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Show SECOND DAY. Monday, April 7, 1873. Conference convened according to adjournment, at 10 a. m. The choir sang "Tho time is nigh, that happy tituo," &o.; Elder Orson Pratt engaged in prayer; and tho choir sang "Come wo that love the Lord." Elder Orson Hyde said that for more than forty years ho bad been laboring la-boring to establish the Kingdom of God. How much longer ho would be permitted to lift up his voice in defence de-fence of the truth he knew not, but he rejoiced in having tho privilege of once more bearing his testimony to the truth of the great work io which they were engaged. He spoke relative to that part of the Territory io which he resided, Sanpete oounty; and said the people had been afflicted with small pox and spotted fever, the former disease dis-ease no more to be compared to the latter than tho bite of a mosquito to the sting of a rattlesnake. There had been several deaths, mostly small children, chil-dren, from spotted fever. He grieved to see the little ones cut off in tho morning of their existence. In reading of the disasters, diseases, and calamiiies whioh were taking placo on the earth, he recognized in i them the fulfillment of tho prophesies : of tho servants of God both ancient and I modern. Elder Hyde exhorted the people, with fervency, to faithfulness . and diligence in keeping tho commandments command-ments of God. Elder Orson Pratt was the next speaker. Ho said it was a pleasure to him to bear testimony to that which ho knew, that which God had revealed, the great work which God was establishing estab-lishing on the earth. He had enjoyed this pleasure for nearly forty-three years, for when he was a youth, a mere boy, God had revealed this truth to him, and be had willingly spent his time in declaring tho same. This was the dispensation of the fullness of times, a dispensation which comprehended compre-hended all previous ones. Other dispensations dis-pensations had passed away, bat the present one would stand forever. In referring to the great privileges which the Latter-day Saints enjoyed, the speaker said that the people were slow and slothfnl in many things. In the commence men t of the work, they bad done well. He enumerated the various commandments which were given in early days, and showed thu the Saints had been obedient to tbo revelations given through the servants of God; and in the trials and persecutions persecu-tions through which they had passed, t-ey had dono wel'. There were things, however, in which ho thought th ".io wai g;eat room lor improvement, lie referred to the order of temporal th'ngs established among iho anctca: Saints ou this cotitiucLt. Thoy had all things in OJmoion; tho gold, the pilvor, the Hock and herds, were all held in common; there were no poor, no rich, all wero alike in this respect; and the system established was aceord-, aceord-, ing to tho order of Heavenly things. He called attention to the law of cooio-cratioa, cooio-cratioa, whioh, as a law that would be carried oat at some future time, it was well for the Litter-day Saints to understand. He gave an interesting interest-ing account of the eMablialitucnt of this order of things in Jackson county, Missouri, Mis-souri, when the Saiots ti l j v-uhereJ tlr r-r, uud hwi d iheij Ca Un'l o !' i f i ! n re , be i n i H j CJUSCcjULTti-M th" trail.tiQUS of ih'J j pd'M'Iu and ihi! ej.iiit nf covi'iuu-nt's.1 whi.:b h.'td h'-en cn-zendi-red, fir which reason ihe L rd h-i'l e m-ed il cm tn be ea-t out from rh hud. '1 he L rd subequ-'ntly rev-'ki'd U:e law urml ihf redemption of Zi in, and therefore it was not bir:dir; upon t lie people to diy, and cuii- nueuily they were not Initiio to iceur the penalty. He then referred to ihe law of tithinu, ami ex plained it a he utidcreto'id if, and said he feared lliut (ho pei.pie li:id not obeyed according Io tho -irir of it, although from the hot inf-jnuancn he could obtain from the hi-hops and others, ilit! people were, di-poed ti do well in this re.-p et. fie Kpoko of ihe evils of ihe d iM i tit lion uf c'a.ts am jtg the people of God. in conMqu:'iieo ol thena being some rich and somo poor; and treated on home urinu Pi" tares and ihe cfl.ins w ii if.ii Prcfidont Young had made in that direction, but the per pin had failed, in a great niea-urc, to follow fol-low liis lead in ibis purti-'utur. PittsiUKNT Voting, referring 'o the remirks of older Pratt, snid that the End had no obj'-c'-ioa to soy unn or men entering into tho order of Enoch at uny time; ho reasoned on tho advantages ad-vantages which would arise from an organization where eapiul and labor .houli bo combined lor the general good. Speaking of lha rich and poor in this community, he said his expedience exped-ience was that the men of means were more wd.ing to d ) what was required ol them thm were men who had little or no means. Nearly all tho men in the community who weio called wealthy, had accumulated their meant here; ' thero wore very few, it any, who were wealthy when ihey came here. Ho said it wjs doomed wisdom that Bovoral of their young men Bhould study law, pay from ouo to hvo thousand, thous-and, learn tho toicnoa of law, constitutional, constitu-tional, Stato, Territorial, municipal, and