Show MEETING OF THE DESERET S S UNION on sunday evening april ath a meeting was held in the provo meeting house of the offices of the deseret sunday school union at which first general assistant superintendent geo goddard presided the house was filled to overflowing and there was a numerous attendance of sunday school representatives from all parts of the country as well as stake residents presidents and bishops the meeting was opened by singing and prayer bishop farrell of smithfield gave a brief report of the condition of the schools in cache stake and of the visitation of the superintendent among the schools there in which there are pupils enrolled supt bupt miller of represented the sunday schools over which he presides which contain 2525 scholars they had organized them into large lar e classes and had in addition theological gi cal and primary classes which were held in separate rooms or houses supt bupt J B malben maiben reported the schools school of sanpete stake as progressing favorably about one third of the population were identified with them the majority were able to recite the lords prayer ten commandments and the articles of of faith etc elder win willes sang my mountain home 19 abst supt bupt M C chiuan CM millan iUan of wasatch stake said the schools of that stake were in a chri thriving I 1 ving condition most of the books used were the works of the church some of the schools were miles distant from the centre and could not be visited so frequently as they wished supt bupt david john reported the schools of utah stake as very prosperous and that the leading men were taking takina a deep interest in them Thought that the works of the church and the contributor and Ju juvenile instructor ab should 0 uld be more extensively patronized felt to bless the superintendents and all engaged in the work elder Wm Willes spoke of the necessity of being more energetic in supporting the juvenile instructor and increasing the circulation of that excellent periodical so indispensable in every home elder george goddard sang chos on the lords side 11 superintendent george goddard referred the tact fact of three of the leading speakers at the conference having been trained in our sunday scho schools gave some valuable instructions on the word of wisdom punctuality cleanliness chastity yoneo and order and recommended the e exclusive use if possible of our own books in the schools schools urged the necessity of short addresses to the children cautioned his hearers against fault finding I 1 and advised them to take a course to find something to praise or something the opposite of that which needed reproof also of the advantage of the stake superintendents and their assistants visiting altogether and of detaining the teachers after school for a few minutes to administer spiritual instructions apostle H J grant next addressed the meeting and endorsed the remarks of supt bupt goddard in the main but bat said that the first impressions of divine truth he had received were from his venerated mother and not from his attendance k in the thirteenth ward sabbath school as stated by him they were received at so early a period that he could not distinctly recollect when he concluded by highly corn com mending the sunday school movement offering a strong testimony of the truth and encouraging n g his brethren to be faithful and dawg diligent e nt in the great work of the last days singing 0 ye mountains high benediction by elder K G maeser 9 S S JONES secretary pro tern tem |