Show AT THE tabernacle last sunday evening elder alma 0 taylor recently president of the ja pan mission and one of the original elders ciders sent to open up the work in that thai land gave an interesting account of 0 his labors and recited some of the pe cullari ties of the people and the customs ot of the country cpu he gave a lucid account of 0 the experiences perien ces which he and his companions passed through in getting the work started going as they did to a land where eastern custom was just the to that of a christian land and to a people who had bad never been taught christ but had grown up in the pagan forms of religion the language was another great obstacle aside from the difficulty of learning it has not the christian expressions but they had to be coined from the words and in that manner the thoughts ot of christ had to be taught the he people elder taylor stated that the japan ese people were naturally suspicious of the westerners due to the fact that so many of the latter class had gone over to that land and disgraced themselves as well as their countrymen for that reason tile the elders had another obstacle to surmount for confidence once destroyed in a japanese is hard to establish again the work has progressed nevertheless and during the nine years of the life of the mission sion 50 saints have been added to the church and elder taylor introduced two members by relating in incidents of their conversion and showing the fidelity to the principles which they had espoused the address of elder taylor atas as intensely interesting and there was a splendid at tile the choir rendered several musical numbers and misses hortense and cam camille ile stoll stohl sang the childrens friend and a male quartette composed of alvin ipsen J francis sheffield C C jensen and cris hoist sang a number |