Show I Ir r TEMPLE T i. i ni x Good returns are reported from tho the French speaking part of ot the Swiss mission Elder Brigham Young of ot the council of ot the tho Apostles who has been seriously sick for several weeks is now rapidly improving It is understood that the lectures Mad Madame me Mountford is about tOo to to deliver in England will be entitled The Zions of the East and West and will deal p Y with conditions in Utah and in Palestine Palestine Pales Pales- r l tine Jerusalem vs Salt Lake City s' s The members of the tho Deseret Sunday School Union board attended in a 0 body r 3 the Old Folks gathering at the Salt Salt j in Lake theatre on the afternoon of f f Thursday January 19 The comic opera r The Bells Dells of by the Home Dramatic Co occupied the boards I 1 Elder Charles O. O Card is actively engaged en en- j fd f gage d amongst the stakes and settlements settle settle- YE fill ments drumming up settlers for the t r wide wid stretch of country round about I ire Cardston Alberta over which he pre pro sides Finding that his duties as president president president dent of the stake and also of the Manitoba Mani Mani- yi r toba mission could not be properly I i attended to by the same officer he has requested the First Presidency to find finda a II successor for the latter position The Latter-day Latter Saints of St St. John x Kansas tendered a dinner to the Old p Folks' Folks January 2 Forty to forty-five forty j. j of th them m enjoyed an elegant dinner i f witch which was followed by an f program Elder Wm T. T Jack of Sa i Lake City president of ot the t tern ern era states mission Thos i presided iwho who managed the tho affair were ably as assisted listed by the citizens of St. St John and andall all had a most enjoyable time At the commencement of the present year there were missionary elders laboring in the southern states mission elders and four sisters in Great x Britian 75 elders and one lady missionary mission mission- ary in Germany 28 elders In Switzerland Switzer Switzer- c land and 25 elders Iders and six sisters on f the Sandwich islands Altogether the world over there were about 1700 missionaries mis mis- r i in the field on January T 1 I 4 fJ 1899 Quarterly conference was vas held at t J Huntington HUD ting ton on the and lath The J. J 1 most important business was the election elee- elee tion of Hon non G. G l 11 R Miller as president A of Emery stake vice C C. G. G Larson A who on account of his age ill health t etc had resigned Mr Miller chose John Paco Pace and Henry Mathias as his f t councilors both of l Price rice Apostles Apostles' s' s J Lyman and Lund were present and 1 besides giving the people much good ii advice concerning the use of tea coffee cof cot r rM fee tobacco and whisky Apostle Lyman Lyman Ly Ly- I man paid a good tribute to the work F i and labors of of President ex-President Larson of l t whom he said Well done my good d. d Si G ii and faithful servant The attendance attend attend- a NIce Mace despite the cold weather was f very large the largest perhaps in the r history of Emery county it the reports of bishops throughout the r a stake the people are generally prosperous prosperous pros pros- ii i erous and healthful and anxious for improvement and knowledge 4 Possibly no other Sunday school accorded such sucha superintendent was ever V Va f fa a funeral as that of Elder George Goddard God God- s 1 A t dard at Salt bait Lake City on January y 1 rs f. f For Fo a man who practically was r If t sold by his brother for fifty pounds 1 t iJ because he was ashamed of him and wanted to get rid of him the attendance attend attend- f ance of eight or ten thousand persons jr on such an inclement day and so many i f Ii of them little children shows how deeply he be was loved how widely re reo ii l' l There vas was also a peculiar fitness in the proceedings The speakers speak ers era were either his bis associates in the t Sunday school work york or on the tho Old Folks committee his pupils in the Sunday Sun Sun- r o day dap school his bishop and the youngest young young- 0 est member of that remarkable band of missionaries of which Elder Goddard God God- at dard was clerk who in 1857 crossed from Salt Lake City to the Missouri river drawing a hand cart The benediction bene bens a diction was offered by presiding Patriarch Patri arch John Smith the deceased belong belonged Kt ed to that body of the tho priesthood ty r ei Returned missionaries occupied tho the grater portion of the time at the tabernacle tabernacle taber taber- nacle Sunday January 22 the speakers speaker being Elders Thomas Naylor Andrew fir L Smith Theodore Thaddeus F Naylor and Joseph Carr They were 1 followed by President George Q Cannon Can non in a n. brief address delivered in such a a. manner as would in indicate licate that his recent illness had had but little effect Affect Elder Thomas Naylor told of ol his experiences in the Indian Territory and the tho progress that his faith had ha i made among the Chickasaws Cherokees Cherokee and other tribes while Elder Andrew Andre Smith spoke of his experiences in South 1 Carolina and other other southern state t t Both agreed that bat their faith w was s' s rap rap- rapidly A. 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