Show UBGED TO PAY TITHING l Mormons Appealed to to Obey the Principle I I ALL MEMBERS ON THE LISTS f Records Kept of Those Who Do Not Pay as Well as Those Who Do Some Interesting Excuses for Non PaymEntPresident George Q Cannon Can-non Confesses to Mental Timidity in Public Affairs Where Courage is Required ronu of Glory Accorded to Good Gentiles If all the thousands of Latterday Saints who have attended the confer once Just closed obey > t ne appeals of their loaders with respect to the paying 1 of Limiting the coffers of the Church of Jesus ChrifU of Lnllcrday Salhts should fairly teem with wealth Not content with time remaiUs mado in ibis particular on the first two days of the conference every speaker at both sea slons yesterday made the subject yf i 2 a I 1 j tithing the burden of hls remarks All the speakers rejoiced hi thc Improve meat which has been made in that vc spccl during the past year but urged the people to greater effort In that direction di-rection that they might receive greater blessings at the handsvof thc Almighty Both morning and uflornoon found the Tabernacle cmudcd with the faIth ful the great building being packed to Its ulmosl capacity in the afternoon The general authorities of the church ere Kuslalned at the afternoon session ses-sion and the vacancy made In the quorum of LIfe twelve by the death of Franklin D Richards was tIlled by the selection of Reed Smool of Provo A president of the quorum of the twelve was not sustained nor was the name of a church historian presented to the congregation for its i indorsement RECORDS OF BOTH CLASSES Elder C W Penroac asked divine blessing upon the congiogallon at the opening of the morning session after which Apostle Rudger tMawson gave the first exhortation of the day upon the sillimportant question of tithing In beginning he said the Saints were grateful to the Almighty for the glorious glo-rious storm a 3t6rm which gave promise prom-ise of abundant crops for the year 1100Aposlle Aposlle Clawson read from the Book of Doctrine and Covenants the law regarding re-garding the keeping of records in the church and impressed upon all within the Hound of his voIce time Importance of such records lie said that from the foundation of the church until the year 169 ITfioOj I ordinances for the living and tin1 dVJid had been performed by the authorities of time church In Salt Lake while for the year ISM CSS71 were performed every one of which Is recorded re-corded In the books kept In the Temple Speaking of the records oC tithing the apostle said l that notfor before had they been In such good condition as today that the slightest error Is detected by those In charge and every tithepayer Is given duo credit for ovqry cent paid Into the church He nald however that God had not only Inspired his servant ser-vant the President of the church to have a correct vorord kept of UK ttthc payers but also to keep u record of the nonollhcpayor and that this was being done that President Snow had a book containing the name of every nontihepayer In the church and the npoKtlo volunteered the Information that It was a pretty big book too EXCUSES FOR NONPAYMENT The book alsogave tIle reasons why persons named therein had failed to obey the commandment of the Lord in that particular and Home of the reasons rea-sons were a little astounding to the faithful Saints Inasmuch as they wore given by officers of the church Including Includ-ing elders deusonP priests und members mem-bers of the seventIes Many gave th reason that they were not converted to the truth of the principles 1 one elder had not thought enough about it to see the necessity of It some were abundantly able to obey the hew I but wore not willing In the eftsc of one hlph priest the reaon w u given that his wife pnvn a good tithing und so he dlrtn feel 1 called upon to do so One of the most ronmrkuble rUJOtUI wan that glen by a teacher ftT the church who said that he neither Believed In paying tithing nor In God Another Peculiar reason given by one of the unfaithful Lfor not meeting the requirements of fthe church In this respect wns that he did not like his blahop und therefore would not pay tithing DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLE President JOMph F Smith the next speaker suit Jiat the law ot tithIng was one of vlUl Importance to the members of the church Uc said that in the Inclplmy of tlm4 church a law wu revealed Which wnJil more perfect than tile law of tithing but the imo iiK were unprepared tq receive It Sail W oul of mercy the lord had given them the luw of tithIng The j > eflkiT Mid by the principle of the law of Milling it < oilld bp told nho vas f > r thf kirigdnm of find anl a li l uii against It nh r hrarta a rc set on doing the will of God and keeping his commandments and sanctifying the land of Zion for God and who were opposed op-posed to It President f mlth related an Incident In the life of his mother with rolutlon to this principle lie said lint at one time early in the spring whon potatoes wore scarce and high his mother who was a widow with a largo family lo support had her son pick out a wogonload of the best potatos they had and carry them to the tlth Ingbonse Upon reaching there a clerk named William Thompson told her It was a shame for her lo have to pay tithing but she Insisted upon ti I and said she would not be deprived of the blessings which she would riTPlvo I by being Catt1Jflll In the paying of hrfr tithing President Smith said Hut his mother was faUhfuL hi the observamo I of the principle until tIll day of lur death while the