Show aa ormo a rb A A tx 14 Z S Y rl aft r IN N A 7 0 V 91 1 F Z N EVEN hundred thousand members of the church chuich of jesus christ of lat ter tei day saints commonly known as the cormons mormons Mor mons will observe the one hundredth anniversary of the organization of their hurch church in a celebration which Is to begin sunday april 0 1030 lo 10 io at a suit salt lake city and which will last a week the celebration will be probably the largest religious event ever held in western united states and will attract more people than any ny other religious gathering in america with the lie possible exception of the recent eucharistic congress of the roman catholic church in chicago thousands of visitors will attend the major eel cel eb ration to he held in stilt salt lake that week coming from till all over the union from canada a and nd from mexico melco while representatives of congregations of the church in foreign lands will also be present dally daily sessions will be held in the great S salt tit lak tabernacle and every evening a pageant t will be given there depicting the rise and ir pio giess ogress of the church taking part in this nt will IP be it cast of scores and the tabernacle choir of voices heard during the winter over national radio broadcast will sing under the direction of prof anthony C lund accompanied by the rient grent tabernacle organ played by prof tracy Y cannon this pageant will he repeated nightly until till all who desire to see it have haie seen it the ts ho bernacle will accommodate about each night on the opening day of the celebration april 0 6 very every hattei day saint community in the world including those in all european Dur countries in north and south america south africa australia new ac zealand ibid finwall the south sea islands and the orient will hold simultaneous gatherings celebrating the event at each of these gatherings will tic be heard rend read a message from the presidency of the hurch church in order to accomplish this the nie message sage will M be tran translated into a score of lan ian ganges Sus crip feature of this darld wide celebration will he be the lie illumination by use of huge flood lights if he file seven temples of the church most of these structures truc tures tire are situated on the highest or most 01 t eminent parts of the cities in which they stand ud ind when illuminated illuminate thus tit at night will he be visible for miles around these temples are located it at ault lake logan mantl and st george utah nt itt mese mesa ariz cardston bardston Card ston alberta canada and lale islands president heber J grant will he be tit in general charge of the celebrations on april G 6 ISO 1830 six men assembled on the farm 0 of r peter whitmer near fayette in seneca county new york yirk and there formally organized the murch church of jesus christ of latter day saints the men who signed the paper which legalized the lie hurch church as it a religious body in that state were ro orpah erlb smith jr oliver cowdery smith peter whitmer jr samuel H smith and david whitmer in december IWO 1830 the founders of the elinich chin ji decided to move to ohio and they settled near kirtland in that state where the first organ ration nation of n first presidency took place on march 1 IS 13 IS isai with jospph joseph smith eg as president ant and 3 Iney Ill glen ii taid nd frederick C williams as coun conn delors st lois in june of that year the first temple of the eli was begun tit t kirtland the history of the church has been one of steady growth and repeated moves westward after building the temple at Kir and th the body of if the church was vas moved to the missouri illinois region with headquarters in the town of ationo inn oo 00 ill n city which the mormons cormons detilly built up tip themselves and in which they erected their second temple but bul religions persecution force to td move westward again and in iseff IS 13 the movement to the rocky mountains was pl project pil tit in the spring of 1817 1847 the mormon pioneer corn com anny inny was organized by brigham young and on arll 11 14 of that year sit att out for the rocky mountains bains the party consisted of 73 wagons men three women and two children persons in all ater fter a trying journey of three months across the hie greb plains this party arrived in salt lake valley on n july 24 1847 and camped on the tco yrea ent cut site of salt lake city word was sent back bach 0 tho the other ather traveling camps that a resting place aird had been found and the site for a new temple selected f ol 01 S 4 r 0 A yr S aln y k A y 4 hf i W A ali fl i t i 4 efly f SK 21 N ya T n 0 j 4 41 11 TW M I 1 this Is in a view of the famous salt gait lake temple which Is tn in the tha grounds where the centennial celebration of the latter day saints church will be hold held this structure was built in pioneer days and required 40 years in the construction it was built at a cost cort of 2 th this 14 Is the interior of the salt lake tabernacle its seating capacity Is at the far end Is in shown the great organ one of the most famous organs of the world an instrument that has been frequently heard board on an national radio broadcasts athis exterior