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Show TEMPLE flilllffi. President Lonenzo Snow and party have returned from their visit to the : Omaha exposition. 1 AmoDg the latest Sunday school! Organized by the Latter-day Saints is one In Jefferson City, Mo. More than seventy missionaries left for various parts during the week succeeding suc-ceeding the general conference. It is expected that Elder Platte D. Lyman will leave to take charge of the European mission about November 1. Elder Andreas Peterson, of Logan, has now assumed the responsibility of presiding over the Scandinavian mission. mis-sion. .Elder Joshua H. Paul, formerly pres- ident of the Agricultural college of Utah, returned from a mission to Europe Eu-rope October 22. He was accompanied by fifteen other returning missionaries and had charge of the company. The members of the church, at the headquarters of the Samoan Mission are about commencing a central school house. It will be 30x60 feet Inside measurement, with a belfry. The ibasement, nine feet high, will be divided di-vided into three rooms, each 20x30 feet, for school purposes, the upper hall will be used for religious meet-ngs. meet-ngs. Tho building will be of con-o con-o rete. Nearly all the speakers requested to deliver lectures at the forthcoming Sunday school convention have consented con-sented to do so. The committee have sent out direct invitations to all state Sunday school officers and to individual individ-ual school superintendents, asking also two delegates be appointed from every school. A large attendance is expected. ex-pected. Founder's Day at the Brigham Young Academy, Provo, was celebrated this year by officially accepting the gifts to the labratory of physics and the labra-tory labra-tory of chemistry made by the Holt family of South Jordan and the Magle-by Magle-by family of Monroe. A ball in the new addition to the Institution closed the day. The attendance of the students stu-dents at the academy this year is gratifying grat-ifying large. QSomebody has started the report that sixty Mormon missionaries had lately left for the Sandwich Islands, the inference being that something wonderful was about to be done now the islands were annexed to the United States. The truth is that only eighl missionaries have left for the Hawaiian Islands during the present year, exclusive ex-clusive of two ladies who have gone to their husbands already doing missionary mission-ary work on the group, in which work they will assist. At the tabernacle Sunday, October 23, Elders William H. Pitt, Elijah Weiler, Jesse Badger and Joshua Selly, young men who have recently returned from missions in various parts of the world, told of their experiences in the mission field. All spoke enthusiastically enthusiastic-ally of the success of their work, of the treatment they had received at the. hands of the people among whom they had labored, and of the worth of such experiences to young men. At the close of their remarks, Angus M. Cannon Can-non related his trials and successes while serving as a missionary in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Connecticut, some forty-four forty-four years ago. The Tabernacle at Richfield, which was burned on the 15th inst., is to be rebuilt at onoe. This good news was given out immediately after the adjournment ad-journment of the building committee, which is composed of all the bishops in the Sevier stake. Chairman Brandley stated that the committee had, by a unanimous vote, decided that no time should be lost and that work would be started at once under the direction of Contractor J. H. Bowman, who will be given the contract. Twenty-two thousand thou-sand dollars will be expended, and the edifice when finished will be even handsomer than the original design. The committee decided to expend nearly S7000 more than the first contract con-tract called for. Mr. Bowman and his bondsmen were released from liability for damage by fire, and the new contract con-tract will be tak. n up with renewed energies. The committee authorized Chairman Brandley to communicate with the first presidoncs of the church requesting personal financial assistance, assist-ance, and asking them to labor with the various other stakes in the interest inter-est of the new building. Subscriptions will also be thankfully accepted from individuals, whether Mormons or non-Mormons. non-Mormons. Already several hundred dollars have been pledged by non-Mormon residents of Richfield, and no great dificulty is anticipated in raising the necessary funds. The building will be covered with a slate roof instead of shingles, which will, no doubt, be in place before cold weather sets in so work can be prosecuted all winter. Another Utah octogenarian has joined the great majority. Patriarch Martin Lenzi departed this life October 18, at the age of 83 years. He was for many years counselor in the bishopric of the Twelfth ward. Salt Lake City. He was buried October 21. Members of the general board of the Deseret Sunday School Union are paying pay-ing visits to all the Sunday schools i Davis stake. They expect to do the same wtth all the schools in Morgan Summit, Weber and other stakes b fore the winter iB through. |