Show Wl iff asas M s s Ms 4 4 I 1 MIE RNO HERE I 1 M ahi ME S V vt M the attendance at the regular terly conference of the salt I 1 ake stake held saturday batur day at the assembly hall was small and was a subject of corn com ment by several of the speakers throughout tl e day in his remarks at the afternoon meeting president angus M cannon intimated that the idea is being discussed of doing away with the batu iday meet aud and con fining the quarterly conference to sun days after the open ng exert ses in the morning reports of kindergarten work given by I 1 res dent cannon in the absence of mr 1 oung of the pe re society by mrs anna T hyde ind and of the primary assoc alion by mrs Ca camilla millaC cobb showed favorable con editions in all these birinci es of latter day work thomas C griggs super of funnay schools said a new plan was under consideration by the officers that of establishing cot tage sunday schools or sunday schools in the homes of those unable to attena the regular sunday ces dent cannon approved the idea and thought there were hundreds of re turned missionaries who would be glad to assist in the work elder kirkwood a clerk in the ing office said that bait salt lake stake had been doing remarkably well in the paying 1 Y ing of tithes and offerings and the church was expend ng large sums for the relief of the needy poor many names he said had bad been added to the I 1 st at of tithe payers during the past year and in some maids the number had been increased four fold bishop preston i aged upon his hear bear ere ers the importance of attending meet ills ins and the fertl er importance of being there on t me he ile too dwelt upon the subject of ng and said that while the amount of tithing col 01 lecter this year may not be so large as that collected last year g ving as a reason that last year large sums of back tithing were paid and a further reason that tl ti e crops this year are not nearly so bounteous as last still he had never known a time in the history of his connect on with the work when tithes had bad been pa d so promptly and eo so freely he stated further that he had bad never known a so good a market for the products of the farmers paid in tithes that all the produce brought in was read ly turned into cash elder aspen told of tl e harmon barmon ous relations existing in the h gh priests quorum and elder 11 II ackley of the work of the L U D S 8 college joseph E taylor also spoke of the college and aid said that of the money donated to build a new home for tl ti e school was given by a non member of the chuich mis miss jennie 1 sm sin th tb gave a report of the work of the Y L M I 1 A show ing ng steady brogi progress pro giess ess in the thirty or more assoc allons in the stake elder john T came calde also addressed the gathering urging all the brethren to be faithful in the discharge of their duties apostle heber J grant was the first speaker at the afternoon session he ile expressed the belief that holding a conference on saturday was a bad plan as evidenced by the light attendance it was a bad plan he said until the saints get an adget te for meetings on that day he spot e of receiving a letter from a man in I 1 ondon who sa d that the latter day ba hu ants vere the only people he had bad ever seen who lived up to their on the speaker also insisted the saints should live up to the pi inci ples of their I 1 ie ea gion so as to be an example to others angus M cannon the pres dent of the stake take at sunday afternoon afternoons s session eaid said that drunkenness drunken nees and brosti aution were introduced into this corn and encouraged by the non Alor mormons mons who followed the latter day saints across the mountains saloons and prostitutes were not known when our people came here he said but when tl ose w who ho drove us from our homes in the east came among us they I 1 censed the saloons and en cou raged vice until now there is not a family in the community that has not ome some member or acqua nuance inhabit ing these dens of infamy he said that his people must submit to have these evils in their midst that they are commanded not to pull up the tares but pray for power to make Z on or an asylum into which these influences cannot enter mr cannon spoke of the attempt to make utah a prohibit on state at the time statehood was obtained as a trick hatched by a pack of h red clergy to deprive the people of utah of their civil and religious liberty |