view shows hows the tabernacle at salt lake city the tha building in which the pil pal gatherings of the centennial celebration of the mormon church will be held this structure la Is feet long and feet wide and hits hc a self supporting dome shaped roof during the next few years we me nul 01 c on tion went forward rapidly in and isa IS 4 nun hun deeds ut of europeans were fleeing from froin their nn tive lands because of the crimean war and the high cost of tood food among them were wild who bad joined the mormon church and who wanted to reach the zion which had been established in the western we tern wilderness iksoon became a ser serious problem for brigham young how to get I 1 the c people front the missouri Blisso url river to utah most ol of them were poor and had no money with which if lo 10 buy wagons and oxen so go he devised the plan or having them build hand carts and we use these to tn transport their belongings across the pl illig il 11 f P result wits was the now famous illand hand curt cart em tr tion an epic in american history of lier olani pathos and loyalty to nn an ideal it if this migration Is anaple an epic no less trone 11 one Is the story ot at the colonization of the intermountain region by ali thase people in a wilderness Ald erness tilled filled with savage tribes of indiana of uncertain temper and carried on amid all the hardships and privations of pioneer life but their triumph over oil ell difficulties Is written in the history of the state of utah and it was aptly sunu tied up by theodore roosevelt when he once said here in this state the pioneers and those who came after them tools not the land that would ordinarily be chosen as land that yields return for little effort you tool took a territory which at the outset was culled called after the desert and you Ilter literally ally not figuratively made the desert blossom as th the rone ro e so it Is iff this achievement as aa well as the antil annl of the founding of a religion that Is being celebrated in salt lake city in april there Is also being celebrated a social order which la Is perhaps unique in the history of mankind HK mormon church has always held the principle that people who are contented vocationally make inake net bet ter citizens and church members in order to assist its membership to be con tented in its various vocations trades and industries the church has fostered several industries and promoted agriculture and manufacturing asa means of insuring profitable employment for its tu members embers and to help build up industrially the localities where the church members settle thle this pol policy leyns ns resulted in occasional charges being hurled at the church that it la Is being commer ciali zed but the church in carrying out the above mentioned policy has had bad only the welfare of its members at heart As a result of tills this so called business policy of the church the leaders of the church have assisted its members in the construction of many miles ot of irrigation canals in the building lines and in the establishment of fac factories torlea before tele graph lines were well established in the mountain districts by commercial companies the church built its own telegraph lines to serve its members and other pioneers of the region among the kinds of factories established by the church are several woolen mill sIt has assisted in opening up the sugar beet business in the mountain regions and assisting in the financing of construction of several large sugar factories and beet grinding plants flour mills were established with church assistance even in pioneer days and at least one railroad line was partially financed with church funds because it was being built through a region where members mem lers of the church churche would be greatly benefited by such construction str st two of the lars lari cst zest nn and finest hotels in 11 lit lake city were built by the church and one of them Is operated by the church today not only have these projects been encouraged in the rocky bocky 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 ot of the hawaiian island population Is mormon all money spent by the church in industrial activity such as here mentioned cornea comes right back to members of the church who are the principal beneficiaries the church itself not participating to accumulate profit for itself through a largo large missionary system has hag been a feature of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints ever since its lt organization the system as at present carried out Is as foli olt ol t s iowa young men and women are called by the presidency of the church to go to some of the various of the church these missions are to be found in all parts of europe in north and south america in sou soui i africa new zealand australia hawaii samoa and other south sea islands in palestine armenia and missionary work has been carried on in japan and china I 1 the time length of missions fulfilled by the th men and women called as above mentioned varies from two to five ave years although recently a sixt months missionary conary term has been inaugurated for persons having baving previously filled a longer term miM loc CM |