| Show SEVENTY THIRD conference LARGE CROWDS ATTEND semiannual SEMI ANNUAL conference CON FERFNCE AT SALT LAKE president smith at burco rge attendance kni gratitude to almighty for ty ebat halt Atten attends dd th ibo 11 aro 0 ale dullni put hullt the seventy third semiannual semi annual conference of 0 the latter day saints opened saturday forenoon october ath lo in the tabernacle with an attendance that completely filled the vast edifice at 10 0 clock president joseph F I 1 smith arose and bade the congregation gation open tile hie conference with the singing slog irig of tile hie hymn our god we liasse liaise to thee invocation was offered by stake president Pies ident digs of nephi find and after tile the in ammoth congregation had bad sun sung Rede redeemer erner of israel president smith the first speaker stepped to the pulpit and addres addressed ed the assemblage briefly president Pies Pie ident smith expressed satisfaction at tile the unusually large attendance and spoke his gratitude to the hie almighty forthe for the prosperity that has attended the people during the hie past season during tile the morning session president lien ben 13 rich of the llie middle states mission denounced in severe terms the eastern press which has set up the cry of blood atonement in connection with the cold blooded of which hooper young is accused what damnable lies they tell said president rich they will die and go cro to hell aud and be damned forever and they will remain in licit hell forever unless some mormon elder goes down and helps them out president rich kich said the press in new york cheru hooper young is is in custody had been trying to bring home to the mormon church the responsibility of tile crime ot of which the tha young man is accused regarding blood atonement mr rich said the church authorities in 1880 1889 declared openly open ay that thai the shedding of blood was abhorrent to them and denied that enemies of the faith had ever been ordered killed ile he said the mormon people believe in blood atonement only to the extent demaud demanded ed by the laws of the country president joseph robinson of the Calini fornia mission in a short talk before tho the conference reported that the Cali fomia mission is prosper prospering jug lod and that the membership is now fully despite the llie fact that the elders who be are at work in that field have met much vigorous opposition during the past six months president E U nye of the southern states stales mission followed with a short address ad dresson on conditions throughout the south lie he said there are about a hundred elders through throughout oat the southern states slates mostly among the rural and backwoods districts president of tile the colorado mission was the next speaker and he told ol of the work being done in his districts giving a most encouraging report of the success of the mission apostle smith made the clos Ing address of tile the morning sess session 1013 dealing with those who are defaming X the church apostle smith said the spirit that is being manifested by somo soma Is the same that caused the murder of joseph smith whose blood is still crying for vengeance lie he deplored the fact that people among them ministers go east and delibe deliberately abely lie about the mormon people at the afternoon session president dailin dull in of the southern states mission said that mob violence in that district is lying dying out and that people in the southwest are becoming favorable to missionaries president woodruff of the tha mission of 0 the northeast said that there thera were many converts being made constantly throughout his bis mission president nephi pratt 0 of the northwest mission alho spoke of the flattering state of affairs in his fieldor field of tabor labor apostle john henry smith said he had visited hancock county illinois during tile the baht year and found that au all the bard feeling that once existed against the mormon people has died out ifould 1 I found that the place Is jack mormon realier rabber than anti mormon 0 said apostle smith there hero I seems to be a belief that the mormon people could return to that country and build up the towns that have wasted since they were driven out by persecution SECOND DAYS ual S SESSION apostle reed raed smoot 8 moot the first 6 rat speaker at the morning session called the saints to task for their failure to pay their fast offerings inmany in many of the stakes ot of zion he be said there are no poor and here the llie people have been led to think that they ure are no DO longer required to pay their fast offerings this the speaker said was not dot que true aa a thes them 0 are many poor i in n somo some of 0 the arger takes stakes and tile llie ml ieans an received from these offerings is distributed where it is most needed lie added that if tile llie payment of 0 fast offerings off erines was observed by all tile the saints there would be no poor in zion A report of 0 work being done ty by tile llie io in blex mexico ica was wan rive given by anthony W ivins president of the hie stake of tile sandwich islands island mission by samuel 1 H llcy who labored thero there for seven years of the canadian lua mission aion by president Ples ident allen alien of llo ti alberta stake and of the iho wasatch stake by president william 11 1 I smart apostle abraham 0 woodrun Woodruff speak ing of 0 labor unions said we do not show allow the interest in each other lo in these temporal affairs that we should we have not as much interest in obtaining employment for each other oilier as the labor unions have in obtaining employment for their members and I 1 am in favor ator of either joining tho the unions or being a a union among ourselves for the latter day are in a position to demand somo omo consideration in these things elder louis A reisch who has spent the post past year laboring in the iho japanese mission told of 0 the experiences of 0 missionaries in that field ue said but two converts bad been made although more could have been baptized bad the ass missionaries on arles been sure that those seeking to accept the faith understood I 1 it thoroughly at the lua afternoon session apostle rudger hudger clawson the first speaker urged upon the congregation the importance of paying their tithing the eaxt speakers were president william T jack of the cassia cashin stake and samuel bennion Ben Dion president of the uintah stake who abo told briefly of the work throughout their respective stakes apostle mathias malhias cowley appealed to the people to settle their difficulties by conveying them to the presidents of their respective stakes and not by appealing peal ing them to the president of the church or the apostles in every little difficulty that arises ue ile said the priesthood should be honored and that difficulties should be ba settled through the them an overflow meeting was hold in the assembly hall which was presided over by apostle woodruff tho the most practical address of the afternoon was by apostle reed smoot when he advised the members of the church to save money and keep out of debt and admonished them to cease shipping wheat from the state other speakers were president moses taylor of summit stake slake one of the youngest stake presidents at the conference fe reace Preel president ident james IV ol of juab stake president joseph merrell of cache president george C parkinson of oneida elder george J cannon and apostle woodruff THIRD DAVIS SESSION earnest exhortations to the saints to faithfully pay their tithing studiously avoid aid getting gelling into debt abhor mortgages and be ba steadfast in the prin principles ci of their religion characterized the add addresses of the closing day of the conference tho the saints were warned that the coming of christ was dear at hand and that they should be diligent in the performance of their duties that all prophecies might be fulfilled and they might igat be ready to enter into the kingdom of heaven when the time came they were exhorted to bend their children to school and give them every advantage of an education that it might not be said against the saints that they were an ignorant people the charge that the church relied upon the iho ignorance of its keople for the maintenance of its power over them was strongly y refuted and the further charge that the authorities of the church were allied against the non 1 mormon educational institutions was denied with equal strength the young were advised to attend these schools if they could no not attend a chulch chinch institution but the establish ment meat of religious classes where the th youn eyouB people could be taught the principles of mormonism was advocated the saints were taken to task for some of their shortcomings and urged to remedy these things testimonies to the power of the gospel were made ly by every speaker and instances were related where it was claimed the power of healing by blessing and laying lay ing on go 0 of f hands had bud been proved by actual demon demonstrations the speakers at the morning session were apostle M NV merrill men ill david K udall president of the st SL johns baake stalco in arizona jesse crosby pies president ident of the new wg big horn stake 0 L chip mile president of the alpine fi talie uriah jones president of tile the Par owrin stalie stake and president C D white while of the heaver beaver stake at the closing session in accordance with the usual custom the general a authorities U ties of the church ere presented and sustained unanimously by the saints joseph 1 I smith as a prophet seer and revelator of D f the church in all the tind and jtb other er officers in their respective capacities |