tho dooUtons of the supreme court of the United Siotes, mid tho dcois ions of other em'nent jutiats of this country, of England and other foreign oouDiric:-; so that they may become thoroughly posted iu tho Bufjict, and bo able to detect tho tiiu-ks of dishon est men in tho profession, of whom there wero too many hero as elsewhere Ho said ho would iiko law taught in our schools, so that tho general princi ples thereof would become more widely known. In couolusion he gave somo general instructions, and again urged tho poo pie to fuithlulncsa. Choir sang tho anthem "Tho King of Glory." Prayer by Gcorgo Q. Cannon. Singing "Praise yo tho Lord" by tho choir; prayer by Elder A. P. R'jckwocd; binning, " Koow this, that every soul is free." President Vouno addressed him-ao'f him-ao'f io the ladies of tho relief societies, inviting their co-operalion in tbo work of the people becoming sclf-justaimog; und, af ter oommeudiug (hair Inborn ol charity, urged upou them the import auco of saving tho rags through-cut through-cut the country for tho pur-poso pur-poso of supplying the paper mill. He alto recommended tho ladies to have some of iht.il' numbor J. aro to set type and havo their own prinlr ing office, ridiculing the idea of a large six-looter standing at a frame picking up little types or measuring tapes, tic applied tho same reafoning to tailoring, and said lip had seen women in tho iiaiveit field aud in the hay field doing work which they should not do, while work for which they were fitted was being dono by men, Ihe school books for tho Territory should be printed here. From $30. OUO to $60,000 is annually paid out by the Territory Ter-ritory for (school books, and this suould be kept at homo and tho books be printed hero, ne urged, also, tho necessity of having school teachers trained at home, instead of hiring teachers of whoso morality and honor there was not aufJioicnt assurance. The people had to sustain themselves, to school themselves, to look after them-selvcs.or them-selvcs.or they would come up wanting. There wero school lands set apart by government, but thero was no provision mado by which these ooud be used, and consequently thoy were of no value to the schools of the Territory. Ke-ferring Ke-ferring to tho matter of schools boing supported by taxation, ho inquired whore the poor were in Utah, whose ohiidron could now bo educated, He again urged tho necessity of self sus-teuanoe sus-teuanoe in everything; and directed attention at-tention to matters pertaining to the past history of the Latter day Saints to show that they must do so ; and said ho desired to enlist the assistance of tho ladies in the work. Ho advocated advo-cated putting tho people in pjssession of knowledge to sustain themselves; then there will cease to bo distinctions of classes, for all will bo self sustaining and independent. Ileturning to woman's work, he said it was desired to build a houso as a printing office for women, where they could do their own printing. Women should do work as compositors, as proofreaders, as editors, as telegraphers, telegraph-ers, as clerks; and men should do work where there was exposure, while women wo-men were occupied in the avocations which could bo pursued indoors. He then urged sericulture and the manufacture manu-facture of silk, upon the ladies; and advised them to study neatness and oleanlincss in all their habits. They should pattern after good, after heavenly heav-enly things, and let the beauty ot their adcrnmont be the worn of their own hands. Ho called a v te i those who would assist in tho woik he had specified; speci-fied; and a vast nuuoer of la lies' hands wero raised. Ho reoommended the elders to sell their mules and hordes and raite oxen for farm work. Ho held that a million mil-lion would bo saved to this community in one year by using oxen for suoh labor instead of horses and mule.; and thiB saving would annually increase. If they continued mining they would become be-come so poor they couldn't pay their tithing. Ho referred to the cry con cerning tho influence ho exercised over tho Latter-day Saints; and desired them to say that ho did not possess halfas much as he should; for he uses bis intlucuca for good, and if be had enough over tho elders of Israel he would not iterant them to run to destruction, as many of them are doing, hunting after shadows. Elder W, Woodruff followed, urging the importance of the people becoming self-sustaining. It was folly to send wool to the east and import cloth; tho wool Bhould b9 worked up here, and home manufactures should be encouraged. In this connection he referred to the great efforts that President Presi-dent Young had made in this direction, and tho great success which has attended at-tended them; and continued treatiog of the growth of tho work of God, as predicted by the ancient prophets and now being fulfilled. Ihe speaker encouraged en-couraged tho Saints to diligence and faithfulness to tho truth, that they may enjoy tho blessing which follow obedience obe-dience to the commandments of God. The choir sang the anthem, ''Wake the song of Jubilee;" benediction by elder Joseph . Smith. Adjourned to Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock. |