| Show tife wige MEETINGS AT clogan LAST friday morning presidents brigham young and geo A smith accompanied by elders john taylor wilford woodruff geo Q cannon B young jr and josephf joseph F smith of the quorum of the twelve and a number of other elders left the depot of the TJ 0 R R by the regular train at 5 in the morning en route for logan cache co for the purpose of holding meetings on in saturday and sunday on reaching ogden the party sti bli stopped slopped aped for break breakfast faRt arid abid having been joined by elders F D richards and L and aad A earr farr and a few other leading elders from ogden took train on the C P R R to the junction of the utah northern where they changed carriages nod and proceeded to hamptons Ham whence they were conveyed cologan to logan in vehicles brought by citizens for that purpose the distance from hamp hump tons to logan was quickly made the party reaching the end of the journey shortly before 2 upon arriving at logan the party were greeted by the enlivening strains of the brass band and a procession of the children of the sunday schools of the city the next morning the town presented an unusually quiet holiday appearance business being in great part suspended and long before 10 the people were to be seen flocking to tho the bowery to attend meet ing there being a large attendance of the citizens of logan many from providence vi smithfield hyrum paradise and probably from every settlement in the county on the stand besides the presidents tn party were president L snow of box elder W WB B preston presiding blahos of cache county bishops hyde of hyde park pitkin of Mill mili millville milleville ville lil lii jenquist jeanqu of hyrum hammond hammoud of providence hughes of mendon 1 of smithfield merrill 0 of f richmond hatch hatab of franklin and maughan of wellsville ville and a large number of other local authorities the choirs of logan smithfield and hyrum were in attendance and added greatly to the pleasure plea piea ure of the meetings by their very excellent singing the congregation on saturday morning was addressed by elders geo Q cannon and P F D richards and prebi preal dent geo A smith after which the meeting was wag dismissed for two hours at 2 the bowery was well filled fille dand and after the usual preliminary exercises the congregation was addressed by elders joseph F smith R F and henry W Na naisbitt naib Nals labitt bitt when an adjournment took place until 10 on sunday morning on sunday morning a meeting of the children attending the sunday schools ot 0 the several wards of logan city was held in the bowery commencing about half past 8 there being present on the occasion several hundred pupils very neatly dressed and presenting a beautiful appearance after singing and prayer elder card superintendent of sunday schools in logan city exam ined the children on the life mission and death of the redeemer and the first principles of the gospel which he and bis nis followers promulgated the history of the latter day church the birth of the prophet joseph smith the first appearance to him of the angel augel the discovery of the plates from which the book 0 mormon was translated the date of the organization of the church the death of the prophets joseph and hyrum the exodus of the saints to the rocky mountains under the guidance of president young and other points in the general church history a prompt and correct reply being given to each question by nearly every scholar present evincing an acquaintance with the principles of the gospel and church history which we feel satisfied many adult members of the community do not possess addresses were then delivered to the children by president george A smith and elder george Q cannon explaining the advantages of early education and of proper training in youth and exhorting them to refrain from every every evil practice be dill milligent igent in study and obedient to their parents and teachers this meeting was one of the most moat interesting te we ever attended and the appearance pe arance conduct and proficiency of the children were creditable in the highest degree to themselves and to their parents and teachers at 0 the religious services for the people commenced and ly by that hour every beat seat and most moat of the standing room within the bowery were occupied the attendance being much more numerous than on the preceding day owing to the much larger influx ol el visitors from the surrounding bettle ments merits the first speaker was elder john taylor at the close of his hib discourse bishop jj D young attempted to address the congregation hud but as he was still weak and suffering from the effects of the injuries he received when thrown from his carriage a few weeks since he be was compelled to desist elder wilford Woo woodruff druff draff was the next speaker the mornings services being brought to a close by a ten minutes sermon from president brigham young dismissed until 2 at 2 the bowery was filled to overflowing many being unable to ob tain admission the congregation numbering about five thousand persons the first speaker was waa president young who add addressed reseed the people on a variety of topics among others on the advisability I 1 lity of establishing in logan city a branch of the Z C M 1 I wholesale department so that all the settlements in the northern portion of the territory might obtain their goods at wholesale prices at logan and sod avoid the trouble and expense of freighting them from salt lake city A motion to carry out this project was pul put to the in meeting and carried unanimously president geo A smith then addressed d the people eople at some lon len length th ano and was followed by elder geo Q candon canpon cannon bringing to a close one of the most moat enjoyable seasons of the kind that we ever had the privilege of attending the meetings throughout were lively the teachings were pointed and pertinent just what the times required calculated to rouse the lukewarm and to make the diligent more so I 1 and were unmistakably dictated by the hol spirit the general feeling of the people in regard to the meetings was that they really had bad had a time of le ie freshing from the presence of the lord the company left logan at about a quarter past 9 yesterday morning being conveyed in carriages to hamptons Ham where they embarked on the utah northern and were rapidly convey conveyer eO to the junction and thence on to the 0 P R B R line to ogden arriving there at about