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Show r BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930. PAGE TWO I Romer, Minnie Kelstrum, Varna Mortensen, Jennie Miller, Erma Miller, Lottie Muuns, and Mary Petersen. A delicious tray luncheon was served. Mrs. Christensen was presented with a beautiful potted plant Next Sunday at 10 o'clock everybody not to Salt Lake are invited to attend a radio Sermon at the Chapel where the program give nin Salt Lake at the Centenial will be followed and all are ask to bring a clean white hankerchief. The regular Sunday evening conjoint will also be held here at 7 Eiwood - r- .A : - - am. - ' ! Q'iMPr A large number of the young- people from here enjoyed the Senior Hop at the High School, last Friday. L. C. Petersen and Ed. Haslop went to Draper, last Saturday along with the Poultry association. They received much benefit from their trip.' Those who visited the Temple at Logan last week were Mr. and Mrs. Parley W. Christensen, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jensen, J. P. Christensen, Mrs. H. P. Rasmussen Mrs. H. P. o'clock. Elmer Nielsen and Wayne Francom Larson and Lloyd Hunsaker. to Ogden on business last went Mr. and Mrs. Cleon Jensen and Mr. daughters Margery and Albertha, and Mrs. Booth and son of Ogden, Iva Hunsaker and son Gwendelyn, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Green, last Sunday. The Church architect of Salt Lake City, visited here last Sunday and He was examined the building. pleased and surprised that such a wonderful building- had been erected Jack is at so small a cost. Miss Dollie Thompsen of Clear &. rapt, poptuax . Creek and Miss Pearl Mortensen, of Standrod, spent the weIifcnd visiting their parents, Mr. and TVrs. June Thompsen and Mrs. Mary Mortensen. Both girls are teaching school out there. Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Hansen went to Brigham and Ogden on business last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Casper Andreasen attended the funeral of a relative at Brigham City last Monday. Mr .and Mrs. L. S. Mann has returned from Salt Lake and are spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. W. E, Woods. Mr. Mann's health is greatly SPRING DRY CLEANING improved. Dr. Luke, of the High Council visitThere's another season's wear in ed here last .Sunday evening at our Sacrament meeting. His discourses your old clothes if you'll have were greatly enjoyed. them cleaned and pressed. Tuesday, April 1st, The Relief We take out spots, brighten colors Society had a surprize party for Mrs. J. P. Christensen, in honor of her and completely renew your garbirthday in connection with their regments. ular meeting. The special guests beside the guest of honor, were her HOFFMAN PRESSER J. P. Christensen, Stake Board and equipment members. Mrs. O. L. Brough. Mrs. K. for Dry Cleaning. H. Fridal, Jr, A. L. Cook, Mrs. Lars Anderson, Mrs. Margaret Pack, and Delivery Service. Mrs. oJhnsen, all of Tremonton, and East Tremonton. and the following n Trade at Home and Enjoy members: President Eva L. ChristenProsperity. sen. 1st counselor, Eva B. Hansen, 2nd counselor, Dagmar Andersen, Abbigal U. S. Andersen. Mary Ann Green, Margaret Christensen, Mary Mortensen, Jno. E. Lythgoe, Manager Dorthea Hansen, Kjestine Rosmussen, Violet Jensen, Mary Larsen, Valberg - ,lUir4ths Ml rfpTi ,S S iir III 1 ti "J'iHL EVEN hundred thousand members of "the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- "ifj-1 ter-Da'Hf-Saints, commonly known as the Mormons, will observe the one II '.hundredth anniversary of the organization of their church in a celebra- ,. tion wlrTch is to begin Sunday, April .6, 1930, at Salt Lake City, and which will last a week. ' The celebration will be probably - v--''the largest religious event ever held In western United States, and will attract more people than any tther . religious gathering In America, with the possible exception of the recent Eucharistlc congress'of the Itoman Catholic church In Chl- - M Z III J y tL ! L&h lilt J .jf - ( . tf d . s Th-uni- now-famou- -- ' JLwi-- :fV- - ? ,vSf7i Hi-- v flfl , ,lUu "ii-- ' ' J XQ I, l " VPff&ffv A HI .,- Thousands of visitors will attend the major celebration to be held in Salt Lake that week, coming from all over the Union, from Canada and fromt Mexico, while representatives of congregations of the church In foreign lands will also be present. Dally sessions will be held In the great Saltake tabernacle, and every evening a giveu there, depicting the rise and progress of the church. Taking part In this pagoust of scores, and the tabernacle eant will bt choir of 350 voices, heard during the winter over national radio broadcast, will sing under the direction of Prof Anthony C. Lund, accompanied by the great tabernacle organ, played by Prof. Tracy Y. Cannon. This pageant will be repeated nightly until "all" who desire to see it have seen it. The tabernacle will accommodate about 0,000 each night; ,; On the opening day of the celebration, April 8, Saint community In the world, every Latter-Da- y Including those In all European countries, in North and South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, the South Sea islands, and the Orient, !, will hold simultaneous gatherings celebrating trie'" event. At each of these gatherings will belieard read a message from the presidency of the church. In order to accomplish