Report on the Oneida Stake

The Oneida Stake of Zion is situated in the north end of what is known as Cache valley. We have in that stake twenty-four Sunday schools, fully organized. We also have a stake board of twelve members. This is not quite sufficient to accomplish the work that is designed by the General Board, but we have a limited supply of material, and if we were to draw fully from the various wards for the number of members required to make our monthly visits, it would materially cripple other organizations. The stake superintendency is fully organized and its members are in perfect harmony with each other. We meet every week, on the Monday night, after having made our visits on the Sunday, when we find it very convenient to make our reports, and in this way get to know and understand the conditions of the schools visited. ¶

Our stake board meets every month, and visits made by the other members of the board are then reported. We visit three Sundays in each month. We have also arranged to hold regular quarterly Stake Sunday school union meetings. We have been holding these meetings for three years, and we find them very beneficial to all the schools of our stake. The improvement that has been made since this organization was effected has been very marked. ¶

We have lately arranged to hold district Sunday school union meetings, because our stake is very widely divided, our settlements being in some cases very distant; and we thought it well in order to give our teachers better opportunity of hearing instructions from the members of the stake board, to take the union meetings to them occasionally; and we believe that by taking these meetings to five different districts, we shall be able to accomplish more good than we can by calling all of the Sunday school workers together in one place once a quarter. It would be rather difficult for us, under our circumstances, to come together every month, but at some future time we may be able to do better than we are now doing. ¶

We feel well in the cause, and the progress of the Sunday school work in our stake is very encouraging. We are very pleased to have the "Outlines." We have been preparing, in our stake, an outline of our own for the past three years, and we fully appreciate the labors of the board, because we know how much work it takes to prepare them. We are glad, however, that now we have outlines that are applicable to all the stakes of Zion. We are laboring to the end that we may get a proper understanding of them, that we may induce our teachers to thoroughly prepare themselves, for we are cognizant of the fact that without thorough preparation good results cannot be accomplished. May the Lord add His blessings to our labors is my earnest prayer. Amen. ¶