Show TO THE ARTISTS OF UTAH the deseret sunday school union perceiving the good that is being effected in the sunday schools of the latter day saints by the introduction therein of bible picture charts desires to prepare similar sets illustrative of the book of mormon and seeks the operation cooperation co of the artists of utah to enable it to s satisfactorily a accomplish this object it is designed that the first bret set published shall consist of twelve pictures to illustrate the life of nepal the son of lehi and the incidents in his bis life selected for this purpose are the following 1 lehi preaching to the jews many mocking him see I 1 for leri i 2 departure of lehi and his bus family from jerusalem I 1 nephi chapter ii 3 the death of laban I 1 nephi chapter iv 4 gehis vision of the iron rodeth rod etc I 1 nephi chapter vill 5 nephus vision of the virgin and child I 1 nephi chapter xi 6 the finding of the compass the Li liahona shona I 1 nephi chapter xvi 7 the building of the ship I 1 nephi chapters and J 8 the first sacrifice on the prom sed W land I 1 nephi chapter 9 lehi blessi blessing ug his posterity II 11 nephi chapter i 1 10 the separation of the Nep hites and Lama il II neph chapter v 11 the building buil dinc of the temple 11 II echi chapter v 12 nephi making the plates for the records il II nephi chapter v the union now offers boners a premium of two hundred and forty dollars to those artists who send in designs or sketches for any or all of these pictures to be divided pro rato rata 20 each according to the number accepted from each competitor on the following conditions the designs accepted are to te be come the property of the deseret sunday school union they are to be seit in to geo reynolds presidents president office salt bait lake city not later thau thata july 1890 they may be in colors or in black ind and a white but those in colors are preferred the size desired is 24 incites inches in height by 18 inches in width but no sketch will be rejected because of its being smaller the union reserves the right to accept those pictures only which ara am deemed by its committees suitable to the needs of the sunday schools in IB conclusion tho the union desires that the artists maintain as far as possible the unities of time place dress etc that the pictures may not be misleading to the children even in their minor details the characters therein except the angels are all israelites of the sixth cantu century ry before christ and the localities are palestine arabia and chill GEORGE Q CANNON general superintendent defered sunday school union |