freight, and skilfully prepared their vessels to meet the perils and exigencies of a long sea voyage. They made the voyage successfully; and when they landed, like the later refugees upon Plymouth Rock, "They bowed themselves down upon the face of the land, and did humble themselves before the Lord, because of his tender mercies over them." Book of Mormon, p. 583. The colony no sooner landed than they commenced a vigorous subjugation of the country; not by hostile strife and carnage, for no enemy appeared to oppose their landing upon the lonely and desolate shore; but by the industrious wielding of implements of construction and husbandry. They began to till the soil, to sow their imported grain and seeds, nourish their live stock, establish homes and develop the mighty resources of the new and rigorous world around them. Who can limit the possibilities of such a start as this? What is there in all the strange relics and stupendous ruins discovered in the wake of their career, and belonging to their times that might not be attributed to the descendants of such an ancestry? The landing place of the Jaredites was, probably, what is mow known as Mexico. In the opinion of Professor O. Pratt, "It was on the western coast, and probably south of the Gulf of California, and north of the land of Desolation, which was north of the Isthmus." See Book of Mormon, p. 582, note h. The settlers thence spread north, south and east, over a vast extent of country. They are mentioned by the Nephite writers who succeeded them as having occupied vast tracts of country in both North and South America; and it is said that "they were as numerous as the hosts of Israel." Book of Mormon, p. 156, verses 20-22; p. 180, verses 8-12. When the Nephites visited this ingenuity to invent expedients, to section they found the land covered subdue difficuliies, to remove or surwith bones of men, and of beasts, mount obstacles, and to appropriate etc.; and with ruins of buildings of available materials to his needs and every kind; having discovered a uses. All successful colonizing has country which had been peopled been due to the presence of these with a people who were "as numer- qualities; and these qualities were ous as the hosts of Israel." Page 180. possessed in an eminent degree by Another very important settle-Jared and his band of sturdy piment in the south in early times was oneers. They were scions of that in Ecuador, afterwards called the most clever and mysterious people, "Land of Nephi." But the final who first gave art and science form battles of the Jaredites were fought and voice; who reared the gigantic in and around the locality now and indestructible monuments of known as the State of New York, the remotest antiquity-architectwhere the last leaders of the two ure, before whose very ruins great leading factions, Shiz and Corian- men stand in deep humility and tumr gathered the remnants of their awful reverence. To corroborate armies, together with all the remain- the Book of Mormon record as to ing women and children for their the ancestry of the earliest settlers final annihilation, after 10 or 15 of America, numerous evidences millions had already perished. Shiz pitched his tents on the southern shore of Lake Ontario; but by the forces of the enemy gaining advantage over them they were driven southward to a place called Ogath in the heart of the present State of New York. "And it came to pass that the Ramah was the hill Cumorah. notes. The Marquis 'd Nadaillac says: exist of an ancient Asiatic people having lived and left indellible marks of their presence, upon the face of the land. Their stone, brick and earth structures; their works of art, their language, sculptures, customs, sepulture of their dead; and in fact, all their surroundings bear the impress of their ancient times, and the footprints of that peculiar race. After making due allowance for the weakness and incipient struggles of a small colony, together with climatic novelties and the difficulty of assimilating strange materials, their works bear a striking analogy to those of the country and people from whence they were derived. To erect the monuments of Peru of Mexico, and the yet more ancient ones of Central America-the singu-| lar resemblance of which to the There is also another consideratemples and palaces of Egypt strikes tion: In estimating the sacred footthe archæologist-must have re-prints which the Jaredites have left quired skilled labor, a numerous upon American soil, regard should population, and an established priesthood such as could have devel- be had to the weighty consideration oped only through the lapse of ages." that we are separated from the Pre-historic America, p. 14. period of their tragical disappearThe presence of the requisite con-ance from the land by a lapse of ditions of "a numerous population, about twenty-three hundred years. and the lapse of ages" has already The Nephites succeeded them, arbeen shown from the Book of Mor- riving on the American continent mon, to have characterized the Jaredite race. We will consider, briefly, the requirements of skilled labor" and an "established priesthood.” shortly before the time of their last struggles and utter extinction, and introduced a new and different phase of civilization. Further: During the last three centuries those portions of the country they occupied have been peopled by active races the general works of art and mech- of Europeans, introducing the eneranism, under conditions of estab-gies and transformations of modern lished and permanent civilization. civilization. The axe and the plow, The most important settlement in But a broader significance attaches and the ruthless tread of the palethe south was called by the Nepites, to the term when