1919-06-Improvement Era—An Occasional Sounding for Bed Rock

An Occasional Sounding for Bed Rock

Improvement Era, June 1919, p. 733.

An Occasional Sounding for Bed Rock

"We thank Thee 0 God for a Prophet," has been sung by and recorded on the Columbia Graphophone for sometime. Recently the proprietor ot a New York Undertaking Parlor, Henn Brothers, wrote to the Eastern States Mission of the Church, asking them to send the words and music of this beautiful song for use in their parlors. The Eastern States Mission referred the matter to the Northern States Mission at Chicago, Illinois, and a copy of the Songs of Zion was sent to the firm which later expressed the desire to have the L. D. S. male or mixed quartet come and sing some of the hymns contained in the Songs of Zion at the funerals held in their parlors. Leon M. Strong, Secretary of the Northern States mission writes: "This incident together with many letters coming into the office asking for Books of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants, makes us feel encouraged in the thought that 'Mormonism' has stood the test, and the pendulum has started to swing back in our direction. Through the great wave of indifference in general, and prejudice awards the Latter-day Saints in particular, there comes an occasional sounding for bedrock on the part of those at sea spiritually.