a quarter past three iu the afternoon here the party remained for two hours and a half taking dinner in the interim leaving ogden by the regular evening train an and d rea res reaching ebing this city in safety and well weil satisfied with their trip at I 1 to 8 SOME of the methodists appear to be introducing a highly colored vein ot of politics into their religion and others do not seem to be very well satisfied about it A methodist writes to the new york sun in int a rather indignant manner and brings up an old read acquaintance not in a way to do the gentleman much credit it is none non other than the rev dr J P newman who with other brother reverends I 1 ir il presented as aa being just now lar far mork more noxious to convert people to politics than to religion to grant than to jesus A methodist Metho diat goes into the antecedents ot of the rev newman and bayr baym bat that during the war and while gen banks was major general commanding the Dep department artmont of the south head bead quarters at new orleans dr appeared in that city afew 4 f days sub by military ord order er the caron delet street methodist church the firstin point of wealth and influence in the south was turned over to the rev Newman dr H awman the old pastor was dispossessed posa essed be and his hib congregation upon a military order and at the instigation and request of the rev dr newman in less than a month mouth the old pastor died of a broken heart general canby succeeded general banks and upon his lils accession on ohe obe tb petition of the trustees of the caron delet street Church their house bouse of w worship or was restored to them and th the rev newman was set afloat once more he went to washington and laid bis his case rase before president johnson who is said to have answered mr newman if you wish a church go and build and day for it as they have done ak through political influence the rev newman became chaplain of the S senate and pastor of the methodist metropolitan church in washington and made a polemical expedition to utah his expenses expenses being paid here and back subsequently through the same influence he be obtained a free pass to labrador and back and now says A methodist the rov newman is politically stumping for the bridge that hail hafl carried him bare rare over here is ij a nen of the methodist beligio political style of preaching being extracts from a sermon by the revar rev dr fowler printed in the utica fl horald erald the visits of sovereigns are always eras in the histories of towns time is reckoned from them and monuments erected in honor of them this not only poly is characteristic of monarchies put is also charach characteristic biotic of all human ity and hence exists in n republica republics as well as in other forms of government the president of these united states has recently passed through ts city every towns townsman mail maii I 1 trust has honored him while he was here 11 we need good voters as well as good candidates therefore vote for grant I 1 and especially we need christian voters for the evangelization of the land Is its only salvation therefore vote for grant I 1 we need far more christian politics vote for grant I 1 you yuu must he e good christians to be good citizens vote vole for grant 11 he that is not with me is against me have havo you made your election and who is your ruler THE religious vendetta in belfast Ir rland ireland nab nas extended to a shameful degree and one almost wonders at the backwardness of the authorities in suppressing the mobbing these bloody party riots are things that should not us oe trifled with in any country it Is all very well to issue proclamations and read riot acts but the should be made to understand that th the public peace must be preserved at all hazards ind hind after due and prompt public warning perhaps excepting the case of riot nou for bread to sustain WA lif the rioters should be mowed down wherever they appear rr f there be party feuds religious or political they should be con COD confined tined fined to bordi acl agi a the tongue is aggravating but to put pub the peace and ives ilves and property prod erty of tho thousands of innocent citizens in jeopardy to satisfy the vengeful passions of religious par is a matter that should be straightened 1 out with immediate dispatch patch and arld inflexible determination if it takes the life of every riotous parti zan engaged in the disgraceful outbreak shoot boot hoot them down on the spot without mercy as practiced in utah has developed a new now and interesting feature which Is likely to result in a large accas slon blon to the mormon church charch of such is as desire to profess a paying religion and would fain blend the law of brigham with the profits of the gentiles the homestead act is responsible for its development it entitles entities any head ahead of a family to select and enter into possession of a homestead and as aa is frequently the casa oase in all families a discussion has arisen as to the identity of this head while the mormons cormons recognize the male mormon as the bead of one family composed of a company of wives and a brigade of children the federal law declares the family of which he is the head to be composed of none but his senior wife and her nor offspring this would leave about fifteen women and fifty children per head the word louied is used advisedly composing fifteen aggregations or communities mu muni tittles ties which were families ta miliea defalto de facto raolo if not dejure the land commissioner by a recent decision haa has vested the headship of the these families in the mothers and so quail qualified aed ded them to enter homesteads the result practically has bas been to make moile each mormon a repeater of leal leai estate hatate holding as many mauv homesteads as he be has sand ri in the extent of offia posses possessions the utes of colorado who require four foul thousand thou thon sand acres apiece whereon to follow the angleworm to his native hole and chase the bounding bound inz grasshopper A profitable field la is here offered to those deai desi de desirous airous rous of the comforts ot several homes it Is not improbable that ere man many yram yearb years mormonism will have become aggressive at as to territory and that the uth utah market will demand all the surplus virgins of massachusetts wherewith to preempt pre empt and people all the acres west of the sippi rufo No dem 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