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Show EVEN hundred thousand members of J a I , t ' i ' 5 j a , "yj: ,'?! f' A-vCyt aj-r: ' ' " All . Wr'AawjaAr-r.!. liV 11 r - , , i y T'- ,J II " -" t " ' I I r A J - . ' "II S EVEN hundred thousand members of fmffmm the Church of Jesus Christ of Lai-i Lai-i ter-Day Saints, commonly known as M the Mormons, will observe the one I hundredth anniversary of the organ- lzatlon of their church In a celebra-M celebra-M tlon which Is to begin Sunday, April 6, 1030, at Salt Uke Cliy, and which VmmJ w1" ,Bst a week. The celebration will be probably the largest religious event ever held In western United States, and will attract more people than any other religious gathering In America, with the possible exception of the recent Eucluirl.stlc congress of the Komnn Catholic church in Chi-cago. Chi-cago. Thousands of visitors .will attend the major celebration cel-ebration to be held in Salt Lake that week, coming com-ing from all over the Union, from Canada ami from Mexico, while representatives of congregations congrega-tions of the church in foreign lands will also be present. Daily sessions will be held In the great Salt Lake tabernacle, and every evening a pageant pag-eant will be given there, depicting the r'se and progress of the church. Taking part in this pageant pag-eant will be a ciihI of scores, and tbe tabernacle choir of 350 voices, heard during the winter over national radio broadcast, will sing under the direction direc-tion of Prof. Anthony C. Lnnd. accompanied by the great tabernacle organ, played by Prof, Tracy X. Cannon, This pageant will be repealed nightly until all who desire to see It have seen It. The tabernacle will accommodate about 0,000 each night. On the opening day of the celebration, April 6. every Latter-Day Snlnt community In the world, Including those In all European countries, in North and South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, the South Sea islands, and tbe Orient, will hold simultaneous gatherings cele bratlng tbe event. At enclt of these giithoringii will be heard read a message from the presidency of the church. In order to accomplish this, the message will be translated Into a score of Ian guages. One feature of tills world-wide celebration will be the Illumination by use of huge flood lights of the seven temples of the church. Most of tliesi structures are situated on the hlgliest or mosl prominent parts of the cities In which they stand and when Illuminated thus at night will be vis lble for miles around. These temples are located at Salt J.nke, Logan, Alantl and St. (leorge, Utah: at Mesa, Ariz.; (.'ardstnn, Alberta, Canada, and Lale, Hawaiian islands. President Hcber J. Grant will be In general charge of the celebrations. On April 0, lfi:!0, six men assembled on the fane of Peter Whitmer, near Fayette In Seneca county. New York, and there formally organized' tbe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1. This It a view of th famous Salt Like tern-. tern-. pie whlth is In the grounds where the centennial celebration of the Latter-Day Saints church will be held. This structure was built in pioneer days and required 40 years In the construction. It was built at a coct of $4,000,000. 2. This le the interior of the Salt Lake tabernacle. taber-nacle. Ite seating capacity Is 9,000. At the far ond Is shown the great organ, one of the moit famous organs cf the world; an Instrument that lias been frequently heard on national radio broadcasts. 3. This exterior view shows the tabernacle st Salt Lake City, the building In which the principal princi-pal gatherings of the centennial celebration of the Mormon church will be held. This structure is :50 feet long nnd 150 feet wide, and has a se!f-jupporting se!f-jupporting dome-shaped roof. 4 'Ion," an cplo In American history of heroism, .Mitlios and loyalty to an ideal. If this migration Is an epic, no less n one Is the '.tory of the colonization of tiie Interniountuln eglon by these people In n wilderness filled with ravage trlbos of Indlnns of uncertain temper, and carried on amid all the hardships nnd privations ' of pioneer life. But their triumph over all dllll-ciiltles dllll-ciiltles Is written In the history of the state of one of them Is operated by the church today. Not only have those projects been encouraged In the Kooky Mountain area, but In other states as well. Also In Hawaii, the sugar cane and other plantations have benefited by Latter-Day Saints church assistance. A large part of the Hawaiian Island population is Mormon. All money spent by the church In lndustrlul activity such as here mentioned comes right back to members of the church who are the principal beneficiaries, the church itself not participating to accumulate profits for Itself. Proselyting through a large missionary system has been a feature of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ever since Its organization. The system us at present carried out Is as folf lows: Young mpn nnd women are called by the presidency pres-idency of the church to go to some of the various missions of the church. These missions are to be found In nil parts of Kurope, in North and South America, In South Africa, New Zeulnnd, Australia, Hawaii, Sunion and other South Sea Islands', In Palestine, Armenia, nnd missionary work has been carried on In Jnpnn and China. The time lenglh of missions fulfilled by the men and women called as nbnve mentioned varies from two to five years, although recently a six The men who signed tbe paper which legalized the church as a religious body in that state were Joseph Smith. Jr., Oliver Cowdery, Hyrum Smith Peter Whitmer, Jr., Samuel II. Smith and Davii' Whitmer. In December, 1830, the founders of thr chinch decided to move to Ohio and they settled .near-Kirtland In that state where the first organ (nation of a first presidency took place on Mnrcl 18. 