Show HISTORY OF EASTERN STATES MISSION For Two celts Jan 7 lillO 1110 Elder Eider J T president 33 One Hun Hundred fired dred street Now New York N holiday season ellSon has hns passed and tho elders having enjoyed the tho hospitality or of saints and friends are again bUH busy circulatIng tracts end and preaching the word On the line evening of Dec 2 23 we were favored with u a visit isit from Eider EIGer Reed need Smoot md and family nt at the mIssion house where President Rich tHem A cottage was meld held In tho mis mission sion parlor where a goodly number of oC members and friends had gathered Euler EHler Smoot Levi H E Pres PresIdent President Ident Rich were the tho principal speak speakers ers Mrs Smoot was also pre present ent at tho conjoint Mutual tine the evening bu be bufore before fore She Sho spoke e interestingly of her early experiences In the tho development or of our domestic conditions In the west welL Our OUI Mutual l meetings are well velh attended b by tho students attending the universities from the tho west treat who aid greatly In malting thom Loan Interesting Governor Spry and party purt visited us after aCter the of tine the battleship Utah and on tho Sunday occupied the time at the afternoon meeting rho speakers were Elders John tV Young Youns Gardner Spry and Levi LeviE E Young also President Rich has mado an excellent showing In work worle done dono by tine the elders for the year though th bap fall short or of some or of tine other oilier conferences but tho work done lOa may bring forth fruit With few foss exceptions tile the elders lit III the tue try have havo traveled without mone tumid have hao been greatly reath blessed They can cain cana a like the tho disciples or of old Yen Yea Lord LOId we lacked for nothing A profitable meeting was held Jan 2 at which Elder Eider who lies presided ovel oset the conference aK re leased because of poor health and El EI dec der called to preside over tine the In connection with his otin oth other or er duties In the mission Elder Eider Owen will take up a 11 special WOI work In the tho Book of In Iii the book stores or of this and other citIes of oe the tho state 1 I East m It H Dredge president l 1325 o street Philo Phila I deh hll past years eUls worle ene 11 has been beon a and with tine tho or 01 th tini new year ear pros PIO poets are aro vcr Very We 0 had L 21 l during time tho year and at an heUlt batty response o tine the saints In attend attending In to nil all their duties dulles Sonic Some undesirable conditions have beet been eradicated and In all wc iso feel that much has for the of oC tho truth In iii our hiatt ot a r tIme tho Lords vineyard Cider S congratulate In being tires ont emit at the tho launching or of tine battleship Utah Quite an Increased attendance or of chil dren Is noticeable In our OUI Sunday school sluice since the hour of oC meeting hn has Jeen 1 changed from evening to afternoon A entertainment was given by b the school thin the hull hall being decor led and 1 a good being with gifts distributed to the tite children I Win m II 11 Stead Portland Mc Monday londa Dee 20 O tho Dominion 0 steamship arrived at Port Portland land with 27 and 40 U saints from the European In iii charge of pherson They Ther reported it Il vel nety Passage but arrived accident Three da days s later latel 30 II elders arrived Iti In Portland allIon nail on the ith boarded thit Caine steamer called for Liverpool to lake up UI their labors labor In hun the different European Both parties were elc clued aided b by Portland elders In iii debark In ate and embarking anti and went on their r j ie j a y i I j L r i i r y 0 J i o L D S IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CONFERENCE Names ames or of the elders Top row reading from left lert to Jones from Utah B 13 Lono Jensen Mcgrath P DoLes DoLos Preston Id Ida H Perr Howell Clifton Ida Wm m T Borup fa nerd nard Ida Middle F Butterfield Herriman Utah B Cecil Gates Salt Lake Lako Ct who takes President place J 7 H Russell Taber Canada Canado President J G Mired Allred Raymond Canada who has just been released to return home S IS Ed Quigley Payson Pason Utah S A McDaniel Alpine Utah Front J Skinner Gra Gray Ida R It Osborne Hatch Hatch Ida acting secretary R B Later Rigby Ida H ways rejoicing the first on their thell wa way to home and friends and tine the other to 1 proclaim truth to tho world The Tho elders lied had a pleasant time durin during the tho holidays s and expressed themselves s as Interested In the lie worle and desirous ot the tho work successfully The Tho weather lies hlll been cold for the past fow fost days Interrupting missionary work Nees En Thos A president 11 street Boston MassOn Dec 22 Elders and visited u a meeting at which a debate tras to take tako place two Adventist ministers on Whether Th r Was Vas a Chance Chanco To 10 Be Saved After Aftel Death or Not ot Elder Tolton happened at the tho meeting a little early and mad had a conversation with the tue ministers about aboul the subject under discussion without telling them wino who ho he was At tIne the time appointed the tho meeting called to order and rl a chairman had to be ap pointed so 81 one or of tine the debaters Invited Elder Eldor Tolton to act as such tine the clergy clergyman man sa saying I motion that the young man In the corner act as chairman as ho Is certainly a good nina man antI and knows the Scriptures Thon an old friend of oC lie tho elders seconded the he motion sa say ing That young fellow knows tIne the Scriptures better than luau either of lie tho ministers does Each minister appoInt appoInted ed two judges bulges and thc