Show I REORGANIZED CHURCH E elatioiis of Great Import Arc Expected Kansas City April 6In their new I stone church at Independence tha members of the Reorganized Church of Latterday Saints met in annual conference con-ference today It will last ten days About six hundred members were present The conference was called to order by Elder Alexander Smith Heat He-at once read a resolution that Joseph Smith jr son of < the great prophet act as first vicepresident of the present conference it was adopted without debate and the venerable head of the Reorganized church Joseph Smith jr assumed charge F L Sheeley of Massachusetts M H Bond of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and Robert Elden of Missouri Mis-souri were named as a committee on credentials The hymn Redeemer or Israel ws sung by the choir and thus the conference was formally opened A number of the delegate h4ftm the different missions were called c3Jibn to give the conference their views upon the work done during the last year Their reports were uniformly to the effect that work had been encouraging en-couraging and that their labors had been attended with success The reports re-ports of the committee on credentials developed that there was no dispute as to the delegates At noon the conference con-ference adjourned to meet at 2 oclock It will be some time before the conference con-ference reaches the interesting part of its work Revelations of the gravest import are expected but the hereditary head of the church will be too busy for a few days to pay much attention to this particular feature of this conference con-ference There are delegates present from the New England states New Brunswick and Nova Scotia from Canada Great Britain and Australia The afternoon session like that of the forenoon was devoted to clearing up the press of business which has accumulated since the last conference a year ago The report of the special committee on marriage and divorce was also submitted Up to the present time the Saints have had no laws in their church governing divorces The report recommends the scriptural injunction regarding the putting away of wife or husband No definintc action was taken and the whole matter was referred to the Saints generally gen-erally for consideration until the next annual conference |