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Show KWWWWWWWVWVWWV I TEMPLE AND TABLRNftGLE,. W V WWW V V W WW wwt The Weber stake of .ion in progressing progress-ing in i-s arrange monta for a county church fnir to be held atOgden in Pep-bemer Pep-bemer or October. Elders Winslow l-'arr. ,lohn D. Parties and Alma Williams, who have been laboring in the ministry in Croat Uritain. sailed from Glasgow for home on the 10th inst. The elders in the Southern States mission are having much success in selling the Hock of Mormon: as many as seventy-five copies have thus been disposed of in a single week. The sisters of the Nottingham branch are arranging to repair the grave of Elder Jesse Y, Cherry, a missionary from Utah, who died in England in May lSii.i, and who was buried in the cemetery at.that place. A movement is on foot to get up a reunion of the surviving members of Zion's camp, the Mormon battalion, and the original 14:1 Utah pioneers of July, 1S47, but as yet the arrangements' have not assumed definite shape. Apostle Francis M. Lyman is on a visit to Macomb, 111. It was in Macomb that Apostle Lyman first saw the light, but his parents removed from the town when he was six month of age, and ho has not visited his birthplace since. Death has been very busy of late among old residents of Utah. Among the most prominent of those who have passed away within a short time are ex-Mayor Frank Armstrong of Salt Lake City, Bishop Frederick Kessler of the Sixteenth ward and the mother of Apostle M. F. Cowley. Eishop Kessler was the builder of the first flouring mill in three different states of the Union, giving him a unique pre-eminence as a pioneer in that direction. Apostle Franklin D. Richards preached, preach-ed, a lengthly discourse in the tabernacle taber-nacle at Paris, Idaho, on the 12th inst. on the subject of tithing and the return re-turn of the people to Jackson county. Mo. He told the people that they doubtless felicitated among themselves on the fine homes they possessed and their comfortable surroundings, but declared they were only sojourning in the wilderness, and would soon have to give them up and go to Jackson county, Mo., and build up Zion. The wife of Apostle Richards addressed the people for one hour and twenty minutes, min-utes, giving the mothers some good practical advice. Klder D. P. Felt, who was president of the Utah Press association in 18117 and resigned therefrom to accept a mission to the southern states, has been released and will return home on the 4th of .inly. Elder Felt was selected se-lected to establish the Southern Star, which flashed into a brilliant existence exist-ence about six months ago, and under his able editorship has grown to an abnormal ab-normal circulation, said to be over 2,000. He is the owner of the Spring-ville Spring-ville Independent, and will likely assume as-sume charge of the paper on his return. The Utah press will no doubt welcome Elder Felt into Utah journalism, as he is recognized as a bold and fearless writer of marked ability. At the meeting held in the Tabernacle Taber-nacle Sunday, Apostle Mathias Cowley spoke for about forty-five minutes, most of which time was consumed ia expounding the tenets of faith of the Mormon church. Before closing his remarks, he appealed to the Latter-day Saints to be faithful to the commandments command-ments which God had given them, one of the most important of which, he said, was the payment of tithes. Ho further said that the Lord had recently spoken to the Latter-day Saints through the prophet, President Snow, saying in elTeet that unless the Latter-day Latter-day Saints paid their tithing, they would not be entitled to the glories of the house of the Lord. Apostle llcber . I. Grant also sought t-0 incite the people to greater effort ill ,hc line of tithe-paying, as wrell as obe3'ing other commandments of Cod He said that he had never known a man to fall by the wayside in the church of .Icsus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was an honest tithe-pa.yer, a faithfu observer of the word of wisdom wis-dom and kept the. other commandment b that devolve upon members of tho church. He said that the reason apostates apos-tates from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were ho vindictive against the church was because those apostates had broken the commandments command-ments of fiod, had lost the inspiration of the spirit of iod and their minds were not at peace with the world. The benediction was pronounced by Apostle liric;hfirn Yonuff, |