it is considered in face invader, as well as the plunder Zarahemla. Professor Pratt says: connection with civil institutions in seeking spoilation of the greedy ad"The land of Zarahemla is sup- their formative period, and the venturer have done much towards posed to be north of the head founding of new commonwealths. obliterating and demolishing the waters of the river Magdalena, its It is requisite that the brawny pi- monuments and mementoes of the northern boundary being a few oneer should not only be dextrous hoary past. days' journey south of the Isthmus." in the wielding of tools, but that he Book of Mormon, p. 155, note h, should be ever ready with natural But the earliest settlements of this ancient race were along the sea coast and desert regions of Peru, Ecuador and Columbia on the south of Skilled labor is a term commonly the Isthmus; the narrow Panama applied to dexterity of practice in steppes, and Central America; and the southern part of Mexico in North America. We quote again from "Pre-historic America;" in speaking of the land ing, in A. D. 1500, of Cortez and his troops, the writer says: "To the amazement of his soldiers, who fancied themselves to be the first to tread the soil, they found themselves in the midst of vast ruins, the incontestable proofs of mighty generations who had disappeared. As they penetrated the deep forests they found vast areas covered with pueblos (villages), estufas, temples, palaces, monoliths, statues and pictographs, out-rivaling in marvelous magnitude and complexity the antiquities of Egypt or Assyria, Judea or China." The Ogden Standard of Jan. 12 while she is being examined by the has the following: court, and she should not be punished for contempt until her claim is decided unfavorably. It is out of the power of the court to order her committed until then, and the grand jury cannot ask it. During the afternoon session of the First District Court yesterday, the grand jury filed into court, having in charge Mrs. E. C. Hendrickson, of Logan. Assistant U. S.Attorney Hiles stated to the court that she refused to answer the question, "Did your husband marry any other woman on the same day?” referring to the date of witness' marriage, on the ground that she was the legal wife. testify. The court did not think it came Here Mr. Hiles arose and in a very impatient manner said that if every contumacious witness was allowed to set up his or her claim in this way and appeal to the court, the whole time of the court would be Mr. Kimball stated that inasmuch taken up in determining such Here is an association of objects as she claimed to be the legal wife claims. If this is a proper quesdiscovered in the abiding places of and had already sworn that her hus- tion, and the court has so ruled, the Jaredites which, like a picture, band had no wife living at the time she should answer. She has rebrings before the mind of the Book he married her, she was the legal fused and should be committed for of Mormon student, the works and wife, and under the ruling in the contempt. There is no use of triflhistory of that ancient race. These Miles case she was a privileged wit-ing with these people, but to see that were not the charactetistic handi- ness when in a case against her hus- the judgment is carried out. In works of Romans or Greeks, Mos- band, and was not compelled to order for the jury to determine her lems or Jews. The Nephites were claim she must answer the quesIsraelites; and numerous traces of tion. If answered in the affirmatheir Abrahamic descent and Motive, the next question would be saic training exist in temple, altar, which of the ceremonies was prior and Hebraic type and symbol, attesting their settlement upon the Mr. Kimball reiterated what he land. The Israelites who lived had previously stated and said that subsequent to the sixth century bethe argument used by Mr. Hiles, fore the Christian era, did not copy namely the consumption of the the architecture, nor observe the court's time, was simply an unburial customs of the Egyptians, The court asked Mr. Kimball if fortunate point in law. It could not the Babylonians, or Assyrians. her answer was according to his in- be changed now. The law confers They did not build Asiatic pyra-structions. the privilege and the witness claims mids, monuments and temples, and Mr. Kimball stated that if she was the right of that privilege. She has raise monoliths and earth-mounds the legal wife she had a right to re-testified that her husband had no in the peculiar style of the early fuse. The grand jury could not ex-wife living at the time of her marpost-deluvians. These strange and amine her on her voir dire. That riage with him. She is therefore incomprehensible remains of the was only within the jurisdiction of his legal wife and does not appear in ancient world are fossilized images the court. The court must contempt. of the thoughts of a strange and first decide the question of The court stated that that was only peculiar race. They regarded the privilege. If she was the legal | her conclusion; she could not know earth as their present and future wife, she could not be com- whether her husband had another dwelling-place, whether upon or pelled to answer. If not, then the wife. The only instruction asked by in it. They loved the earth, and question was proper. Until this the jury was, "Is the question propdelighted in handling and appro-point was decided the court could er?" The court is only to pass upon priating its materials. not punish her for contempt. She the question of competency; it is not Their ideas were huge and pon- had appealed to the court from the to determine issues arising in the derous images, and these were re-grand jury. The court could not jnry room. They simply ask