Show priesthood MEETING the regular meeting of the priest hood of the salt lake stake was held in the assembly hall saturday morning beginning at 11 u ff president resident adagus angua M cannon presiding the usual opening exercised were conducted prayer being offered by patriarch A H raleigh balagh Ball gh all the wards of the stake were rep represented repented by their presiding officers excepting the second fifth tenth fifteenth and twenty third city wards and mountain dell and brighton of ef the county the presidency of ten quorums of elders responded to the roll call sim atoo the stake superintendents of the sab bob bath Ech cole cols and the young men 1 i mutual improvement president angus M cannon asked that billat the bishop of each ward write out 1 and leave with the clerk of the eor send end to him a statement of the amount subscribed and the amount paid at and ince sinea the general fast day on may lot let for ahe jibe building of the temple that the total amount paid and tn amount subscribed in this stake my m y be ascertained A special case was brought up showing the consequences of neglect in joining the quorum a mans mann man s Priest priesthood bood entitles him to join and in the payment ent of tithing M dent angus M ca no nou n ga gave va it as b bis is opinion that tle the poorest among the saints even those thos e who receive donations dona tiona from the church should pay one tenth of that income as tithing that acknowledgment of the gifts of 01 god may be made to the bishop and lie he thus be enabled to judge of the finai cial condition of all the saints ol of his warts wari he spoke of the necessity ot of our honoring god and his authority upon the earth that he through son SOD may honor us denral discussion of the case in point followed and the necessity ot of faithful performance of duty on the part of all was emphasized including attendance at quorum meetings and the regular public mel meetings tings president joseph 14 IS 3 taylor spoke in IA answer to some questions regarding 1 points brought up in the discussion J he be read from the doctrine Doc tride and ana coven ants in explanation of the fact that some die after the tha administration of the elders TL TI e priesthood to is given for the f sealing of health and ath but it I 1 the person dies after the tion he dies to the lorf lord 1 A circum stance which occurred in the life of the prophet joseph was related to illustrate Jur grate this truth but a man who is acting in this capacity should attend to s the duties of his bis priesthood in other directions and not neglect ot 01 e branch of his duties for the sake of another i president penrose spoke on the same points into stating that all who act in the I 1 priesthood riest hood should gain the confidence r and assistance of their brethren jay by at y tending their meetings and performing I 1 their othir other duties that additional I 1 strength tb and add influence may be given them president angus M cannon stated r that men who are in prominent ecsi y alons should net be depreciated in the minds of the people on account of some 1 weaknesses they may have bave bad for if we no ao right to demenil er these faults against them the meeting was adjourned to the first saturday in jae at 11 am benediction by lewis H 7 F the now new york commercial bm adv er fjaer gives given this thia specific for um lam if you would make a man self elf respecting yiu must mirt let him earn and own something and it if you would have bave him take an interest in the cony serving erving influences of the common wealth you must begin by making him an integral patt part of that common wealth to effectually kill an anar chist chief convert him into a freeholder free holder bolder list us put the real estate agent ahead of the naturalization office sell bell the man some land first and presently he will purchase his right to citizenship and nd then he will fight for it LECTURE ON pedagogical dr gordy delivered his hia second lecture on pedagogical principles at the metropolitan hotel parlors last evening th rh subject was the cultivation 0 attention the lecturer first impressed upon the minds of his audience how bow important attention really if how the entire met mei tal part of mau mail is controlled by it it is in at the foundation of every sensation of mans being at the base of every perception it ic underlies reasoning memory feeling will every conscious sensation depends depend upon attention prior to the discovery and use of chloroform patients were obliged to paget pass through brough the severest operations t biting any perceptible signs of suffering and subsequently would woula declare that they felt little or no pain the reason was found in the fact that they had concentrated their minds by a powerful struggle the lecturer observed that our past lives were saharan of forgetfulness blank bleak barren a wallowed swallowed up in ob livian ivian but here and there gleam spots of memory mem ury like little oases in these theme great deserts arise before us how can this be accounted for generally speaking the things we remember are those which receive our attention A person old ih years forgetful of what occurred yesterday day or the past week without difficult difficulty ys calesto call sto mind what transpired many years ago