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Show ,f' VI V - WORLD IN TURMOIL BECAUSE OF LACK OF FAITH IN GOD . f - t Address Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake Citjr, Sunday, August 19, 1923, BY ELDER JOHN A. 1VIDTSOE - j,- S' .- rti Reported by Frank W. Otterstrom A and sisters, who had been left alone, My brethren, sisters and friends hold It a high privilege to be allowed to bear my testimony of the truth of the great Latter-da- y work which the Latter-da(feints pfpfess. Truth is a great possession;' and I rejoice that Into my life has come thst which I know to be the greatest truth that man may possess. The great advances of humanity from the beginning of written hls- added tory have come as Inman has latter-day these truth unto-trutmen have' won truths far be yond those possessed in earlier ages; and in addition we have the old truth, the great spiritual truth of the gospel, restored for ur guidance, by which we may Interpret all other and lesser truths I . always feel it a privilege to be ml- lowed to bear witness to my testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel as taught by the Savior, as restored in these latter days of lbs, through the instrumentality I Smith.Prophet Joseph Men do not live bv their material by' possessions. That Is known every man of experience, man lives indeed by the great truths of being. ss far as visits from tht headquarters of the Church were concern-la- I' always V' J'-- h - lD is "'4 T, at ! tl1' y;;t U ed. these many years and who bored Vlth scant supervision. L XL la not necessary to be in Utah, under the shadow of the temple or to have access to this great tabernacle. in order t Olive the life of Saint. I a faithful Latter-da- y found on this last trip, as I had thouare found before, that there Saints In Scansands of Latter-da- y dinavia. Germany, Holland t and England, who are not able for many reasons to come over here, yet who are living as faithful Latter-da- y Saints should live, and who are teaching their children the principles of the Gospel, and bearing witness of the truth to their One young man in neighbors. Christiania introduced himself, and told me that he belonged to the third generation of Latter-da- y -Hi grand Saints In Norway. father was converted many years axo . he in turn brought up his children in a knowledge of the gospel and they in turn have brought up their children In the This young man stood Church. the great' spiritual truth which' before mey as the third generation Latter-daSaints in a foreign 1 transcend all the minor truths con-- of No member of that fam renting material things, and which country. serve to interpret the meaning of Hy. P far as I could learn, had had the privilege of coming to Utah all the affairs of humanity ' to partake of the special and greatBack From Trip "t blessings that belong to the headI assume that I was asked to nc- - quarters of the Church, cupy-- a. part of the time this afif gnre. leraoon because 1 have just return This testimony may well be ed from a long trip, long In miiee. to, us here at home, who feel though brief in time, and that some borne to obey the aim report is expected of the labors! it difficult at times that were performed during tbstlple principles of the gospel, though krief trip or mission. I have hadi'hvtng beneath the steadying of the presence of the very great privilege of travel-- j f'uenr hi ing to Europe and of visiting many president of the Church andhorl cou f the countries of Europe, in j neejors andjjve jeollJygaut Church, aad hedged company with Elder Reed Smoot. i ties of the We left here about two months ago' about by constant counserqnd sug-an- d should b after traveling rapidly through' e'ion. We our knowledge ojf the through the various countries of Europe be and Stopping in the various cities' rospel and devotion to , of the European countries long some come to . enough to do the work ass.gned to. am sure will 'ns. we came back to this blessed aP1,indid vrtthout much help who. h water country of America 1 want to say .that the feeiin, that overwhelmed j living the gospel theh latter-da- v which ( was born and from which best to carry on this great ' work. most of you have descended, wae We found the same thing to be a feeling of great gratitude to my not only In Norway, but in Heavenly Father for the creation, true We went the existence and the . present I Sweden and Denmark. Ballif. great cervice to humanity of this. into Oermany where Pres. Un4 of America. The has recently preaided, L'nited State are a bleared land aftrnoon, found om of the men anl Bleared I the man who ha caught and o well me know whom women e the spirit of liberty, freedom, to me of and righteous living which bearing their testimony of the truthful form th foundation of the Oonnti- - their knowledge thia gospel. I had the ex- '" ,hl pertence on this trip of having lH"u the privilege rl roost the same worda spoken to me " relate were y j r .! ZA I r- - . t i , tf'V c i ti in-t- he ' ? j fi n i Jo"I: t 'J?' ..... f .Tdol 01. rat jun-tic- Ireat Britain v Young, for t ; 8o I was glad to get :back to