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Show Page 54<br><br>meeting-house at Box Elder, April 3, 1876. Property was purchased there in October, 1877, and public services began in February, 1878. June 10, 1878, he removed from Corinne and has since resided in Box Elder. School was opened in September, '78 by the minister. The next year he was assisted by his sister, Miss E. F. Gillespie, who resigned the following year, and died soon after at her home in Ohio. The teachers who have taught at Box Elder one or two years, are: Miss Mary E. Christie, Miss May H. Dayton, Mattie S. Byers, Mrs. Ella Adams and Miss Noyes, her sister, Mrs. Emma B. Bagley and her daughter, Miss Alice, Miss Sessions, Miss Katherine P. Williamson and Miss Anna L. Clark, Miss Ora Gates and Miss Alice Green, Miss Mary F. Gillespie and Miss Martha E. Gillespie, Mrs. C. E. Sullivan and her daughter, Miss C. B., who are the present teachers. The First Presbyterian church of Box Elder was organized October 18, 1890, with six members; the present enrollment is sixteen. "Work in an exclusive Mormon town is necessarily very slow. Apostates from the Mormons are cut off from business and society, as well as from their church, and so have to seek homes elsewhere; and the few Gentiles attempting to live among the Mormons rarely stay more than one year; so that all our mission work among the Mormons is "sowing seed upon waters," requiring great patience and perseverance. The Sabbath school at present averages twenty-seven in attendance. The day school at the opening of the year had an enrollment of about fifty; the total enrollment last year being 107. In the Christian Endeavor Society there are at present about twenty active and associate members; we have also a missionary society of ten members, meeting regularly once a month. S. L. GILLESPIE. Box Elder, September 16, 1895.<br><br> CORINNE, METHODIST EPISCOPAL<br><br> Was organized in 1870, with Rev. W. C. Damon as pastor. The church was dedicated by Rev. C. C. McCabe, D. D., September 21, 1870, and Mr. Damon preached his first sermon in the new church, September 25, 1870. His pastorate extended over two years. Rev. J. M. Jameson took charge of the work in 1873, and Rev. A. B. Glockner followed him. Rev. M. B. Hyde was the pastor in 1878. For a number of years the field was not occupied regularly, owing to the fact that most of the people had moved away, their source of living having been cut off. For a number of years Corinne was headquarters for Northwest freighting; money was then plenty and the churches nourished, but when the Utah Northern and Oregon Short Line roads were completed, Corinne was no longer the overland shipping point, and as the water had not been taken from the river to irrigate the land in the valley, the people could not turn their attention to agriculture. Time passed on, a company was organized, canals built, water taken from Bear river, put upon the valley, and now it is inviting people to return and make for themselves homes, where the climate is delightful, the soil very fertile, and where all things can be made to combine to give prosperity along all lines and consequent happiness. The work was taken up regularly by Rev. G. O. Streeter in December, 1891, followed by Rev. R. M. Hardman, December 1, 1892. Rev. E. H. Snow was appointed to the charge in June, 1893, and is serving his third year on the work. Corinne has a Sunday-school, under the direction of Mrs. Addie Snow as well as a children's Mission Band, Junior League, and Ladies' Aid Society. The First Methodist church in Utah was built at Corinne, and the people contributed not only to the building [PHOTO: MRS. ADDIE SNOW.] of the church, but to the support of pastors. Methodist people are coming in to look at the valley, and it is hoped that many good people will locate here, and that much good work may be done in this part of the Master's vineyard. Rev. A. B. Glockner above mentioned as one of the early pastors is at present in charge of one of the Denver churches. The editor of this booklet saw him recently, and had from his lips the following statements of fact. "It was when I was there early in the '70's that Brigham Young and some of the Twelve Apostles came down to the bank of the Bear river on the side toward Brigham City and cursed Corinne in the name of Israel's God, and prophesied that it should come to naught." At about this time also a tribe of Northern Indians, of which old Pocatello was chief came down and attempted to destroy the place. Brigham Young called the Indian's the "Battle Axes of the Lord," and by some sort of coincidence every Mormon of the town had "mysteriously disappeared," in the direction of Ogden and Brigham City at the time of the invasion of the savages; but the planned destruction did not take place according to the prophecy of the prophet as the knowledge of the contemplated invasion became known, and every house was barricaded, every gun loaded and all the powder dry. Seeing they were foiled, the Indians withdrew. Mr. Glockner deserves a niche in the school history of the new State of Utah, as at one time in Corinne he was the principal of the only free school in Utah. A ludicrous scene was once witnessed at a Corinne wedding-when for some reason Mr. Glockner's mind was for the moment diverted, he pronounced the blushing couple, "father and mother," instead of "husband and wife."-Ed. The present pastor is doing earnest and faithful work and is expecting good results. Brigham City is a beautiful "city of homes," with a population of about 3000. We have a neat church building here, built under the direction of the Scandinavian workers of our church. This building is used for the English services as well as the Scandinavian. Fruit will be gathered from Brigham City for the garner on high. <br><br>Rev. Eugene H. Snow,<br><br> Pastor of Corinne charge, was born in Ohio in 1855. He was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church in 1876, and entered the ministry in 1880 in the Central Ohio conference, of which he is yet a member. He came as a missionary to Utah in the spring of 1889. Mr. Snow is a graduate in both of the courses of study for local and traveling preachers of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has served successively the charges of Albion, Idaho, (then a part of the Utah Mission), Heber, Park City and is now in his third year at Corinne. He has abundant preacher material in his well-regulated family, which consists of three stalwart sons, inheriting from their mother a nature that will not compromise with evil. [PHOTO: E. H. SNOW.] <br><br>PRESBYTERIAN WORK IN LOGAN.<br><br> Presbyterian work in Logan was begun by the Rev. C. M. Parks in 1878. He had been a lawyer in Washington, D. C., and arrived in Logan in July, 1878, bringing with him his wife and daughter, Mrs. Shirley. They were a most interesting and efficient trio of Christian workers. Hardly any one could pass Mr. Parks on the street without turning to take a second look at him; he was such a fine specimen of man physically, standing six feet four inches high and well proportioned. All three were fine singers, and in addition Mrs. Shirley was an expert either on the piano or organ, while Mr. Parks was a fine choir and chorus leader, and there was hardly any kind of Christian work, or household, or mechanical work which some one of them could not do. It was a curiosity to look at Mr. Park's cabinet of tools and see the variety of mechanical implements he could use. The only place they could find in which to live and labor the first two years in Logan was a furniture ware-house, which stood about opposite the Tabernacle on the street to the north. They partitioned off the front part into a chapel and school-room, and the rear into a sitting-room, study, dining-room, kitchen and sleeping rooms. The chief objection was that the rear of the long building extended back among the cow-yards and stables. Here they labored until they were able to move over to |
