Show V SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION the semi gemi annual conference of the sunday school uvion union was leveret re t ia in the Ts tabernacle bernacle at p m her ath th 1891 the general attend good and most of the mem nee nce was board were present of the ere meeting re was C called ailed to order by As superintendent george nt general dard athe the cboin and congregation joined singing come come ye saints I 1 prayer was offered by president non smith of cache stake singing in her beauty rise zion r ft ret begins to shine etc ker her light assistant general superintendent georee goddard spoke in substance follows rge I 1 have been requested to in brief of the labors of synopsis ivea ve a sunday school union 60 deseret e last six months the figard rd during our leaflets having run out we fahed a reprint of the short have ve which can be had at the needed affe i fie instructor in office the Rt attendance of the to increase the sunday school we havy have idren fit at benedi aed what is called a visiting book tift befeld therein the teacher who goes round afis beat or dif strict every sabbath attendance of to insure the enters the name of each pupil genday erv ry school pupil in his beat and it aday attend each to lee eee that they anday 8 duty if he or she should be de absent ito aday marked in this book and the next the teacher calls upon the finds out the cause etc ante and have found this plan an excellent be 0 and it enables the t ad bishop to know exactly the num of children in his ward na ano and I 1 ager e had ot our ir own artists procure pre paintings stings of the important am in oil pal benta am in the early life of nepal etc chich chi formed the baste basis ot of the book of which we expect will charts armon rm 0 steady for sale about february 1892 ordered sets of twelve fe 0 have im each all and id they will be a great I 1 in teaching t the he children of zion truth and beauty of the book of enod it was for this purpose that means that aiding us in raising hi were called upon to donate at least re cents from each scholar teacher superintendent untended t to this theresaa there has haa so port een n 4 a very generous response six months thI the members in t the be past rathe the board have visited two curds of all the stakes of zion their have bee been n interesting and pro hut but it was re 7 y 1 a or jubilees Jubil ees were held and we te could not get A at t the true labor ot of the dents A review revie w should be one and vot recitations songs etc foreign to maday school jork work lt it should conist at of an epitome e of the exercises that have ben been gone 0 over ver by the tei aad ad in all these reviews all the pupils 11 As much as possible should be brought IS ila to use that it may be a benefit to all ailt ia would be we well 11 at reviews to have W atee e arti articles of faith responded to by fiall 0 the school the words of wisdom in the same way slid and thus aly I 1 impress upon the young the cardinal idzi principles of the gospel where it can be done schools should abr graded ed auto the primary K Z and theological classes where this bus baa been done we find the progress very marked indeed the importance of the sunday school labor demands that we try and employ the obest est talent means and exert the most ili influence fluence among the young there are nearly officers anu ano teachers now engaged in this cause there are over children among us between tb the e ages of six and eighteen years year what a host for the future of elov reports should be furnished completely by february of each year blanks will be set sei t ayou you for this purpose soon and all should see abe to it that they are properly filled out and returned by the date named in some places I 1 the he stake superintendents find themselves cramped for means to enable them to travel without it being a hardship upon them I 1 would suggest that a fund be established in each stake for traveling expenses stationery etc to rake this means get up good concerts and charge a small ad mission admission fee superintendent richard ballantyne of the weber stake made some inter eating remarks on how he had increased the attendance of the children sta at school chool by the use of the visiting books he rejoiced to see bee the progress in the weber stake in the last twenty eight years burbag which time he be had bad been stake superintendent the twenty first ward choir under the management of elder thomas INIc Intyre rendered in style sabbath welcome generah general superintendent george Q C cannon annau then addressed the audience elder george reynolds presented the general officers of the union as follows george Q cannon general superintendent george goddard first assist aut ant superintendent john morgan second assistant superintendent and the above with george reynolds abraham H cannon cannone nJ J W ays eys thomas C griggs levi W richards francis M lyman and heber heberd J grant constituting the general blaid george reynolds as general treasurer Trea aurer and J john M eras general secretary of the union the vote was unanimous ma apostle F M lyman then followed making some timely and good suggestions liba comrades in arms arme was beautifully rendered by the male choir from the twenty first ward benediction was aronou pronounced need by elder george reynolds conference adjourned for six months JOHN johie M WHITAKER clerk |