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Show ANMAL TE. Large Delegations Arriving to Attend the Session of ths Church of Jesus Christ. ACTIVITY IN TEMPLE BLOCK. The Event to be Followed by a Sunday School Conference The Concert Tonight, Incoming trains are all bearing delegations dele-gations from the outside stakes to Zion and the sixty-first annual conference of the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints, that begins its ceremonies and deliberations in the tabernacle at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, promises to witness an unprecedented attendance. Within the walled conlines there is at present unusual animation. Preparations Prepara-tions are in active progress for the event. Tho exercises will begin with an elaborate choral service during which the massive organ and the choir will be heard at their best. The general authorities of the church will then occupy the attention of the conference in the submission of reports upon the various departments, these to be sandwiched sand-wiched with addresses bv the authorities. authori-ties. The authorities of the various stakes will also present their annual reports. re-ports. In his statistical total of the Salt Lake stake of Zion at the semi-annual conference, Counsellor C. W. Penrose submitted among other things the following: ApostlPS t litrl:inlia ,. n Seventies l.'.vi HiKh Priests Klderx 2,l!t I'riestB 4,3 Ti'arnprs .-m liearona 1. 14J Members lli.Ko Ortlrprs nn1 mm er. SJf..-7 1 C'liiliirmi un.li-rs years 7,isa Total of bonis 32,Tf6 On Sunday evening at 7!0 o'clock the semi annual conference of the Des-eret Des-eret Sunday School union will begin in the tabernacle, at which time the exercises exer-cises will be equally varied and interesting. inter-esting. The event probably begins with the concert by the tabernacle choir this evening at which time the attendance at-tendance both of residents and viators will be very large. The programme has been arrauged with the most artistic artist-ic care and the concert will afford everybody an opportunity to hear the cream of Utah's musical talent. |