Amer- ti' President Brigham to me We GmanneeBdy said ica. I was glad to get back to this lad you here: we wish try state, to this my people, to ou W0M come oftener. but we in on th's wonderful Temple j,now that this is the Gospel of Block In association with my ' jemis Christ whether you come or . brethren and sisters not .. This conviction was written In Missions Progressing. our During lime abroad, as ( h,Itrtwaa a Vest"mony of t'hf had ,h, Privilege of i ,otii ,ld oflthla work, not to be trativ nearlv a I of the western! or detrod. not to he r.ed countries uf Europe. tncliMfci off by a little chance washed Britain We visited Great , , ,he knew Jhat this Britain, the Scandinavian countries f ,heo"pel that this is the truth Denmark. Sweden and XoraGLana he was willing to sacrificeso Germany, the headquarters of demanded be mav whatever drv!rtnmp 'I"' I amSPnt 1 feW that shJ might live out the convic- very happy , ,hat ah, hl)d won through to be able to report to tnv brethren . through hei and sisters that the Latter-da- y 'hwn(aUhfu,nfM Saint missions In Europe are pro Missionaries Zealous. greasing as satisfactorily as can be expected under the conditions that We had the privilege .lino of prevail in the world todai. Those meeeting manr of our hois and who belong to the Church in the girls who are serving as missionThrre were European missions seemed to me. aries over there as I met them, to be hungering for elghty-flv- e of our missionaries for truth, for the gathered tn conference In london. righteouan. teaching that belong to the Go&el fron, ai part of Great Britain, of Jeau ChrUt, and it aeemed to Thene ctear-ejeme a ao thnt they were anxiously hn)eouie oung njen aeemed to to be the lem evidence that engaged in serving God. hy obeying as bent they could the laH of the. any man can dentre of the fruit few i The bore their 1at the True, during of 'Mormonism gospel yeara the cond'tiona resulting frumueattmonien and hie.tared them-th- e war led to a great diminution mlves anxious to nerve God and to do mithing that of the missionary force w ithm Eur- - determined or d. honor ope. and some of the European w ,uM bring uvhwions. thepfore, h.ie not heen'io themselves or to thcr parents, hit h the supervised a closely ns m the past, or to the Ghurel to Neceiwaril), there ha been fi TfjhHong. but onlv to ferve with all rrv ii g onward action upon the wok. a generaj the.r might in diminution of activity m Inhalf of this great work Two voung men this great cause. Bur, on the other bore their testimonies to me thev said "We hand, those who belonged to the, wire so full of it Th Church, during these ears tonsil-- ! want to tell ou that we have tried Mortnomsm." thing called luted themkclvesa miionar body thi to carry to those who were not we have sought the laird and hts we and members of the Church the truths, truth jut have to tell Widtoe that we have that the members had found m vou Brotlnr Ne found a knowletlg of God dear. lives and we know that I reipcmler how Brother MtKayiknow. he irte Im There truth teaching into the meeting and no doubt of this in our hearts house at Chrtstiuna, Norwav, un-i- 'f announced, and walked right Into and we want to testil, to vou that a meeting, of perhaps seven!, five our "testimony glows within us dav do our work in right- "men and women who constituted."' da a home missionary bodv, under the 'oousness thankegiv- supervision of the President of the lnK urnc'irl- Jouthf'1"f Zion, for the Mission is&rk- - that these ho,s are ac- Kxanipics of luitli. compltshlng for In fact they are They had met that evening to onlv lo,s give a. report of their aultities A - s ,'a,,,, woman with the care., of house-- i hold resting Upon tier shoulders as ''ne vopng man told me that ahe told me iat-reported that hon he was sent to a little branen found during the perlrd she had not been as ,he a Pte.sidtr.guf elder, he Broul able to do a great dal of mission- - ll,Fre I'eople who had in a ,hc rlurch long quf.e ary work. t"t had j((s.eded who k,uw h- - So'i'd I'erhap-houk- e fiftv-fod tracting two h than lu did and who had m r"hrsi ,ua m hearing aij n)jd alone during thest- - Irving j mno her test In ib(n 'ef' of th war und after, ind i jmi ln. Athe ( t g Jtn whothe-led -.Jd long bir he ,jblni well nn tH iw voting ekjr lam, bud tiprvfl it . .u ;m r.ahcr (hev thought tunUv ff r u. position for a boy like that to half of thr td b h teach and to rule them, and d he cd pearly hi hiart tan torn llo frir Another aro rar.cr , j i Hi flock woutj discouraged . said that someth. ng had- i jr-liMen to him. I tUul Uht did In life that iisfidA him ti. vou finally dev'" He ttid wi vnsit only about one hun1fdh'n. . nt M. out Fresident bv Ka to I tried to total the number of m do thi work. ! had been cdUed bv visits made by thse f.t - the President to Grant go lno ful Latter-daSaints who. miht r mut-kfit hi I held the priesthood them no doubt, were Uborintc nd the authority beong.ng tp this earn their neceiMiry bread and hun ble calling in ttir church, and estimated that thtgot ovei the sorrow of of men and women bad i ll(i jfer ?! m fni own tingT oppo.itioii some thousand of r.onve hr. m duty w.tbout any did kroiip tianU and neighbcrhod d he 'tre for consequence poiod In queation It sr-And he added. Aftfr a while most Incredihl. 