Show APOSTLE LYMAN TALKS I 1 lie he rehearses the story of ehg persecutions MANIFESTO NOT PRESENTED sevier stake conference passes without action upon it but apostle iann tells tho the people there Is nothing Noth inET wrong with the apostles the majority of the twelve art ar always right bight when you soo see an array of names such as thase attached to the lato declaration cl of the church you MAY hoy bo be sure saro it is right whether you Y ou have read it or not cud and no difference what it is it must be the truth and nothing wrens wron tribune richfield may 24 the regular quarterly conference ot of sevier stakes lat ter day saints convened in monroe yeni yesterday morning and closed this afternoon I 1 because ot of the pleasant weather the distinguished tors and the pecullar peculiar interest that attaches to apos tollo utterances in these latter days clays ot or political disquietude the aice tas the largest ever seen been in tills this county monroe has the most commodious hall in tills this part of 0 the state and at each ot or the tour four popular gatherings it was jammed every one saints and sinners fully expected a vote to be ti en upon the late und and ncr not a little surprised surprise when the Lone benediction diction was pronounced tills this afternoon without tile issue havin been beef raised no one seems berins to know why is by the usual custom that has to obtain in other stakes ais acs was departed honi front bioc cie the only cX explanation advanced 1 16 that the darrious fai far rious declaration had been husta sustained fried by nil all thi the individual wards and that A mass vote would mould lie ile r VOICES two alnes things ll nes about the conter confer ence the tribune reporter could not but note first URs aa their well wellA rained choir which would do credit to many lually an lastel jei tein it congregation of wealth and would nut lot look out ot of place in a nullo poman politan its director di thomas has u bell clear tenor voice that is a marvel man el to strangers of 0 must muil cal taste mr air ransom intends entering the eirten eisteddfod ifill coolest contest to lie be hold held in july aless attic webb W ebb Is the soprano the hur humble folk 0 of the country village enjoy their choir but imagine not that they listen ev evry ry week to voices that should about atar in boston IdON hospitality the second noteworthy noti wortlie feature of a conference season in monroe Is the hospitality pita lity of 0 that leople crople at tile hie close ot of meeting a committee Is ig at lach eacel exit to accost with generous informality 11 every one who 0 a appears pe an to bf be unacquainted lit in alie place p la ce they are arc careless only in draing lines of denominational as it pro proven fly by the fact that gennih s find and mor mons alike who are for aro are universally asked to dine and lodge tile the resident hosts A few more demonstrations of nt that sort will do 10 more tu to break down tile the creed b abdin in utah than all the cluniOn toes and ecclesiastical bulls that could bo be laboriously filmed with jn in the next century HIGH I 1 the high church chuich authorities who to took part in the proceedings yesterday and touy today were v ere apostles jolla henry smith und and F r II 11 lyman and president scy mouro 13 young of the seventies only a very few remarks were ma made that have any hearing bearing upon matters of pio fane fahe concern just now and f respondent shall not icille all the earn com counsel regarding temporal artalie and a of a spiritual nature lie he does it ties riot not wish to lay the tribune 1 c pen to tile the charge of being it a reporter A full and cam account Is given of everything sold said on the subjects tt treated herein at saturday afternoons meeting A smith paid high tribute to the lana io 8 0 0 this nation ile he sold our laws are arc this the b bret st in the world and this I 1 nolion Is the most blessed on the face of the earth we should esteem with tho the utmost respect and reverence every I toper coper law of the nation anti and at the same time do the will of god cod CONSTANT CHANGE CHAN Gr at the tame same meeting apostle lym lyrean an addressed thu the people in this language lart ruic g e there are useless arc questions forever c r being asked among anion the latter day saints they are continually being sprung now and probably will continue to lo bo 10 in the future the church Is ever ersIng its work Is developing and lery thing cannot be understood 11 I 1 1 a oil 11 the people questions of disca plin e order authority etc arise front from our advance advancement rent anti and can artt alv ari be answered but wo we have an oracle it a revelator having 0 gods odo authority tho thor rity ltv who can answer what u fiat Is needful evil cut alu ie can call never liever be enough revel allons written to entirely guide all tin tilt P we as a church are not flueh like we were mere lit at first the of tilt th chulch chuich could plot not grasp ark an idea ot of UK INA extent 0 of f the work before them 1 c e have e ver ever been increasing and tire are ever changing chang lne there alit should uld be nothing done lit in a surreptitious or munner AM all our discipline a and nd should be done openly all rould have has 0 a hearons lie aring in ill all matters 0 of our orga