they a fifth taking Elder Eider as such Tue jull judges es decided there was a chance after death from n a Scriptural standpoint After Acter meeting adjourned they learned that tIne the two bright young oung men were Mormon elders Both min mImi minIsters biters went scent homo huomo with tracts In their pockets poeketi Tile Lynn news newspapers newspapers papers are free notice of our meetings and Sun Sunday ay school In their columns In connection with tho oIlier church notices This notice weekly and shows what We ive lure Tins elders laboring at Lowell report holding meetings and making man many friends Amon Among these are arc relatives relative of the late Apostle lIer rill nIl Jan 1 J the conference held There were snore upwards or of 30 elders present also President Rich and Ident Levi E Youn Young from rota New ew York An Interesting series olles or of were svere held arid and much given suit sult suitable able ablo to the wants or of tine the saints and at al althe tIne the priesthood meeting the lie elders suitably Instructed about aboul their duties and the successful or of their labors The school recent ly Iy organized at Lynn Is very er success rul fui under tine the of Elder EllIe Tol Tolton tout ton Elder Miller and atud Brother Badgett Xo Noss York Chas L Weed dent ent HS Pearl St Albany 1 N arc so sorry IT to that Elder Eider La Layfette fette Sessions has hams been stricken with a a severe Illness and was taken to tine tho hospItal at Cohoes as It Was diagnosed as fever though of a mud mild t type Je It Is thought that It Itcan itcan can bo be checked ed anI and last reports state that ho he Is progressing favorably antI ilia may soon scorn be Elder George F Conrad lies has been red from tine tho South Con on to succeed President Weed eed who will still soon to his home ones T ito for tito tho past re tea lies has been very cn miser miserable able ablo and tine the worl of oC the tho brethren lies has been greatly consequently our reports fail short of oC those thole of formel months President Weed Intends returning to Utah b l wa of northwestern his parents reside and front from there to his home Rhode John T 1 Barrett pres Ideal Ident 36 I Broadw Broadway Providence It fl Barrett reports all well troll prospering elders mayo had hadan an time lime their thell friends durin during the tho s sAt At ono one ho he mimI Elder Bartlett visited the they met a Dr B or of Boston who was also a guest an who tory el of Iso people with sith whom ho mad had while In the stales slates and testIfied to lo their virtues LouIs tV Y dent Box 17 Burlington also reunite reports on tIne the reception given the lie ciders of during time the holidays and states that the lie time hue hues has been boen both bolh enjo and Elders lIders Salisbury and have been shilLing tine the lui In Orleans county antI hiring back a report or of lions there has been and Oram at St have been lucen doling a IX work but ns as most ot the tini available hn gone over since It sins to move moose unto Into ne miens territory for fOl ho winter at least Elder also New conference lii In with othel On hIs hili re rc a meeting was tins held at Burlington where the lie reported their work fOl ci the pest six month and gate accounts of nC their I 1 varied experiences lan Many Items ot of counsel glen Its In the meeting and n c c redistribution or of tho ho elders eldors made throughout tho state est Heber D Clark president 1217 Arch St Allegheny Pa Elder Clark In says sus that Elders Hibbert and Morris have hoot beon assigned to labor In the city of Erie In connection of Elders Lewis and Cook wino who have been boen there also In arren count county HI Mini re report report port speaks of oC the tho general good con of the tho conference antI and the tho soc uc cess attending the work done b by the tho elders followIng transfers havo been during December Elders Daniel A Pope from Vermont to East Pennsylvania conference John U Smell Ie Vermont to office New 31 L H Gustavson Gustavoson and Rn Ray Dulce front from rest Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania conference to Eat East Pennsylvania conference George F Conrad from southwest Virginia to New ew York con Frank from south west nest Virginia to New England con conference ference Chester Johnson front north west Virginia lnla to MaIne conference following elders ehlers have been honorably released to return Leavitt Ira A Russell George H Dille George Georgo H HOgden Ogden 0 F Rico RIce and G S Hartley Hartle new elders ar at the lie office New ew Von on Oh Dec 22 1909 and assigned as follows John H find and El EI EImer cuter mer IV V Bird to hue tho Ne conference Henr Henry W Jones antI and David IIII Hirschi South Vest ext Virginia Joseph JosephII JosephH II H Page New Ness Thorn C Miner Uner East Joseph Harper Non Hampshire George A Roper J Elmer L Rose Hose antI and Francis A U II cr Vermont James C Godfrey Godfre Brooklyn George A Hocking and A ALe ALe Le RO Roy Shaken Rhode Island Work ork for following Is the report of the work done dono during the month or of December Hours treating familIes visited revIsited hour gospel o conversations conversation number conversations tracts dis distributed 2 15 1529 I Church distributed other books distributed 1112 meetings Inch helt 13 blessed 22 hours spent In lu 1112 meetings lucid held baptisms 13 Book or of ormon lectures distributed ITS JiS Durin During month Bon Bein Bona a 10 Rich held conferences In the South SouthWest West est Virginia tine the North West Vest VIrgin VIrginIa Ia and the tho New Ness England conferences on the l th antI and respectIvely BASTER SPATES MISSION |