1 be i.uh n Heatj. my xarmost edUy such ,r,ond because" he said, "thev I v ,'?v b b spirit of God ,ouch'd f'.r the Wh otllnd Tt recognized. though I naa a es the.e l .2lrs t c r, reii , r otiOg bo,, God could use me. and t , J f,e t r:i hap-Gre- at 1 the1. a,, i i', n, ' iledr-Nkinne- I r h -- u k J h. 1 f I I 'I; ti , d ' r a ,, f I j,i Pa l, .Mi-dxu- 1 w j ;d,.-- l j ' ' Q g .1: infi an s,. loop wI , , AND HIS ETERNAL PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH AND SALVATION f If ., THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923 - Z- 1 et'g ,o'th i a hus . y l ITrVT -- i Jthey brought their friend, and the I It, It it easy to write slanderous articles in the newspapers, as many branf" haa arowa and Increased. testimonies of that kind are mi- - ( do this great work, rnerous in this Church for every ( but concerning It is difficult to gainsay its missionary has had them, yet it truth and its principles. I suspect does us good to have repeated and that one reason why we have the ' nw th experiences kind of persecution we have o ok this younger of iAnu our in the paper!, in the form ' bos and girls. generation of slanderous articles, is that it is I had a mission that took a day's so much easier to manufacture an labor In the town of Frankfort in u n truth about this . eople .Germany, a half mile or so from than to deny by the great processes of the boundary of the occupied area, logic, acceptable to the human where things are very much dis- mind, the principles which make turbed. When I came there I found up thia great system known to the a group of our missionaries, who world as Mormonism." had come from a conference at Chemnitx. Two of these young men In 'State of Cluoe. told me of an experience which I Tha old countries from which think will bear repeating. It is moat of qa have come, including another one of the thousands that the we have tp show that God Is aa, . country of my birth, are In aad is tress. Chaos reigns. No man watching over these our boys and knows what tomorrow will bring girls who are sent out at embassaEach government is Jealous of evdors of the truth. ery other government. Each Rescued from Mob. la country desirous of becoming a These two youths saw a big power in the land. The governcrowd on the streets of Frankfort. ments are doing Just what men They followed the crowd, youth have done throughout all these like, to See what was going on, ake seek for power, for and before long they were caught wealth, they for fame the in the crowd and could not get gifts that the world can only three give.' The out. Soon it was discovered that nations of Europe seem to be strivthey weri foreigners and the crowd ing for these valueless gifts of began to point threatening fingers PowerjEgatlth and tame; and fhe at them. In fact,' that same mob m(n7Too many of them, who stand little later, beat to death one of the at the head of theae nations, leading men of Frankfort who had are desirous of the great same opposed the Red movement These gifts, and are forgetting the earthly greatboys felt the danger that sur- er gifts and the greater possiblli rounded them, but did not know ties that may be won man. by what to do for they could not get I am not here to speak as a out of the crowd. Thev prayed for of evil, for 'I believe that prophet help. Suddenly out of the crowd purposes fall not. and that came a man whom they scarcely God's the earth, and knew. He stood before them and hla hand is over Europeans, as Americans, are said to the crowd. These men I that children of Almighty Ood. and that know I will take them out And God will see to It that his purhe led them through the crowd, are at, the right poses which opened and made way for time and In fulfilled the right way. no mahis, man and the tw-- o .young men. tter how the free agency of men He took them down a street and exercised for tve time around the block and told them may beWe do possess our free to move on quickly for their lives. Such thipgs may be coincidents, agency; it is. purs, and God never or merely chances, but there are yet has taken from man the right before me. In this congregation. to act for himself: but that agency many hundreds of men who have must be exercised under the law. been on missions and who have the greater law. God's isw. There manotherwise In served this great come times in the history of to cause, and who can bear similar kind when men are not allow-etestimonies of tho protecting care do things as they would like to do them, for law is above man's free that God throws about hla when they labor In humility agency or the free agency of government. Somehow I feel that find i.i faith ahd in righteousness these peoples will be allowed to run 'n behalf of his great cause. their course as far as is proper,, Genealogical Work. and then somehow-and no It wsa part of our mission to look throughfurther; the providences of God. Into the possibilities of that obtaining1 there will be