Show r r GRANTS TS I RECOLLECTIONS Speaks eaks on o ml Misrepresentations of Mormon Church at Quarterly I 1 terly Conference I 1 i JES dES LESS EFFECTIVE NOW I ELDER WARNS SAINTS r TO KEEP CAREFUL WATCH ThE rif quarterly conference of the Ph Pi Pir r ta tahe ie e of Zion was b held Id yesterday ye ree meetings mt were h hew held W morning i e fn ng sessions in the Pioneer fc kf Ie hill hall on West Fifth South Sou Ch And nd mOOIl service at St the tabernacle tho tabernacle the Ute speakers were 1 tip If Heber J Grant and J J 1 M I II 1 editor e of ot the Deseret Evening Evenings s iv s Apostle Grant talked taked on the representation of the Mormon faith I arc drew his examples from Instances t happened in political affairs 0 Her Ider Sj dahl advised the Saints fo to foon toon 0 on the lookout as the necessity of g on constant watch was one of characteristics of or this age The hority hont of God Almighty he said saki 18 ill t never less Iesi e g revered than titan in this Who is there th lf at the present time 0 considers obedience a virtue 0 n o wants to obey Even the little dren want ant their lItell own way now no ys YI and the reason reeson for all this Is t we forget for t that we have a God Godi i wants antI the Obedience of all hu 0 ity lity We e rebel against a the author I of If our parents of the authority auth rity of laws and our God Goo This is one of f fl l characteristics of our age Joseph th oth va wa was a 3 prophet who was sent by b to tell us that the coming of a atur 0 tur wr was Wll near at hand and those i received him bear testimony to toI I fait fad If It the work done by a man manie he ie proof to the divine calling of a ai I i 1 the works of or Joseph Smith bear that he came to MS us through calling ca of God Talk by Apostle Grant commenting on the efficiency the th church schools and the that the Shinto of ofed ofed ofed ed for the education of o their fl 1 Apostle Grant said Mid tId 0 r rejoice In the fact that it Is a rare g to It I find a young joung wan n or a young 1111 in the tle church Who Is not capa 0 giving an intelligent reason for laith futh i in the religion of the Latter I 0 Saint aint or an of pies of oe It Thre r are arp ar no people I I of similar circumstances who can de tie liver as Intelligent speeches as trio th Saints and I believe that we have more speakers more men who can deliver Intelligent addresses than any people on the face of hr the earth Apostle Grant talked on rc made about the Mormon Mor ion people and speaking on this subject he said Mid In part Years ago when I had occasion to I do extensive traveling about the Unit United United I ed States I found that there was a spirit of hatred and animosity engen dered tiered In toe the hearts he of the people against the Saints Now we find a feeling which is Just the op and I find that people are in In the Saints und anti want to know more about their faith Reminiscences As Aa an example of or willful misrepresentation s I recall some years ago that I was elected without my 01 consent to be a delegate to the state Democratic Dem convention I had made up my mind to keep out of politics and alit not to aspire to t any office ollice and aid did not cart to attend the enton but as I had been elected a delegate while I was wan out of the city Ity I went The next morning a paper came forth with a startling report that Heber lIeber J 1 Grant was at the convention jumping i from one otle seat oat t to another and telling i the delegates in tile the name of the first I presidency that they must mu t vote for Brigham H Roberts and in this tills way Roberts RobertI was crammed down the throats threats of the Mormon people What are the facts Heber J 3 Grant never spoke to a single delegate at the con coo convention about Brigham H Robert x pt to James H Moyle who was It at athis t this his side and that is the grand sum and total of hs h influence Day after day the papers wrote editorials on this lying local that I flitted from seat to seat soa working for Cor Brigham H II Roberts Roberta Such lies have become so 10 stale that people have found out oat that they are lies nee and they have ban lost loot influence There never was a aday day that the Lat Saints objected to article written against them If their side of the story was published hed with v th it I t re rejoice joice Jolce that these lies are being found out and the th people are finding put thAt the Saints are an indus industrious Industrious Industrious intelligent and honest people 1 I rejoice e in repeating what I 1 said the thelast last time lime I stood Rood here that while the reputation of o 0 the Saints may ma be bad there is not a true Latter Latler da day Saint whose whoM character ch does dotis not stand above approach ch |