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Show I ! i i j CHURCH CHURCH SECTION SECTION TIII'J I KS HI ET N EWS, KATtJKDA Y, OUTQBEI5 3, 1931. Radio Sermons Give Mission Workers Isfew Means: df Contacting More People Presidents of All j J U.S.Arehs i I Report Broadcast , j President and Mission Heads j Use ' Iijt J Public Responds" Enthusiastically to Talks On Air. 1 Preaching tb Gospel In sermoits atld (lining of M(i byrnns "on th air" is fad be coming a pop&lar and ei r increasing activity m the m issions in the ,lm)ed Stales and Canada, by presidents of missions who are in Sal Lake 'this week for the nn hundred and vynnil he conference, nu irate. Most of JHie hake done smno radni work during flip past year, While srv ral have develop- -, ed llieir atti.iUes 'to a point, where pidgianls are pfcsrnfed over line (or iloie stations regularly. OftA of bio pioneer in tins snlent James H Mpyle of rtio Eastern Wall's illusion who lopoijtg that noire than 300 sermon-- , halve been presented ort the aiK sipe-- May, 1930, and that programs hre being, presented regularly every week ovpr several stations. i Vrtivpt nil f.imsl.. According td reports received from the fkitiftjrma mission indicate that President Joseph W, MrMuritil ha-- made rapid and popular headWav jjvitli iadio preaching, and; missionary wink in tlint, rhissnn. President Me-- 1 Murriri is' not! in attendance at conference becluw of illness, , Another mission where considerable) activity has been done along tins, line, ts the Northwestern Stales mission where a number of programs have been given on stations ranging from Butte, Mont., to Juneau, Alaska President William R, Sjoan dirpefs the work in this mission ami has delivered a number of radio talks S himself. Elia President Woodruff of the Western Stales mission report considerable progress in ,radt( work (and also plans for1 continued a1tivitv in f this line, Regular Canada Progntots. The Canadian mission under President John Y. Bluth has thus far obtained a station regularly for weekly program--! at Laconia, New. Hampshire, wdiichf is heard by listeners in? all parts of the mission. The mission allotted 1 ns e PKniilmt) Ifdie f, Grant, left. Called the one hundred and ho,ur on Mondays, Wednesday and Thursday1! and one j hour on St,mdnf. President Arthur Welling of the North Central states mission reports some .activity. irt radio and. also plans for increasing the work. President George S. Romney' of the Northern Slates mission is sponsoring a program every week1 in iJetroiLiA special feature, he said, was .he recent presentation of. a pageant of the westward march of the Saints given by the large choir of the mission. Songs wtp sung at the places in,, the pageant where they were most- - appropriate. President Milfes L Jones of the , 111! re h , l.i-I- Ion-i- l ht tv-m- amt Ctmuilu. nhove, left to right, M tt llllam It. front row, state- -; .h.liu Nlomi. Norlhue-ter- n V, Itliith, t RiimtiHo ; lievl on Pre-Mi- en Young. Temple Sqiuyd; Antoine , -- o tiie ( 4 half Mexican .Charles Son i hem state; gear row; left to right, resident John III T jlor. ml ton htHne; George hi Koinner. V ort hem state- -; Ulan H. WiKHlmrr, W - t urn Males; Mile It. .Iiiim-I last t ventral Mate; Jump II Mojle, I'jiHtern slates; Samuel -O. ltennhm, tattvs; Cliarle P. Itowan. Or., 1 e t a, mix-ianti Arthur North CVmtral ' Welling, stau-s- . I'rexldent JiimsSi W. Me vtiirrln of l he California ml ton I al-Call!- -, at general OHifm-nto onler Frtdajr morn- - ' Int at 10 am. in the SalenuH lr, Viuotut the wirtikm at the now Is'lng are I he Of ml tlie 1 nll.-i- ' hiateS Senit-annu- I one Ivin. It iit bssiu-- e of IIIim . , , (Conference Brings iCrowds To City ii' i, East Central Slates mission has had programs under way and also them plans j for continuing Another missiptj Which exports to increase its activities in iadio work jilurmg lb e Winter sea-o- n Is Uie Texes nustuhn under ident (tti.iHi'.-- . K. uel OjBennioii, president o Central Slate mission is' mi. lung plans to use radio more e :ten 8ivcly j although he reports the opportunities afforded in his nm- - t sum ace'not of the best. President Charles Ai "Call s of the Southern States mission is also laying plans for increased activity m radio work. The jjdw has bepn used hi some extent in the Mexican mission py President Antoine R. Ivtnsj lnit) the oppor-tuniliin this mission are1 also limited, he reports. Heel With Fhvoc. AH presidents of nnssioaii report their radio programs'!,) bet popular and well received, j particularly because of the L, p. S hymns that) form part of each srvicet It is a program ai lich also develops and stimulate! the missionaries' who in most if the missions prepare and read their own sermons and do the sifiging for the program. . The radio work is seen 4 excellent supplement to mission ary wjork and is fast m aking friends and breaking down p e'ju- dices. eu , s j i The 'jjirst conference of ' tho rhurcll adjourned to' convene again at the same place. Sept. 28, 18,91, eslablishing which has always that of holding a general confcr-cn(wire earb year. In a dew years the first conference pf the jeur was held onvApnl 8, the of tti? fdiuiTh organi-xali- op and the second six montlis later whit h has been Hie practice i j to dale, ii A feature of tlnf one hundred coijfer-en- ce and second Session Held June1 30, 180 Con- trasted. First Tle one ce k iiutnif tnl ami givnnd of th? (jihucrli is Ijciug lie!.! in Salt Lake during UnS week end under the 'd1 reel ion of the FiCstJ Presidency, President Holier J. Grant President Anlhoiiy W, Ivins and President Charles, W. Nih'ev, willi niemhers ami officers from ah parts of the country attending, jt'l'be largC Tabernacle was fill"-e- J to rupat-itFriday at Id "a m When President Grai'.t caled tl Conference to order appro vuiiate-i- y tO.tVS) pyrsorn Injilng on hand for the addres be the Chtuvh excutive. ). This is in cord cast to the iir-- t chnft'mice jof the Church held in Fayette, Sititeea couillv, N. V. oil June 9, 1830, The Ctiurch had tlion been- brganirpi wo months imi three Hays and flie general fii-s- t conferein-e,- . to be held as an oiga in ed Church was caljed by Presidimt Joseph Smith. In writing lu history, the Prophet Jo-eSmith .stales tti at Hie nuin-bi-- rs .then w're atimit 30 and that the time of the conference was e and giving insponf structions. j Frtii-ami- jl canfejence ui . v t om-ni- , ph detni-gnti'u- al, in session yvas (he of I r. Joseph F. Merrill, Churrh coin in inner ofed-ucali- on now- - is and prominent educator Council of The Twelve, filling (he vacancy occasioned hv the death of Elder Orson F t.-tb- e , ' Idiocy. All of, the general authorities of the Chupcfi were iiy attendance with the exception of Elder Joim .A. Widtsoe, presidi'nt of tho European in us ions anti President Joseph W. McMirrii of the Cali fornia mission and a member, of , the First ,even Presidents of Seventies wjio is ill jit his home on the Pacific coast. Music fort all seas ons of the general conference furnished by the Tabernacle fholr under the direction iff Prof A, C. Lund with Edw-ac- i P. Kimball at the organ. P 08:, |