because at that time the mind was perhaps relieved from care and gave an unusual degree of attention to the incident and stamped it indelli bly upon his memory for all time suppose a case said the lecturer A boy has a leshon to learn and a young companion invites invite him to togo go fishing will he accept the invitation or will he be remain and get his lesson that depends entirely upon what he attends to if he allows his mind to dwell on the sport he might have and not on the consequences of the neglect ol of work he be will go if he thoroughly realizes the displeasure of his parents and the disapprobation of his teacher and the likelihood of going to the foot of his class he will remain at home the difference ferenee dif between an educated and an uneducated verson person does not consist istas as much in amount of knowledg as 88 in close continuous concentrated cent rated attention the way to train and develop the attention of ef our pupils to la to cultivate just jurt as aa we do any other power of the mind students student learn to observe by observing to think by thinking likewise will they learn to attend by attending when they first go to school their attention to general generally y exceedingly cee limited attention must be a part of their education the idea that attention Is IB natural la is entirely incorrect the successful teacher must and can got get attention atten tion from pupils by providing the proper conditions eions for drawing it out what to ia attention simply the concentration concentta con centra tion of the mind upon one thing to exclusion of all else or an act of the mind bringing into clear consciousness any subject or object an attempt was waa made today to blow up the railway bridge at st En beuque near arras adrae THE UNITARIAN conference thursday night may ath the first unitarian conference ever hel in this city convened as an extra session of the rocky mountain conference of liberal christian churches the opening sermon was waa by the rev J H crooker of helena montana subject the ways of salvation Salvati or mr crooker took for his hie text these worde 1 I have come that ye might have life more abundantly after launching out outon on his ct he be said that the answer to that familiar question what shall we do to be depended upon the answer to the question what is the universe and what is human nature 91 if the former to Is where god and satan contend t tr r the mastery if man is ina a fallen being human nature vile and man doomed to eternal torment on account of the supposed fall of adam then the method of salvation is what will relieve us and place u us on reasonable terms with the creator our thoughts though te respecting this question must follow in the line ille of those respecting the universe and tle the nature of man to be saved our lines must be in harmony with supreme realities reali tits and conform to all the truths of science the common theory of salvation springs springe from two conceptions of creation and human nature if the universe is a realm of law and a law the empire of satan is a mere figure of speech and the paramount question is in are these old views true As to these there is but ore one competent teacher modern science to know the facts facto we go to those who are equipped with a knowledge of the universe from science we learn that nature is not the realm of op position opposition to god and if modern philosophy compels us to take new positions we should be religious enough to go to the vantage ground where it brings us to the unfolding revelation of a living god never so much loved by humanity as today when the false theory that human as 0 ture is ruined is once abandoned then the ways of salvation are multiform natural and loee at hand we work it out by tears tea devotion and self denial denia and it is no longer a strange or miraculous performance men are dorevi r in the process of salvation all the g s for knowledge aspirations for the good the struggles for self mastery all undeen bero isme all the friendships which ripen the diviness div ineat inest sentiments of the heart all the deeds through which the providence of god works are the ways of salvation standing upon the modern modera views of nature and man mad we resort to jesus of nazareth for the method and motive of spiritual right he saves sa von us just so far as he inspires us to lead the better life and he is in most truly our savior not when we believe dogmas about him but when we live like him if you want him to help you put your heel on the spirit of evil if you want him to bring sunshine into your life he will show you the gate of humility the path of service and the crown of immortality no man is saved completely that would give us stagnation no man to is lost for one soul sent to perdition would give us a shattered uni universe verte we are waved aved so far as the gospel and pattern of jesus are realized and the of this nature are unfolded so for far as aa we have found the truth of light and love which to la revelation I 1 know only the eternal now where the truth of god must be wrought out here and the eternal love be wrought out there THIS FORENOON SESSION the rev 8 A eliot chairman of the conference opened the proceedings this thie forenoon at 10 he dwelt entirely on the circumstances leading up to