Emery County Progress | 1912-09-07 | Page 2 | Mission Weddings

Mission Weddings. Within two minutes after the cab stopped at the mission door the report spread up and down the street that a wedding was taking place Inside. Within another two minutes the room was packed to the very doors. That sudden rush of the crowd to the sanctuary sanc-tuary pleased the mission superintendent. superin-tendent. "If I had money to spare," he said, "I would pay a bonuB to young couplet for getting married In a mission. Th moral effect of one wedding is worth a dozen sermons. To get the best effect ef-fect the ceremony ought to be performed per-formed In the middle of the service. No innovation that I have ever introduced intro-duced has had such a sobering effect on the congregation. The example of a man once as far down maybe in the social scale as themselves having become be-come sufficiently regenerated to as sume the responsibilities of life stirs every bit of manhood there is in them. "The trouble is, I can persuad very few couples to be married in a mission. mis-sion. The bridegrooms do not mind, but the brides want something more exclusive."