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and I can truly say that the cause of truth is getting into notoriety, and the Saints are striving to live their religion and keep the commands of God. Scotland is alive, and God is working in the land.

Brother McMaster says old times begin to show themselves in Scotland in different places; the clergy begin to lecture against us, which causes us to have good meetings, for

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the people through curiosity, if nothing else, come and hear us.

I am well and in good health, as also brother McMaster, who joins me in kind love to you and the brethren in the office. God bless you, and qualify you for the high and holy position you hold, is the prayer of yours in the kingdom of God upon the earth, JAMES SHARP.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

A Frenchman, calling himself Joseph Bonaparte, claiming to be a son of the ex-King of Spain, and justly entitled to the throne now occupied by Isabella, has been arrested in New York.

An order has been issued by the Prefect of the Seine, under date of 8th inst., establishing measures which will enable the Paris bakers to sell bread of the first quality at 50 centimes (the maximum price) per kilogramme; second quality at 42 centimes. An indemnity will be paid to the bakers as compensation from the Government Bakers' Fund.

TERRIFIC COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN SOUTH WALES.-On Friday afternoon, Nov. 8th, one of the most terrible explosions that have ever taken place, occurred at Ferndale Pit, in Rhondda Valley, one of the largest coal mines in South Wales. There were about 340 men in the pit at the time of the explosion, nearly 200 of whom were killed; some suffocated by choke-damp, and others charred to a cinder by the flames. The most frantic grief rent the hearts of the relatives of the dead, as the lifeless forms were brought up from the pit. In several families every male is destroyed. In one house seven corpses were counted, and eight in another. A deep gloom has fallen upon the whole country around. The cause of the explosion is unknown. We are thankful to say that none of the Saints are among the sufferers.

FEARFUL HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.-The news from St. Thomas is that, on the 29th of October, a terrific gale visited that island, laying the buildings on the whole island in ruins, and wrecking over 50 ships. The following telegram has been received by Mr. A. Forwood, Liverpool, the managing director of the West India and Pacific Steamship Company, from that company's agent at St. Thomas, via New York :-"Fearful hurricane at St. Thomas 29th ultimo. Dreadful loss of life and property. All vessels in port sunk or injured. Columbian sunk in 35 feet water. Cargo lost; passengers and crew saved. Rhone and Wye totally lost, with great loss of life. Other Royal Mail steamers and Robert Todd ashore, dismasted. West India and Pacific Company's wharf uninjured."

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 28.-The Picayune has later advices, which confirm the destructive effects of the late storm upon the Rio Grande. The hurricane was the most terrible in the memory of man upon that frontier. A perpetual bombardment for a year could hardly have done as much damage as happened from this one night's storm. Twenty-six persons were killed at Matamoras, and ten were killed and one wounded at Brownsville. At Brazos, so far as is known, twelve persons perished. The schooners Ella and Kedash were blown high ashore. Only two houses were left standing at Clarksville, and none at Bagdad. The loss of life in the latter place is not known. Ninety of the inhabitants escaped by going on board of a vessel which rode out the storm. The rest have perished.

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AITKEN.-At Spanish Fork, Sept. 8th, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary Aitken, aged 3 years, 11 months and 6 days.

AITKEN. Also at Spanish Fork, Sept. 11th, William J., son of James and Mary Aitken, aged 5 years. BUCHANAN,-At Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 24th, 1867, of fever, Catherine, daughter of Finly and Janet Buchanan, aged 8 years, 2 months and 24 days.

COOPER.

At Glasgow, Scotland, October 8th, 1867, Finly Cooper, son of James and Catherine Cooper, aged 12 days.-DESERET NEWS, please copy.

POETRY.

O'ER THE OCEAN.

O'er the hills and rugged mountains,

O'er the broad and dusty plain,

O'er the blue and briny waters
Far across the mighty main,
By the holy angels guarded,

Comes the welcome news to-day,
That "our boys" are safely landed
O'er the Ocean, far away.

Now with rapturous thanksgiving
Is a father's pulses stirred,
While he bendeth low and utters
Some deep, heartfelt, thankful word,
That his son has been protected,
That the voice he did obey,
Which has called him to a nation

O'er the Ocean, far away.

Now are calm eyes raised to heaven,
And a tear may seem to start,
But is quickly checked, and folded
In a mother's grateful heart;
And she feels her anxious sufferings
God will more than all repay,
In the one so true and worthy
O'er the Ocean, far away.

Smithfield, Cache county, Utah.

Brothers, joyous, proud, and happy, Hear, and many a prayer ascends, With the thought they for the Gospel Left their Utah homes and friends, Sisters, in their joy, forgetful

Of the weary, long delay,

Pray, God-speed, and safe returning, O'er the Ocean, far away.

