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Show one that would ho dipped beneath the icy waterB of the Bering Sea. At two o'clock Hugh Priest Cannon and 'his assistant, Mr. Winne, tool; up their position on the platform In tlio rear of the .Miners & Merchants bank, BnrrlckS Square, overlooking the wa-tet, wa-tet, and opened th baptismal services with a hynin, which was followed by an invocation. Dr. Cannon then preached a service apropos of the occasion and was folv lowed hy Mr, Winnie, who gave aj short talk on the hij.ory of the M,r-j mon church, and staled that he had lota of literature he wished to dlstrt-; bute to those present an 1 alter the bapt'zmal was. over he wished all would remain and receive one for tbey 1 were free like the gtspcl of the Latter Lat-ter Day Ralnfs. The need Dr. Cannon then led Mrs ' A. W. Anthony to the waters of H-' H-' ring Sea and when she laid orf her robe wns drest-'cd all in white to re-i re-i celve her acceptance Into the church , of Jcbus Christ or l atter Dny Salnas. A eold north wind was blowing at I ttv time and the majority of those I present were shivering from the e. hi. I but the doctor enact in? the role of the high priest of the Monimn church took the young mother by the hand j and led her Into the waters, where th breakers were healing upon the shoe and in a clear voice went through th" service Riven just before Hie limner-I limner-I sion then he dipped the young woman I below the waters and all was over, j The crowd dispersed and went thMr respective ways shivering from th? i cold wind and out of sympathy for the ' young woman who had pledged her I faith t. the church of Latter Dny j Saints, by braving the crowd of curious curi-ous spectators and allowing the representative repre-sentative of the church here In Nome ' who has long since passed the mile stone of three score years and ten, baptize her in the Icy wuters of Bering Be-ring Sen. BAPTIZED IH THE 1CVBMNG SEA Former Resident of Ogden is the First Woman to be Immersed in the Far North Hundreds Witness the Ceremony Performed by an Elder of the Mormon Church. Mrs. A. W. Anthony, a daughter of Mrs. C. A. By bee of Ogden, drew a great crowd to the water front of Nome, Alaska, on September 22, when she was baptized in the icy waters of Bering Sea by an elder f the Mormon Mor-mon church !n a letter to her aunt. Mrs. C. U. Child of Rtverdale, Mrs Anthony encloses a clipping frm one of the Nome papers, which is here reproduced. re-produced. From a Nome Paper. "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, tho Son and the Holy Ghost." and with these woids Mrs. A. W. Anthony An-thony was dipped below the icy water or Roaring Sea opposite the Life Saving Sav-ing station Mrs Anthony is the firH woman ! convert to the faith of tho Latter Day Saints here in Nome, and during tho history of the camp, verv few baptismal bap-tismal services have been held of any denomination, so all the people who could get aw.-iv at the hour of 2 in the afternoon were ou hand to se.- how tuey did it and who would be the |
