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Show avvwvvtwwvtwvwvwvi t TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE. tvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv. Madame Mountforil la preparing an Illustrated lecture on Utah and her people, to bo delivered In London and other cities ot Hngland. On January 1. W, there were tScldertnnd four missionary alstcrt laboring In tho California mission ol tho church, In Colorado 89 missionary ciders and one slater, in the southwestern south-western states mission IM eldcn and one sister, and In Manitoba ten nldcrt and one slater. Last year, 1809, 011 missionaries left their homes In '.Ion to preach the gospel In distant regions. 01 these, 881 remained In tho United States, 10 labored In Manitoba, 3M went to Ihiropo and 89 wore scattered among tho archipelagoes of tho I'aelflo ocean. Of tho abovo total 3? were ladles. On December SO, Klder Albert I'eter. son, a missionary from Murray, Ball Lake county, died at Upaala, Sweden, where he was laboring. He had been In poor health for several weeks. lie leaves a wile, to whom he wat mar rled but a week before hit departure, to mourn lilt Iota. Hit remains will he brought home. Dr. Tarry, of Wales, who took so prominent a part In the proceedings ol the late Mstcddfod, In Salt Lake City, has since hla return home la-en fearless fear-less In expressing on all occasions hit high regard for tho sincerity and Integrity In-tegrity of the Mormon people. On December 10, at Cardiff, a concert was given by tho doctor's students, followed follow-ed by n social tea party. President K. V. Owen ami I'.IJrrt L. (irorge and Samuel Clark, of the Welsh conference, were present I'resldeut Owen msde an appropriate address during tho social, and wa followed by Dr. l'srry, who then spoke In tho highest terms of the people of Utah. Iteturned missionaries occupied tho entire time In the tabernacle Sunday afternoon, January 8. Klder Harrison K. Jenkins, who left for Germany July IS, 1898, told of hit travelt and experiences In Uermany and other placet on the continent Elder Fred C Graham, who hat been In the Colorado mission field for twenty-one mouths, reported considerable consider-able Interest manifested In the work In that state. KIdcr IM. B. Shcetttald he had spent thirty tnonlhi In the northern ttatet, devoting most ot hit time to touthern Illinois. "Persecutions ot the Saints," he aasured lilt hearers, "are not at numerous now as they once were. I had one curious, but at the same time not an unusual experience for an elder. A young man called upon me, and asked that I visit hit titter. I did to, and shs told me that the hail teen ran before, I told her I did not know how the could have done to, at I wat a ttranger In these parts. She Insisted, however, that aha had) thtt I htd appeared ap-peared to her In her dreams. Sho had been praying to the Lord for light, anil bad received It In that war, Mio expressed ex-pressed a desire to be baptized. I told her to think carefully over the ttep the desired to take, and become more familiar with our beliefs. We left her tracta and other church works. She read them all Slit now hat a firm and true belief In the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Stints, and It doing a good work In her home town. Other memlere of ber family hare alao been converted to the faith. Severnl caacaof the alck being healed by the laying on of handa havo como under my notice. The Lord hat the power today that be hatthown In fie paat" St l'aul and Minneapolis, Klder Sheets said, were promising fields for Mormon missionaries. He had been well-treated In both these places, and had been given access to the hornet of the wealthy aa well at the poor. He htd been atkej looecupypulplta there, forwhlih work he would have been welt-paid had ho agreed to preach Wealsvanlam. but had refused the of fers, saylug that he preached nothing but the true gospel. Klder Hulon S. Wells, late president ot tho ilrltlth mission, who has been absent since June 18, 1898, wat theltat speaker. He gave n description of hla labors while abroad, and said there were In the neighborhood of too missionaries mis-sionaries now engaged In Kngland and on the continent Tbo work of the Ilrltlth million hid bten very tuo- The Detertt fiundty School Union It Issuing a third edition of Ua ten cent hymn book. The two prevlout editions, which are all disposed of, amounted to 18,000; this one will be 20,000, making 89,000 In all, the largest Issue of any book yet published In Utah. The Union hat alto In the hands of tho printer an edition of 8,000 copies of the proceedlngt of the late Sunday tchool convention. Ot theso 4,000 will lie presented gratuitously to the Sunday Sun-day schools! the other remaining 1,000 will be sold at a nominal price to Individuals. Klder L. J. Willis, of Cannonvllle, who recently left for a million to the touthern ttatea, hat returned home. It appears that he was assigned to labor In Atlanta, (Is, A fur? dayt after hit arrival bo had tho misfortune to fall from a tlx foot wall ou the hard pavement, near a houto he and hit companion htd Wen vltltlng. It wat found that he had tuslalned Injuries through hit fall that would prerent him for aomo time from profitably traveling In the mlnlatry, so he waa releaaed by the president of the million mil-lion to return homo to recupcralo. |