her flected upon, and wrought out in say that they should determine her the question in order to determine if enduring substances the everlasting claim. she is a privileged witness. She rerocks. Their thoughts were strangely Mr. Hiles stated that the only fuses to testify, and I don't think material. They found a word in every object and wrote it upon stone point raised was "is the question she can do it. with an iron point. They made architecture a language, and con- Mr. Kimball replied. It must veyed wondrous knowledge by con- first be determined whether she is figurations and graded lines in masonry. They made even empty the legal wife or not. If she was a spaces speak. They did these things witness in a trial against her husin Ninevah, Egypt and Babylon; band and she claimed her priviand they did the same things in lege as the legal wife, the petit North, Central and South America. Scores of examples exist of the jury would be sent out while she truth of this averment. And they was sworn on her voir dire that they might be given and described, but it might not be influenced by such is deemed unnecessary here, as their testimony as might be produced. existence is becoming well known to "What is the difference between fifthe general reader. J. H. KELSON. [To be continued.] proper?" teen men sitting here (pointing to Mr. Kimball asked that question and witness' claims be reduced to writing so that she could take exceptions. This was done, and Mrs. Hendrickson was committed to the penitentiary until such time as she expressed a willingness to answer. She was given in charge of her brother, George C. Parkinson, until this morning, when she will leave for Salt Lake City. Notice has been filed of an appeal to the supreme court, and it is thought an attempt will be made to have her releasd on habeas corpus next Tuesday or Wednesday. THE CRUSADE'S LESSONS. their trust in God. The unblushing work of God will some time assume hypocrisy and inmitigated falsehood has not been undergone. J. N. resorted to by the opponents of the Mormon" people should cause them to be imbued with a determination to eliminate from amongst them "all lying and deceiving," writes from Pima, Arizona, very "OBSERVER," under a recent date, PIMA, ARIZONA. encouragingly. He disapproves of disparaging reports which have been circulated regarding the resources of that region, and is confident that Pima will yet become a prosperous and attractive place. Men of means and industrious workers are needed and will be welcomed. made at $8 per 1000, and a machine First-class brick are now being for prospecting for water has been sent for. If artesian water can be obtained, it will a great boon. The with much interest by the settlers. result of this enterprise is awaited ferent kinds of fruit, especially Pima is an excellent place for dif THE majority of the people of Utah have opportunities for a certain kind of education that cannot be overestimated. We are comforted by the belief that they are being which are eventually to be done largely taken advantage of. It is away. The sooner the better. The for them to turn a present and ap-utter absence of magnanimity on the parent calamity into a glorious ulti-part of the crusaders towards their mate benefit. There is a divine victims should conduce to the cultiphilosophy in the trials to which vation of a largeness of soul. This humanity is subjected, and especi- should be the position of every perally is this correct in reference to son who anticipates taking part in what is esteemed by the Saints as a what we believe is destined to be work established by command of the the most potent reformatory work Almighty, and which they believe ever inaugurated for the regenerahas a glorious destiny ahead of it. tion of morals and the maintenance The distress and suffering caused of human freedom. That errors by the crusade are appalling in im- have occurred in its incipient stages mediate contemplation, but it is needs no admission, for the nature difficult to imagine any other array of the work is necessarily proof circumstances than that involved gressive. But errors to the energetic in it that could so completely serve thinker and actor in a problem the purpose of teaching so many whose operations are to conduce to striking lessons. If they have their the common weal are but the stepgrapes; the trees and vines bear proper effect upon the minds of the ping stones to greater advancement. young, and are very prolific. people the outcome will be grand, If there is a man in the community and the good results to posterity will (no matter if he be one who has suffer- LETTER FROM ST. DAVID. be beyond computation. The de- ed ever so deeply from the wrongs of partures from the rights to which the oppressive crusader) whose spirit I see by the list of names of Presall citizens are entitled in this Re- is not tempered by the experience idents and Bishops of the organized public, without distinction as to and observation afforded, he has Stakes of Zion-as printed in the race, color, religious belief, etc., failed to appropriate the lessons DESERET NEWS-that the changes stimulate thought and enforce re- which the situation so strikingly in St. Joseph Stake have not been search in relation to what constitutes teaches. If the tables were to turn, reported. First, all the wards exgood government, sound law and and the power now wielded by the cept St. David, of this Stake, are equitable and impartial execution of anti-"Mormon" oppressor were to in Graham County, A. T. it. Thus are correct principles of pass to the hands of the victims, and David alone is in Cochise County, political and social organization im- if the latter were to be disposed to A. T. Christopher Layton is Presibedded in the