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Show I BIG CONFERENCE HELD' Quarterly Meeting of Salt Lake Stake. BROKE RECORD FOR SIZE Betplto tho Division of the County, Yesterday's Stake Conference Was Lotgeat Ever Held In Salt Lake Ilaporta Head Showed Total Mem-berahlp Mem-berahlp of Stake to Be 23,830-Apoetle 23,830-Apoetle Lund Spoko on Hearing of Children nnd President Angus II Cannon on Itooeona foi Apoetncy. (Mnndii, Iall ) The quaiterly eonfenme of the Rait tiake Stake of Xlon waa held In the city yesterday. There were three aesaluna during the dav the morning session being be-ing hold In Assembly hall and the afternoon af-ternoon and evening aesalona In the tnbetnarle President Annua M tan-con tan-con or thn Make prealded nt all throe aesalona, ant) inuale waa furnished b a 1 oHblnatlon of the tubernai le .1 d lompH iholra. under the direction of I'rfii 0 J OfuMnaa Herbert tlllea was orftalilat, In the abeem e ot I'rof. Mi - IcIleWl Al tin morning aeasln, lematka wte mudi by Illdera T C L'luwann nnd (' " i'tnroae but the pilnclpiil addieaa ns dollveieel bv Apostle Anthon II I.1111 1 Apoatli titnil doalt largi ly with the tearing or 1 hlldreu and their piopu management, and utgeil patents to deal with tin Ir waward ihlldieu with espe.lal klndncsa He also ells-itiaaed ells-itiaaed edtnatlnn ul aom length, and declared that the assert Ion often made to the effect that the Mntmoti people were not In favoi of edtnatlon vvaa untrue un-true In the aiinie eonnei lion lie te-Mewel te-Mewel the tondlllona In eailv d tys and commented upon the educational disadvantages under which the people then labored Following the nddresa came rrpoits from the presidents or the varlnua so-ilellea so-ilellea or the church Including the re-Ikr re-Ikr Society feundaj aihoola V 51 .11 I A nnd V t. M I A The tepott showed that all or the societies were In II flourishing condition At the afternoon session In the tabernacle tab-ernacle there wan a very huge attendance atten-dance nnd In ml lltlon to sustaining the authorities of the 1 hutch an I stake rider 1" W Penrose lead some Intereatlng slatlstl a relative to the condition of the church In the stake Iollowlng are the mist Important llg- Illslinp Wllllnm II Preston wna tho Hist speaker nt the afternoon session, nml aald he vvaa pleased nt tho unanimity unan-imity with the people had sustained the authorities of the chinch nnd waul Tho prim I ml speaker or the afternoon after-noon wna Piesldent Joseph I hmlth who rend from a revelation to the Prophet Joseph tmlth In 1813 In which It was deel ited that those who forsake alii and follow fin 1st shall aee his faco nnd know that he Uvea In conclusion con-clusion Piesldent Hmlth declared thnt he knew that the Savior lived, Just ns well as he knew that he was Mnndlnr heroic tin people who were listening to his wnrda liernre recess vvaa taken, President Angus M faniinn nnnounted that to ell would be the hOth unnlv eis.irj of Iho founding of the Woman a Itellef society or the church and lint ihe Preeldent Maty Isabella Iforne desire I that the ociaslon be lelehtnled b all or tho blanch organisations The after-noon after-noon aei v hea close 1 b the Temple choir singing the anthem "Jesus 1 ly fiosa Have 'taken with benediction by Illder Hevmour II Veiling Iho evening aeaalon opened with the singing of 'Oh 8u What la Truth li the c hnlr nnd congregation nnd I I-der I-der John T c-nlno olTered piaer The choir aang High on the Mountain Top and l.lder e)niour II. Young ad-d ad-d 1 eased the tonfcreiiie The net speaker wna htnkn Vital-dent Vital-dent Angus SI Cannon, who discussed the reason for apostas) at hhiio length and told or hs visit In 1S, to David Wllmni one or the three witnesses who after seeing the angel of Ood nnd benrlng tistlmon to th" nuthentlcitv of the lion of .Mormon apostatised President t anncin aald that after Mr Winner had borue lestlinnnv to him, he ate hla breakfast and lighted a el-gat el-gat after which he aald siiceriuglj t iut liellevo In the vvotd of wisdom don't )ou 801110 attention was alao given to the Importance or pi)lug tllh-Ing tllh-Ing nnd "f arceptlng vvithmtt question the lev elation of the prophets of the church The conference cloaed with the singing sing-ing of Captain or Israel a (lulde' b the choir with benediction b) President Presi-dent I.und The attendance vvaa the largest nt an) attikc coiireienee ever held In this clt) notwithstanding the fact that the entile count) foimerlv comptlaed tlr atnke whereas It Is now divided Into three atnkes and vesterda) a confer-eiue confer-eiue was only one or the three |