Report on the Summit Stake Sunday Schools

We have nineteen Sabbath Schools in the Summit Stake of Zion, scattered along the banks of the Weber and Provo Rivers. We have an enrollment of about 2,300, 250 officers and teachers, that we think are about as good as any of the children of the Lord engaged in the Sabbath School work. We have nearly completed holding our local ward Sunday School conferences. At each of these conferences we take an opportunity to meet with the local officers and the teachers of the respective schools and to question them as to how they are living, if they are living in harmony with the requirements that were made of them when they accepted the office of Sunday School workers. In almost every instance we have been very glad to learn that nearly every hand is raised, and nearly every voice is prepared to say that they keep the Word of Wisdom, they all pay their tithes, are observing the Sabbath day and are living up to the requirements that have been asked of them by our worthy Stake President and his associates. We have the assistance of many other associations in our Stake. We are probably more closely connected than almost any other Stake. We all meet once a month in what is known as our auxiliary meetings. At these meetings the parents meet with every association, and their children can also join and meet at one place in the Stake, where they can all go to their different departments and there be instructed along the lines that have been laid out for them. ¶

We have very good Sunday Schools as a whole, and we are very pleased with them. We often have to drive quite a distance, sometimes thirty or thirty-seven miles, to be in attendance at the 9:45 prayer meeting. This is quite a task, as most of us are engaged in business at home, and cannot leave before Sunday morning. There are only one or two schools that we can visit by the railroad, most of it has to be done by team, and we travel on an average of between five and six hundred miles each month in our Stake visits. ¶

I desire to say that the young people in the Summit Stake of Zion are doing, I believe, the very best that they can. We have all classes. We have a very healthy Sunday School in Park City, a mining camp; and in that school especially there is great energy manifested in trying to get the visiting brethren who come into that camp interested in the Sabbath School, until now it has become so popular that the building is scarcely able to hold them. ¶

I pray God to add His blessings to our work, in the name of Jesus. Amen. ¶