genealogical Information in the1 thing which has been predicted Scandinavian countries and in and prophesied and which will ' rather more than form to the will and purposes of has been the case in theeasily One God. past. of the most fundamental of the Not all the nations ar seeking dodtrtnes of the Goapel of Jesus God. It seems to me; and those who Christ is that which we know as seek God. seek an unknown God universal salvation, dhc doctrine I sat not long ago in an audience makes it necessary or of learned men in this country do work on this earth for Someone said: "All this chaos in the dead; those who have not heard! world may be settled if we only the Gospel ok Earth may accept it can place in the hearts of all men on the other Side end thereby re- a faith in God. At that one of the best known ceive blessings far beyond those that they would receive if this work men In America arose and said were not done forthem on earth. "That may be easily said, but what we teach? Consequently Lattei"Jay Saints are kind of a God shall " a people truly engage In the col- That Is th quesion to a certain exWe alt believe lecting of genealogy. We must know first who our dead are be- tent In God. but what kind of a fore we can labor for them In the God la our God a living Ood. who Just a mantemples. Bo we have a great so- guides and directs or sev- ciety. under the auspices of thei made God to whom we give a a"erenc b Church, known as the Utah ealoglcat Society, and we have a' Need of Authority, great genealogical library and other) j London, while we were there. uvice for bringing to our knol-- occurred m great eOnfrence of the . the aeroplane, the hydroplane, the telephone, th telegraph and th thousand and on wonders. of th day showing mans tiiastery over the world, and 1 am afraid that we are falling into the error of beliqving that man's happiness and salvation may be won tbrougn - x . such things, True Happiness We know or we should know, as a simple principle of life, mat man's happiness la won. not from conquest of material things, but as already said, troimihe possession of spiritual- - knowledge and victories. True conceptions of fundamental things centering upon man's relationship to his fellow man. to God and he Universe about him. and man's eternal purpose. must forever constitute the foundation of any permanent 'civilisation. The conquest of man over matter, la an accessory to the f Andamental truth no more. greater No man, no country, will find full happiness, which means peace, until U recognizes obediently God and his law that is, tit great plan of salvation. In this plan the beginning is told1 . . lk .v-v- Mormon-fau- lt with lmlfa.. loo. P'r M 1 -f- f-ct, , o-- in dij r tr romi.t-eheo-io- ex-rp- X:. y d"n 1 ' -- J j 1 d, j , i j 1 W mho many be-iil- g. h tha,t you were poor uk su your intvw Jo later eai world seeks, a live Christianity, ' If a lodjt , countrymen ao far aa mone fath-oriwah. u.- - o' ji - was given the chief narnf of rtf r. f,jr living Christianity, a God who lives wealth goes, and vou were the u lo as Is the custom of his country of half a dozen children and and knows and directs and. not one er ",f ike t ltn,tyiV' . all desirous of turning the j If he can go far enough back into who sits motionless on some throne were Ephr.tto.e.J hearts of the fathers to their chil- - his family geneMogv and conn-- i t ' within a church or outside. and at 0l9bi If I dren, etc, and ou were especially up Samoa with Hawaii in the Iti'In iueto were predicting coming events, at very anxious to perform work for referred to above, another link in chain of Book u t.M tV ftak, this moment, 1 would ay that vour ancestors, and vou had col- - the Mormon evidence r made connected names leeted of t" hundreds tnov AeaSem come will to peace our world on therewith; and then, when ou sail And ao. Elder Anlelio we oid vou ' ui ii the lempl, at Jir the day when men have learned to down for ' and thought and planned and godspeed on your journev, t th, love each other and work or each calculated and hoped and p raved, are a pioneer who voluiitarm k 1,' "1 people there. one conclusion, placed vour all upon the altar. other, with an understanding of ou came to the none ondiI r M n: 'her. U an vou to unknown, are is which other that there facing, than ef(t V the purpose of life. as posaihU .,1k tn t'l prono'e d.iiqnq JJ, the lions In another clime family to get to sacWhen a person knows why we for you andwould ou no other man has done be forced to i i ix ill bf nude to rise you ("..I, temple, are here and where we are going, rifice all you owned Ip the world.! . JOHN Q . f t" jge crop, wsq u . Mission President he minimises the material things of and take a steamer for a week, then i, adaee tkt life to which we cling all too often , d i.r in, t, 4 betar dot tx fron the shole entertainmetit with all our might, and he magc fo- - wntuiier o of Scotland. Seenty-tsinas nifies, as is proper, the great spirsnare drum. ! Tin is nueht txe a wrrwv! bans, and l , itual issues which come from God. . and about f tt.elf. jt darners hr1 cm, barbarI am very grateful, my brethren , ahostn