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Show Conference. Quarterly Conference of tlie San Pete-Stake Pete-Stake of Zion held in Kiiluaini Saturday ami Sunday last 11&15. j Py out Special Reporter. SATURDAY, 14. Conference convened atEphraim Feb. 15th, 1891. Present on the stand were George Q. Cannon, Apostles Lyman, and Lund.Prest. Canute Peterson, Henry Beal and J. B. Maiben, besides Bishops, Seventies, Hiyh Councilors etc. Congregation called to order by Prest. Peterson. Choir sang "O, My Father, Thou that Dwcllest." Opening Prayer by John B. Mai-ben. Mai-ben. Singing by the Tabernacle choir. "What was witnessed in thelleavei.s PRKST. PETERSON addressed the assembled Saints. Was pleased with the attendance, but hoped and expected that the house would be crowded to its fullest capacity. Realized that the inclement weather mijdii interfere inter-fere somewhat with the number of visitors visit-ors from abroad, but there were enough nf thp. residents of Eobraini to fill the of the residents of Ephraim to fill the :lioue, almost. The condition of the Slake in general, was good. In this place there has been some sickness and a few children have succumbed to the scourge, scour-ge, Diptheria. Not a great many.but still one is too many. The Latter-day Saints have come, however, in part to that understanding, un-derstanding, that when we have fasted and prayed, and then death takes our dear ones, that they die unto the Lord. That there are some not born to reach the a-;e Daniel spoke of, that of three score and ten. Most ol us niav. President Presi-dent Woodruff, is now S4 years old. Said we were ob!i;ed to believe when we had done all that was required of tu, in faith, and our children weie taken, that they were of that choice fruit which God haddecbredhe would gather home to himself. That he was gathering them both old and young. It shouid be much comfort to know that our chilciien were of these choice spirits. There was not so much diptheiia here s at some of our other tow ns, where public meetings had been suspended.and schools closed. At present they all seemed in a fair way to get rid ot it. There had been some other milder forms ofillnes, such as scarlatina, etc., but there were nodeaths resulline, and since the weather became seasonably cold, these had disaopeared. Said the spiiitual siand iu of the people before the Lord he believed was good. There were very few who would not do all that was tequired of them. Meetings Meet-ings were held regulail), the Stake was fully organized. There are occasionally temporary vacancies, caused by removal, remov-al, etc., that ate filled sso.n as possible. possi-ble. U'e have selected ward missionaries mission-aries in each town to go to si me other place and go.ftom house to house and talk to the people as the teacheis d.i. Lielieved it would result in much od Had already received one very - high testimonial. These utissionares are supposed sup-posed to report to the Bishops ol the towns to which thev go, and labor under the:r directions. Said nearly all that the:r directions. Said nearly all that had been appointed had started on their work. Admonished them not to be in a hurry when paying these visits, even if there was not a great deal ol cordiality d. splayed by those whom they visited, but remain and talk good talk to them, and there would be a response from their listeners before they parted Not to expect to do all at once. It would take one call to get acquainted, the second sec-ond time they could more neaily approach ap-proach them. Said he realized that we should be as united in temporal things as in sp'riiual things. But the attempt that had been made to build a school house in the north ward looked fke there were sonis who were willing to let others do most of the work. Financially, he said: last year there was a good crop, two yeirs ago it was light and three years ago we had a poor crop aud a very dry season, that did much damage to the hrge area of swamp land that had been winter pasturage for our stock. The drought of that time had killed oui the grass, rushes, cane. elc. That the money had been picked out of the community. com-munity. Stores were so good in credit ing, that the people reallv strained their credit sometimes. The railroad had not benefitted the people generally, only a lew coniraciors, and not (hem a great deal. There was not much surplus sur-plus grain left in our midst, but the price was low. Ytt the pejple were not in distressed circumstances. The lew who needed hdp were taken care of by the Bishops and Relief Societies. S rid that if he hud his choice he would rather not say anything about pot itics lor what he had to say would not sound good. That manv of the brethren, breth-ren, when it came to politics weie stiff l.-.l ..,.I.V,.,.,. -.l ,.llh,,l Tl,.., lieCIVCtl, IkUUUUlU B11U nil, aw., 1 could join at prayer, and in the sacrament sacra-ment of the Lord's supper, even come together in a prayer circle, but split at the polls. They tell us that church aud state are now separated, but said he would tell them t hat the church had never interfered or atempted ta coerce voters There were very few difficulties among the people, either before the Bishop or courts. In most things they were a good God fearing people. Spoke of the lelig-ious- classes in all the wards. Did not wish to interfere in any way with the district dis-trict schools, they are good schools with good teachers.and. redoing a good wor;. Made mention of the lact tint ihe people ol Sanpete were good i.. tend conference. Told (hose presyntto take home the visiiois aad make tiiem comfortable, APOSTLE LYMAN. Said it was remarkable that with all the meetings we had, it was necessary ne-cessary to go over the same ground again,' and again re-seeding the ground as it were. More of this sermon anon. APOSTLE LUND. Spoke among other things of the oganization of Religious Classes, and the babtisms in the Temple. A more extended synopsis to fol low. |