Show I 1 iijGE TO 111E SAINTS t d1 Given by Speakers in the IJsl Ih Tabernacle I I < tl i ADMONISHED TO PAY TITHING no noJ i Apostlo Woodruff Tells tho People that the Raising of Large Families is Much to be Desired Denounces the Custom of Having Few Children Joseph F Smith Agrees with the Young Apostle and Warns Young CouplesB H Roberts Olfers Pray Merrill Opposes Cards er Apostle The second days session of the conference con-ference was marked by the same large attendance in the morning as that which characterized the Jlrst days session ses-sion the attendance In the afternoon somewhat that of the after exceeding s day noon of the previous There were seven speakers during listened the day All the addresses were attention tened to with tho deepest many standing in the afternoon throughout the session There wilt be two sessions today morning and afternoon after which the conference will adjourn until October Oc-tober next I President Angus M Cannon offered tho opening prayer at the morning session ses-sion In the course of his prayer he said that while the Saints sympathized I with the Boers In their struggle for Independence In-dependence they realized that the Brit I it President Smith Admonishes Young Couples Ish nation Is a bulwark to prevent tho reign 6f the powers of evil and darkness dark-ness and an agent for advancement 0 of enlightenment and civilization In the world SCORED TifOSE WHO DO NOT PAY Apostle IJtober J Grant the first rineaker rejoiced exceedingly at the opportunity of mneling with the Saints Ilf wild It had ever been n source of surprise to him that Latterday Saints I hu toallfled to a Knowledge of the Gospel and the divinity of the work in which they arc engaged should fall to keep the commandments of God 1 and prOc bjf their lives tljnt thcsy are In very deed Latterday Saints that It 1 was further a surprise to hlm that men holding the holy priesthood should liear after year neglect the duties devolving de-volving upon them and added thai there were many professed Latterday Saints that were qplrljuully dead Thp speaker said that too many 7C the Saints wero building their houses upon the sands He spoke of the failure on the part of many to pay their tithes and said they imulo the excuse that the money was not properly used but Apostle Grant said that seeing these neoole did not pay a dollar in tithing it was none of their buslncsH liov It was administered The trouble was tho speaker said that the people aye Minded by the things of this world that they do not lay their store by the thlncs in heaven but by the things of earth In closing Apostle Grant called L I Apostle Grant Exhorts the Saintsto Pay tip their Tithing L uuon the Saintsto pay i their tithes and I offering to support Institutions oft of-t Zion and to support authorities of 1 the church in every labor undertaken HE SEES IMPROVEMENT t A very great Improvement in the F Latterday Ejulnts In tho past twelvemonths d twelve-months had been noted by Apostle i1 John W Taylor the next speaker In the payment of their tithing and In attendance u at-tendance to their other duties The I speaker I said he had been much In the t world and ns far us he had been able to discover there was only one difference II differ-ence between the Saints and the mom bcrn of other denominations and that i was that the Saints believe In direct r revelation from God while the other denominations do not He contended 1 1 however that the spirit of prophecy r would not save any man that a man could prophesy from now until the J coming of tho kingdom of God and If he failed to keep the other commandments command-ments of the Almighty he would not enter Into the kingdom He predicted i that the time would come when tin Faints would not need any of the gifts I 1 of Prophecy or revelation or any other tlfts bestowed by the Almighty upon 1 his chosen people that they needed them now however despite the fact that there Is I a famine for the spiritual f Rifts of God i TUB SHAFTS OF THE ENEMY The speaker said In closing that the I Lord has averted and turned away the shafts of the enemy that every 1 weapon turned against the Saints has been cast aside and that the time would i comi when the Gentiles would come LI hcrp from the ends of the earth and t I ay Surely our fathers have Inherited L4c Hen vanity and things wherein there I IB no oroflu When you take all tho 1 t4 proud and all the wIcked from among t the children of men there wont be ijI I many Ufu I1I WAYWARD YOUNG PJSOPLIS Y ApuRtl Merrill paid In beginning that i ij = mi > J niv I ijf of Ml truth vnitl I iftt say in nm hut tlmt p opl < IHU fo live iiiit rh u1 liv fil J chIp vjth t < uh