orb mention Is so per tet feet that it eon in meet all religious rp re quiro ments bu but t not political require merits one finans vote Is 14 just as good of ar an ano others thors the I 1 vole late of the humblest man bore li Is just as good UR as mine hut but all men on cannot C agree SOMO some anro TO willor than others and some are better informed in political matters tho the majority rn rules but in all church affairs off alra thero there should bo be common consent I 1 would riot not pretend to preson present t any bust busl nr ni avi to this conference without ill the e conant council counci bof of tie the presidency and BUT NOT N OT RADICAL ONES tills this sunday mornan william jr 11 dark clark president fil tt counselor fadd that thero there were no radical change in tile the church today but that it was is aldays thought advancing 1 I he I 1 e the leaders of tho the church olad live such exemplary lives liv es that they would stand above criticism 1 I hopr copl tur tr ale will b be better united in fit the th tu f uthan we have lave been in tho the post ave e must got close clone together ther for the closer wo we are tile better betterto we wo wll mill alk one another anti the leg lekisi 4 we will be irl in cunail to criticize critic ibe each other oli Lr AGAINST WOR on randay forenoon foren joseph S horne the lit stake Preside lits second counsel r cautioned tile brethren against devo devoting ot too much time anti energy en rcy to worldly affairs and advised them that if lou ou vote roto to sustain the authorities and ad would act consistently with fill your votes you mum do as to di do by these them officers we must bru sustain them both with our votes and with all that we have bave I 1 A adotte lyman twain again hore before noon today anil and in tile the couram coul 40 of 0 f his re marks arhe indulged ed in this bit 0 of t iriven hen the leading men of the li ta 1 1 w were being severely prosecuted anti and tenaciously oms hunted after by olli ceis of 01 th the law anti and hauled to prison and there would have been more in that condition it if they INDA hod not ald hirthe the leaders of 0 the church were appended appen led d to to know how long ions this condition t to would continue it 11 seemed that there would be no change but they answered that thai a change would come there would be different trials after awhile a N hile fresh ones would come the whole p people L pie was agitated sometimes for y years ers a and could not tell what the results would be when we left kirkland we thought there would bo be rest but we vore m ere driven to norther ll 11 laid Miss missouri ourt and there laid ahli ali foundations ot of another temple soon our of 01 fleets were taken by the state nill militia itla and sentenced to bo be shot my father was one on L who was sentenced to be shot it wits was some years though before they vere more the time tall had riot not yet come for death cleath and they were imprisoned ba but I 1 we were mere compelled to leave the state 0 of missouri at that time we lad had not received the law ot of plural marriage kit we were prosecuted because we MO withered gathered t together gether and believed in ili having bishops bishops and pie identa and high blah counselors and prophets prop prophets heis s seers and levela tors wei we were driven into military organization find and discipline in order to defend ourselves there were only between anti and of us its and we were not well armed but we went pt liay ity ins ing arid and fali failing ting tor for the redemption or of hut but zion am was not nol redeemed at that time later on though we selected twelve apostles who were to have power to regulate and set act in order nil all tile the officers or of the church find and open up missions au all over the globe ihen we went to illinois one and laid tile the 0 of our fourth temple then tile lord said we must hurry up tip with our work in order to be ready for a great endowment the lord hut bill to warn us ui to put forth all our because of the opposition among men and because satan wort was determined to thwart tile the design of god arid and prevent our receiving this treat great endowment but it was vas accomplished in an it lindill dished temple then n the prophet afis ia killed anti and tile the POO people ale were much disi 1 heartened art ened deigham younk young was not a great man then but the work progressed gres sod tor for the blood ot of the martyrs was me the seed of the church we Is came to tills this land ot of light and freedom we will ap or er be b moved forcibly front from here but will mill coave lay day return to the ill center take nake t of zion in peace we will go to independence dependence i where the temple was started t arted wr we were compelled to leave nauvoo and started across the wilderness for or upper california IV we ac n e w nothing about utah but upon un s 1 g n peak which was as mexican lexicon soil it was I 1 placed tile the blessed emblem tile the stars and stripes and we ire established this in state which NC e enjoy today ayran FINI FINISHES SIlEs noria came and cut apostle clymans a address 0 druss lo in half but this afternoon the thread WAS waa taken up L lv IV v hint him again chere M here lie he had left ott off tills morning ile he spoke of 0 tile the early dain