minds of the thought-retaliate by returning oppression for dent, Wm. D. Johnson and M. H. ful. The constant infractions that oppression, cruelty for cruelty, and Merrill are counselors, and P. A. are perpetrated by those who are injustice for injustice, it would de- Lofgreen is Bishop of St. David seeking to crush a people presumed monstrate that the lessons of the Ward. The President's address is to be helpless, should fill them with crusade had been lost upon them. Thatcher, Graham County, A. T. detestation of such procedure and They would show themselves pos- I do not know that it is my busiinspire them with higher concep- sessed of the spirit of the Gospel of ness to correct the report as printed. tions of true government, and with "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for but I have now been Bishop of St. a determination to uphold its prin- a tooth," but not that of the higher David Ward for upwards of a year, ciples. The transformation of alleg-law of returning good for evil, of and as such would like to be recoged courts of justice, with their entire which Christ was the perfect Exam-nized. machinery, into engines of oppres- pler. When the lessons of the cruEverything is lovely here. We sion, every process being prejudiced sade are learned-including higher are having fine weather, and grain and partial in the treatment of a conceptions of duty, of the rights of is growing nicely. We have had an certain class of people, creates a man, of justice, and the extent to abundance of rain this winter, and longing for juster methods, when which mercy should be applied-the the prospects are encouraging. the forms of law will be observed onslaught will probably end. Cou- There is plenty of water for the instead of being flagrantly violated. pled with more exalted ideas of summer, and the health of the inThe perpetration of cruelty upon the government, order, and wholesome habitants is good. The people of St. tender and innocent should fill the regulation, allied with liberty, there David are prospering. We have heart with an unquenchable desire must be a more exalted type of room for a few more families with to administer mercy, with which all morality, a closer social equality and little means. They could make the dealings of man with his fellows greater regard for those brotherly comfortable homes here, as the water should be tempered. The exhibi- amenities which smooth the path- in the river is increasing. We have tions of anti-"Mormon” contracted-way of life. Until a greater degree a splendid market for all we can ness should cause among the broader of advancement is made in these produce. classes wider sympathies, desires, directions, the necessary preparation and aspirations, while the mocking to qualify the community to operate infidelity manifested should increase upon the higher plane which the St. PETER A. LOFGREEN. St. David, Cochise County, Arizona, January 7th, 1889. 106 P. L. WILLIAMS' REPORT. drawn by the Territorial Superin- way of witholding any portion of tendent of district schools in favor the school fund to which a district P. L. WILLIAMS, Commissioner of of the Territorial sub-treasurer of may be entitled, in consequence of a Schools for Utah, under the Ed- each county, according to school failure to provide a school; but the munds-Tucker law, has made the population, and should be paid to whole subject of providing schoolfollowing report to Congress. It is the trustees by the Territorial sub-houses and furnishing and maintaininserted here that it might be pre-treasurers on the orders of the ing schools, is entirely within the served in accessible shape as a matter county superintendents; and said pleasure of each district. The parof historical interest. It virtually money should be used in paying tial support provided by the Terriasks for Congressional legislation school teachers during the year fol- torial law has a tendency to encourand its bias is therefore decidedly lowing the one in which it was age the maintenance of schools, and against the community of Latter-assessed and collected. yet the inadequacy of this fund, neday Saints: cessitating as it does the collection To Congress: also of a tuition fee, operates to keep many children of the poorer classes of the population at home, when they would otherwise be attending school. While thus the Territory has accepted, to a limited extent, the theory of taxation for the benefit of a general system of schools, it has failed to carry out the theory to its legitimate results, by providing adequate means to support a system of free schools. The act of 1880 was the first to provide for taking an annual.census In accordance with the require- of the children resident in the sevments of law I submit the first an-eral school districts between 6 and nual report of the schools of Utah 18 years, which was made the school Territory: age. Since the act of 1880 there has been no material change in the legislation of the Territory upon the subject of schools, and none what ever with reference to the further support thereof by taxation. The first enactment of the Legislature of Utah on the subject of a public school system was approved February 18th, 1876. It provided for the organization of school districts by the County Courts in the several counties of the Territory, The school law of the Territory, At the Twenty-eighth Session of for the election of three trustees in as it exists at present, and which is each district, prescribed their duties the same, substantially, as the act the Legislature, held in the early and defined their powers. They of February 20th, 1880, is herewith part of the present year, a bill was were authorized, amongst other submitted in connection with the framed, and passed