other aud vith th jjjjjjjjfjjjjjjjij i o Lord Tie expressed the opinion that xomti of thu young people In JSIon wcit uayward that their actions could not be approved by fathers and mothers but told paretila l to make the best ot H and to sue to it that they were not the criuso of the coolness and of their lack of zeal for the work of the 1ord I Apostle Merrill said that the Indifference Indiffer-ence manifested by the Saints to the I counsels of God was no secret that It I was known to the whole people This I I he said should not be but the Saints I should honor the Lord and hiM work He said It was not the man who holds tho authority of tho priesthood that I Hhould bo reverenced but the authority that God has bestowed upon him that I I the men who hold this authority have not ought It but they have been chosen by God for the high calling He I said too that men and women who trifle with and Ignore 1 the counsels of I God will have to pay the penalty CONDEMNED SECRET SOCIETIES I The speaker tlien expressed the be hot thatSatan was abroad in the land and that thousands of his ministers I 1 uc I I I 4 Apostle Merrill Observes that Some of the Young People of Zion nro Wayward were in tho Tabernacle for aught the sneaker knew that these ministers were trying to divert the minds of the Saints from the work of the Lord to stir up division and discord among tho Saints and said they had succeeded suc-ceeded somewhat One of the efforts of tho enemy he said was to get the I Saints to join secret societies The Saints were drawn Into the organIzn I Ion through the arguments that their families would obtain Insurance and on the further ground that there was nothing bad done in the societies The speaker was opposed to these secret se-cret organizations because they resulted re-sulted he thought In evil that they resulted In the elders of the church bearing the holy priesthood losing the spirit of their calling and going Into darkness Nor was there any neces sltv for the Saints Joining such orders for said the speaker no widow of a Latterday Saint Is ever allowed to suffer r sufferAMUSEMENT QUESTION Referring to the remarks made by 1 Apostle Smith on the opqiilng day of conference about the absence of the fathers from theIr homes Apostle Met rill was Inclined to believe that there I was plenty of time to do pvorvMrn p I j1 < r IJL Mrx f Tht I Apostle Taylor Noted Improvement in the Paying of Tithing properly if the time was not waateu that there were a great many amuse mcnts Indulged in by the Saints which were not profitable He dlsap moved of card playlng because it led gamblingand to drjrilfand to vici that there were plenty ofyironil things for the Saints to do nod they therefore there-fore should not waste their time Ha didnt approve of programmes much either for meetings because he thought It robbed the participants of the splrit of the Lord which should be ever present at the meetings of the Saints After the singing of the Doxology by the choir Gnd t congregation and the benediction bv Patriarch Smith conference con-ference adjourned until i 2 oclock ROBERTS OFFERS PRAYER Elder Brigham IL Roberts opened the I i afternoon session with prayer Apos tlu Lund was the first speaker and he talked first of the Prophet Joseph Smith and sold had he not been inspired In-spired of God he could not have given to the world such a production as the Book of Mormon After the Book of Mormon was written the church was orunl < cd and men saw that It corresponded with what the urouhct said the church should be He referred to the fact that although Jo seuh Smith was not an educated man he dictated the Book of Mormon to two men and was novur obliged when renewing the dictation to ask where he had left off showing that he was writing by the Inspiration of God The speaker said that there was not a uroDhecy mado by the prophet which has not been fulfilled and spoke particularly par-ticularly of the gathering of the Saints in thc e valleys of the mountains Hc reJoiced In the fact that the missionaries mission-aries arc spreading the world of God and that It is being established throughout the world NOT THOROUGH SAINTS Apostle Mathias F Cowiey thought that the Saints were not guided by the spirit of revelation as much aa they ought to be that at times he was Impressed Im-pressed with the belief that they had not fully divested themselves of the spirit ot sectarianism which many perchance per-chance brought from the world and other hnd slncfr imbibed because of the weakness of the lleah HC too thought that not enough reverence was paid Lu the authority of God that the Saints wero lacking in the principle of faith The