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Show The Deseret News. KEW YEAR'S, 1893. oo:v President Wiltord Woodrufi. President Wilford Woodruff, 1 lie halt Lake Temple. . Columbus Real Letter . . Music in Utah Van Buren and the Samts . The Modern Ishmaehte . A Mexican Bull Fight . . . Societies, Clubs and Culture. Sunday School Union The Relief Society . . M. I. A Y L. M. I.A The Primary Women and the Fair Phvsieal Reform Physical Culture Woman's Suffrage Womans Press Club Other Clubs A Closing Word Salt Lake His Amanuensis Hill Cumorah 3 6 6 16 17 20 22 23 25 27 28 28 30 30 31 31 35 editor of the Deseret News asked me to give a page of from my journal for the (c) history holiday number of his paper. I can hardly answer that request in the time allotted to me in a manner to satisfy my own mind. But I will endeavor to give a SHE few items. 36 38 In Education s Sphere Our Church Schools 41 Y Academy Y. College. Logan L. D. S. College University of Utah Agricultural College Poetry At Evening A Christmas Chime Procession of the Immortals Night Music: The New Year Christmas Carol B. B 42 44 45 46 47 2 17 . . . .33 40 8 32 TO TUG RGADGR. rv- The News has attempted no advertising of nO of this region. Agricultural, commercial, industrial and mining statistics, the of this or that scheme inewtable "write-up- s or tory. In this instance a new field was sought out and entered to the reader's satisfaction, we hope Our fi lends have furnished much more matter than the limits of this paper permitted the use of, hence much that is used has had to be abbieviated and much that was acceptable has had to be omitted enlnely This latter refers to portraits, views and biographical Another time sketches, as w ell as to articles. we will try to have more room. Meantime, a word of thanks is due, and is hereby expressed, to each and all for ready assistance tendered. Year to all! - g ? newspapers larly presented on other occasions and contribute to make up the burden of each days his- . V, edition" or a catchpenny pretense, but rather a medium for the collection and diffusion of a class of information not usually given by the enterprise, and all the other ingredients combining to make up the usual special issue" have been purposely avoided. They are regu- - - this issue, nor desired any, for the reason that in the outset it was not designed to be a boom A happy and prospeious New AUTOBIOGRAPHY. AN 9 ii . PltlIDCNl S ,,vV W 11.101. D WoOUKUiF. born March 1, 1807, at Noithing-ton- , part ot Farmington (now Avon), Hartford rounty.Connecticut. In my early life I worked as a farmer and a miller. Of course my childhood was passed under the influence of the remnants of the Blue Laws of Connecticut. I remember the day well when the Baptists and Method ists in Connecticut were almost as unpopular as Mormons are today. Presbyterians and Congrcgationalists were the ruling religions of New England in my childhood. In attending the Sunday school in my early boyhood, under Dr. Noah Porter, and learning chapters of the Bible by heart, I saw what Jesus Christ I was and the Apostles taught. Those princi- ples were so firmly imprinted on my mind that I could never join any church, because the churches of that day did not believe in them, until I heard Zera Pulsipher, a Mormon Elder, preach to me and my brother Azmon, and a large congregation of neighbors at Richland (now Dansville), Oswego county, New York, on the 30th day of December, 1S33. On hearing the first sermon I and my brother Azmon were convinced, and we went forth and were baptized on the 3isf of December, 1833, which will be fifty-nin- e years ago the 31st of this month. I went in Zions Camp, in the spring of 1S34, to Missouri, to the assistance of our people who had been driven out of Jackson county. Very few of the members of that Camp are living today. That thousA - A and miles journey with the Prophet Joseph Smith was to me a school of experience that I shall never forget in this world nor the world to come. When the Prophet returned to with most of his company I remained in Clay county, Missouri, until the 13th ofjanuary, 1835, when I left Lyman Wights, in company with Henry Brown, to go on a mission to the Southern States. We passed through Jackson county, Missouri, and through Arkansas, and from Little Rock to Memphis, Tennessee. I spent two years in Tennessee and Kentucky. While there I was ordained to the office of an Elder under the hands of Warren Parrish, and afterward a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventies, under the hands of David W. Patten. I ordained A. O Smoot to the office of an Elder in 1836, and he traveled with me through Kentucky and Tennessee, and accompanied me to Kirtland in the fall of that year. I organized four branches of the church in Tennessee and Kentucky. Kirt-lan- d |