Show PRESIDENT SMITH DEFIES AND EXPLAINS AT Al MORNING SESSION OF CONFERENCE Session The morning mor InS ses session sion was WS called aUe to order by hy President Joseph F F Smith at It 10 It I was th tin largest assemblage H at a first sea ses session sion ofa conference of the church hurch In Inthe Int Inthe the t 11 history of the Uw church Time The Th taber nale was mas as well wel tilled filled and arid a IL goodly por portion porton tion ton of time the t hf choir was wa present pr en t Another nother feature fatum of time the meeting that impressed all aJ present was WUK the unusually large of men in ilL the congregation The rImy y predominated over the women and this it iS said suid bj by bY older members of the church was WIt unusual There Therl Thereas was as an earnestness in the bearing of or these f men Ien too that made it i clear that in their minds the th church hurch was passing pa through h a n crisis This spirit was in the theair th thair theair air The TP Th words worb o of President Smith were cre followed 1 with wih breathless interest and a nt as a a the head of the church hurch hurled hurld his hj defiance defan e at the enemies e e ies of his organization it i seemed difficult to sup suppress atm press an outbreak of ur applause and commendation President Smith was belligerent in inT T what hat he h said ShI and and his manner of speak speaking lug ing il lie He made no 10 apology for anything Tic and lila his hl associates a lates had done or left heft lef V undone although he did fd feel under obligation ton to explain the financial operations of the Ume church and amid and tell what had been lone done with the tithing paid in iii ini inh h i I ht people He lie spoke of some sOle mein J hrs oi ms s of the th church c lh as am a boils pimply 11 like excrescences on Oh the th body of of the I Jig church that had to be removed with the thc fh knife for the th general geneal welfare of time the organization Others Take Similar Strain Th speakers who followed the seemed fem d to take tak their cue cia u from lum All An the addresses wore were pre cast ca t in the time ame am mould President Pr l John K it Winder inder told old of or the Ime th t persecutions and trials rials t of 4 iC thi th Lat Saints in time the olden ol PI daya tHY HO lii fr laid stress on the th circumstance f of 0 i ho lic h United Hute states army coming coIning to toI i I Utah tab to drive the Mormons front from Salt SaltI Nl I lake ake A kp after they t hp had conquered the thede de rt President Winder Vin pr spoke Mp k from rout personal 1 nal experience He lie recalled the fact that hat t just eighteen years eRr before if IC I was nas deemed unsafe un fe to hold the annual lele conference in Iii Salt SRI T Lake ake and that for fol that hat 1 reason it was held in Provo He f 1 confident that If he h called upon i he lip conference to tu sustain President F jr Smith timers there would not be 1 a ari Jf dissenting ri voice YO f in the assemblage President Hugh H u h 1 J Cannon Ca aunon of time the I liberty stake just home from a a three v car Cam a mission In Europe Eurol told of or condi lions ions I 1 in Switzerland and Germany lie He a a good report on oh the tite entail condi conditions inna t I lon of the church work in that part of the world told t oll of or the t hp plan to 10 cross emt 1 time the Ir Alps Alp and invade Italy Ialy and dosed closed by hy b Haying yIng that he knew w that Joseph T ph I F Smith lih wits wan Wi a R prophet of ur the Lord called by God to lila his present position Ion Wolfs Wells Defends the Saints Rulon S Welb VetIa t ld how bow prejudice and a nd hatred hat red were engendered against the lie t 1 ty y Saints SaInt in th the h minds mind of the th world how they were rat rated ott d as a a I hand band ud If f cutthroats and an robbers evil yi and anti licentious pl He lie H dammed claimed that thai tha thaI they hey I 1 compared rt favorably with any a n pee J Pi pl on earth tarth and in V viem M of f the pre and he hf felt t I y sorry surry for the world and amui not nt for the I saints j ta The leaders he lie asserted rt were men of or God Go with nothing in their lives Jf to warrant the assertions made ladt against 1 I tum hem in the world The Th prayer at A this lihi t I id session Mf lon was as by hy Henry neury W V the Wind blind po t of the time church I I in addition addIton to hymns and MO anthems bythe by th the tho th Ladles Ladies quartette composed om d of or Misses fi Jones Tone Sanders Hadley and mind andO O nn n rendered u When the th Swallows Homeward Fly effectively Address by President Smith President Pr dent Smiths S Hh address in full ul was wasT wa T ms follows follow M My Brethren Rr end and nd is c tN cera r A s ret satisfaction m and pleasure t 1 tl me mc to see this large assembly of or hot tera Saints gathered h here re rp on the th opening day da of our M t annual i nee I 1 am sun pleased pl to 0 toe se iP you and amid meet met with Jh you ou and nd with the tl blessings bJ of the th Lord anti and the tho guiding Influence of his hoh spirit I trust that I 1 shall shah aleo be pleased in 1 the afforded me meat meat meat at this moment of or speaking to you ou for or a short time I feel fp 1 I dependent Upon time the ti of the time spirit to my mind You YIU may ma think it