Show ARENO ARE NO PLURAL MARRIAGES president smith assures saints that plural marriages in church have ceased and that no man has authority to perform them V salt lake city declaring that plural marriages have ceased in tile tho mormon church and that no man has authority to perform them anda inviting the national cou congress gress to bring about a constitutional amendment giving the government tho the right to handle bandle plural marriages Pros president ident joseph P smith delivered the principal address of the eighty first annual conference of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints nt at the opening session ot of the conference at 10 thursday morning april aarli 5 in the tab or nacle according to officials of the church th the e address of the president was the tha most important made by any high officer of the chui chuich ch since the mant manifesto was waa issued by president wilford woodruff in october 1890 among other things president smith declared the church to be in good financial condition that tho the birth rate among the members of the church Is the highest in the world that the death rate Is the lowest that the rate of divorce la is approximately only one nath the size proportionately ot of the rest of the country and that plural marriages have absolutely ceased in the mormon church in connection with this last president smith declared that th there ere Is not a man in the church wao Is authorized to perform or solemnize a plural marriage and that efforts are being made to find the persons who are arc leading the people astray in the matter and that when they are ara found they will be dealt with as others other have shave been in the past president smith announced during the course of his address that in 1910 ahe church had spent in missions tor for church schools and for charity baptisms in stakes and missions in 1910 were 15 ida m inthe in the temples during 1910 1360 couples were married 1100 1100 couples f church people were married civilly in the church there is one divorce to members the average rate in ole jha united states Is IB one lu in 1100 dant anthon 11 lund urged the people to stamp eat tile the liquor evil lad and not to use tobacco ile he was glad the legislature had given the people i chance to vote on the liquor question and declared that tn in all comma luhcs where the cormons mormons Mior mons are in the majority prohibition should be enacted large attendance at the opening session the greater portion ot of the church officials being present apostle rudger clawson Is in europe need heed smoot la is in washington in attendance od on the united states senate while john henry smith second counselor was unable to attend owing to ilc lickness kneas francis al lyman president preg ident 0 of the quorum of twelve apostles apostle heber J grant and apostle hyrum M N smith addressed conference at the afternoon session defense of the church against the vicious attacks being published la in various magazines were the themes of the speeches by president lyman and apostle grant while apostle hyrum at smith eulogized the character of president juseph joseph F smith as aa a model tor for all men to follow apostle C W penrose the principal speaker at the morning session of 0 f the conference on friday deplored the tact fact that so many mormons cormons are married outside the temple urged young people to adopt the mormon lormon A ceremony which is tor for this life aud all eternity and denied that christ ever said there was no marriage in heaven ile he decried divorce but maintained that the savior had bad never said that a woman should live with a man who abused her declaring that the be power that can seal can unseal other speakers at the morning session were C A callis president ot of the southern states mission who praised the authorities ot of the church and apostle george F richards the speakers at the friday afternoon session of the conference were apostle orson F whitney bishop C W and brigham 11 roberts one ot of the presidents of the seventies that mormonism to is the of a prophecy made by isaiah years before the birth of christ ot of the coming forth of a marvelous work that the mission or of the mormon church la is to reclaim tho rapidly dissipating spiritual world that it science and religion disagree tt Is because science has not yet ait discovered enough and that that will come from god to conquer the world under tile the mormon banner were the features of the addresses delivered apostle explained wherein tb the saints believe their faith is the realization of isaials Isaia Isa lahs hs prophecy bishop nibley declared that religion was aa tho the only great work or science 1 which has baa not progressed during the last ten years and that the mission of mormonism la Is to restore true chris la in the world and elder roberts maintained that the truth and necessity ot of atonement are shown more clearly lit in the book of mormon than in the new testament and