this, the message will be translated Into a score of languages, j.y One feature of this world-wid- e celebration wilt be thfe ffltumlnation by use of huge flood lights of the seven temples of the church. Most of these structure! are situated on the highest or most promiaerit parts of the cities in which they stand, and when illuminated thus at night will be visible for miles around. These temples are located at Salt Lake, Logan, Manti and St. George, Utah ; at Mesa, Ariz. ; Cardston, Alberta, Canada, and LaIe, Hawalian islands. President Heber J. Grant will be in general charge of the celebrations. ' On.April 6, 1830, six men assembled on the farm Peter .Whitmer, near Fayette in Seneca county. Newr York, - and there formally organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Da- y Saints. The men who signed the paper which legalized the church as a religious body In that state were Joseph Smtfh, Jr., Oliver Cowdery, Hyrum Smith. Peteftyhltmer, Jr., Samuel H. Smith and David Whitmer. In December, 1830, the founders of the church deej'ded to move to Ohio and they settled nearfKirtland in that state where the first organization of & first presidency took place on March 18, 1883,.. with Joseph Smith as president and Sidney Rlgden and Frederick C. Williams as counselors.1 In June of that year the first temple of the church' was begun at Klrtland. The hfstory of the church has been one of " growth and repeated moves westward steady ' Soon after building the temple at Klrtland and the Abody of the church was moved to the Missouri lillllnols region with headquarters In the town of Nauvoo, III., a city which the Mormons practically, built up themselves and In which they erect-etheir second temple. But rellgtous persecution forced them to move westward again and In 1840 the' movement to the Itocky mountains was projected. ; . ' In trie spring of 1847 the Mormon Pioneer company was organized by Brlgham Young and on April 14 of that year set out for the Rocky moun-taIns- , ,Tlie party consisted of 73 wagons, 143 men, three women and two children ; 148 persons In all. After a trying Journey of three months across the great" plnius this party arrived In Salt Lake valley bn July 24. 1847, and camped on the pres ent site of Salt Lake City. Word was sent back to the othvr traveling camps that a resting place had been' found and the site for a new templo selected. ,T During the next few years the work of colonlzn tlon went, forward rapidly. In 1S,"3 and 1STM5 hun Jreds of Europeans were fleeing from their nn tlve lands hecause of the Crimean war and the high cost of. food. Among them were many wh had Joined the Mormon church and who wanted to reach the "Zion" which hnd been establish?;! In the westfrn wilderness. It soon becsiiue a nerl ous problem for r.rlghnni Young how to get these people from the Missouri river to Utah. Slost of (hem were poor and had no money with which t buy wagons and oxen. So he devised the plan of nml nse these 1 having them build bnnd-cnrtt trnns;ort their belongings across the plains. s Ilnnd-cnr- t wns the emigr ' J T?f 'AMI 'tTm M: 4itvll , ; bus-ban- d. Home-Tow- CLEANERS X III c- - ""V- - - - w broadcasts. 3. This exterior view shows the tabernacle at Salt Lake City, the building In which the principal gatherings of the centennial celebration of the Mormon church will be held. This structure Is 250 feet long and 150 feet wide, and has a -- dome-shape- d ii - 1. This is a view of tha famous Salt Lake temple which is In the grounds where the centennial celebration of the Latter-Da-y Saints church will be held. This structure was built in pioneer days and required 40 years In the construction. It was built at a cost of $4,000,000. 2. This Is the interior of the Salt Lake tabernacle. Its seating capacity Is 9,000. At the far end Is shown the great organ, one of the most famous organs of the world; an Instrument that hat been frequently heard on national radio , v vX III roof. $ tion," an epic In American history of heroism, pathos and loyalty to an ideal. If this migration is an epic, no less a one is the story of the colonization of the lntermountain region by these people in a wilderness filled with savage tribes of Indians of uncertain temper, and carried on amid all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. But their triumph over all difficulties is written in the history of the state of Utah and it was aptly summed up by Theodore Roosevelt when he once said : "Here in this state the pioneers and those who came after them took not the land that would ordinarily be chosen as land that yields return for little effort. You took a territory which at the outset was called after the desert, and you literally not figuratively-m- ade the desert blossom as the rose." So It is this achievement, as well as the of the founding of a religion, that is being celebrated in Salt Lake City In April. There is also being celebrated a social order which is, perhaps, unique In the history of mankind. The Mormon church has always held the principle that neople who are contented vocationally make better citizens and church members. In order to assist its membership to be contented in its various vocations, trades and industries, the chnrch has fostered several industries, and promoted agriculture and manufacturing as a means of Insuring profitable employment for its members, and to help build up