Show V I URGES MARRIAGE ON THE President Joseph F Smith Says Poverty Be Considered TALKS IN THE TABERNACLE CONDEMNS MEMBERS WHO MU MUTILATE MUI ENDOWMENT ENT ROBES The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints believes In honorable marriage for man and woman This was the keynote of a vigorous 1 ad address address dress delivered at the Tabernacle yester yesterday yesterday day afternoon by President Joseph F FSmith FSmith Smith The occasion was the conference of the tho Young Mens and Young Ladies Mutual Improvement as associations Pres President President ident Smith was the principal speaker He e referred bri fly to the excellent quality ity of the music which had been rendered by the choir avd soloists and said that In his jUdgment song is one of the most ac acceptable acceptable services to the Lord President Smith also referred to the pE pecullar cullar ability of some men to search the thern scriptures and reveal their innermost truths He said this was a high gift and said he was never jealous of a man who ho enjo enjoyed ed its posses possession ton He also corn com I the work of the Mutual Im Improvement Improvement provement associations among the young Talks on Marriage Plunging into the subject of marriage PrEsidEnt Smith denounced the failure of men to enter the marria marriage e relation because of poverty Overt Many young men he said thought they should not mar marry until they were able to furnish their wives a to that of their rich neigh neighbor tar bor or at least as good as that of their parents This he declared was a mistaken idea He declared that the young people should enter early into thE estate of matrimony that thE wife should be willing to share her husbands burdens and that both bothI I should labor together to amass a compe He emphasized the fact that a ayoung young woman entering Into marriage I should be willing to bear her share of the labors and responsibilities of life He HeI I closed this portion of his talk with the sentence already quoted I Th The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter da day Saints believes In honorable marriage for man and woman Mutilate Garments In another portion of his Pres President President ident Smith condemned those members of the church who mutilate their endowment garments by removing the symbolical marks Tho Those e persons he said are those who have taken vows to God Godin GodIn in the presence of the angels of heaven as witnesses and to remove the marks In order to be in the swim he declared was wrong In the highest degree President Smith also spoke on the duty duh of parents to teach religion to their chil children children dren This Instruction he said should virtually virtual begin in the cradle He de denounced denounced the method of teaching a child no religion until he should reach an age where he could choose a religious belief for himself Children of Saints he declared should come to man hoods estate thoroughly imbued with a belief in the divinity of thee the religion of their parents Talks by Others Clara Woodruff Beebe was the first speaker of the afternoon She touched on the work of the primary associations EmIly C Adams spoke on the work of the Young Ladles Ladies Mutual Improvement asso associations Horace S Ensign sang the solo The Lords Prayer and the choir ren rendered rendered dered several anthems antheme After the after afternoon afternoon noon sen service ice Organist J J 3 McClellan gave a special recItal for visitors B H Roberts Speaks The conference was brought to an end b by an evening session held at the Taber Tabernacle Tabernacle nacle The feature or of the evenIng evenin was a talk by Brigham H Roberts He said that there was lack Jack of spiritual enthusiasm He urged that all exemplify the beautiful life of Christ and said that our destiny Is in our own hands There were two other addresses during durin the session The first was a talk on the primary association by Belle S Ross She said that the teachers should follow out more perfectly the instructions that were given out from headquarters The second talk was g given en by Augusta W Grant on the conf conference rence She remarked that the present conference had been the most successful one that Was ever held and that there was more harmony and friendship shown than ever before The opening prayer was offered b by M ML L Morris At the opening the Tabernacle choir sang Rouse Yf Ye Mortals and at atthe atthe the close they sang America A choir of the ladles of the Mutual Improvement association led by Miss Eva M 11 Janes sang and a ladles trio rendered Roses and Lilies Miss Emma Lucy Gates sang 0 Ye Mountains High The solo was beautiful and well received |