1883. with Joseph Smith as president ant' ' Sidney Itlgdcn and Frederick C. Williams as conn actors. In June of thnt year the first temple of tin church was begun nt Kirtland. The history of the church has been one o' steady growth and repeated moves westward Soou after building the temple at Kirtland nnd th body of the church was moved to the Missouri Illinois region with headquarters in the town o Nnuvoo, 111., a city which the Mormons practl . call' built up themselves and In which they erect ed their second temple. Rut religious persecu tlon forced them to move westward again and in 1840 the movement to the Rocky mountains was projected. . In the spring of 1847 the Mormon Pioneer com peny was organized by Rrlgham Young and on April 14 of that year set out for the Hocky mountains. moun-tains. The party consisted of 73 wagons, 143 men, three women and two children; 148 persons in all. i.'tnh and it was aptly summed up by Theodore lioosevelt when he once sufd: "Here lu this state lie pioneers and those who came after them took tot the land that would ordinarily be chosen as 'and that yields return for little effort. You look i territory which nt the outset was called after he desert, and you literally not figuratively nade the desert blossom as tbe rose." So It Is this achievement, as well as the annl ersary of tbe founding of a religion, that Is being nlehrated In Salt Luke City In April. There Is 'Iso helrg celebrated h social order which is, perhaps, per-haps, unique In the history of mankind. Tbe Mor-non Mor-non church litis nlweyg held the principle that eople who are contented vocationally make bet er clllzens and church members. In order to assist Its membership to be con . ented In Its various vocations, trades nnd Indus-rles, Indus-rles, the church has fostered several Industries, md promoted agriculture and manufacturing as s ueans of insuring pro'llnhle employment for Its members, and to help build up industrially the localities where the church members settle. This 'lOllcy has resulted In occislonnl charges being hurled at the church thnt It is being "cotiimer-lallxed," "cotiimer-lallxed," but the church, in carrying out the lhove mentioned policy, has had only the welfare of Its members nt heart. months mlsHlonary term has been Inaugurated for persons having previously filled a longer term mission. The missions rles for the most pnrt are young people, ranging in age from eighteen to thirty years of age, nil hough there are a few older men and women In nwt groups. AH the missionaries pay all of their own expenses for travel, board ami room, and even for the literature which they distribute. They receive no salary or any kind of financial remuneration from the church, and give their time and service, ns well as their expense funds, us a free will offering to the church. When a .missionary Is called, whether he comes from some Utah town or from some city In some other state, or from Canada or Mexico, he comes to Snlt Lake to receive preliminary instructions, and to be onhilned as a missionary. He then is assigned to some missionary territory. There are seven of these missionary districts or "missions" In the United States, one In Canada, and, until the Calles regime barred missionary work In the southern republic by non-citizens, there was a mission In Mexico, The missionaries distribute much literature by a house-to-house canvass method, also at meetings meet-ings held In hulls, chapels nnd on streets where open nlr meetings are conducted. Iu cases where After a trying Journey of three months across the grent plains this party arrived In Salt Lake valley on July 24, 1847, and camped on the prea ent slto of Salt Lake City. Word was sent back to the other traveling camps that a resting place bad been found nnd the site for a new temple selected. During the next few years the work of coloalsa tiou went forward rapidly. In 18,"i.'i and 158 bflO dreds of Kuropeims were fleeing from their native na-tive lands because of the Crimean war and tbe high cost of food. Among them were ninny wa tad joined the Mormon church nnd who wanted to reach the "ZIon" which had been established in the western wilderness. It soon became a Strl-ous Strl-ous problem for P.rlgbam Young how to get these eople from the Missouri river to Utah. Most f them were poor and had no money with which to bar wagons and oxen. So he devised the plan af having them build hnnd-enrts and use these to transport belr belongings across the plains. Tbe result was ths now-fnmous "Hand-cart emlgra As a result of tills so-called "business policy" of . the church, the lenders of the church have assisted 'is members In the construction of ninny miles of rrlgntion canals. In the building of railroad lines, nd In the establishment of factories. Before tele-rraph tele-rraph lines were well established In the mountain llstrlcts by commercial companies, the church 'milt Its own telegraph lines to serve Its members ind other pioneers of the region. Among the kinds of factories established by th church ore several woolen mil'; 5S has assist- ed In opening np tho sugar beet business in the mountain regions, nnd nsslfting In the financing of construction of severul large sugar factories sad beet grinding plants. Flour mills were established estab-lished with church assistance even In pioneer i days, and 8t least one ralrond line was partially financed with church funJs because It was being built through a region where members of the ehsrch would be greatly benefited by such construction. con-struction. Two of l be Inrget.t and finest hotels In S.ilt Lake City were built by the church, sod Americans go on missions to foreign lands, they leiirti the lungusge as quickly as possible after their arrival in that foreign land, but in the mean-' mean-' time they do much In the line of distribution of ' literature. . . Each territorial district known ns a "mission" i is presided over by a president, mid subdivisions j of these missions are presided over by district presidents. In encli city or other locality within u district branches are organised with one of the - resident members vf tho church usually acting as the presiding otflcer there. Iu thee orgnulml branches and districts within the missions, nil of the work of the church Is onr-rlcd onr-rlcd en ttuoiiq; the members of the church there.'' Just as it Is carried on In Suit Lake City among the members of the church In thr.t city. Sundny schools are orj'.nnl;:ed, nutt'cil improvement nssu-" nssu-" clatlons (which are young people's societies) nnd primary associations, which hold weekly weekday week-day tneeilngs for little children. In which the k children ate taught principles of Mortnonlsnw |