KroGand from theement e' , n,l fT M)r '"J, of , lonimem an, down to thedown and sisters, for the opportunity of Uir "c propers tLi civilization and li the late INTERESTING LETTER Tne coimbiaiuoi bearing my testimony here today of time unri- Tii i' r jk War; thirteen epit I am grateful for the privilege to 1 t r 1S the grand,;h a'fafs thirteen costumes H mingle with my fellowmen. both i est sight I ever eaw w ondcrful. rat ion tr (xetnt . ther , , In one Atreet in lndon here arid outside of this country, T ' Kand-r- e of FELLOW EMPLOYEES H. TO .!l Harris ,!e 4l Reverend 2 to draw from the experiences of k he Baptist Bedford Church, nxt 4JJ1 Je life the leApons that strengthen me hosaNt-- gw h'u ii (o him is Ik J Handers, wine tn the simple faith taught by the and spirits merchant, next to him'f-- ! u h p is fair1? fil yfifr Bavior of men. 1 am grateful that " T!" wilah. of FarmiWton. can cUhoi!r'iAlmo'.0t t rl cannot b too inn your in simplicity of life lies salvation: a Elder John In Mwams England, wrote the business here is John Smith 4k that out of the great complexly of missionary concerns ar, three the itfanager and Ltd but Ihete this day and age we may draw the following letter toMHIer 1 ,d limited. Floral com- notThe be anw lb simple things, the Csimple daJly employees of the weather here has been verv uraiidf n the eerlioa r cold lo winter It froze be only n-- t duties of life to be good to my pany: wind cold bleak prevail twite but Friend Robert and dear neighbor and kind to my famil), and the air heavily charged with and to keep near to my Godi 1 am, Laborers. moisture wa chilling lo me, tnbv to obedience 1 that It is now eight month since grateful front a high altitude where thej ing 1 air la dr. burins Thy seven mom simpje laws of life we may wlnlj you for the British mission ISPIRIK that majesty, that xreatness ndjw nhu'h to th. i.odon confer - ;al;r'" iT.Vlu?' Zt a,lgned satisfaction for which nations and, . . . "Jr rnmnur- -I II y hrattli It Iti. Ml the streets are j IS miles by 17 very jrod somewhat the shape of ben f'r church. By mov- I have had a verv I bear you my testimony that this!" a Interesting correct fami! hun I Say Bayer and Insist pirtures and all manner of church holds the gift of truth thata new moon snd It Is very difficult eduatlonal experience We have very few genealogi - j jng nis modern devices, the practices of this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. to find your waj through the city hope will be valuable to me hithltv cal books from Scandinavia and that church were brought home to the utoms be won in You un imagine coming from eight gard housing and other condition mith a Germany, and lh was part of our to the people of London It was a and thst happiness may who will give 'hundred people to seven million home where, mss at mission to discover literature and very wonderful attempt to preach daily life hy any man , himself with all his might to the!th ill in the world in family of seven, six workng the best methods of securing to the people of London that which simple doctrines taught by this arta largest mother Inking taie of the borne tnese countries. the six totaled less of the church believes to be Church, ami I bear you this testt-- j the earnings English tau0n 1.2 At th Liverpool It is well known to all Latter-da- true. The burden of the cry of than 7 pound per meek mony in the name of the Lordlra at e,ettrlc. surface and Paints that since the appear that church was. W have author Jeau. Ippreeiates Mtsstals Heat. Amen. Christ. ance of Elijah in the Kirtland 1 never appre iated m mountain unlerground. rome and go ever, the priesthood in this wchurch ty; are home, irvstal water and pur air Temple in Iftlt there has been a! fe the priesthood hf God, hours, about the same at and iFrtefn hav. and cLimate. Convention healthful peculiar spirit resting upon all the! not apostates from the Catholic Auxiliary I Waterloo station, and at Stralford- - sme being in England. I nations In betfajf of genealogy chorch, w simply have the right ' the 18 heard mv 1 CtOTl Stake Held (steam) station, that p.nents I graceful m Tens of thousamls. perhaps hun- - to choose our own chief: there Is train pans through every 24 hours, j goapel and emigrated to tah dredg of thousands of men and nothing In the original church that - j ?rLlthe'irchlldr!.n 23 for Idaho. DRIGG8 The. a wonderful n is horn-Aug hive place to women have devoted themselves to! declares that the bishop of Romp sTfton stake ovarterly conference lorJc ,ghts London Tower where Qf their own. which Is very rar. .i itrchmle the searching out of information shall be the governing ,Te Via. ter Ra.e.gh and man, oth-- j tbi. ourselves now that and iDh may be used hj Latter- and we simply separated r I from thechurcW of Rome, but eur auxfllarv groun onventiuns accord- - ers wre beheaded, built 900 in London day Kaints in their temple wofk ear8jThe second l me i asjvoke and a splendid In to the outline. fuiorbv is Ing the knew this before we began this! priesthood may be traced back to Northmen, fair a gave newspaper 'ago 'N whiUt Vlsltor In a from the boards