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Show foe Weekly Church e' -- Edition SALT LAKE CITY UTAH JANUARY 9 1943 Recreation In Homes, Stressed As Vital Need Bv Church. Auxilia ries ., Suggestions a ndTAcTTVTTTePubtished i n Booklet For: Latter-Da- y Saint Parent- sRECREATION in the home, a vital need in these days of stress and curtail-vment of travel, is the theme of a new project being undertaken by the Auxiliary organizations of the Church. In this project, backed by all the auxiliaries of the Church, the Latter-daSaint home will become more and more the center wherein is motivated .the urge for complete living. It is designed that, as the present situation of world tribulation and unrest drives families closer together to find in the home their joys, the proper means and ARD and stake Sunday School attitudes may be present to meet these superintendents throughout the new conditions. Church have completed plans for for Having recognized many their special Bring a Friend to Sun- months the need for more and better ' -day School project which takes place home recreation facilities and experietomorrow, Sunday, Jan. 10. nces, the officers of the Church Because of the unusual efforts put .Auxiliaries have undertaken a com-- ' forth by the ward, stake and mission prehensive program of assembling officers it is expected that the Sunday needed instructions and help. They Schools of the Church will have the announce today the publication of a largest single attendance in their his-- , very valuable, but inexpensive, book tory tomorrow In addition to a large into which has beep put the work of manv months of research and prep percentage of the nearly 400,000 members of the Church enrolled in the aration. 12 chapters it are therein Contained that is Schools, expected Sunday each dealing with an important and there will be manv thousands of those not enrolled as well as many visitors vital nhase of home recreation. There and non members participate in the U a discussion of the Church and recreation and the value of recreation. services Sunday morning Other chapters are devoted to music According to word received by the General Board from the stakes, a wide in the hom, drama, and dancing in convariety of plans and projects hae the home, reading, story telling, been undertaken to insure a large versation, ue of the family radio, indoors Sunday School attendance and to games for all occasions lxth all hobbies of and types doors, bring the benefits of this large auxilfor gardening: including programs to thouthe of attention iary many soecial and events including days sands not already actively affiliated with it. Enlistment committees have home evenings; ideas for food and refreshments, and a chapter devoted to been active-- members have been enin the home and abroad manners to send invitations to their couraged The book is dedicated to the fafriends, and especially to invite the Portrait o Harold B. Lee Latter-dastrangers within their communities to thers mothers and children in Saint homes. attend the L P. S. Sunday Schools. It is explained that: Superintendents of the various With the rapid' change in the local Sunday Schools have, been askworlds way of doing things, "the home ed by the1 General Board to make soecial efforts .to conduct a model Sund i.v of late vears has been increasingly Time was. when the home School with special emphasis that day neglected. was the center of educational, recreon both the duality of the devotional HE above portrait of Elder Harold and industrial life, but cus exercises and the effectiveness of the ational. t shifted.ms have -- class have been asked R Iconf the - Council of4he-- ; in factories, education in the schools, to make special preparations for the recreation is carried on, to a laree exday. tent. bv commercial agencies. Even The Bring a Friend to Sunday on the farm, machinerv has so modiSchool project will be held Sunday fied the wav of doing things that the in all Sunday Schools of the Church' comoanionship of father at. excepting those stakes in which quarwork has greativ changed. terlv conferences are" scheduled , It would perhaps not be desirable. request of the First Presidency an 10. By request of the general even if it were possible, to. return to will.be hung in the Council Room 6f board these stakes are asked to postsome perhaps many of the industhe Salt Lake Temple, where paintpong their special project until the on 17. (Continued ings of present members of the First Page Eight) following Simdiv. Jan. Bring A Fciend Plans Made s y A N out-o- f , - v - Portrait Of Elder Lee Completed For Temple , T Industry-centers-.... " work,-Teache- rs and-so- n - for-Ja- n. - mans life, and influenced in marked degree the lives pf many others, was recalled this week when a Christmas tree from Hill Cnmorah. wastaken to the Armington school, three miles south of Palmyra and one mile north of the Hill. The tree was presented to the school for use in Christmas services held on the 138th anniversary of the birth of The Prophet Joseph Smith, which happened to be the last day of school before the holidays and the time set for the Christmas program, The present school building replaced the one 1A which Oliver Cowdery ' 'fa light school in the winter is same site. It ap- but is on the from miles two the proximately Joseph' Smith home, where the sec- ond elder of the Church wasboard- ing around in partial compensation for his servfces as school teacher. The present building was, erected in 184G. Children who Jive in the Joseph Smith home still attend school at the same place. They are members of the family of Elder Merlin S. Ellis, formerly of Bountiful, Utah, and his wife, Echo Barber Ellis, who are in charge of the Joseph Smith farm. Robert, Glenn, Stephen and Dorothy Ellis, fol- "low the same route to the school, that is believed to have beeri followed by ha",?' Youngest of the Council of the Twelve in years and the junior member in service. Elder Lee, u ho is43 yeara of age, has been an Apotle since April, 1911. For five years prior to that time he,was prominently identified with the Church Welfare Program as managing director, whic h position he still retains. - - D. S. Servicemen A read i ngroo m4 . wt in g room 'mude and game facilities are provided for your leisure time enjoyment at theJTTomo For L. lYJ- Service Men, 41jqrth State Street. You are invited to use the facilities daily from 4.30 to 11 pm. and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 p ni to 11 pjn. You and your male friends are urged to use these com fortable rooms in your leisure 1 Oliver Cowderyv Bonnie and. Lee. El-2lis, the eldest daughter and son attend High School in Palmyra. Rosemary, the Joseph Smith born home is the only one of the. seven childremrot in school. The tree presented to the Arming-- , ton school, is ope of a number cut this year in a systematic thinning in areas where too close planting has resulted in considerable crowding now that the .trees have gained considerable size. Each family in the branch was supplied and others went to the Manchester High School and to the family of Elder Owen T. Howard at the Peter Whitmer farm where the Church-wa- s - organized. Attention L I N incident in early Church' history that- changed the course of one Presidency and Council of the Twelve, - GhristmasTFree From Hil Cumorah Sent To School. Building On Historic Site A by Lee Greene Richards. , time... Bishops of wards are requested to make announcements of this home in ward meetings and are also urged to inform prospective service met) who are called from their wards of the benefits of this refuge set "up in Salt Lake City for them .by- th e Ch ureh A uthor iti es- |