the lower house things, to assess and collect an an- biennial report of the Commissioner of the assembly, which contained nual tax of one-fourth of one per of Schools for the years 1886-7, to generally the provisions embodied in cent. on all taxable property within the Twenty-eighth Session of the the more recent legislation of these their districts for school purposes. Legislative Assembly of the Terri-States and Territories which have are maintaining When more than that amount was tory, which began January 9th, established and required "to purchase, build, repair 1888. In the practical operations a system of public schools, to which or furnish school houses or for other of this law, it is found that the 3 all the children between prescribed purposes," it was fixed by a two-mill tax provided by the act of 1878, ages are entitled to attend free of thirds majority vote of the qualified and annually collected and dis- charge. But, upon presentation in voters resident in the district, pres-tributed to the several counties and the Legislative Council, a substitute ent at a meeting called for that pur-districts of the Territory, in propor- therefor was presented and passed, pose. tion to the school population there- with little or no discussion, except of, as shown by the last preceding so far as it was opposed by the two annual census, is scarce enough to nen-Mormon, or Gentile members of pay one-half of the compensation of the teachers hitherto employed; so that it has been necessary, and the almost uniform usage, up to the present time, to collect each term a tuition fee for each of the pupils in attendance at the school, which was fixed in the respective districts by the trustees, and graduated in amount according to the estimated balance required in addition to the public fund for the payment of the teachers. This act also provided for the election of a Territoral Superintendent of District Schools, and for a County Superintendent of Schools in each county of the Territory. It was further provided that all schools organized under the direction of the trustees in the respective school districts of the Territory should be known in law by the name and title of district schools. The earliest enactment of the Territory providing any certain or general support for schools by taxation was contained in the revenue law, approved February 22d, 1878, which provided that there should be "collected annually, beginning with the year 1878, an ad valorem tax on all the taxable property in the Territory of Utah the Council; which substitute was, in substance, à re-enactment of the previously existing Territorial law, with the following material differences: SEC. 13. All schools organized under the direction of the trustees in the respective school districts of this Territory shall be known in law by the name and title of district schools, and all other schools shall be known as private schools. All schools, both district and private, shall be entitled to a just and equitable apportionment of any public Within the last two years, efforts school fund arising from the United have been made in a very few dis- States, or from legislative anacttricts-and successfully in a still ments of this Territory. Such apportionments shall be made to said smaller number, perhaps not ex-schools by the trustees on the basis ceeding eight or ten in the Terri- of the actual attendance of pupils three tory-to levy a local district tax and the holding of four terms a mills on the dollar for the benefit of sufficient to supplement the Terri- year; and all such schools shall receive a distribution of funds in prodistrict schools." torial fund applicable to the pay-portion to the number of terms held ment of teachers, and thus maintain a free school. * 黃 * And two years later, by the act approved February 20th, 1880, it was enacted that the moneys accruing for the benefit of district schools, under the provisions of the act of 1878, should be disbursed on orders There is no provision in the school law requiring school to be kept for any specified time during the year, or providing any penalty, in the and the attendance of pupils. Provided, that no apportionment of any such public school fund shall be made to any district or private school unless such school shall hold at least two full terms during the year. creased burdens of taxation it pro- "The career of the Salt Lake Stake Academy during the two years of its active operation is now a matter of record, both in the archives of the institution, and in the hearts and memories of its pa SEC. 14. The board of education, trustees or other persons having the vided for the support of the public management and control of any schools. By the terms of that bill private school in this Territory may receive their proportion of the school it was provided a maximum of 4 funds provided for in this act, by mills on the dollar should be levied electing or appointing a treasurer in addition to the existing Terrifor their school and filing a written torial tax of 3 mills; and was to be certificate of such appointment or election with the trustees of the imposed as a county tax, the school district in which such school amount to be fixed each year by the is situated. Before receiving any County Court, within the maximum, at such estimated amount as would be adequate to supplement the Territorial tax, and provide a sufficient amount for the payment of teachers. The substitute, as it passed both houses, provided a general Territorial tax of 8 mills to be devoted to the support of district and private schools, in the proportions named in the sections above quoted. funds, the said treasurer shall enter into bonds, payable to such school district, in double the amount of the probable