Industrially the localities where the church members settle. This policy has resulted In occasional charges being hurled at the church that it Is being "commercialized," but the church, la carrying out the above mentioned policy, has had only the welfare of its members at heart. As a result of this "business policy" of the church, the leaders of the church have assisted its members In the construction of many miles of irrigation canals, In the building of railroad lines, and In the establishment of factories. Before telegraph lines were well established In the mountain districts by commercial companies, the church hullt its own telegraph lines to serve Its members ..and other pioneers of the region. Among the kinds of factories established by Mie church nre several woolen mills; It has asstst--- d In opening up the sugar beet business In the mountain regions, and assisting in the financing :f construction of several large sugar factories beet grinding plants. Flour mills were established with church assistance even in pioneer i'hjh, nnd fit lenst one ralrond line was partially Innnced with church funds because It was being ! .illt through a region where members of the 'lurch would be greatly benefited by such con- I'fion. Two of the larrnrf nnd finest hotels In 't Lake City were built by the church, and annl-versar- y illl III JJ one of them is operated by the church today. Not only have these projects been encouraged ia the Rocky Mountain area, but in other states as well. Also in Hawaii, the sugar cane and other plantations have benefited by Latter-Da-y Saints church assistance. A large part of the Hawaiian island population is Mormon. All money spent by the church in industrial activity such as here mentioned comes right back to members of the church who are the principal beneficiaries, the church itself not participating to accumulate profits for itself. Proselyting through a large missionary system has been a feature of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Da- y Saints ever since its organization. The system as at present carried out is as follows: Young men and women are called by the presidency of the church to go to some of the various missions of the church. These missions are to be found in all parts of Europe, in North and South America, In South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, Samoa and other South Sea islands, in Palestine, Armenia, and missionary work has been carried on in Japan and China. The time length of missions fulfilled by the men and women called as above mentioned varies from two to five years, although recently a six months' missionary term has been Inaugurated for persons having previously filled a longer term mission. The missionaries for the most part are young people, ranging in age from eighteen to thirty years of age, although there are a few older men and women in most groups. All the missionaries pay all of their own expenses for travel, board and room, and even for the literature which they distribute. They receive no salary or any kind of financial remuneration from the church, and give their time and service, as well as their expense funds, as a free will offering to the church. When a missionary is called, whether he comes from some Utah town or from some city In some other state, or from Canada or Mexico, he comes to Salt Lake to receive preliminary Instructions, and to be ordained as a missionary. He then is assigned to some missionary territory. There are seven of these missionary districts or "missions" in the United States, one in Canada, and, until the Calles regime barred missionary work In the southern republic by there was a mission in Mexico. The missionaries distribute much literature by e a canvass method, also at meetin held halls, ings chapels and on streets where open air meetings are conducted. In cases where Americans go on missions to foreign lands, they learn the language as quickly as possible after their arrival In that foreign land, but in the meantime they do much in the line of distribution of s, The Giant In The Wheel of Commerce I ET next to it! The 'man who learns to command this one cog commands the entire industrial machine. The power of Banking is yours everybody's. Learn to use it -- . consistently. 40 Interest tremonton Banking Co. FURNITURE house-to-hous- literature. . Each territorial district known as a "mission" Is presided over by a president, and subdivisions re presided over by district of these missions each In city or other locality within presidents. a district branches are organized with one of the resident members of the church usually acting as the presiding officer there. In these organized branches and dJstrlcts within the missions, all of the work of the church Is car rled on among the members of the church there. Just ns It Is carried on In Salt Lake City anion the nu mbers of the church In that city. Sunday schools are organized, mutual Improvement associations (which are young people's societies) and primary associations, which hold weekly weekday meetings for little children, In which tke children are taught principles of Mormonlsra, Let us h'ltpVfi in your spring house-cleaniproblemsjjpf i ii j xo xou are sure 10 una everyxmng ongnten your home in our complete stock of floor coverings, wall paper, etc. Also ng a complete line of living room, bedroom, and dining room suites. Majestic Radio |
