ae s ees. nvasion . Ox: SLAM” 2eB apa! en Of Young / Issionar les” “ae Zyd ~ By Tom A. Cullen Newspaper Enterprise ee. LONDON—It’s called the Mormon Invation here. Not since John Wes-| : Jey. traveled 250,000 miles on horseback to spread Methodism in the | ‘18th Century has Britain. ‘seen any‘thing quite like it. Nearly every liner that docks at Southampton and every plane that arrives at London airport from the; States have quotas of bright-eyed Latter-day Saint missionaries, most of them barely out of their teens. They come to Britain armed with baseball bats, catchers’ gloves and |. Bibles, and the zeal of their fore-| ' fathers who trekked to. Utah _ prairie schooners. — ‘They ring doorbells or push re-| &§ ligious tracts under the doors in the| & ugly industrial Midlands towns. They cycle down the narrow, cobbled streets of Welsh mining vilages. MICROFILM RECORDS They climb musty. attics or inwade crumbling churches to microfilm parish registers containing the names of their British ancestors. The Mormons. believe in vicarious . baptism — “baptism of the worthy dead,’” as they" call it — of those who died prior to 1830, before the word of the church’s founder, Prophet. Joseph Smith, was spread. — _ .. And above all, one. introduce ‘American - John eached sports. Wesley is 40,000 said to Methodist e sep o ‘have sermons NEW HYDE PARK Chapel rises behind missionary - May Ann Clyde, Ce of Gov. George D. Clyde. that 80 per cent of American Mormons are of British descent. “Secondly, the opening of a Brit- his. lifeti today’s Mormon issionaries find that they make more. recruits by simply. taking a ish’ Mormon Temple in Lingfield, ill. and. bat — the nearest Surrey, in 1958, marked the begin- | or pl fie rit ning of a new era here. Until | | rat time British Mormonsa tad to equally recep the: mysteries of the swat. . GETTING ‘RESULTS se “Thanks. to this combination, “the ea ~ Mormon Invasion is getting results. In the past two years this Church ‘s of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, has nearly doubled its membership here to 20,000.. In the next three years the Mor- mons will build 50 new chapels in in oe religious to hile pitt in various ceremonies. “Now we encourage them e re- | main at home and to build up coneres alas in ia own commun- | ities.”’ So Aviebea now sends mission- aries to Britain; there'll be 600 by ; June. _ the British isles. at a total cost of | $30 «million. First of- these’ ‘new chapels, ‘the “million. dollar Hyde Park ‘Chapel, was opened in the heart of London last month. A’ functionally modern | building, it boasts a 90-foot tower, ' EVANSTON, Wyo. Rites for Holy with a 40-foot golden Spire; it also Week, March 26 to April 2, at St. has one of ‘the’ ‘best: a organs in Paul’s Episcopal Church will begin | London. on Palm Sunday at services held at 8 and 11 a.m. Palm branches and SAMO | DAUGHTER Palm Crosses were blessed and disTypical ‘of the young Mormon tributed at each service. missionaries now operating in BriA coffee hour was. held at ‘Hunting tain is Mary Ann Clyde, 23, daugh- Hall after the 11 a.m. service. ter of the ‘governor of Utah, who | Services will be held en Monday, arrived here in January for an 18- Holy Communion at 8:30 a.m. and -moenth tour’ of duty. Her first as- the adult study group class at. 7:30 signment; Basingstone (population p.m.; Tuesday, Holy Communion, 16,978) in Hampshire. 8:30 .a.m.; Wednesday, Holy ComMiss Clyde, an attractive, ‘plue- munion, . 8: 30 a.m., and Tenebrae eyed university ‘graduate, said the | Service at 7:30 p.m. On Maundy Mormons find Britain such a fertile Thursday of Holy Communion will |. field for conversion “because we be at 7:30 p.m. On Good Friday the |’ are sc youthful in our outlook: service of Meditation and Prayer ‘Young ‘people, find that our church will be from 12 noon to 3 p.m. On is not just a place to go on Sunday, Saturday there will be.two services, but a whole way of life. | Holy Communion at 8:30 a.m. and “We offer them a sports program, a service of Lighting the Paschal classes in drama,. choral. singing, Candle at 7:30 p.m. dancing, as. well as Bible lessons. On Easter Sunday services will In the. Morman- church: eee be held at. 8, 9 and 11-a.m.. Danigaaies. ira ~ was ae Will Mark Week ~ SSRE Sees Evanston Ch ache eek bed oe ee FIRST CONVERTS os Pa Is inoH alin The. ‘Mormons. ‘made. thee: first |. ralle s = ng converts in Britain in ‘1837, so why ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) _ did the mother church wait for 124 Clergymen and psychiatrists have | years before’ making the big re- to usé a common approach to peo- cruiting drive in Britain? _ |ple who need help, says Dr. EdT. Bowring Woodbury, a ‘Kansas ward J. Sheridan Jr.,.a University _ iavestment banker serving as non- of Michigan psychiatrist. Both, he | paid mission president here, says: said, ‘‘must try to Seee the world “First of all, you must ‘Tealize as the sufferer | sees it. ~ LE. a. Evantina DAN’L HA