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Show GHURGII ToTREGf " TEMPLE IN HAWAII LATTER-DAY SAINTS DECIDE TO -ERECT PLACE OF WORSHIP ON ISLAND OF OAHU. President Smith Welcomes Conference Visitors, Tells of Progress of Work of Church and Announcss Plans for Future. Salt Lake City. At least 42,000 people peo-ple attended the two meetings at the Tabernacle and Assembly hall and the Sunday school meeting at night on the opening day of the fall conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Not only was the attendance at-tendance gratifying, but in many respects re-spects it was one of the most successful suc-cessful conferences in the history of the church. One of the most important announcements an-nouncements to the members of the church was the news that was spread from the Tabernacle that a temple would be built at Laie, on the Island of Oahu, in the Hawaiian group. This announcement was made by President Joseph F. Smith in his opening open-ing address. The cost of this structure struc-ture was not announced, as that has not been determined upon. Such details de-tails are to be arranged later, when plans shall have been prepared. There are now four temples in Utah one each at Salt Lake, Logan, Manti and St. George and one is under construction con-struction in Alberta, Canada. The Hawaiian Ha-waiian temple will make the sixth. President Smith's proposal to build a temple on the island of Oahu came during his remarks concerning the temple-building activities of the church. . He also said it had been the intention of the church authorities to build another temple on the northern borders of Mexico if the colonists in Chihuahua had been permitted to live there. In reviewing the condition of the ' church at this time, President Smith said that he was gratified to report that the people were more united now than at any other period of the history his-tory of the organization. Also, he said, they were prosperous in temporal tempor-al matters and the general organization organiza-tion of the church was In a prosperous prosper-ous condition. That the people are being too heavily heav-ily taxed for school purposes was another an-other feature of the address of Presi- dent Smith. He declared that some people had gone "education mad" in their advocacy of an extended high school system. President Smith said that the added burden was too great, in view of the fact that no Biblical or religious training train-ing could -be had in the public schools. He contended that children should have early schooling in theological matters, and that those parents who desired to accomplish this were obliged to both pay tuition in church or private schools and pay taxes to support the public institutions, where no such training could be had. President Anthon H. .Lund also addressed ad-dressed the morning meeting, his brief remarks being of a doctrinal character. He admonished the peoole not to become weak in their faith through the persuasions or mockeries of adversaries who represented themselves them-selves as friends but unbelievers. Earnest admonition that the members mem-bers of the Mormon church follow the counsel and instructions of their leaders, lead-ers, the first presidency and the apostles, apos-tles, was the keynote of all the speeches speech-es delivered at the overflow meeting held Sunday afternoon in Assembly hall. President Mark Austin of the Fremont, Fre-mont, Idaho, stake reported that the people in his jurisdiction were very much interested in the work of the Lord, and that he conveyed from them greetings to the members of the church assembled in the conference. "If any man love his people," said President Austin, "he will leave them in peace and not attempt to disturb them by spreading falsehoods about them. Enemies of this work," he continued, con-tinued, "can not destroy the souls of the people, and it is therefore only necessary for us to fear the Lord, who is able to destroy both soul and body." President Walter P. Monson of the eastern states mission made a brief address. How the Mormon church is maligned ma-ligned in eastern centers by lecturers, ministers and denominational publications publica-tions and how little Mormonism is understood, un-derstood, was explained by President Walter P. Monson of the eastern members mem-bers in his address to the members in attendance at the fall conference. Mormonism, he said, is made the subject sub-ject of coarse jests in theatres and is used as a byword on the streets of New York, but in spite of this op-. op-. position, the church is making progress pro-gress and its missionaries, despite obstacles, ob-stacles, are gaining a foothold. Immediately after the close of the afternoon service the saints and missionaries mis-sionaries of the Scandinavian mission held their conference in thei Assembly hall, while the German conference was held in Barratt hall. In the Bishop's building at 4:30 o'clock a meeting of the presidents of uporums of seventy was held There were two meetings of the general gen-eral conference in Hie Tabernacle on Monday. There were no sessions of the conference Tuesday, the two final meetings being scheduled for Wednesday Wednes-day morning and afternoon. |