the 'Bx J of of column, general half state preservation. National Tate,Ht,e report vou ,ee the twme trip, you all are familiar with it. Christ a follow more were than for the and done art been not &(tjhad gallery need for of but I bear you m test.monv that) It was a great cry on tabl.J y 1 I think be safe Mr B on Jenni would Relief Society, pickieo in gallery wa this knowledge t g th1 gf nuineBdjCT increased authority; a cry which was met . Knight; Sundav KchooL. T A'bert Tn saying there are mile of OnJune 10th I was transferred fo ROl M should judge n theae- gUrkburn m th Liverpool confer ur. ! nmny fold as I went into the eoun - lthls day when the Prophet josepn Hooper. Y M M. I. A . Clyde Corn- - paintings v mile north of London then tries- - of Scandinavia ; itJ proved and Germany Smith and Oliver- Cowdery received wall; Y. L M I A. Acne ('ampbell; gallerjea one sixth of ail the paint- wh' and our Lord Saviour textile B the 0f Eleanor industry Thoma celftpr Primary. 'mg represent w.- -- MU. - Un much depressed at the pres is r Head.cb. Co de ent time. There are 210 fattor.esI w.hachd Lumlaso in thi dtv of 140 000 people Rbimuta was in one factory where there wer- Fl in of 1740 loom, but les than ln for hundred state of chaos. thoushtg for reflection of all vehicle obtained. Th world is in Ncjr i' Haver TaWru t ..mackshlc of Christ s ilisciple Eat h unbreke -- -- on " v''s j s tilt In hands out of employment Blak p in fact even the short uirutiRii stresed the density of Uvin1 the suffering here the misunder-- 1- pie p and hinges burn. Accrington, Burnley, liarwen ace co ai..a proper are door we visit 12 ub that nearer and their mad made making it j no j ear common strap Bolton, Manchester, Bury and sur Handy toxe old. re'Jgio'n there, the JealouBy every j it also for us ir to gath- standing possible th in M veM "f0.1!.1 the rounding district comprise that Dau.pi?U i,h ftened hlnse Thnfhir er a considerable library dealing where and the difficulties settion of (Jreatt-- . aoi jqo Aspirin1 Zoological Gardens hav ton pot The world tne governments of Europe. ; , convention LimoMt alsmt are all inKnehsh.mark animals and bird Britain iufaturing thev and with some of the leading and many before of Rtver will t of no Europe fabs There doubt that each one k yet if the people of the minor ghe American magpie, also the the same condition. xlh ca (ter of fymhes of the Scan- .... God. the only true God. and, present went awav from sib h meet-- j fabx The contain rep- - people are very much hanJireppeit Monoacei lf Adv uf .OUBIfs with a new determination to rssentationa k eleven drstmgulshed When Bur. yield themselves ac,d uf the kind to the are out siihpleMng prutng how the spirit had rested truth of the ' Gospel of Chrlet, better e rvs the Lord. and there employment they re accustomed Especially Americans, all the ParenlM revive many Valu- - are upon theMe thousand of people Kings and Queens for thou- - they cannot turn Iheir handso. toif an them and have nothinh -- r our Castle other department of labor, rd Windsor At of y.ar, w.ilu,ut knowletige of we ihey wIU find 1JR of thfr children. Jar tables' of solid gold and silver,s pression come in nheir tectal d, the gre.il pr ncijilc of unlvcrs.il .il- - which of out M Mrs. international difficulty. the their all busie who wlthvvrhere rartment. that mean no labor way Wilson, parti Vatiuil which had them seek At Kew gardens (hem. ' her counselors had presided over1 Are entertained out this information, which will be Remjiruiblo Contrast. th Relief Society of Teton stak everv known plant in the world Ufn my travel over London andt ik of value to u tn our I seemed to sense as I for 17 vears. a -- a released and Mrs.jrWn and from the Greenwich ob- observing the flower. I have anti temple work However, carnations a large the 0ne of the most remarkable in- traveled on this occasion through Marv Ann Nelson was chosen Ml ffrlK2ry. n' JI l?ifL'brediK. and fraerant as our at home stances found in the an hives of Europe, that men are depending ' Jl.'j, 1'Ya,nn1r), Hie rew organization ' P m i On f and (,itt".1resis- - sa ss there No. roses here are not the qiisl of oum ,d aaflrKand Christiania was shown a small flrat on their own strength "t 66 Wees. op- The heat A I. the w petals have a blighted appearAd. rr room w lire tlir? was a senes of intellettual loV- ance f 1 Summer We had the ' oVa'e0unt !eon M ftlrong was released as, S"81'' poer FUt I am working hard and am meetIpund books perhaps one hundred privilege. Brother Smoot and I. to euperintendent of the Y. M M I A in 2 Summer VU e b,d ing with a degree of ucte and and fifty The archive director leave America for Europe on the of thr Teton stake and James M. "5 erd l Bib and 4M.th of Wt.. teaching principle took one down and ua.d 3 L'ght g in his stead j ou gee steamer Leviathan, said lo be the , Thomas j should hope I hav given the peplet At the 1(.rby ra,.. jeas chosen im-- ( thche books are not printed. There Ladies Mutual In the world were. in them living iUoApo tn encourage ujKC close to steamship iung people me hundred or ore hundred and greatest R n attendance iha? a, The lerhy was e- - better lives It was the first trip of this great. 