difficulties C atles and privations of 0 pioneer life in utah the starvation from crickets kots anti and grasshoppers ana drought continuing theados the apos tie lle said we were without all government except that of mexico then this country was ceded to the united states slates and we tried to get statehood but a orial form of government was granted to us up arid and we were tinder the fostering care ot of tile the Gowin ment of the united states it if anything iven went t n m rong ronar t the he government took look hold of it something very serious was reported from here in 1857 on the of nt july the people were in vis cottonwood canyon when ulten they learned that hat tile the malls lad had been stopped and that the united stites army was coming to subjugate ate this poor feeble people wo we did not make a very strong resistance si stance but would not submit to the entry 0 of the armeta enemy martial Al artial daiv aw was wag declared and the forces force marched into weber canyon at last tin tilt governor decided that we could riot not rland artand out ri tile the united mates baates and we determined to leave lease the country as desolate as we had found it so be bulled our temple and came south soon after that grass was waving in the streets of salt lake but in all athla time there was no rebellion in tho the church it looked tor for am awhile hile as though we me must either humiliate ourselves or bo be destroyed but no one was waa killed and in the end we were better oft off because IL a cicat deal of money and much machinery and all sorts of goods were obtained from the army in fulfillment of prophesy peace was finally declared C and we returned home stronger than when we left in ili a few years the civil war broke out anti and those very who came out against us turned guined against the united states that too had been foretold by joseph 11 GODBE HARRISON SHERMAN AND KELLY then the apostle related in detail several sul subsequent sequent events that hall had come to harass the saints three men named godbe harrison and jhc herman aman had thought they could do just juet as they pleased leased ri arid and still retain their standing in tho the church they were badly fooled and so was one john kelly of who lad had done nothing absolutely wrong but had lost faith in brigham young and when charged with acosta cy fairly frothed at the mouth and became angry still and wild and vicious 1 all the fac factions tiong that had turned against the saints however had teen been destroyed except the and it Is only a question of 0 time until they must knust tall fall they do not have the spirit ot of ellas ella which restores stores ic le all things th lis that have hitherto been in operation they do not believe in eternal marriage nor in temple building nor in tithing except in a mild and inoffensive and harmless manner the josephites Josephl tos do no work tor for tile tho dead de ad in 1841 1844 the revelation on an plural marriage was but was not made known until 1851 the man inan was wan courageous who received two or three aives lve under the law lair which we a had those men melt have shown their faith by their works they were not corrupt they were as honest as isaac anti and jacob plural marriage was not introduced because of 0 corruption Is it necessary for corrupt and sensual men to have plural wives no they can find concen nt fit their service in every city it Is tho the law that per pertains taing to the godhead and no man who has not performed tho the w will ever attain to the godhead the same was revealed to abraham those mho have performed the law and are now departed are not angels but gods but wo we have submitted to the laws of the land no man lias has received it a plural alf ife since the manifesto was given out we have acted in good faith at first every one of the apostles was opposed to lo renouncing plural marriage but when hen it wa evealue i rOve aled to president wll wil tord ford woodruff oil all consented president woodruff was a man mail of I 1 MOST SUPREME COURAGE to stand up alone on oil the manifesto which came as another great trial to our faith it was waa tile the interference of the lord another trial was wag the divi sion klon on party lines the latter day saints have wonder wl it if they coul could 1 stand it it if wo we cannot stand it we IM broken there Is no orthodox polities politics it does docs not corne come by revell tion we will not be about this but will settle bettie down quietly and rom something cometh ething lne else will come collie to trouble us you need not question the sincerity of 0 the church do not fear it will go EO into politics because we believe in the law of liberty arld and there in nothing more liberal than the gospel una HAS any one in this ahl stake slake over ever been advised li in politico politics I 1 challenge you to show me tile the man in this county who Is priest ridden riddell if I 1 you are there la is no need to be for you came trite into the church of 0 your own clio volition vo altion arid and can call go co out nt at your will the church does docs not need those who do not want to remain in it but warre will you ETC 90 will you leave tile the plan of salvation and nee floe to nothing it is possible tor for individuals li to 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