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Show -THE UTAH EVANGELIST.- <br><br> PERSONAL. <br> Miss Kate Best is in Brooklyn, New York. <br> Prof. Millspaugh is at his home in Michigan, but is expected in Salt Lake soon. <br> A number of our teachers have gone East to spend the summer, and still others are going. <br> Rev. Mr. Knox and wife, of Malad, are in New York City. Mrs. Knox is under medical treatment. <br> Miss Josie Curtis, teacher at Parowan, has gone to Southern Kansas, to spend the summer with her brother. <br> Judge Marcus R. Osborne started on Thursday for Franklin, Idaho, to spend the summer. The Judge will be missed at the Octagon. <br> Professor and Mrs. Coyner are located for the summer at 662, West Monroe St., Chicago. We are sorry to hear that Mrs. Coyner's health is no better, but she is now under the best medical treatment, and, we trust, will ere long be able to resume her work in the school. Mr. Coyner will attend the Teachers' Convention at Madison, Wis., this week and will deliver a lecture on education in Utah. <br> Miss Fannie Kyle, who has been teaching at Spring City, and during most of the past yeas at Mt. Pleasant, has gone to New York City, to study medicine. She will probably not return to Utah. <br> On the evening of the 4th, Mr. and Mrs. McNiece gave an elegant and very enjoyable lawn-party in front of their residence to the ladies of the church, about fifty in number. Refreshments were served. <br> Miss Tillie Kelley, assistant teacher in Miss Noble's school at Franklin, Idaho, and Mr. Stalker, a prominent merchant of that town, were married at Springville last month. Miss Kelley was formerly a pupil of Miss Noble's at Springville. We offer our congratulations to the happy couple. <br> Lee J. Sharp, Esq., who has been in the city for a week past making arrangements to dispose of his personal property, leaves to-day for Butte, Montana, which point he has made his Permanent home. <br> Mr. Sharp has disposed of his house and lot in the 20th Ward, and will be accompanied by his family to the North. <br> Rev. Mr. Newell, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church at Fargo, Dakotah, and wife, are expected in Salt Lake by the 20th of this month. Mr. Newell comes to reside in this city and take charge of the West Mission, in the 15th Ward. During the summer he will fill the pulpit of the Presbyterian church, in Mr. McNiece's absence from the city. <br> Rev. Dr. R. G. McNiece and Rev. F. T. Lee left the city yesterday afternoon to join a party at Logan, about to start on a six or seven weeks' wagon and horseback trip to the Yellowstone Park. Rev. Mr. Parks and several teachers go from Logan, also Miss Read, a teacher from this city. The patty will camp out nights and advance at the rate of about forty miles per day. The first point of special interest will be Soda Springs. From Beaver Canyon they will follow the usual stage route into the Park, where two or three weeks will be spent among the geysers and in the midst of the grand scenery for which this region is famous. <br> Mrs. McNiece and child will go by rail to Beaver Canyon, and accompany the party from there on.-Tribune*. <br> It is with pain we announce the death of Major J. J. Critchlow, which took place at his residence last month, Saturday, June 29. The cause of his death was injury received on the previous Saturday, by the running away of his horses near the D. & R. G. R. R. depot. Major Critchlow was an active and enterprising man, and for a long time past has been Indian Agent among the Uintah Indians. He was one of the first elders in the Presbyterian church after its organization in Salt Lake City. Last fall he purchased a house and lot in this city and moved his family here. His death leaves a large circle of mourning friends. His funeral, conducted by the Grand Army of the Republic, took place from the Presbyterian church on Sunday, June 30, Rev. R. G. McNiece preaching the funeral sermon. <br><br> DWARFS. <br> In all worlds we find dwarfs, and who tha[t] has a heart quick to feel another's woe has not felt the emotion of profound sorrow, when meeting one whose body may well be termed dwarfed, and whose face indicates, to the accute [sic] reader of soul, sadness and a lurking disease? Strange as it may seem, and surely is, no one is willing that any object which possesses life should be dwarfed when the highest culture will bring it to its possible usefulness, until we reach the world of Mind. Then, alas! what indifference we behold. And to what may we attribute this dwarfishness? I think to two very unlovely traits; to indolence and want of discipline. In other words, to weakness of will power. One great requirement which even the self-love of every person should lead them to, is a thorough study of themselves. This would enable then to learn their necessities and correct their evil tendencies; to bring into activity their will. Every one is willing to concede to the truthfulness of the sainted Watts when he wrote in rhyme "‘Tis Mind that makes the man.,' And that we are in duty bound to preserve and keep pure the house of the mind and soul, must have been the thought of the wise man when he penned the following terse proverb, "Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." If I find that I have pre-delictions for a course of life which will hinder me from reaching the most useful position that I can reach with my God-given powers of soul, and that unless restrained by moral laws, will certainly lead to disaster, absolute and final destruction, and I obey not these laws, then I become a moral and intellectual dwarf. Now, is it not well to ask if there are not some things which if indulged in will lead us more readily to sin and certain overthrow than others, so that we may strive with greater avidity lest we be overtaken by the cruel monsters? I reply, most certainly; the indulgence of our lower natures should be strongly and steadily avoided. The indulgence of our appetites weakens our physical force, breaks down the powers of thought and reason, and brings all our being, made in the image [sic] of God, down to the level of the brute creation. <br> O Father! grant Thy love divine <br> To make these mystic temples Thine, <br> When wasting and wearying strife <br> Have sapped the leaning walls of life; <br> When darkness gathers over all, <br> And the last tottering pillars fall, <br> Take the poor dust thy mercy warms, <br> And mold it into heavenly forms. <br><br> FROM FILLMORE. <br> The school is not as large as a year or so ago, owing to the fact that so many families have moved away. Still, the work is encouraging. The pupils take quite an interest in their studies and are very bright. S. S. enrollment 30, attendance irregular. When we have service, always have a full house. This place needs a minister, and the right man could do a great deal of good. I hope we will have soon. We have lost an earnest worker in losing Mrs. McMicken. I say lost, but that is not the word to express it, as she is not lost to the work, though she has retired from active service, her work will ever live with this people. She is loved by all, and when she returns to make her home among them, she will receive a hearty welcome. We were glad to welcome Miss Knox, and quite an interest has been excited among the music loving portions of the community by her arrival. <br> M. E. CAMPBELL. <br><br> Mrs. Florence E. Baker, teacher at Montpelier, Idaho, in a letter [sic] to Rev. S. L. Gilespie, dated June 22nd, writes in regard to her work: <br> "My school numbers 30. It began in April last. I expect to teach four more weeks to complete sixteen. I fear to have a long vacation, as I wish to keep all my pupils from attending the Mormon school. I will then have three weeks vacation to attend the meeting of Presbytery. I will take a week at the holiday, and then teach all the time until April." <br> We wish Miss Baker all the success that such pluck deserves. <br><br> FROM SPRINGVILLE. <br> Total enrollment 120. <br> School has been more regularly attended this year than heretofore. More marked improvement in morals and in their studies. Children came from Mormon families, because, as they said, "they couldn't learn anything in the Mormon schools." <br> The scholars have taken some interest in literary pursuits, this year, too. Altogether we are progressing. TILLIE A. WRAY. <br><br><br> * titles are italicized <br><br> |
