Show f HEBER J GRANT AS A SINGER He Has Been Training His Voice and Last Evening He Tried It on the SundaySchool Conference Four thousand people were present In the Tabernacle last evening when the semiannual conference of the Des SundaySchool union was called to order There were probably a hundred hun-dred members of the regular choir present General Secretary Ensign rend the statistical report of the union which showed that there were 51 fiGS male pupils pu-pils and 51398 female pupils making a total of 106066 There arc 7G1G male teachers and G01I female teachers on a total of 119098 connected with Sunday school work In the various cakes of Zion The amount collected during the year Including nickel donations was ICC15G1 and there was disbursed 1G 01501 There Is now In the treasury 37002S A call of the stakes showed that there was a very general tendance only those far remote being unrepresented President George < Q Cannon congratulated congrat-ulated the members on the excellent at tendance saying that much of tho fu Lure hope of tho church lay in the proper conduct of the Sundayschools The old olHcers of the union were then presented and sustained A pretty feature of the evening was the appearance on the stand of the kin I dergarten class of the Eleventh ward It consisted of ten little tots under the leadership of Miss Louie Felt and they rendered a selection In a very sweet manner Assistant Superintendent Karl G Maessr spoke of the use of the hymn book in the SUl1dn school and regret I led that the children had not been taOght to carry it regularly Parents should encourage their children in the I use of the hymn book and it might be profitably used at home Apostle Grant said he was a firm be liever in the use of music In the wor ship of God He regretted lhal he had not In his youth taken pains to cul llvate his voIce as he should have done but he was endeavoring to make up for It now He had been deterred from making the attempt at vocal mu r sic because a phrenologist had told him that he would never make a success at It Another man had told him that he believed that he would be able to sing some time during his life if he tried quite hard but that when he made thc attempt he would like to be about forty miles away He had been practicing very often of late his sole desire being to get his voice In such a condition that he would be able to warble some of lhcl hymns that he loved so much among I them being Oh My Father which was written by Eliza R Snow a wo man he loved almost I as much ns his mother HI had practiced of late In tho Templeton building and as luck I would have It ho was next toa dentists den-tists ofllce and one of his friends had afterward told him that he was unable to tell whether he was having 1 a tooth pulled or was running up and down the scale But he had made up his mind that he was going to learn to sing that hymn If It took him years to accomplish ac-complish the feat and no matter whcro he went he kept at It He had sung at It I several hundred times and he had also taken lessons I on the fnorte hymn of the late George Goddard Whos on the Lords Side Who Mr Grant be lieved that he had made greater progress pro-gress with Oh My Fallxr however and In order to show that he had made some Improvement during his struggles he said he would sing It to the audience This he did bul got sadly off the key toward the end of the third erse notwithstanding not-withstanding the fact that Horace Ensign En-sign was acting as accompanist The apostle then stopped tuned up and fin ished the hymn In a fairly good style but the audience was Inclined I to poo the humorous side of the situation and were not at all slow in showing that fact Mr Grant admitted that he had been helped out by Mr Ensign or he probably never would have been able to finish the hymn There are those he said who may say thin Brother Grant Is acting very foolishly but t want lo say to you all that I am simply trying to make up a portion of ihe Ihir i lylhree years pleasure 1 have lost because be-cause 1 did not learn to sing when f was young Young people should be encouraged 10 ping nol discouraged as is loo often the case The song of the heart Is ihe prayer I to the Lord Thomas C Grlggs spoko of time value of the Sundayschool as nn adjunct lo church work and said the board had intel had under consideration thc ad visabiliiy of establishing bianch Sun dayschools not only In districts whore the attendance was too greal for the room at hand In the one building but also In the country towns where the youth were widely separaicd Many he believed stayed away from Sunday school because of the distance that must be traversed Miss Judith Anderson saner Suffer Llllle Children J W Summerhays called attentIon to time fact that there was a general conference of the Sundayschools of Vtah held In November 1S1S and he believed that much good had resulted therefrom It was his Idea that another anoth-er general conference should be held this fall He called for a vote on the proposition to hold another general conference and then was not a dH senllng voice A short address was also made by ToKCph M Cannon who slated that the Deseret SundavSchool union was the largest organization of Us kind In the world Its orogress had been very rapid In the past and he believed that It would continue to prosper |