clevk William Thompson Thomp-son aposiatlzed and forsook his wives and children for time rInd for eternity CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA William H Smart = oitlw Eastern Stales mission and EJIL Nye of the California mission were called upon to I bear their testimony wth relation to the observance of the l Sw of lllhlng In l hell I respective district Each icpurt 1 ed a great revival pjT faithfulness I among the Saints In meeting 1 this obligation I obli-gation of the churehjind said that greater interest bad bean shown during the pusl year than1 Irt several years previous I The benediction was pronounced by Eider Rulson S Wells after which conference adjourned until 2 oclock TAYLOR WANTS MORE LIBERTY In the opening prayer 1 at the afternoon after-noon session Elder Joseph E Taylor asked God to render abortive any plan on the part of the enemy to wrong the Saints and that the evil they desired might bo turned upon their own heads He asked God to soften the hearts of those In power in our Nation that they may administer Justice and righteousness righteous-ness and that we may have preserved to us that liberty which Is guaranteed to us by the Constitution ot the country coun-try in which we live The names of the authorities of the church were then presented and sustained sus-tained by the conference The names of the eleven apostles were presented and sustained then President Cannon proposed the name of Reed Smool to occupy the position made vacant by the death of Franklin D Richards and he was sustained After all the authorltks of the church had been voted upon the names of the board of trustees of the Wb4 1 i k r I JcoV 4 T LrI IC I A The Crowd at the Tabernacle was So Great that all the People Could Not I Get In Brigham Young academy were also j l vuv scntcd a ml suslampd APOSTLE SMOOT SPEAKS I The newlychosen apostle was thou called to the stand and addressed the congregation as follows f My Dear Brothers and SislenI I feel very weak in standing before this vast audience and no doubt many of you are surprised at my being called 11 j to this oosltion but I can assure you I that there is I no one in the audience more surprised than myself Five y aia ago I was called by the mouthpiece of the Lord to occupy a position In the presidency of the Utah stake That was a surprise to me at the time und I thought to myself that the Lord moves In u mysterious way And this after noon when called upon to occupy a position 1 po-sition as one of the twelve I certainly feel more humble more weak than 1 ever did in my life I beg of you brethren of the twelve to bear with me and my mistakes I beseech of you my brethren and sisters to lena me your faith and your prayers for I need them and just so far as God gives me wisdom and light and revelation Just so far can J da his will and serve him in this calling You who know me know that my life has been in the direction of business busi-ness more than any oilier but now that this call from God has been placed I upon me I hope and trust that i will I i do nothing aye I would rather lose I my right arm than to betray the con I lldence that you hae placed in me thin day by voting for mo this day and my only desire is that God will give me power to do the duties that are placed upon me acceptably in his sight LOWEST GLORY FOR GOOD GENTILES GEN-TILES After a splaclion by the Harmony Glee club I President George Q Cannon Can-non addressed the Saints upon his favorite fa-vorite theme the attainment of colcv hal glory ajid what was required of the Saints In order that they might 1 attain thOleunto namely by obedience to the highest law of God All Saints I he said desired to attain unto this I glory but some of them would fall I attaining only to the tolpsilil or the terreslrlal glory lie saId that the le lestial or lowest of the three glories may be relegated to good honorable Gentiles men that cannot believe the gospel havo nOl faith enough but who are honorable men and who do right according to the heat knowledge that hey have President Cunnon said that while he had a desire to Jo anything that the Lord required of him that he nevor yet had shrunk from any duly but did not know how soon he might do so inasmuch in-asmuch as he was hut a poor mortal Ho said that all his life he had suffered I from mental fear that he had never I I had any physical fear but had always been timid In public affairs where men I lul courage was required TERMS THEM DEFAULTERS Then referring lo the subject of tith lug President Cannon said the reason the people had heard so much of it at lie conference was because these peo ole called Latterday Saints are de faulters because they have utterly I failed to keep l this law He wild It I wu Just UK necessary that the Saints keep that law as any other given by I God He assured his hearers that neither President Snow nor any of the I apostles cared about the law being enforced because ft would benefit them I but wished it because of the good it would bring to the people that Prcsl < dent Snow and the apoatles were able to live without being R burden to the I people He Kid In closing that Jf the Saints did not pay their tlihinr their t faith would wither the spirit of GoO would be withdrawn and they would be I in darkneBji t I The closing nnthem by the choir Heavenly Father We Would Worallip I Thy Great Name was mont beautiful ly I rendered Mrs Lizzie Thomas IM I ward and Mtm I > Mabel J Cooper luklnx the solo part Apoitlt Francis M L > Hmn pro j I rount J H br iii mItt flon adjourning I I J confcrtnt for six montJia |