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Oct 14, 1893

Journal Entry

October 14, 1893 ~ Saturday

14. I spent the day at home I pruned the grape vines

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Letter to Daniel Duncan McArthur, 14 October 1893
Salt Lake City, Utah. . President D. D. McArthur, St. George Stake. Dear Brother: It has been the custom to require half yearly Statistical Reports from the various Stakes of Zion and from the Foreign Missions, but at our last General Conference it was decided that in future an Annual Report, made up to December 31st of each year, would better answer the purpose. In the past the reports have, in may cases, been incomplete, covering various periods of time, and ending at almost every day of the calendar year. This irregularity has robbed those reports of all relia- bility regarding the facts which they are intended to represent, and made them misleading rather than trustworthy. It is hoped that this change will not only secure uniformity but completeness also, if an effort is made by the Secretaries and others, whose duty it is to attend to these reports, to have them as perfect as possible. You will therefore make your next Statistical Report include the period from the date of your last report to the end of this year (1893) and annually thereafter. With kindest regards, we main, Your Brethren, Wilford Woodruff Geo. Q. Cannon Jos. F. Smith
Letter to Orson Smith, 14 October 1893
Salt Lake City, Utah. . President Orson Smith, Cache Stake. Dear Brother: It has been the custom to require half yearly Statistical Reports from the various Stakes of Zion and from the Foreign Missions, but at our last General Conference it was decided that in future an Annual Report, made up to December 31st of each year, would better answer the purpose. In the past the reports have, in many cases, been incomplete, covering various periods of time, and ending at almost every day of the calendar year. This irregularity has robbed these reports of all relia- bility regarding the facts which they are intended to represent, and made them misleading rather than trustworthy. It is hoped that this change will not only secure uniformity but completeness also, if an effort is made by the sSecretaries and others whose duty it is to attend to these reports to have them as perfect as possible. You will therefore make your next Statistical Report include the period from the date of your last report to the end of this year (189^3)^ and annually thereafter. With kindest regards, we remain, Your Brethren, Wilford Woodruff Geo. Q. Cannon Jos. F. Smith.
Letter to William Thomas Stewart, 14 October 1893
Salt Lake City, Utah. . Prest. W. T. Stewart, New Zealand. Dear Brother: Your favor of Aug. 12th reached our office while we were absent at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, or it would have been answered by the last mail. With regard to the matter—the emigration of some of the Maori Saints—that occupies the most prominent place in your communication we will say that, as you are aware, we have hitherto felt reluctant to encourage the wemigration of any of this people from their native islands to Zion; our experience with our Kanaka brethren and sisters not having been altogether encouraging; but after perusing your letter and learn- ing therefrom their characteristics, their industry and capability for such work as is incidental to the opening of a new country we have felt that a limited number of the best and most capable brethren and their families might at the present be permitted to gather, such ones as you and your associate missionaries would deem most suitable to meet and overcome the difficulties and peculiarities of so great a change in their mode of life as would be incidental to their removal to the^se^ mountains. Neither do we think it would be well to treat them as our emigrants of the white races are treated—permit them when they reach here to make a way for themselves, locate where they choose and provide for their necessities as seems best to their judgment. We believe that it will be desirable to have our Maori friends placed in the charge of some one or more of the brethren who know their language and who have love and

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October 17, 1893
Wilford meets with temple presidents to harmonize the endowment ceremony in all four operating temples.

Oct 14, 1893