Now and then a faithful fond one

Eager grasps the precious news,
None may mark the glad eyes sparkle,
Or the fresh cheeks changing hues;
But good angels smile and pencil,
While a maiden's pure lips pray
For her brave young missionary
O'er the Ocean, far away.

And for some are wives and children
Gathering round the quiet hearth,
Some with secret prayers and blessings,
Some with songs of heartfelt mirth,
Oh! the thought of home must brighten
Faith and hope with glorious ray,
To the faithful missionary

O'er the Ocean, far away.

L. L. GREEN E.

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"ARISE YE, AND LET US GO UP TO ZION, UNTO THE LORD OUR GOD."-Jeremiah.

No. 48. Vol. XXIX.

Saturday, November 30, 1867.

Price One Penny

THE THIRTY-SEVENTH SEMI-ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

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Monday Forenoon, Oct 7th. The severe rain storm during the preceding night told upon the audience this morning. The Tabernacle was probably not more than three parts occupied. The noticeable portions of the absent were the very young, and the quiet of the audience was much improved. It seemed from this, and also from the change in the weather, that the speakers were better heard throughout the entire building. It will probably be our experience yet, that when the audience is as still as it always should be, it will require very little, if any change, to make it a very easy place to speak in, especially after the speakers have themselves become familiar with the building, and the government of their voices to the situation of the audience.

At the opening, the Tabernacle choir sang, 66 Praise ye the Lord." Prayer was offered by Elder John Taylor.

The Payson choir sang,

song of Jubilee."

"Hark the

Elder Orson Pratt delivered a

lengthy discourse upon the personality of God, showing that the God worshipped by the Latter-day Saints is a material being, as set forth in the Bible, and not the immaterial being, without "body, parts, and passions,' as worshipped by the various sects of the Christian world.

Some observations were made by brother Pratt in reference to peculiar views that it was generally understood were entertained by him touching the Godhead. As the subject has been long and much spoken of, we feel that we are really incapable of setting it forth in a brief summary, and therefore leave it to another time.

President Young followed on the same subject, and made some very excellent remarks, instructing the Elders to confine their teachings and instructions to what they knew to be in every particular correct in principle.

The Tabernacle choir sang the anthem, "Daughter of Zion." Dismissed by Elder C. C. Rich.

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Afternoon. The Spanish Fork choir sang, 66 Arise, my soul, arise."

Elder E. T. Benson offered prayer. Tabernacle choir sang the anthem, "I will sing of the mercies of the Lord."

President Young said that they had no idea when Conference would terminate, but they would, he expected, have to continue their assemblies unusually long; and, to hear all those who had to speak, he would ask for short sermons. He furnished the following texts, on which he would expect the Elders to speak :

1st. The opening of a subscription list in aid of the Perpetual Emigration Fund.

2nd. To teach our children the ways of the Lord in their youth, and to introduce into our schools the Bible, Book of Mormon, Book of Doctrine and Covenants; also phonetics.

3rd. The young ladies to study arithmetic, book-keeping, and other branches of education necessary to qualify them for business-attending in stores, operating in the telegraph offices, and so to let the men now attending to such things go to the kanyon, build houses, make farms, and prepare themselves for sustaining wives and children.

4th. Five hundred teams were wanted immediately after Conference to haul three loads of rock each, from Little Cottonwood, for the Temple.

5th. The best method of prolonging the present life; the manner of living frugally and temperately.

Elder Taylor expressed his gratification at the completion of the Tabernacle thus far, and spoke of the united labors of the Saints, and what they had accomplished. He alluded to the work of a recent book-maker who had devoted a chapter to "Mormonism" in his "New America," in which that writer had stated that the "Mormons" had been gathered from the refuse and dregs of society. He challenged the world to the comparison. He looked upon a virtuous, industrious, God-loving people, that the world had never before witnessed-and their la bors in these mountains and valleys were the evidences of their worth. They would yet show to the world by

their good works, that they were as far above their traducers and vilifiers as the heavens are high above the earth. The Latter-day Saints were no slaves. They never would degrade themselves mentally, socially, or religiously, but rise above the follies and vices of the world, till they basked in the sunshine of eternal light and glory.

The Fishburn choir sang, "Hard times come again no more.

The following persons were selected to go on a mission to the southern part of the Territory