distribution to be made to such school, to be determined by the trustees of such district, and conditional that he will safely keep such funds. and honestly disburse them in the payment of teachers for such school, upon the order of the board of education, trustees or other per; sons having the management and control of such school; and said bonds shall be approved by, and filed with the school trustees. for the benefit of district schools, The result of such a law secured private schools the benefit of public trons. anticipation, and a firm reliance "It is, therefore, with pleasurable upon the continued and increased support of our people, that we issue the circular of the Academy for the third academic year. "A change in the board has taken place since the close of the last school year, owing to the organization of the Church. This will be more fully the General Board of Education of understood from the following letter: SALT LAKE CITY, June 8, 1888. To the Presidency of Salt Lake Stake: DEAR BRETHREN-A meeting of the General Board of Education was held today, and the subject of the educational interests of the Latterday Saints was taken into consideration and discussed at some length. Education, consisting of not less than It was decided that a Board of five, and not to exceed eight, in number, should be selected in each Stake, to take charge of and promote the interests of education in the Stake. SEC. 22. The moneys accruing under the provisions of Section 1 of An Act to provide revenue for the Territory of Utah and the several counties thereof, approved February 22, 1878, shall be disbursed on orders and exemption from all kinds of pubdrawn by the Commissioner of Dis- lic control or supervision, and This communication is addressed trict Schools in favor of the Terri-enabled the person or persons who torial sub-treasurer of each county, might be in charge of any such according to the school population thereof; and shall be paid to the private school to apply for and obtrustees by the Territorial sub-tain their pro rata of the public treasurer on the orders of the county funds. superintendents. And said money's This enactment met with the fate Previous to this time there had been established two or three schools in the Territory under the auspices and support of the Mormon denomination or sect; but since that time there has been evinced a greatly increased interest and advocacy amongst that class of the population to establish and maintain private or denominational schools; and the leaders and principal men of that SEC. 27. That Section 1 of An Act providing revenue for the Territory of Utah and the several counties thereof, approved February 20, 1878, be and it is, amended by Church are the active supporters of striking out the figures 1878 in the the scheme of establishing in each fifth line of said section, and sub- "Stake," as they are called, in the stituting in lieu thereof, the figures Territory, one or more private schools 1888; and by striking out the words 3 mills on the dollar for the benefit under the direction and charge of of district schools,' in the seventh the church authorities. These and eighth lines of said action, and "Stakes" generally correspond in substituting in lieu thereof the words '8 mills on the dollar for the territorial extent with the several benefit of district and private counties in the Territory. schools.' In the circular of such a school in This substitute, upon being re- Salt Lake City, denominated the turned to the lower house, was con- "Salt Lake Stake Academy," for curred in without protest or active the year 1888-9, issued by its execuopposition from any source, except tive committee in July last, I find the three so-called Gentile members the following, which explains in of that body. The passage of the some measure the attitude of the original bill in the lower house had Mormon people upon the subject been opposed by various members, public education at this time. I chiefly on the ground of the in-quote: of to you to inform you of this action, and to have you select energetic men, who are friends of education, people, and who have influence with the Saints, to carry out any suggestions in this direction that may be which was made by our board, it deemed proper. In the decision was made the duty of these boards to take into consideration the formation of Church schools, and the best method of accomplishing this; and, after arriving at proper conclusions, to report them to the General Board. Communications of this character may be addressed to Elder George the Board. It was felt by the Board, Reynolds, who is the Secretary of that, to begin with, there should be one Stake Academy established in each Stake, as soon as practicable. We feel that the time has arrived when the proper education of our children should be taken in hand by us as a people. who understand the needs of the Religious training is practically excluded from the district schools. The perusal of books that we value as divine records is forbidden. Our children, if left to the training they receive in these schools, will grow up entirely ignorant of these principles of salvation for which the Latter-day Saints have made so many sacrifices. To permit this condition of things to exist among us would be criminal. The desire is universally expressed by all thinking people in the Church, that we should have schools where the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants can be used as text books, and where the principles of our religion may form part of the teaching of the schools. that funds be collected. The Church To effect this, it will be necessary will doubtless do its share, but it cannot carry the entire burden. The Saints must be appealed to. There |