th: Juab (at Nephi) and Oneida (at Franklin), 12th and 13th; Cassia, (at Oakley), 15th; Woodruff, (at Evanston, and Pocatello (at Pocatello), 19th and 20th; San Juan, 21st; Fremont, Fre-mont, (at Rexburg), 26th and 27th; Alberta, Al-berta, (at Cardston), 20th. Hereafter no member of the Mormon Mor-mon church who is delinquent in the payment of tithes will be permitted to celebrate his marriage and other religious re-ligious rites within the temples of the church. This was the rule that was urged by the general authorities at the conference of general authorities held in Salt Lake City Sunday, July 2, the most important gathering held by the Latter-day Saints in recent years. When President Snow called the as- sembly to order at 10:30 there were between be-tween 600 and 700 people in the two large rooms on the second floor of the temple thrown open. Every stake was represented in fiis number, which constituted a gathering of officials from every locality, from Canada to Mexieo. Of forty-two . presidents of stakes forty were present, and about 500 bishops, together with the first presidency, twelve apostles, seven presidents of seventies, the church patriarch pa-triarch and the heads of various church institutions were in attendance. attend-ance. Thirty or fort3' special invitations, invita-tions, including those to several ladies la-dies were issued. Music was furnished by the temple choir. Payment of tithes was the theme of the seventeen church leaders who addressed ad-dressed the meeting and the discourses were in a vein similar to those that have recently been delivered at the Tabernacle and at other church meetings. meet-ings. No definite rule or plan to enforce en-force better observance of the law of tithing was adopted, and the instruction instruc-tion noted above to withhold recommends recom-mends to the temple from delinquents does not mean that payment of tithing tith-ing will be made a test of fellowship, Those who do not conscientiously observe ob-serve this law will not be excommunicated, excommuni-cated, but they will be denied admission admis-sion to the temples. Prof. Stephens is busily selecting his chorus, orchestra a nd soloists for the eastern tour. The chorus and soloists will be made up exclusively of Tabernacle Taber-nacle choir members, a possible exception excep-tion may be Nannie Tout, the Ogden soprano. Of course Mr. Kaston. who is now in New York, is still a member, and the same might be said of Mrs. i Viola Pratt Gillette, should she be re- ! turned from Australia in time to take the trip with her former companion I singers and director teacher, Mr. Ste- ! phens. |