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Thurston Simpson, Samuel Riter, Oscar B. Young, Weiler, Alma Cunningham, George B. Spencer, Geo. W. Grant, Isaac Young, John C. Young, Charles Alley, Oliver Free, George Milam, Miles Romney, Wm. Gibson, David Gibson, Geo. D. Watt, jun., Orson P. Miles, E. H. Harrington, Zabriskie Young, John K. Whitney, E. G. Woolley, Edwin Woolley, jun., Robert Russell, Edwin Frost, Morris Wilkinson, Joseph Felt, Moroni Reese, Ashton Nebeker, Guilielmo San Giovanni, Wilford Woodruff, jun., Henry Toone, Clement Horsley, John Sharp, jun., Daniel McRae, Israel Barlow, jun., Milton Davis, Ward E. Pack, Joseph Peck, W. J. F. McAllister, Hyrum Folsom, Conrad Wilkinson, Charles Crismon, jun., Charles Taylor, jun., Willis Darwin Fuller, Revilo Fuller, Edward Stevenson, jun., Stewart, Joseph Eldredge, Helaman Pratt, Geo. J. Taylor, Edmund Ellsworth, jun., David Lewis, Robert Watson, jun., Mathew Lyon, Richard Horne, John Wood, Wood, William T. Cromer, John F. Cahoon, William Cahoon, Albert Merrill, Clarence Merrill, Franklin Merrill, Joseph Kesler, Ephraim Scott, Robert Smithies, Emerson Shurtleff, Harrison Shurtleff, Samuel A. Woolley, jun., Samuel H. Hill, George Stringam, Benjamin Stringam, Nathaniel Ashby, Richard Ashby, John Reese, William Calder, Joseph Hyde, A. F. Dewey, Joseph S. Murdock, Samuel Hamer, John Haslam, Joseph Russell, John G. Clark, Samuel Malin, David Lewis, Charles J. Lambert, John Eardley, Samuel Atwood, Manly Barrows, Richard Morris (grocer), (painter), Joseph Asey and 3 sons,

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Henry George, House Ward,

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Hulbert, Sugar merely temporary. He wished it to McConnel (black- be understood that it would be consmith), David Ridout, Staker, tinued till the Saints overcame the Sugar House Ward, Andrew Taysom, weaknesses that had grown up with John Paul, William Seegmiller, Adam them, to live in accordance with the Seegmiller, Aaron Nelson, Peter Beck- laws of God. He wanted all to unstrom, Pleasant Bradford, Scipio A. derstand that it was required of the Kenner, George Tribe, Alfred Ran- Saints to observe it. This Word of dall, jun., Smith Thurston. Wisdom could not be neglected, and the Spirit and blessing of the Almighty preserved.

Elder J. D. T. McAllister sang "The Mountain Dell."

Elder Wilford Woodruff expressed the pleasure he experienced in meeting with the Saints in such a building, and made brief remarks on the texts that had been read. His instructions were very excellent.

A few members of the three choirs sang, "The Lily of the Vale."

Elder George A. Smith spoke very pointedly on the obligations resting upon those who had been assisted by the Perpetual Emigration Fund, to be prompt in paying their indebtedness, and assisting those left in the old world who were unable to help themselves. It was the duty of the Saints to aid the poor. He made a powerful appeal in their behalf.

The Fishburn choir sang, "My own land, Deseret."

The Tabernacle choir sang, "Ye ransomed of the Lord."

Dismissed by Elder Geo. A. Smith.

Tuesday Forenoon. The Springville choir sang, "God moves in a mysterious way."

Elder Erastus Snow offered The Tabernacle choir sang, sinners take their course."

prayer.

"Let

Elder E. T. Benson expressed the joy that he had experienced in the Gospel, and the universal testimony of the Elders that they knew it was the work of the Most High God in which they were engaged. He commended highly the industry of the Saints, and spoke of the advantage to the community that must inevitably accrue from the support of home manufactures.

The Fishburn choir, on request, sang again "The mountain Brave."

The President made some very excellent and emphatic remarks on this subject, and closed with the words"I say, in the name of Israel's God, keep the Word of Wisdom.

Elder Dunbar sang that beautiful hymn, "O! Zion."

Elder Erastus Snow made allusion to the Word of Wisdom, and called upon the Bishops, Elders, and Teachers, in their labors among the Saints, to be kind, and lead the weak on, from effort to effort, till they overcame their habits.

The speaker made allusion to the inquiries about the brethren going down to the South. Some expected

but little from that mission and that portion of the Territory, but he only asked for time, and the people would yet see what the South would do. He made very encouraging remarks to those who had been selected to go and open farms in the South. He also added some pertinent remarks on the texts given by the President.

The Fishburn choir sang, "O Zion, forever."

President Joseph Young spoke of the counsel that had been given to the young men in Israel to take unto themselves wives, and encouraged the young men and maidens to go forth in faith and keep the commandments of the Lord, and labor to build up the Zion of the Lord.

President Young made a few pleasant remarks on the same subject.

The following names were added to the list of those selected to go South :

John Heiner, Walter Brown, Joseph King, Elijah Fuller, Homer Roberts, Milton Turnbow, William Streeper, James Fogg, James Hansen, Christian Christiansen, Amasa Mikesell, Rich

President Young spoke briefly on the Word of Wisdom. He alluded to the sayings of some who were slow in obedience to it, that the present teach-ard ing on the Word of Wisdom was

Carlisle, Edward Pugh, James Hague, jun., John Gregory (Draper

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