Union Ward Chapel

330 IMPROVEMENT ERA

cpnnot sit idly down and be mere victims of circumstance. They must take for their slogan the Mutual Improvement motto "The :

glory of God is intelligence," and make a business of seeing that not one young man or one young woman is allowed to grow up in ignorance, but that all are emancipated by intelligence. Logan, Utah

UNION WARD CHAPEL This picture shows the cozy and homelike surroundings provided hy the good people of Union Ward, Jordan stake, for their house of worship. Since early days, the old "Cow Trail" leading from the pasture lands to the old "Union Fort" passed through these grounds. Many are the speakers whose sermons have been disturbed by the jingle of the cow bells as the animals passed over where the lawns, flowers and cement walks are now located. When the people undertook to re-arrange affairs on the grounds, the brethren of the ward turned out and laid the cement walks, the good sisters of the Relief Society furnishing a first class dinner. For the

Union Ward Chapel

enre of the lawns and the growing of the flowers, which border all th° walks and fill the windows in the chapel, much praise is due to the caretaker, Elder Charles Denney, who may be seen stooping at the front in the foreground of the photo. During the past season, many compliments were given Brother Denney from far and near on the splendid appearance of the grounds. The unanimous sentiment of the Saints is that the surroundings created entirely a different feeling, making the old chapel much more inviting. Bishop Heber J. Burgon, in giving this information to the Era, closes with the wish that every chapel and its grounds in all the wards of the Latter-day Saints might have as good a care-taker as Brother Charles Denney.