strange for mi me mito m meto to say m that 1 I have hav had no moments to bestow upon any forethought with ret ref rel orence erenee to what I shall hal say SUY to you OU this morning I 1 stand before you 01 without pre pro premeditation meditation or as to what I Ishall Ishall shall hal aai sa saI I believe bel that I T can say Y to YOU ou with wih all al confidence that so far as s mm mi knowledge extends the he Saints throughout this Int region and the ad nd adjoining adJoinIng joining and so far as a I know kumow throughout the th world are ar in excellent spiritual condition I believe that the th Saints enjoy as RS much today toda of that thorough spirit of o their religion as RS they the ever er have haye enjoyed enjoy d I J believe there is as much union among amol our people throughout the length and breadth of the time theland land 1011 as has ha ever existed in the church I think lean Ican J can say sa that there are as a few local lo al difficulties and troubles among amo the people coming before before the church courts before the bishops and be fore forn oro the high council counci as I T have ever known before within the scope of my re rc remembrance aud ald knowledge Never Free prom 1 T Trouble r bIC f I Wo Ye Ve are ar perhaps n never v r frem entirely ly from I little lite misunderstandings mon neighbors and AI 11 members of the th church and it i is IP often ofen the th ease case that those little misunderstandings misunderstandings standings arising among our brothers and are brought before the teach teachers ers era and ami perhaps before bf the tl bishops for adjudication and reconciliation but I T think I J will wi be he safe in saying sR and that the tIme truth will verify the same that within my knowledge and amid according to 10 my best understanding there never neer was wal since I Ican Ian Ican can an any an 1 l ss of these th little and ami difficulties than exist today toda d I maTy m y say sa that mis misunderstandings ml understandings been far more mor pro pronounced in years Hrs Unit have gone Jone by than they the appear alpar to be he now The T eS Saints ints Arc rc Firm 1 o that lh t tt r is L a fueling of ge ger geen era en ermil contentment among amon the lay Saints and atmil a R feeling of f satisfaction in their and In iii II their hearts with wih r ref f ference erenee IrI to tb th d mission of or time the h t Joseph and amid to th the great rat divinity and nd atonement aton of f our Lord and nd Savior J Jesus SUB Christ In Imm oth other r words word I believe that tUt I time the t hi nv Saints today art are rc HS as devoted and fervent er t n i m firm in t th ir convictions of or the truth and in their knowledge of f the truth as they ever er have hove b 1 at any an period of the churchs ills his hl 1 tory tor from front its Is beginning down town to the pres prea present ant ent time I believe that th sp statements I can au b I is seconded and vouched J for bv by the I presiding authorities of time the hurch I throughout the th length lh and of af ant the lbs land We p hM lh th these so s brethren n here I before of stakes IHk and their counselors the t h bishops an and l their thir I h lr mind Hud the presidents of our various nils mis m sk n ami I am sin Hi satisfied fd that they th will wili wi one on stat ami Ind all al the statement that I T have made iad with wih reference to the he present condition of time the th church Not ut only is II this thI so RO but bitt J I v that i ithe the time tm has npr er been ben when the financial the th temporal tm ral condition of the th Saints w ws s better and more encouraging than at t th tim i r lt time tl I J believe that o our or r people are prE generally prosperous and I l jm am m i that there therein in Is it still Rr greater r ter tr prosperity In store for them Ihm through their continued faithfulness before rf the th Lord I T bli e thai that th the Lord r ord will alit YI bless the earth for or their ask sak Ak that he hp will wil temper tIr the time elements element for their rood O that that he lie hI will wil ii r them th m in the labor of their thir hands amid ami nd in lam time the th thoughts thou ht I of their minds that he hI ii will wi theTa them by h the tM power of ida his h spirit li into alt all ar truth mush and Into IntI the possession SJOn of those tern tem temporal porsi pr I bl that ae Re so o ned d to tomake masks make a people happy haw contented and blessed In jn the land lad Tithing Above the Average With Hh reference re Itne t te this matter I desire to say sav Y that we have ha 7 i believe a very fry correct criterion by ii h which whiCh to judge the spiritual and Ind condition of the murch of Jesus Christ t of Saints The Th records of the church will wi show at the th closing of the th accounts for forth th nast year ar that the th tithing and the thE of fring rh a of tb TAt Saints have been beena a little Itu abo br actually a little lit abc what hat would be called all the th average AVo We Have hd had h d one or Ir two more prosperous yeses years In 11 the th past judging it i by this cri criterion rf terion time the tithing of if the time people but last year was wal ennui and ind a H little above aboe the time average en notwithstanding the th fact ct that during the last lat few fow years yar our people in