Labors in the Vineyard: Twelfth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints. — John Shaqi
Labors in the Vineyard: Twelfth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints.Various
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Labors in the Vineyard: Twelfth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints.
Various
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Missions
With regard to the feelings of the Swiss nation, within the last thirty
years the policy of the government and the sentiment of the people have
undergone a great change in favor of liberty. In 1876, Elder J. U.
Stucki, then president of the Swiss and German Missions, was summoned
before a district judge for certain expressions relating to polygamy,
in a pamphlet which he had published, and he was fined fifty francs
and an order was made for the confiscation of the book. Elder Stucki
appealed to the supreme court of the canton (Berne) which confirmed the
decision of the lower court; but the decision of the judges not being
unanimous, Brother Stucki, encouraged, carried the case before the
supreme court of the nation which reversed the two former rulings--a
result which led to much inquiry by strangers and renewed prosperity
for the Church.
I visited Switzerland again in 1879, visiting Schaffhausen, Wienfelden,
Zurich, Berne and many other places, attending public meetings without
using a passport at all, although I had one with me.
Within the last few weeks, in answer to an application for the
repression of "Mormonism" in Berne Oberland (the district from which
Elder Secrist was expelled in 1854) the authorities declared in effect,
that the Latter-day Saints had as much right to preach their doctrines
as any other religious denomination had to expound theirs.
THE FAITH OF THE ZUNIS.
BY LLEWELLYN HARRIS.
TRADITIONS OF THE ZUNIS--THREE CHILDREN HEALED--ADMINISTER
TO 406 INDIANS WHO WERE ATTACKED WITH
THE SMALL-POX, MOST OF WHOM RECOVER--OPPOSED BY
A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER AND OTHERS--FATE OF MY
OPPOSERS.
I arrived at the Zuni village on the 20th of January, 1878, on my way
to the Mexican settlements, to preach the gospel.
Circumstances caused me to stay at Zuni eight days, thus giving me an
opportunity to become acquainted with their traditions, customs and
history.
They say that, before the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, the Zuni
Indians lived in Mexico. Some of them still claim to be the descendants
of Montezuma. At the time of the conquest they fled to Arizona, and
settled there. They were at one time a very powerful tribe, as the
ruins all over that part of the country testify. They have always been
considered a very industrious people. The fact that they have at one
time been in a state of civilization far in advance of what they are at
present, is established beyond a doubt. Before the Catholic religion
was introduced among them, they worshiped the sun. At present they are
nearly all Catholics. A few of them have been baptized into our Church
by Brothers Ammon M. Tenney and R. H. Smith, and nearly all the tribe
say they are going to be baptized.
They have a great many words in the language like the Welsh, and with
the same meaning.
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