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Show The Utah Evangelist. <br> (Successor to THE EARNEST WORKER.) <br> V0L. I. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY, 1884. No. 9. <br><br> The Utah Evangelist. <br> ISSUED ON THE 15TH OF EACH MONTH BY <br> THE EVANGELIST PUBLISHING COMPANY. <br> Entered as Second- Class Matter. <br> WM. BOYLE, EDITOR. <br> The EVANGELIST is the organ of the Utah Presbytery of the Presbyterian church. Its object is twofold: first, to discuss, in a fair and candid spirit, the peculiar doctrines and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons; secondly, to furnish news of the Mission Work and its progress to the teachers engaged in the work, and to friends in the East, who support it. <br> The aim of THE EVANGELIST is to state facts, and not to abuse or misrepresent. Should any of our Mormon friends take exceptions to any of its utterances, they may use our columns, to a reasonable extent, to show wherein we are wrong. Let the truth prevail. <br><br> Messrs. F. W. Blohm, Erastus Clemenson, and Albert Martin, who are under the care of the Utah Presbytery as candidates for the ministry, have been pursuing their studies, with reference to this, in the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute this year, and have employed their time industriously. The two latter will spend their time during the summer as colporteurs visiting different parts of Utah. <br> Dr. H. M. Field, the famous traveler and author, and the editor of the New York Evangelist, arrived in Salt Lake City, from California on the 23rd of April, and remained here three days. He was accompanied by his wife, daughter and niece. Owing to the illness of Mrs. Field, she was unable to receive visitors, and consequently Dr. Field was somewhat restricted in his investigation of the state of affairs here. But he saw enough to be greatly cheered by the progress of Christian work since he was here eight years ago. He is a very pleasant man to meet. <br> Prof. J. M. Coyner and Mr. F. W. Blohm started East on the 15th of last month, and are now travelling under the direction of the Woman's Executive Committee of Home Missions of the Presbyterian church. They will visit the different Presbyteries in the East, and address the people on the subject of Mormonism and its evils. Mr. Blohm having been a polygamist himself, is in a better attitude to enlighten the people on the evils of this system than any mere outsider would be. He has been pursuing his studies for the past nine months in the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, with a view to preparing himself for the ministry. Mr. Coyner's address for the summer will be 23 Centre Street, New York City. <br><br> NEW WEST EDUCATION COMMISSION. <br> 1. HUSE, FIELD AGENT. <br> After our inspiring conference how could our work but go grandly on? At Provo an increased attendance is noticeable, and Miss Clapp is happy in the prospect of a library to second her educational efforts. A commodious building is needed for the rapidly growing Provo New West School. <br> Indeed, Christian teachers are sowing seed that may not bear immediate visible fruit. In such places as mining towns and certain railroad places, our main hope is to instil [sic] into the minds of the youth the principles of Christian living, so that after their removal to some other part of the country they may have within themselves the elements of a correct and upright life[.] Few people in the East can realize the demoralizing influences of the mining camp. In such places as Bingham, Stockton and Park City we have our schools, supported in part by the people themselves, the centers of Christian influences. Miss Robinson expects soon to have more convenient accommodations, for her steady efforts need to be seconded by all necessary aids. Managing a school of sixty mixed pupils, and a Sunday School of as many more, single handed, is successfully accomplished by Miss Colby at Stockton. At Echo, a Union Pacific station, Miss Wilson has won the hearts of all classes by her ladylike deportment and first-class accomplishments as a teacher. In the midst of saloons she has organized a flourishing temperance society from among her scholars. Prof. Bartlette [sic], of Park City is interesting the young people of several schools besides his own, by "polyopticon" entertainments. In every good work, even too much for her strength, will be found Miss Bridges, Prof. Bartlett's assistant. Over the mountains, in the Weber Valley, Miss Bridges' younger sister, Miss Vesta, is showing what a little pluck can do, by starting and maintaining a school of nearly thirty in a new and somewhat lonesome settlement, organizing a Sunday School from nearly all of her day pupils and also interesting some of the larger growth. Several more larger boys promise to come as soon as her organ arrives. <br> At Hoytsville the school under Miss Benedict's careful management has succeeded grandly. Several pupils in advanced studies have come to her school from outside towns. Several also take music lessons of her, and together with temperance meetings on Sunday her hands are full. Miss Benedict has also conducted a literary society. <br> One of our teachers has had such an influence over the children of a settlement that the public (Mormon) school has been well nigh deserted and has been abandoned. This has been the case all winter. The children appreciate the influences of a Christian teacher after having for a master a man who, according to report, in some of his schools at least, used to throw books, slates or rulers at the children's heads, and swear at them. <br> Sometime since, a patron of Miss Hunt's school, at Trenton, visited the Sunday School and the next day sent word by his children to tell Miss Hunt that he thought "she had a terrible* nice Sunday School." <br> Miss Hunt reports that when she asks the day school to select songs at any time, that they invariably select Gospel Hymns in preference to common school songs. <br><br> THE WEST OR CAMP MISSION SCHOOL. <br> This school, located on Fourth West street in the Fifteenth Ward, Salt Lake City, is in a very prosperous condition, numerically, and is doing much good, both in the day and Sunday schools. About one hundred and fifteen pupils havs [sic] been enrolled since last September, and the two teachers have all they can do. <br> The school was begun in February, 1883, in a rented room on Second West street, with six pupils enrolled the first day, Miss Sadie E. Reed being the teacher. During the summer a neat, commodious building, constructed of adobe bricks, and containing two large rooms with sliding blackboard partitions between them, was erected and ready for occupancy by fall. It is just one block from the new Denver & Rio Grande Railway depot, and two blocks from the Utah Central depot. The large lot on which the building stands, together with the building itself, cost in all, $3,800.00, Mrs. Camp, of Bloomington, Ill., generously contributing $1,000 of this sum. The great need of the school at present is an organ for opening exercises and Sunday School, and comfortable desks for the pupils, those in the primary department, especially, being merely improvised for temporary use. <br> No more suitable situation could have been chosen for a school. It is in a densely populated part of the city, where there have heretofore been no Gentile schools at all. We doubt not but that next year an additional teacher will be needed to accommodate the increasing number of pupils. <br> The Sunday School meets at half-past two on Sunday afternoon, the average attendance being about fifty. There are many Mormon children in the school, who do not attend Sunday school, and some attend both their own Sunday School and ours. <br> A minister is badly needed in this part of town, and it is hoped the Board will soon make provision to meet this want. A good audience, both of Gentiles and Mormons, could be secured at services on Sunday. <br><br><br> * word is italicized <br><br> |