inmany inmany many parts of the country have hayl been suf auf suffering faring fering from a R protracted in which they have hy come caine I short in their croos in which the th have hav hR suffered Buffered 1 materially immaterially In tim their hocks flocks fok and nd In 11 their herds hr s and I lii In many l n r lace the t hI drouth hits lias luF been so o se SC severe f vere ter that the i eople popl have ha be b been n under time the t Necessity Q lly of hiring or harrowing borrowing means with wih which to secure tUr for Cor themselves grain for seed for thic pr IH nt year fr frI I 1 want to say to 10 you my brethren and sisters 1 r and those t tho who over or the t hI church that H k Is bt a matter mtr of r pride and mind of satisfaction to my mum m mind min that hat t f fht church ht h I in f a P condition to assist t tholo that are arc ro in need ne of this thi kind of o assist assistance alst alstan ance an and an we llly don done no 1 Holding the Fort FortI If I anyone amone should huld feel fel with ith tin time and his hi counselors and ad associates in lam the matter of extend extending lug ing Jg aid to the Saints In such matter matte of extremity as this they the know kno where to enter eter to make their complaints and I should be glad to meet ml t them and andon consider on the th question We V e wish wi h it i dis nt understood ln that hat th the Lord preserves us Jn Ju the time positions to which we weha have ha been be n celled called time the positions which we did not Dot seek but which teh by hy the provi providence providence dence d of tf God Go have be been n brought upon IK ima we Wf will wi hold ourselves responsible be before before lS fore ore God Go and before his people to render material and financial aid to the people or r God in every ePO direction where we feel that I it IF is II necessary to do dl doso BO so Our people p in the th have hae been unfortunate in jn that thaI barren country countr in having havin their dams dmn washed away Hwa by flood For Por a long l lg series IHrie of years year they have IUIe had drouth ii the earth tarth of hns imag become d and aud dry n l when the late la rains rail and flood food came Hm they Ih washed wa hed away some sommie of their th ir dams dam and th the people sent up 1 their cries crl to us its UI for help heir Hud amid we w have lun helped them and w o thank God that we wear weare e ar are in a position to help hell them and so 50 10 far faras farat faras as at I T am concerned I would woul be hi bt pleated pleased if I could know knott that lint every vr dollar doUar of the th tithing that I pay poy to the time church Is only employed in hi some sonic good work of this kind by h which the time people of God work 01 are Ir strength strengthened strengthened tren ened In building up imp tp Zion in jim establishing their settlements and in holding the fort if you OU please picnic plc It Where the Money Goes I In addition additon to this I am ant happy pp to say to this congregation n and to all a I the tle world I so fO far as at my m words worda may tR go 0 that we have ha taken takemi the liberty and we have h ye taken tH 1 pride and st feel proud of the time that bus hos boon been afforded us 1 and of the ability of us UR to accomplish it ito to I render aid Id to many maur of our missions abroad in iii the purchase and in iii il the th I Ishm nt of mission headquarters and nd the I building of churches in which they can ta 1 meet to worship God and in 11 which they thy thyI i I will wi not be bl to Invite the stranger j I to come and loin join with wih them We V have used the tithing of the people popl for this timis j purpose and nd we think that when alien hn the th church desires to call ni us 18 to an account for tor matters maters of this kind there Is 15 i a way wax waby I by which they can camu reach It which wilt will wi not occasion any I noise no or any confusion j and I T trust without any an I Ing whatever T I believe e we WI can come om to a I I I perfect understanding with reference to these matters mH We have been able a ble too to purchase 1 I quite a tract of o land in liz Jackson Jackon county adjacent to the th nite Ite that was wan wal chosen by b the time Prophet t Joseph Smith for u mm i temple to be built buit some s mC day d Y and ant some home few of our people have generously specially for the accomplishment of this purpose but hyt time the tit most to st of the t h means Ineal that have been he u employed for the accomplish accomplishment h ment of have necessarily been ben taken tak n from the general genral tithing funds of the church By this means we have ha been able abl to secure elegant head had headquarters I quarters quarter for our our mission or for fOI our pen peo pennie j Die nie in time the northern states mission we I have ha e been able to assist alst the southern sout h rn states mission ion to obtain headquarter and Iud we have ha also ben been enabled to assist the British mission to obtain a comfort comfortable comfortable able abl home homp and aUd headquarter where the J I Star that has been published for tr so BO many mat Years cin cc c continue to be h published for time the advancement of time the tle work of the Lat Saints and of oC the time elders ciders in time the British mission Ve e have he hen |