| Show ARE NO PLURAL MARRIAGES president smith assures saints that plural marriages in church have ceased and that no man has authority to perform them salt ln lake ke city declaring that plural marriages have ceased in ili tile the mormon church and that no man has authority to perform them and inviting the lie national congress to bri bring g about a constitutional amendment gi giving V the government the right to h handle handie na plural marriages president joseph seph 10 smith delivered tho the principal address of tile tho eighty first annual conference of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints at the opening g session of tho the conference at 10 thursday day morn log april 6 5 in tho the tabernacle er according to officials of tho church the address of the president was the most important made by any high officer of the church since the manifesto was issued by president wilford woodruff in ili october 1890 among other things president smith declared the church to bo be in good financial condition that tile the birth rate among the members of tho the church is the highest in the world that the death rate is the lowest that tho the rate of divorce is approximately only one fifth the size proportionately of the rest of the country and that plural marriages have absolutely ceased in tho the mormon church in connection with this last president smith declared that there la is not a man in tho the church ano Is authorized to perform or solemnize a plural marriage man lage and that efforts are being anade to alna the persons who aro are leading tile the people astray in the matter and that when they aro found they will be dealt with as others have been in the past president smith announced during tho the course of his address that in 1910 the church had spent in missions for church schools and for charity baptisms in stakes and ana missions in 1910 were in the temples during 1910 1360 couples were nvere married 1100 couples of church people wore married civilly in the church there Is one divorce to members the average rate in the united states Is ono one in 1100 dent anthon 11 lund urged the people to stamp ane liquor evil and not to uso use tobacco lie ile was ivas glad the legislature had bad given the people a chance to vote on tho liquor question and declared that in all communities where the cormons mormons are in the majority prohibition snobia should be enacted there was a large attendance at tho opening session the greater portion of tile tho church officials being present apostle rudger clawson Is in europe reed amoo samoa t Is in washington in at on the united states senate while john henry smith second counselor was unable to attend owing to sickness francis at lyman president of the quorum of twelve apostles apostle heber J grant giant and apostle hyrum al smith addressed conference at the afternoon session defense of oc the church against the vicious attacks being published in various magazines were the themes of the speeches by president lyman and apostle grant while apostle hyrum it smith eulogized the character of 0 president joseph F smith as a modal for all men t to 0 follow apostle C W penrose the principal speaker at the morning session 0 the conference on friday deplored the fact that so many Alor cormons mormons mons aro are married man led outside the temple urged young people to adopt the mormon stormon ceremony which is for this life and all eternity and dented denied that christ ever said there was no marriage in heaven he decried divorce but maintained that the savior had never said that a woman should live with a man who abused her declaring that the power that can seal can unseal other speakers at tho the morning session were C A callas president of the southern states mission who praised the authorities of tho the church and apostle georgo george F richards afternoon session of tho the conference wore apostle orson F whitney bishop 0 W nibley and brigham H roberts one of the presidents of the seventies that mormonism is the of a prophecy made by isaiah y yeara ears before the birth of 0 christ of the coming forth of a marvelous work that tho the mission of the mormon church Is to reclaim the rapt rapidly adly dissipate ng spiritual world that it and religion disagree it Is because science has not yet discovered enough and that strength will come from god to conquer the world under the mormon banner were the features of the addresses delivered apostle whitner whitney explained wherein the saints believe their faith la Is the realization of isaials Isaia hs prophecy bishop nibley declared that religion was the only great work or science which has not progressed during the last ton years and that the mission of mormonism Is to restore truo true chrls chris danity in tho abo world and elder roberts maintained that tho the truth and necessity of atonement aro are shown more clearly in tho the dook of mornion mormon than in tho the now testament und and that thai through the principles of 0 jesus christ the mormon cause will triumph david 11 cannon of st georgo george offered tie opening prayer in which he bo beseeched beseeches ched to trus frus and bring to naught every effort that Is being made to thwart thy work and that those who are making tho the attacks against tho the mornion mormon church may fall in ili every endeavor lit in order that conference visitors might visit friends in tho the city seo see tho the aviation meet and attend various reunions nu no session ot tho the eighty first annual conference waa was held on saturday defense of mormonism the attacks which aro are being mado against tho the church und and its leaders formed the basis for three addresses delivered by apostle anthony IV ivins joseph jose ph V ln first counselor of the seventy and apostle joseph P smith jr at the closing session of the eighty ali first st annual conference of the church of jesus christ of oi latter day saints at tho the tabernacle aclo sunday afternoon ter noon at the conclusion of the meeting all of ther present general officers of the church were sustained for another year a report of tho the financial condition of tho church was read and unanimously adopted reply was made to the amal a antt stormon appearing in various prominent magazines and a short farewell speech was delivered i by president joseph F smith at AA the annual reunion of the sun day schools of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints at the tabernacle sunday night the articles ol of faith of the church were vero recited in fourteen fousteen fou iteen languages each of the thirteen articles being given in a separate foreign tongue at the end of which the entire thirteen were recited in english by tho the largo large congregation which filled the tabernacle to its ca paci ity A report deport was mado made showing a material increase in the number of pupils and teachers in the church sunday schools Add addresses remes were delivered by president joseph P smith and by apostle heber J grant special music was vs rendered by the tab organist professor J J me lc clellan and by tho alpine boys chorus of all alpine allvine vine stake northern utah county according to the secre repot report t the increase in ili number of sunday school students since the federal census in 1900 up to tho the time of tho the last official counting in 1910 was wag for ty two per cent or nine per cent greater than the In terease in population the report showed that there are now children in the sunday and parents tho the average attendance is sixty pw pel cent ortho entire membership tho the general geni cral officers of the church sustained by unanimous vote at the sunday session of the acho conference derence cor were first presidency joseph F smith prophet beci and revelator and president A 11 II lund first conn counselor john henry smith second counselor quorum of ct the Ti twelve relve apostles F al lyman 11 J grant rudger clawson reed smoot H al smith 0 A smith 0 W penrose G F p richards D 0 ItIc mckay Kay 0 F p NV whitney hit A W ivins joseph F smith jr john smith presiding patriarch first presidents dents of the seventies S B young B 11 roberts J G kemball R S wells J IV mcmurrin 0 11 hart and levi E young presiding bishopric C IV nibley presiding 0 P miller first counselor david A smith second counselor A H lund church biStO historian TIan and general church recorder andrew jepson jenson B D 11 roberts A william lund and F J smith jr assIs assistant tt h historians H 11 cummings general super superintendent lu of church sc schools hooft general church board of education tion joseph F smith willard young A ll II lund 0 H kimball rudger claw son eon C W penrose Pen roso H 0 F whitney francis 11 lynian lyman and A anthur winter secretary and treasurer joseph F smith bruste D af Al cAllister clerk of general genera conference the reunion of members of the samoan missionary society was marked saturday night by tho the attendance of joseph dean who la is termed the father of that mission having r rit established it in 1888 old acquaintances were renewed by tile the sons and daughters of norway and sweden thursday evening in barratt hall the occasion being the reunion of the scandinavian missionary society the officers chosen tor for the ensuing term by acclamation are president C af nielson NI olsen vice presidents 11 J christensen enoch jor gensch ole gulbrandsen joseph F peterson secretary christian johansen cashier 11 1 1 P nielsen Nl elsen |
