Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . alittle leaven has, to such a gratifying degree,succeeded in leavening the whole lump, andpush on our mission work. It is twenty years since the first effort wasmade to reach the Mormons with aggressivemissionary effort. Previous to that effort,the Christian work in the regions occupiedby the Mormons was confined to a fewchurches for the Gentile Christians, and aschool or two for their children. There werefive Christian churches among the threethousand non-Mormon people residing inSalt Lake City—one or two in Ogden, oneat Provo (the seat of th
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . alittle leaven has, to such a gratifying degree,succeeded in leavening the whole lump, andpush on our mission work. It is twenty years since the first effort wasmade to reach the Mormons with aggressivemissionary effort. Previous to that effort,the Christian work in the regions occupiedby the Mormons was confined to a fewchurches for the Gentile Christians, and aschool or two for their children. There werefive Christian churches among the threethousand non-Mormon people residing inSalt Lake City—one or two in Ogden, oneat Provo (the seat of the first United StatesDistrict Court) and one at Beaver (the seat ofthe second District Court). A feeble missionhad been attempted in each of the miningcamps of Alta and Bingham. These wereall. Mormon homes and hamlets were sup-posed to be beyond the reach of the ambassa-dors of the cross, but in 1875 the bold defi-ance of Mormonism intrenched in error wasmet by the forces of aggressive truth. 392 DEATH OF MRS. JANE R. LEONARD—MINNESOTA. [May,. HOME OF AVERAGE MORMON TITHEPAYER. Without following the history of thismovement, it is sufficient for the presentpurpose to state that the mission schoolswhich have been established and maintainedduring a whole or part of the twenty yearsin thirty-eight cities and towns, and theministry of the word in connection withthem, have reached thousand of homes, andtens of thousands of persons old and full results can never be tabulated orknown in this life, but the effects may bepartially seen in the transformation wroughtin the social and moral aspect, in the pro-gress of American ideas in Utah, in thetwenty-six churches which have been theoutgrowth, with their one thousand or moremembers, in the thirty well established Sab-bath-schools with their two thousand scholars,in the thirty-one mission schools, which areat least an equal means of grace, with theirtwo thousand five hundred scholars, and inall the attendant influences of go
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