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Show - THE UTAH EVANGELIST. - <br><br> Prof. Millspaugh has returned from the East. <br> Miss Mary E. Moore has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Coyner in Chicago. <br> Our teachers are scattered to the four winds this summer, but they "will return to Zion with rejoicings" in the Fall. <br> The School Convention, of which we give a programme in this issue, convenes at Springville on the 20th of August; and Presbytery on the 22nd. Let all attend. <br> Messrs. Blohm, Martin, and Clemenson, candidates for the ministry, who were students in the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute last year, will be in school again the coming year. <br> Rev. G. W. Martin and F. W. Blohm, who have been traveling in the East all summer in behalf of the mission work, have both returned home, well pleased with the summer's work. <br> Rev. Mr. Newell filled the pulpit of the Presbyterian church in Salt Lake City, very acceptably on Sunday morning, July 27th, and morning and evening August 3d; the evening service being more especially for the young people. <br> The party who went to the Yellowstone, consisting of Rev. R. G. McNiece, wife and child, Miss Reed and others, have thus far had an enjoyable trip, and will return some time this month. <br> In a note received from Mr. Coyner over a week since, we were pleased to hear that Mrs. Coyner's health is much better, and he thought that both of them would return by Fall, and resume work in the school. We trust that their wishes in this respect, and that of their friends here, may be realized. <br> We call attention to Miss Baker's letter from the Bear Lake Country. This is an important field, and we are glad to hear of Miss Baker's success. But we need more workers there, and we trust the Board will soon fill that region with teachers, as earnest and enthusiastic as the lady who is now there. <br> About twenty-five new lady teachers are wanted, and will no doubt be on hand, next fall, for the different mission fields in Utah and Southern Idaho. Some of these fields are left vacant by the marriage or departure of the former occupants; some are entirely new. Five ministers are needed to fill vacant fields in Utah, and we trust will be supplied before long. <br> The indications are that Salt Lake Collegiate Institute will be more crowded next year than ever before. There is pressing need of another teacher to relieve the Intermediate Grade, as the teacher there had more than her hands full last year. We trust that, when the building is secured for the Kindergarten, the financial condition of the school will be such that another teacher can be employed and have a room in it, to take the over-plus from the school. <br> We wish to call attention to the advertisement of Messrs. Ginn, Heath, & Co., in another column. They publish the finest series of text-books in the United States, and teachers cannot do better than to introduce their books into their schools. <br> Mr. Carrigan, connected with the public school work in Boston, and secretary of the National Teacher's Association, spent a few days in Salt Lake City, last week, as the guest of Mr Frank Anderson. He is a pleasant gentleman, and enthusiastic in the work, and we were pleased to meet him. <br> Speaking of the Bible in schools, Rufus Choate very properly and forcibly says: - "I would have it read, not only for its authoritative revelations and its commands and exactions, obligatory yesterday, to-day, and forever, but for its English, for its literature, for its pathos, for its dim imagery, its sayings of consolation and wisdom and universal truth." <br> Rev. H. A. Newell, late pastor of the Presbyterian church at Fargo, Dakota, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in Salt Lake City, on July 22nd, and on Friday evening, July 25th, an informal reception was tendered them at the residence of Mr. E. H. Parsons, on 2nd South, between 5th and 6th East Streets. Quite a number of citizens, including the ministers and teachers of the different religious denominations, were present, and tendered them a hearty welcome. <br> We are glad to hear that Rev. George W. Martin, of Manti, has finally decided to accept the position of General Superintendent of the mission work in Utah and the Territories. Mr. Martin hesitated for some time before accepting this position, feeling considerable diffidence in view of the magnitude of the work, and being loth [sic] to dissolve his pleasant pastoral relations in Manti. We trust that what is for the disadvantage of his charge at Manti, may prove for the good of the church at large, and that Mr. Martin's place may be supplied by some one who will be acceptable to the people. <br> We were favored with a call some two weeks ago, from Miss Ella McDonald, our efficient teacher at Kaysville, who was on her way to Springville to perfect arrangements for the Teachers' Convention. When Miss McDonald went to Kaysville three years ago, it was six months before she could secure a building for a [s]chool, in a town of some 2,000 inhabitants. The person who finally sold a house and lot to the Board through her, though he seemed to have been ignorant of the purpose for which it was to be used, was suspended from the church by the authorities. She now has a flourishing school, and has won the good will of the entire community. <br><br> We copy the following birth notice from the Mormon organ,-Deseret News*: <br> "WHIPPLE.-At Whipple, Apache Co., A. T., July 17th, 1884, to Edson and Amelia Whipple a daughter, the twelfth child of the mother and the thirty-fourth child of the father. Mother and child doing well.["] <br><br> BOX ELDER NEWS. <br> (Received last month.) <br> The usual heat of this season of the year has not yet found us. Our town is luxuriating in cool nights, clean streets, pure water, and general good health. <br> The 4th of July awakened no response in Brigham. Not a single flag was unfurled. A good Mormon woman said, "We celebrate our own fourth, the twenty-fourth." But at Corinne the town was covered with bunting, and in the evening ice cream and the Declaration, with music, was served at the Opera house. <br> The defamation of Mr. McNiece by the Deseret News during the past month, and his reply to the editor's mis-statements printed therein, is a great advance. Truth will certainly bring in the day-light and triumph over error. Mr. McNiece's "final reply " in the Deseret News is like a soldier boldly carrying a hundred pound bomb-shell into the midst of the enemy's camp, and there coolly lighting the fire with a match while the enemy is stupidly gazing at him, and then quietly retiring to a safe distance to see their stronghold blown to atoms. <br> The position of Mr. McNiece in the army of Utah's reclaimers is certainly a most enviable one, and could never have been gained by the peace policy. The immense influence of his answers to Mr. Cook's six questions, with the indorsement [sic] of a sufficient number of prominent men to make it the expression of loyal public opinion, is a grand campaign document, and especially the fact that it was all printed in the News. All we want is a fair hearing before the people, however ignorant and prejudiced they are. <br> And in this connection let me commend Judge Royle's little tract, ‘‘Faith and Credulity" printed by the tract Society for free distribution. To a certain class of Mormons, and that the most intelligent, honest, and hopeful, it is a sure cure. The tract society or Mr. Blohm will furnish a supply. We need more of this kind of ammunition - plain, earnest statement of the truth in opposition to Mormon error. <br> But the opportunity, the grand opportunity of preaching everywhere, and the people free to come and hear the truth, is just now dawning in Utah. <br><br> Where's the man for Utah? <br> Where's the voice to speak her free? <br> Where's the hand to light her bon-fires? <br> From the mountains to the sea? <br><br> Beats her sorrowing heart no longer, <br> No longer dumb in her despair, <br> Now begins to break her silence, <br> Now's the time to do and dare, <br><br> O my God! for those right worthy <br> To lift up the gospel shield, <br> And plant again the Christian faith <br> In Utah's fallowed field. <br> S. G. <br><br><br> * titles are italicized <br><br> |
