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Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 39: Organ of the Deseret Sunday School Union; March 15, 1904Made by President Joseph F. Smith at a Conference of the Wasatch Stake of Zion. Sunday Morning. January 31, 1904.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 39: Organ of the Deseret Sunday School Union; March 15, 1904Made by President Joseph F. Smith at a Conference of the Wasatch Stake of Zion. Sunday Morning. January 31, 1904.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 39: Organ of the Deseret Sunday School Union; February 1, 1904Many caves may still be seen among those cliffs which were used by hermits fourteen hundred years ago. We have all heard the story of how St. Saba, having tired of the world made a cave in this desolate spot his home, was joined by others, a brotherhood organized, and about the year A. D. 500 a convent founded.Among these caves is one known as the Cavern of Skulls where hundreds of monks have perished while defending the place from those who coveted their hoard ed wealth, At the present time there are less than a hundred monks at this place, but it is said during the time of St. Saba there were fully twelve thousand of them. They entered as penitents, became as it were dead to this life, dead to progression, and renounced everything that' would tend to give enjoyment and happiness, took oaths never to love'a woman or even to look at one, never to listen to the prat tle of children, but to keep all the sun shine out from their lives and allow their souls to be filled with darkness and gloom. Women are forbidden, under. All circum stances, to enter the enclosure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 39: Organ of the Deseret Sunday School Union; February 1, 1904Many caves may still be seen among those cliffs which were used by hermits fourteen hundred years ago. We have all heard the story of how St. Saba, having tired of the world made a cave in this desolate spot his home, was joined by others, a brotherhood organized, and about the year A. D. 500 a convent founded.Among these caves is one known as the Cavern of Skulls where hundreds of monks have perished while defending the place from those who coveted their hoard ed wealth, At the present time there are less than a hundred monks at this place, but it is said during the time of St. Saba there were fully twelve thousand of them. They entered as penitents, became as it were dead to this life, dead to progression, and renounced everything that' would tend to give enjoyment and happiness, took oaths never to love'a woman or even to look at one, never to listen to the prat tle of children, but to keep all the sun shine out from their lives and allow their souls to be filled with darkness and gloom. Women are forbidden, under. All circum stances, to enter the enclosure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 39: February 15, 1904Joseph F. Smith, General Superintendent. George Reynolds, First Asst. General Superintendent. J. M. Tanner, Second Asst. General Superintendent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.