that through the principles ot of jesus christ the mormon cause will triumph david 11 cannon of st george gedrge offered the opening prayer in which h he beseeches beseeched ched providence to frustrate and bring to naught every effort that la Is being made to thwart thy work and that those who are making the attacks against tho the mormon church may fall in every endeavor in order that conference visitors might visit friends in tile the city see the aviation meet and attend various reunions nu no session ot of the eighty farst annual conference was heli on saturday defense of mormonism Mormont sm the attacks which arg are being made against the church kind and its leaders formed tile the basis for three addresses delivered by apostle anthony W ivins joseph W V ln first counselor of the sey seventy enty and apostle joseph F smith jr at the closing session of tho th o first annual confert tice of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints at tile the tabernacle aclo sunday afternoon ter noon at the conclusion of the meeting all of the present general officers ol of tle the church were sustained for another year a report of the financial condl kioa of tho the church was read and unanimously adopted reply was made the anti mormon appearing in various prominent maga magazines tines and a short farewell speech was delivered by president joseph F smith at the annual reunion of the sunday schools of tho the church of jesus christ of latter day saints at the tabernacle sunday night the articles ot of faith of the church were recited in fourteen languages each of the thir teen artl articles clias being given in a separate foreign tongue at the tha end ot of which the entire thirteen were recited in english by tho the large congregation which filled the tabernacle to it its capacity Y A report was made showing a mat material eTtal increase in the num number her ot of pupils and teachers la in the church sunday schools addresses were delivered by president joseph F smith and by apostle heber J grant special music was waa rendered by the tabernacle organist professor J J me ate clellon clellan and by tho the alpine doys boys chorus of alpine stake northern utah county according to ith the secre report the increase in number of sunday students since the federal census in 1900 up to the time ot of the last official counting in 1910 wag for ty two per par cent or nine per cent greater than tho the increase facret in population thep report showed that there are now how children in the sunday schools and 2948 parents the average attendance is sixty per cent of the entire membership tho general officers of the church sustained by unanimous vote at the sunday session ot of the conference were first presidency joseph F smith prophet seer and revelator and president A 11 lund first counselor john henry smith second counselor quorum of ct the twelve apostles F M lyman ff J grant rudger clawson reed smoot IL M smith G A smith C W penrose G r V richards D 0 mckay 0 P F whitney A W ivins joseph F smith jr john smith presiding patriarch patr larch first presidents Preside of the seventies S D B young 13 it H roberts J ji G kimball kemball R 8 wells J W mcmurrin C 11 II hart and levi B E young presiding bishopric bishoprick C W nibley presiding ding 0 P miller first counselor david A smith second counselor A 11 lund church historian and general church recorder andrew jen son bon 13 H robeila Ro RG beita betts A william lund and F J smith jr assistant historians 11 if cummings general superintendent of church schools general church board of education josa joseph ph F smith willard young A el 11 lund luid 0 11 II kimball rudger hudger claw zon on C W penrose Pen roso 11 II 11 cummings 0 F V whitney frauds francis M lyman and arthur winter secretary and treasurer joseph F smith trustee ln in trust D AT ai mcallister clerk of 0 general conference the reunion of members of the samoan missionary society was marked saturday night by the attendance of joseph dean who la is termed the father 0 of that mission having rl r established it la in 1888 1898 old acquaintances were renewed by the sons and daughters of norway and sweden thursday evening in barratt hall ball the occasion being the reunion of the scandinavian missionary society the officers chosen for the on ensuing suing term by y ar arp P resident C at nielsen vica prest dents denta 11 J enoch jor gensen ole gulbrandsen Gulbran Gulbra daen joseph V peterson secretary christian johansen cashier 11 IL P nielsen fur the purpose of perfecting or surviving members of 0 the utah volunteers ot of the elvi civil war under command of lot smith met in salt anke L ko saturday afternoon bu but after discussing the matter for aa a lour decided f V ike no definite action for the pres eill eliere are only about twenty bf the ori original giral company the semi annoual reunion of the northern states mission friday evening of a ij and literary ara followed ly by finx inland and refreshments |