the conference in denver two years ago and to the growth of V unitarianism nit in the west dr utter followed with an account of the progress and growth of his sect in utah mr crooker of montana spoke on the situation in his state rabbi read the following paper inspiration AND revelation P I 1 need not remind you who are congregated gre gated here to discuss religious hold ings ingo in the endeavor to seek just for biblical influences be it from au an orthodox conviction of their immediate divine emanation or be it from a mere intense deference to their sincere and pure religious genius gedius that no other historical presentation has been treated with so BO discourteous unfairness as this matter of revelation an historical report is summarily dismissed on od a priori argument its historical value in sharpening sha pening the character anti and fortunes of nations and individuals is but inadequately estimated and esteemed while from a literary standpoint we e show how more gallantry al lantry of regard to greece and bome borne than what we do to deeper working and farther reaching reach lac israel with all her richness of imagery and metaphor her earnestness ot of conviction and her nights flights of poetry all the loftier and profounder pro founder u ader because of her ai almost most brigt rigid exclusion aslon of all that savors of invention vent ven tion lov frivolous sportive or egoistic the only explanation of such evident prejudice is to be found in the difficulty of conceiving how bow the manifestation fe upon which israel seeks to commend her spiritual gifts to universal acceptance could possibly have occurred but to admit this as an in surmountable barrier is to assume that hat the latue satue objection does not present itself in our other vital holdings however the current philosophy of the unknowable which receive the endorsement of our whole present scholarship and thought as the noblest fullest aud most consistent expression of our lo 10 loftiest loft iest civilization has demonstrated that absolutely we know nothing that atheism and pa theism areas unthinkable binka ble and meaningless as deism and that like them deism itself is illogical unintelligible tin an i hence bence untenable neither at a god or oi at no god can we arrive positively through our unaided reason our only refuge seems agnosticism for all our know ledge is but relative but even agnosticism to is illogical for the very relativity of our knowledge premises some absolute knowledge our know ledge ot of the relations distinctions and likenesses of things premises our knowledge ed of something but of what IV what ht it is mind aks a ks berkeley Ber kelsy no matter what is matter never wind ap this lathe is the ultimate to which all our knowledge resolves itself and yet our consciousness and reason demand and premise some certainty of knowledge but why seek seek we to know anything as long as we can make intelligent us use e J of our surroundings this question finds its answer in mans moral nature and in bits bia dissatisfaction with his surroundings soundings roun dings to which his bis very con ness tells him he be is vastly au superior perl in nature there is no analogy to man self preservation it is there the only motive might the only law for justice virtue love mercy duty man finds there no support he becomes ethical only as he be emerges from nature even paternal affections be has no basis tor for in the animal the brutish parent loves its offspring only as long as that offspring is dependent As long as that offspring is thus virtually a part and parcel of the parent parents Is own life a thing so to speak of the parents 1308 possession session the young once independent fledged or weaned and the relation of parent and offspring ceases nay they cross themselves sexual sexually jy neither can nature in RIDY any way mould man man moulds nature he changes chang es the varieties of plants the breeds of animals enriching their beauty their nutrition their utilities to speak nothing of his transforming climates and continents he however is not directly changed physically and certainly not spiritually in which latter direction his innate longing to be different from and superior to all creation most ardently yearns for improvement pro enrichment deepening heightening if he be be sad nature may be ever so gay it cannot chase away his depression if be be gay nature may be vested in the thickest clouds of gloom and angry passions it cannot disturb his serenity or still his exultant notes nature is but the mirroring glass of his subjectivity and those who deceive themselves into imagining that nature instructs them have but bad reflected hack back to their lessons which they have learned elsewhere under other influences we are thus drawn back upon our own humanity and our first impulse is to make history with its account of mants efforts successes failures progress the instructress that we seek but clio is a false bailot speaking war to the warrior diplomacy to the statesman money to the financier belles letters to the literary man ethics to the moral philosopher etc she is but the echo of ourselves again history like nature but mirrors and illustrates for educations both arr are insufficient we turn to psychology and labut it but tell us that man to Is man with |