Show AMONG SUND SUNDAY Y SCHOOLS SALT LAKE CITY Monday Oct Got 1 I 1894 On Monday October lit 1st we left Coalville at 9 a m in the midst midat of ot aa a a over OTer three three- Inches having fallen during the night The object ot of our visit was to hold bold a two days an- an annual an annual nual Dal Sunday Bonday school conference In Summit Stake of ot Zion Elder Levi W Richard and I having been ap- ap ap to 0 that duty by the Deseret Sunday School Union board we left Salt Lake City on Friell Friday Priddy Sept 28 tL bU bylL P B R B R B at p ml fit Di arriving Boho I ag ABobo station at Her Here We e were by Superintendent t Bra Branch lob Who bo dro Us o tot aInd andI and I between 10 and aDd 11 o'clock we found on cot e housed homed M at the Oluff Clu hotel It it was a cold eold night and in the morning Saturday water in the streets war wa frozen During the two days daya we held tour conference meetings and one evening e meeting Sunday We were blest with a host hOBt of good singers lingers some lome three or four choirs being pres pres- present ent for the occasion w who bo sang alternately and in concert President duff Oluff attended all our meet inga ing and spoke encouragingly on Sunday school matters and felt a assured that these annual conferences would result in great benefit to those engaged in Sunday school work Some ten or twelve superintendents reported the condition of ot their schools most of ot them spoke highly of the graded system sy tem which they had bad adopted and all were trying to carry out oot the instructions they bad had received ved from the general board Some of ot them spoke in io the I highest terms of the help they had received from those students Who had I taken a twenty weeks course coore at aL the B BY Y Academy at Provo A number of 01 class claes exercises by the children were very Tery cre creditable Toe The remaining time was waa wa occupied at each meeting by the visiting Brethren who dwelt on the various points of Sunday school schoolwork work ork which guarantees th the beat best results re- re re aso also the object and aim of the In- In Institution in institution Itself Several questions w were re also allO propounded ded and answered Stake Sop Supt John Boy Jen gave ve an interesting g ao account ont of ot his labors In 10 the Stake With a view of checking a growing evil eTH of cigarette smoking by bythe bythe the young Jouni boys boy and a tendency among the larger ones of ef smoking drinking and loafing around saloons a strong appeal was waa made to superintendents teachers parents parenti and aUp all in ii authority to set t an example by the strict anoe of the Word of Wisdom I About four fifths fifths of the entire congregation arose to their feet aa as a token toke 11 hat chat bat be they would do BO so from that day forward It ever the tire youth of ef Zion are rescued from those hab habits l and aDd Indulgences that areso are so 80 dl displeasing to our heavenly Father their parents parente who indulge in the same same must mOtt certainly repent and aDd reform or br face the fearful responsibility that hat at- at attaches to their children childrens waywardness wayward wayward- n ness One very Teasing pleasing feature noticeable In our visits to twenty of the Stakes Stake of Zion was wag va the tact fad that nearly all the superintendents and teachers are teach teach- teaching I ing in b by example as well weH as al precept j ab- ab ab abstinence from the U use of those hose per per- pernicious pernicious articles We were pleased to notice Elder Chas I D Evans from Springville in our afternoon n meeting be also attended the ev evening meeting occupied a portion of ot the time on the Holy Spirit and the importance of living under its Ite divine influence Thus Thu ended an aD enjoyable visit to Coalville I Summit Stake May the good seed eN sown lown broadcast by humble servants of God God- bring forth good fruit to His HII praise and glory We arrived home between 1 and 2 p m all sale gale GEORGE GEOttGE GODDARD |