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Show i. rtVVVVVVVVVVVVVVWVVVV' J TEMPLE AND TABERNflGLE. I . WWWWWWSA VHAWWIW Including ono lady. 128 missionaries left Ion for various mission Holds during the month of April. Elder Kil. J. Wood, Into president of the Samoan mission, Is preparing n now scries of gospel tracts In tho language lan-guage of that people. Elder V. V. lllntze, who has been laboring- In Athens, the capital of Greece, for a short tlmo had, by last ndvlcos, returned to Constantinople. Tho meeting place of tho Saints In London hns been changed to Clorkcn well Town Hall, Kosebcry avenue, London, N. This U n grcnt Improvement Improve-ment on the old place. Tho olders of tho church have commenced com-menced lnborlng on the Mnrqulsns Islands Is-lands In the Ureal South Seas, under tlio direction of tho president of tho Society Islands .mission. Elder Ilrlgham Younff Is about to tnko n trip south, but will return In tlmo to bo present nt tho family ro union to bo held on the anniversary of tho birth of his father, Juno 1. President Ocorgo (J. Cannon left on April 30 for Washington, 1). C., on business connected with tho erection of the new 1'edernl building that is to bo shortly erected In Halt Lnlto City. Eldcra John Henry Smith nnd M. F. Cowley of the quorum of the twelvo apostles, left Salt LnUo City on the evening of April 28, to nttend n meeting meet-ing of the conference presidents nnd other olllccra of tho southern Btntcs mission nt Chattanooga, nnd othcrwUo visit In thnt mission. Missionaries writing from Meridian, Kansas, stuto that tho work In that section of tho country 1b progressing nicely nnd thnt tho ciders nro nblo to perform their work with less difllculty than six months ngo, popular feeling hnving umlcrgono a vast chango In favor of tho church. Elder L. A. Stevenson, of Ilrlnton, Snlt Lake county, returned April 21. Ho hag traveled In Florida and southern south-ern Georgia, nnd for a year nnd a half has devoted his tlmo to Sunday school work. Elder Stevenson soys ho hns enjoyed fair health nnd mot with good success. " Ho has gained nn experience ho considers Invaluable. An Hawaiian correspondent snya: The elders nnd saints of thu Hawaiian mission have, enjoyed tho outpourings of tho Holy Spirit In tlio seuil-nnuual conference, which concluded hero at Lalo, April 0. Tho huu&o was crowded to overflowing, thcro being between four nnd llvo hundred In attendance. Itepre&uutntlvcs from most all tho brnncheH throughout tho islands noro present, whllo Sunday schools, Mutual Improvement associations, Primaries and ltcllef (.octettes, from West Maul, Honolulu nnd Walhlkt Joined with us In mailing thu good tlmo wo hnvo had. Tho Sunday school confcrcnco of tho San Luis stnku of .Ion was held nt Mannssit, Colo,, April 1 nnd 2. Thcro were present ot tho gcncrnl Sunday school olllcera, Elders Karl G. Mncscr nnd L. John Xuttall. In tho absence of Stuko Superintendent Ira II. Whitney, Whit-ney, who Is on n mission, First Assistant Assist-ant M. O. I'linU presided. Iteports from tho superintendent showed tho Sunday school work to be In n good condition generally In this stuto. Tho instructions given during tho conference confer-ence by Elders Mncser nnd Nuttall wore timely line very pointed. The homl-aiinunl confcrcnco of tho Sacramento brunch of thu California inUsioii wus held on Sunday, tho 10th of April. Elders from nil parts of the eonferioaei ivlilrh ixtinils throntrh tho Sacramento valley from lied lllull to l'rcsno, began to urrlvo as early as tho Thursday before confcrcnco and on Sunday eighteen missionaries were present. Ilesldes thu elders gnthorcd, there were also many members who came In from tho outside counties to attend tho servicer. Many ot tho elders are to be released In the near future and only these spoke, owing t the lack of time. Tho remains of Elder David SI. Mulr of llenver, who died a few months ngo, while on n mission to Scotland, reached Snlt Lako City on Tuesday, April 25, In charge of Elder Hector McQunrrlo of St. George, Thu body was forwarded for-warded tlio sumo evening to MUford In tho care of Elders Union S, Wells nnd Joseph W. Mu.Murrlu uf tho llrst council coun-cil ot tho seventies, tho deceased being nt tho tlmo ot his donth one tho presidents presi-dents of tho Twelvo (juorutn of Seventies. Seven-ties. Elders Wells nnd McMurrin were also the presidency of tlio European mission nt tho time of Elder Mulr's death. Funeral services with appro prlnto ceremonies wore held nt Heaver on Thtisdny, the 87th of April. Conjoint MuMial Improvement association asso-ciation conferences w HI be held during May ns follows: On 13 nnd 11 of tho Utah stnku tw Provo; on in ot tho Star Valley stake, on aist of the Weber stako nt Ogdon; ou tl and 23 ot the Davis stake; on S3 of the Uintah stake at Vernal, |