speaker Buid in conclusion that whenever u man has followed the counsels coun-sels of God U11lt man him been rewarded reward-ed but wherever a man has rls n up In opposition to the counsel of God that man has come to disappointment and his folly has been mado manifest In the midst of the people of God SHOULD PAY MORE f Apostle Woodruff who follouTJ Apostle Cowiey noted a lack of activity among the various branches of the church that while tho Latterday Saints during the past year have done exceedingly well In the paying of their tithes they have not done as well aa I they would had the teachers and priests eldera and deacons of Israel performed their full duties The church of Christ was compared with the human hu-man body and the speaker said that ns It wfla JmpoMlble for the body to exist without all its organs and parts ao It wrts Impossible for the church to live without thi xoytfralbranchoK or bodies of worfccv wWfcVMo to make it perfect AiWli rfJJilTlalrl that r mfllr nif > had be II roMorM in the hur h s > for i firm H1tCdrT rrr I Hi i r d ht rna Ittll ir 111 i jut tin ihotiH nft cpae And th nth speaker addressed the Saints the following fol-lowing language FAVORS LAHGR FAMILIES I have noticed that there Is a spirit creeping In 1 among a certain ojuss of i I I Saints which is nut of God and which humus come of the Gentile world In the past with the Saints it has been popular I popu-lar to hay large families for we understand un-derstand that there arc hundreds of thousands of spirits in the spirit land J anxious to come to this earth that they I nmy pass through ibis I stale of probation proba-tion which we are going through today I But there Is a certain class of Latter I I day Saints that have come to think as the Gentile world does that It IB not stylish that it Is not nice to have large I fjunllles and therefore we find much I I to our sorrow thai In somr instances steps are taken lo prevent these spirits I being tabernacled bore J want to say < my brothers and sisters that every flutterday I Saint ought to know that ho I would not br justified before God In j pursuing a course like this j THE SIN OF ABORTION I 1 want to say my brothers and sis I I tern that those who fought the system J that was in vogue known as polygamy In the years that have gone by are peo I pie of that class Those who have been t most opposed to the large families of 1 latterday Saints are the ones that j j themselves have prevented the spirits i I 1 that otherwise would have come 30 I them to be tabernnelful and prevented thorn from being born and In many I cases have been guilty of murdering time unborn and I desire that this will I not creep up among the Latterday Saints but I know from things that I have heard that this spirit is In a slight dogrve at least creeping In among the Latterday Saints Thank God for postirity Thank God for the largo families of Latterday Saints I i wish wo had ten hundred thousand I t more of them I I President Joseph F Smith tho last speaker of the afternoon Indorsed what Apostle Woodruff said in relation to time I I posterity of the Latterday Saints and said they were worthy of all attention < and acceptation on tin part of the youth I i of Zion and continued xns fol < i lows I YOUNG COUPLES ADMONISHED I I The young man and the young wo I man who have taken upon themselves the responsibilities of wedded life 1 I should sec to It that they do not abuse I II Ij I j w i I I 4 > I o r I Apostlo Woodruff With the Saints it Has Been Popular to Have Large Families the course of naiur1 that they do not destroy the principle qf Ufa within them nor that they do not violate any I of thu iommands of God Including the one which was given In the beginning I to multiply and replenish the earth No greater sin possibly could be committed I i by the people who have embraced this Gospel than to prevent life or to do t stroy life Wo must obey the law by f which wo arc created by which we haye bevn born Into the world and we I iuthst obey time law byoxhich i wo are to Obtain the consummation of our hopes and of our righteous desires Speaking of time gifts which are enjoyed en-Joyed by the Sniiutt President Smith said that ll Is not the manifestation of marvelous things that rule but the uowcr of the still small voice of righteousness right-eousness that the devil himself could appear like an angel of light and couid I talk by the gift of tongues as well tis I the Lord But If a man had within hll11 the I spirit of God he had established himself upon the rock of everlasting r salvation l Elder T Golden Kimball pronounced I the benediction dismissing conference until 10 oclock this morning I |