3 Medium Wt. f(k fiftv hook tablished eightv years ago It it a are all m manuscript steamship to Europe, Your Jj,it..quaLt5rIl a reenndi- - confereno VVALSLL Mr. I saw two blind men from home. JOHN being WtRib form He hive Mmpv sight grand Med fi Ecrag bound tioned, and the docks on the river, chosen president with Effi Eddtng - there to witness the races AM f them moved out of New York, ton and Naomi Cheney as her coun- - classes were represented. from the begin to tooW through as He-nWt, 7 OBITUARY. them and found that f.Hnlly after were filled with people and ships selora to the slum people of Lon- " f nndv w The conference. considering the1 Queen SHeay'VtRi11 don. the lame the halt and the rcpreMenfj in the care- and modern teviiws to do the fact two until weeks the that there ful legible handwriting rf thfc mam. th ago the Jap, blind, gypsie. great ship honor a she went out had been a ban on all public gain- - Chinaman ' Hindoo and the lasscn bv name who hkd mad on her first trip to tahhsh more rings for some time, was very weiH. n the day of th Cambridge and 9 thi great search for genealogy. fully the supremacy of America attended. Oxford race on the Thame riverI M ilklnon who depart d i cid who was this man? on the wd.s tkibite were given, AMANCY W (LARK and tram carried 4.5h 10 Ext. Hvy- ithe bus Vnof ; nauve Hr I! the director said, he was flag wre hotbted and You must remember life recently was a .Stake Clerk. people airplanes there are no transfer here anl gr oluite 7 f ouV university here, a and hvdroplanes Hhe crossed the plain with flew' over and imt.SiikandWoogJ some of these wouM have to change mark lawyer When he was about thirty around the ship A a tremendous Blaine Stake Holds a hand-cacompany tn 1&37 hhe 9ft are hree times. There counvar of age he began thi work contrast, showing the growth of Sevier of lO.Odft London and that was an early pioneer 12 Mercerized; tram, Conference without anx apparent reason. He the word in the last few genera- 34 090 on the ty and was married tp John WilCarey j mean employee received nothing for It. h gave hi non busses and tram. the side tf the huge by He ISCf. 30. preceded kinson Jan. whole t'nie to it He never niar- - j teamer two of our city blocks HAREY Ids. Aug 23. The State. if Ma The Lord lengthened out Ids long there was struggling along nce-convention of the Blaine h'atLd It Ukn 2.00 official, to run . edding uiucii rfxtacedrepiid ju' ttf two ife He died when he was about in the water a replica-modof stakeIf was held at Carey. Aug 18 city government. They year before hi desih., Saints the classes is very L. S-ninety one or ninety-tw- o year of the Clermont, th first steamship andPrest were both staunch Latter-da- y W L. Adamson presided at very working no baths rooms and small Mr. end. treand the to left age. behind him th faithful ever launched In New York about all sessions and proved On not nor ventilation. good light mother of seven Vou mendous manuscript containing in- one hundred years agq. The little Elder Richard R, Lyman repre one street one evening about thirty Wilkinson Was the survive notsatisiactol formation concerning the families ship with Its side paddl . . of whom children was sented the general authorities and rods along I counted lug children children, three n the street aad many lhB M. M. L A . Mis. Alice Rev- Y. the Norway to jf with hopelessly up keep striving - It wnr ." is"" house. Relief holds. Socletv . A Wm. Morjun a peculiar incident t6 its overgrown grandchild,- so Tbe funeral The r'Jcf Herbert ducatunLan4 At Rees-l. tonSundar the director To me it was another apeak, school, over bv Y L M. I. A. and Belle 3 Rost. Jhalla I thbave attended lu aided evident Th apeakera were barab that the great spirit of THe contrast waa mere y another Roberta. Ilov city Olympia thligreet Pr'mary. ftnd Adel' El jah cover the world, and U ful way of telling of the tremendous fltwker. Royal Barney Each ward snd branch of the aL Tournament, which commence B mon Nebeker. all of whom spoke fi ling the prophecy of old thnt intellectual progress 'of the world stake was Ja represented. Saturday i' fifteen U!T 4h,.f Apr" her useful life and sterling characare hundreds the hearts ,f the fathers shall during the last hundred years, the even ,ng a delightful aocial waa held in thia entertainment. ter. The mvMlc waa furmahed bri font to the children and those of power that men by research have in the high school auditorium un- ol performersfenelnr. choir and several dancing. Jump- the ward wrestling the direction of the stake social ing. the children to the father. were rendered bv her nleoe. gained oxerlhe material things of der It snows the feat of racing Mormon-ism.- " It is easy to persecute and Binds Burra-toRobinson Loretta in the universe. We are In possession committee the rivers the war. late crossing D. E. ADAMSON, Interment waa In the Anna-belwith cannons and provisions and it is easy to find fault with of these wonders. The Leviathan. Stake Clerk. equipment, buf the main feature of 'cemetery. Tiwawj j -r , - r; p, fast-forei- g ser-van- ts dei '' - i ! jit 1 I er'". bae-pii- 1 11 tii,-e- to br v ? 