Show J L 1 j r f LO LOFy fl o. o c l f Fy AND ADD I lf 4 ti The Tho native nativa Saints In Apia Samoa Samo 1 ire Are organizing a a. dram dmm and fife band yr p somewhat to the astonishment of their no non neighbors k President Woodruff visited the camp K l Of of Df battery C at nt atthe the San Francisco Fran i f cisco isco one afternoon last t week and area wa ii 1 the guest of Captain Jennings Iii 4 L Jt j. Elder Simon P. P Eg Jr has been chosen as the V thene new bishop of the J second ward Provo Prom and Elder t I J. J Ennis as ns bishop of Draper reported in the tho Lab Lai- K Saints meeting meetings for the benefit oJ laine Memorial Memoria Fund already 1 l n off r exceeds with some f e a settlements yet to hear bear from rd has been received at Pleasant t 1 b by his parents that Elder Vil IVil Vili t. t f f m i D. D Stewart vart is very Ul m of typhoid fever Sever ever in the southern states where he heIs heIs hea Is a laboring as a missionary Elder Thomas L. L AU IJ the tho lent of the Church in Park City is b the various stakes seeking to rebuild the Saints Saint's meeting i Y i. i house bouse lately destroyed in its the great ir ire are which wrought so gr at a damage i n that city j 1 Seventeen people TV were ere baptized by A Bishop Brown Drown one day last week in ini Bear Gear river Idaho and confirmed and andi i i d as members of the Church of it 1 the lesus Christ of Saints Latter Sunday following Mrs frs Charles Long rong t sf f Denver and 1 was baptised accepted IY n the church a II few evenings previous Att 1 t Doctor James E. E Talmage has returned re re- turned from Europe The newspaper t m reports are very gratifying 1 and crowded houses greeted f f x aim in every city where he lectured Fe At Oldham Lancashire seven hund hun- hun i ired re d persons were turned turne d away f from rom c tf 4 J. J he doors there being not even stand stand- 1 re ng room A special report from all the mis mis- r lions ions of tho the church has been requested 1 f rom the various mission presidents by f A he She h general authorities This re report reports rt fo 1 s intended to show v the cost of mis- mis mis- mis i labor and the corresponding I results in iu all parts of tho world where J ders were laboring during 1807 1507 It Ito o s 's J-B J es estimated t. t Ima t e d b by y some th that a t th the e t total 0 t a I I i ir j ost to to the church and people of each w c gears gear's mission work vork counting all ex- ex ses s is at present nearly three- three Barters ll i rs of a a. million dollars J h r p I u President Wilford Woodruff and George eorge Q Ch Cannon are arc in San Fran Fran- 0 iseo ISoo visiting C California a lif orma for or t their h e i r J r President Joseph P. P Smith is W a conference of the Has lIar Ha- Ha r s r if at Iosepa their Utah f Ions rous in Skull Valley Apostle Lyman n V s making his annual tour of the i tf t takes stakes in southern Utah including f fit t 4 h 4 o Sevier evler I IJ Panguitch angul t c h K Knab nil b St St. G George eorge Parowan and Beaver Apostle Wood fH T 4 r is in Alberta Canada r ii to io o the churches there Apostle frt Richards is visiting the saints it ir t 0 Baker City Oregon Dr J. J E. E Talmage who has just Ien ie le J n turned from Russia delivered the prin 51 lr discourse at the tabernacle last W Sunday un d ay a afternoon moon n He e Bat said d h he e had visited many fields in distant parts of oi w the world where missionaries ar are 1 and he knew the congregation j would be interested in knowing that thai J.- J. I hey they are doing good work If one should mould name the characteristic feature V yf f the Latter-day Latter Saints it would be behe beshe l he she missionary labor No other church t Makes hakes it the per personal onal duty of the mem- mem f. f i tiers oera as do the r ratter day Latter day Saints Dr q j Talmage commended the change changer r- r which the authorities of the church fi- fi i r mad lad made a a. few months ago in depart depart- Jig ng from the accustomed rule and send send- ng jig women into the missionary field rr People in Europe had made the claim 1 t f that women are In slavery In Utah and F l hey they cited in evidence the fact that nc women had ever been sent Bent out as os mis missionaries but now that ground of objection ob ob- ff cannot be urged as some i fart women have been commissioned to go i out sut and preach the gospel Only a few v weeks ago he be had listened to some ofa oi of a r r these sisters and their words had been received with th the greatest respect A Referring to the charge of insincerity iF r r that has been urged against the tho Latter day Saints Dr Talmage said he did tl q not oot see seo how v it can be be said that the thes s i people eople are not sincere in view of th the thea IV L. a renditions under which this community 7 y City was in in view of the track rk e through the desert bordered with i f C graves A Why hy was the temple erected The Tho theology may be bo faulty but insincerity main rity cannot be charged Dr Talmage 1 f was all glad that when the call came forA for A the tho Utah boys to go to the front there ther was a good response but Utah hao also sent forth 2000 men to all ull parts part of the world to preach the gospel gospel gospel-a a work almost without parallel |