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Show 5 www ww wwww wv I TEMPLE AND TABERNACLE, i iwwwvwvwvwwvwwS The financial statement of the condition con-dition of the Y. M. M. I. A. and Y. L. M. I. A, submittad by Treasurer Hull, shows that there is a balance in the treasury of SI, 976. 93. There was one sentiment uppermost in the minds of the participants of the Brigham Young- birthday celebration and all those interested that the 100th anniversary, to be held two years hence, would be a great day in the history his-tory of Utah. The large flag made especially for use during the Jubilee was hung on the south side of the Salt Lake Temple on the occasion of Brigham Young's birthday birth-day anniversary, and it covered a goodly good-ly portion of that great edifice. It was badly torn, however, by the storm. Mrs. E. G. D. Roundy danced the Sir Roger de Coverley in a famous old gown on the occasion o Brigham Y'oung's birthday anniversary exercises at Salt-air. Salt-air. She used it many years ago at a notable dance at which President Young was prseent, and she also wore it at a reception given in honor of President Pres-ident Abraham Lincoln at Washington. The fourth general conference of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Mu-tual Improvement associations of the Latter-day Saints met in the Tabernacle Taberna-cle Sunday morning, May 28. Thero were also sessions during the after" noon and evening. A large number of people were present at each of the meetings and a great deal of interest was manifested in the proceedings. The annual reports of the two associations associa-tions were read by Secretary Thomas Hull. The reports showed that there are 29,049 members of the Young Men's association and about 19,000 members of the Young Ladies' association. During Dur-ing the past year 570 missionaries have been sent out from the church, making mak-ing a total of 1,234 missionaries now in various fields of labor. The officers and members of the various committees commit-tees of the associations were then sustained sus-tained .by the congregation. At a business meeting of the Y. M. M. I. A. and Y. L. M. I. A. held in Salt Lake City May 29, the principal feature, outside of the business routine, was the appearance of President Lorenzo Lo-renzo Snow, who instructed the younger members on their duties toward to-ward the church, but laid special stress upon the necessity for the prompt and honest payment of tithing. No organization organ-ization can hope to exist and prosper without temporal and spiritual aid of Its members. It matters not whether the association be religious or secular money must be had to to meet the expenses necessary for the carrying on of the same. President Snow deplored the laxity manifested by thousands of the members of the church in the payment pay-ment of tithing, and urged that in the future payments should be made promptly. There were those, too, who while their names appeared on the tithing roll, were not living up to the law of the church; they were paying tithing, yes, but not as much as they should do, and the fact that they had made false returns was equally as bad as though they had evaded the obligation obliga-tion altogether. President Snow concluded con-cluded bysayingOthat had the Saints been loyal to the church in the last three years there would have been $5, 000,000 more in the treasury than there is at the present time, and the issue of bonds and other expedients looking to the temporal welfare of the church would have been unnecessary. This fact, he thought, should be borne in mind by everybody who had the welfare of the church at heart. At the banquet given on Tuesday evening, May 30, by the general boards of Mutual Improvement to the stake officers and visitors, which was held in the Sixteenth ward meeting house, Salt Lake City, plates were laid for 450 and there were no empty seats. The banquet ban-quet ended the Mutual Improvement conference, and is an annual affair for May 30. Each year a larger hall had to be secured for the banquet, owing to the increased attendance, and some of the promoters discussed the place foi holding the next year's banquet, which will be more elaborate aod largely atteuded than any of its predecessors, pre-decessors, judging from the ratio of past increases. June 1 was the 98th anniversary of the birth of Brigham Young. The Stars and Stripes floated from the Salt Lake Temple, Lion house, lieehive house, historian's office and other church buildings, and the statue of Brigham Young at the intersection of Main and South Temple streets, was surmounted by palms and ferns, and a band in front of the church offices played popular and patriotic airs. A battery of the Veteran Artillery association asso-ciation made mountain and valley ring with a salute of forty guns. Special excursions to Saltair were ruD on the day of Brigham Young's birthday celebration, on which occasion occa-sion there where addresses delivered and other interesting features. On the stand were Governor Wells, President Snow, Senator Rawlins, ex-Chief Justice Jus-tice Kinney, Chief Justice Bartch, Colonel J. R. Winder, Apostles Brigham Brig-ham Young, Merrill, Lyman, Lund and Clawson, Angus M. Cannon, Royal B. Young, Xelse Empey and the Temple choir. |