1 Jad" ! j - j Oen-lent- adfJib(,inJy,a,"nJJ'an, , ' '! '"g Anglo-Cathol- I i r- i 1 y 1 i Jf j h- s oil' - 1 I.- PhJ5r i , .a. P j he!1 4,, tfI0 et-'cnl- A 11 j buf-tnee- wax-wor- lhr life-siz- e, pej j 111 fr , L.D.S.GanneBt , t 1 i T I :- ome-thin- lr fellow-labor- i bna . bue at rt confere- 'el'r -- J f m?y-xetu- riris v. mt '"'"''I ls ln. iuii Peggy Gillespie many years ago. Jutes on ! drowjwd tnluly. fight , - altariraxd was fenced either from mineral .lerm.-s- i . dist..rb.oo.. ' , t I , rn J N.L. Hansen, n been known to Invite the heads France in of aU U jUaacc pttlws Aaiel LeteUier. I o : , 'O - t'1 live in s strange land for months b whose food, climate, language ailu APIA, Samoa. July it To a Saint customs of St were all foreign to ou In the Rockies, a day aow and now. MaUcsell all V'jor hors-- a - 1' one of tha several temples rows. would you again instand housepigs, chickens Canfrom oat that furniture and utepslla leaving ada to Arizona! or soon will, sig- hold a waabbeuch even, nifies Only a pleasant ride liv car, ou Without a foot of land to Mind it and on interurban or steam line; sn enjoy- not ere sou forluuale ... . to. ..still retain able few hours In the house of the 'h Lord and then another rWe 'home - vaeskin of lo ward, and all without special asc- th temple enrlron4 from start fifice. In the main, this holds trues tu we as to finish it at Now, let me direct your gaae here? westward, out over the Merrn Am Example ef Fatih. afias; on beond them to the aeit'j board of the Pacific, thence on. on; Elder Aulelia has just done on another couple of thousand mile aUWell. aad is now en route to h's this, to the paradise of Hawaii; thence, far to the northward, and on, on. on to the southwest farther goal he t shout the first to do so bevond Hawaii than she lie from ahtie n just aura a wav, he will nd be e Frisco by many a league; and for otbrr will follow in last the up at another fafrvlami, 4.4h hlx footstep and do as hy has done bring e and do It all cheerfuBv, mile from the U 8. A. Samoa jAt ar now, in place of the mor than are the things of th: peiHhable ea oM 4,00h feet in elevation above all af'tr t,. compared wprld level, but four fet or le moat of thoe of everlasting ternUy. itrn low tide blind themselves freouentlK? the time, at high tide At an t0 vou mar stand on the sea if you privilege of (a using upon have more faith than Peter had. eternal Aulelia la t shore at paltriness nd !h' ovr f hi wa the along which other the inland scene ritheut stretching island nation will in the tonilng yourself undul. At high ourna tread but possibly their wav ears recline and do it. will be made more simple and extrA Tcfced-the way of all who follow as 8rl4-b the frontiersyou might proceed to thia test the trail biased men of tnv veracity In altitude reckonan a active After serving in air the warm, sweep ing. damp in the Church for a quarter from the fare of the sparkling deep , of century,bv as aerve a who are and gently fan vou with refresh-- i moved t.r..festonal nioUvsx less and Ing and stimulating than bv love or fellow man with-th- e tour lngs respond gratefullv to oot al ftnan-the wtll use return, In oft of it. the'. exhilaration he has accumulated dur- darkness of ntght the noiseless dew swhst .ittletime bv fr'ta !l f of life is to get three meals a doors itngihis steals over everthin out stOemf dlv onseti-- h fnauner con 'h,. rsnii Is thc theTleen of of the the anhd thinotIB lhflfrrent bevond childhood have slept ly well, of the world an-- l noshere run bv v)rtu, of venture's vast outdoor t t artu-daone is be poseless grave. Men of this Uteri refrigerator it dupiralen observe clingof the greater intellectual pro-- 1 ing to everv jou blade of gras, and xted bv !ik motives n Axrlrsl Name. countless ss deaire to know what it all'm,K of tree gress jewels upon atI thI' ,'n A remarkable means, what is the purpose oft B,,t f hv 'IH'I point. lo, and S R. AM)ttvjS To acquaint you with o men! tllik lif And MiKAnn rhv of location regarding Thia knowledge chg f mav ' earth what hi regenerated ' uf 8ieie nnd that is brother for which millions are now hunger- pear like after It has been touchwi gKi" lo)tjoi A B j name Tameame a. hi on Raj, . ing has been taught the Latter-da- y up bv Divinity for its coming mil- - j lpol him bx h,a o)d grandfathei. . t i,. Jid Wat dn.iti Saints In such simplicity that a lennial state .. of earlv davs, because the et rehc h Now for sudden transition. 4 cfcunn The jke child may understand it. It is the claimed that their familv -h.d ' , of Samoa are Imbued, as a d Sr. UU of th, tota . from a tne ot ktnK u thing that gives savor to life, that Sainta a great desire to (ravel hlI ha with rule H;'. of ih. ,aiaI1d hy th bonma Rroup gives life to life, so to speak. temple-war- d for purnoses well un- - Mme name. Saniotn i.n- - 81 ' ui , W hv such reference oi rrnucrxr hag Ilfl derstood " b t(7 tlI5 POVhA.I pH qTT IJt OhltUtiimlfv LliUlt .a (Special Correspondence.) ;- otamofor oner nymoonna og - ogaV -v A - lUnlH" ;, - 5.'J - t |