| Show I 1 church lists dates in april for meetings president counselor call three day conference the one hundred hund ret and second annual conference of the L D S church will be held at salt lake city friday to sunday inclusive elusive april 8 9 and 10 announced president heber J grant and anthony W alvi idlis 13 first counselor of the first presidency this will b be ba a the second time since 1840 that april G the an niver rry sary of the founding of the church has not been included the conference the other exception was in 1919 when because of the epidemic of influenza a special conference was convened in june in 1840 IS 40 the custom of holding the regular conference was permanently inaugurated this year april 6 falls on wed and in order to include saturday and sunday a five day conference be necessary the first general g conference was held in june 1830 some two months after organization of the church and the second in september 1830 no general conference was then held for several years but meetings were held every J three months until headquarters were established at nauvoo ill in april 1833 conference was held april 6 celebrating the 3rd ard during the persecution they could not be held but a general conference convened co april 6 as 1838 18 at farr fan west ond and april 26 1839 and october 5 1839 conferences were held the following year the custom of holding the regular annual conference was permanently inaugurated augur augu rated the first meeting con e ning april 6 |
