The Weber Stake Academy. Nine years ago President Woodruff issued the following instructions to the presidents of the several stakes of Zion: "DEAR BRETHREN.We feel that the time has arrived when the proper education of our children should be taken in hand by us as a people. Religious training is practically excluded from the district schools. The perusal of books that we value as divine record is forbidden. Our children, if left to the training they receive in these schools, will grow up entirely ignorant of those principals of salvation for which the Latter-day Saints have made so many sacrifices. To permit this condition of things to exist among us would be criminal. The desire is universally expressed by all thinking people in the church that we should have schools wherein the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants can be used as text books and where the principles of our religion may form a part of the teachings of the schools." It was through this instruction that the presidency of the stake organized a stake board of education, which soon after established and opened the Weber Stake Academy in what is known as the Second Ward meeting house. The building soon proved too small and the board was compelled to seek else where for more commodious quarters. The tabernacle was next fitted up for this purpose, but here too unforseen difficulties soon presented themselves and the board was for the third time compelled to seek elsewhere for other quarters. Through WEBER STAKE ACADEMY 7 special instruction from the first presidency, plans were pre-pared and submitted to the church board of education for a new building. Ground was broken in the spring of 1891, and in the fall of 1892, the building was opened for the reception of students. The work of the first year was attended with success, the enrollment showing the second largest attendance of any school in the state. The withering hand of want during the hard times of 1894 and '95. had also its blighting effect upon our institution and for a time threatened to close its doors and indeed accomplished it for a short time. However a prophecy had been uttered by an apostle of the Lord that its doors should not remain closed, and in fulfillment of this prophecy the school was again opened in 1895, and as it were new life imparted to its sacred mission. From that time on it has steadily grown both in number and in influence, demanding and gaining recognition wherever students knocked at doors of older and more favored institutions. No better evidence can be produced in favor of this statement than the fact that it attracted students during the past year from nearly all parts of the state and even from the surrounding states as its annexed catalogue of students names will show. EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES. LOCATION. No better location for the ambitious and progressive student than Ogden can be found in the State of Utah, and this for several reasons. First it is the natural railway center of our state, making traffic cheaper and distance shorter than from any other leading city. SecondThe city being surrounded by a rich farming community and within easy eccess of the eastern and western markets, board can be obtained at very moderate rates. ThirdThe surrounding mountains,