Show s T GlOSEOF CONFERENCE i 5 Church Officers Sustained at i I Final Session l MORMON DOCTORS INDORSED f I DProsident Joseph Smith Advised I Those AlXicted With Disease to I Employ Only Physicians of Their Own Tnith President Anton H i Lund Denied Influence of Mormonism Mormon-ism in Hooper Youngs Crime The Young People Advised to Attend State University It X The seventythird semiannual Mormon Mor-mon conference ended yesterday with two wellattended sessions and the t Jarge crowds of coiiformicc visitors tip gan leaving the city in the evening I iAmont the addresses of the day was L I that oT President Anton H Lund r counsellor to President Smith In whlcn he urged that Ignorance Is a hindrance to salvation and dqnled the assertion i that the Latterday Saints arc an 1 s k norant people President Lund also rtv F iutcd the charge that Hooper Youngs crime In New York was In any way due to the influencer of Mormonlsm t Baying the influences were Instead f those of the world At the close of the afternoon session all the present wtllcers of the church were sustained hy > the aascmhlace PreHldcnt Joseph Smith advised the SaInts when alclr to employ only physicians and nurse who arc mew hers of the church as the latter could be doubly l useful In i administering med lelnp and In laying on lulndf TVhle the congregation which gath bred at the mornings sosalon was not EO large as thnt seen on the previous day every available seat wan presiftd Into service antI many people re tnalned standing throughout a portion nf the morning As on the previous day many questions of Interest to the SainlB wOre discussed and reports of nevoral of the outlying stakes of 5Clon given by the presidents of the respective respect-ive stakes f PbBNTY OF POOR PEOPLE Apostle Marrlner W Morrlll whose 5lfe has heen Kjicnt almost entirely in the valleys of the I mountains and k who nuidf the opening remarks at the I morning scwlon told first of the wonderful won-derful advance which hun hen made by the pcopli of Utah since the days r of the pioneers and wondered what thp development would be In the next Jlfty yearn by comparison The report mull by Apostle Smoot l on Sunday that there were no poor In some of the stakes of Zion way not received with favor by Aiwstle Merrill Mer-rill who dnuhUd that there is a SLake In all Zion which has no poor Ha c tier he expressed the brllef that there F has been a laxity on tlH part of thone who should he diligent In these mat ten and they have failed to find the poor In their respective stakes Many poor lio I said were too proud to let their wants he know I Uiifinlng Into debt and lie mortgag ing1 of homes was denounced by Apos tic Merrill HP i said people wore too much given to running Into debt to DpJcjuahoi hoceuac their neighbors Mere able to do HO and he expressed J the hope that from this time forth the r r tttorduy Saints would cease to mortgage anything which they may r1 ppHHew He Hall that Kometlmcs it Is necessary to mortcacc but as a rule 1 it could be avoided und le hope tho r pfople would hereafter live within I their means even as their fathers did There was a time said he when there wrt no mortgages In all the stakes of Zion but it Is not true to lIlLY I dont suppose thereis a stukc I I of ZIon that la h free today PAY PAY PAY II And the I nulckoft way for everyman every-man and oman to act out of debt oontlmid Apostle Merrill Is to pay his or hr tithing Let un pay our tithes and offerlngn no matter what our neighbors do In the matter Why If the church had the Interest w < Iw veto ve-to pay outside capital h would amount to considerable Lot ps slop the outflow out-flow of nvuns from our people and from our church and from the presidency l presi-dency of tlu church David K Ldall president of St John jrl stake has spent the past tvi nty srvcrt yoari laboring for the church on the frontier He imported the otnkc tp be In a prosperous rnndltlon with Its Inhahltantn at peace with each other with the tribes of Indians IC fldlng In the vicinity and with the officials of-ficials l l of the Territory The people am free from homing FO far ns their property Is concerned and though there arr but 1500 Joints In the stak they huvo built fourteen r < ervolrp at n cost of JEOnoo and they arc all paid forEld Eld r Jess Crosby who piesldea over the Ulg Horn Wyo stake gave n very favorable report of conditions t there t Tie said the progress of the work being done Is watched with In tfivat not only by the Governor of Uyorolng who Is I a friend 0 f the people peo-ple hut by colonizers In different parlor parl-or the country Th < people of the wlnke have built 133 miles of canals Bt a cost of J100000 WORK JN ALP1NB STAKE Seven ntxv meetinghouses one of them to cost between J50000 and JXi r 00 are now In progreup of crertlon bv i the people of Alpine lake The work helnc done there wan reported by lil der Stophcn L Chlpman the I president of the stake In advising young women of the several t eral stakes of ZIon to come to Halt Lake anti take the course In nursing given by I the Relief society President Smith also took occasion to advise I the Saints to have nurses and doctors of c their own faith when necessary the latter Aiders l In the church that they night anoint the buffering with oil and pray for their recovery At tin close of his remarks conference ad journed until 2 chock At Closing Session I Apostle Taylor the first speaker at I yiu afternoon Cession spoke along or Ujodox Utica saying that the prcboncc ° i the Latterday SaInts In the Taber ttiule Was the fulfillment of a prophecy President Edward C Lymann of the han Juan stake told of the condltloijH vesting throughout hlH district and Wld thnt If any one present wns dls iwtlsflcd with his present location he 8hould cay a visit to San Juan after > r which lib would KO back home and be ntmt to HUiy there Prculdont Ly J1UOlj > wun followed In the pulpit by Prrsldont J B KW T of the Ulnh Ikfi and Pnsld1t Milton Welling of u llml btrtkc air 1 Welling wild l theM rphe the-M of his > atllke are prosperous and auhfui th In following the teaching of churcli He auld among the eleven war1s of his dlBtrlct there Is one of hleh nil lho n mbcffl arc Indiana who at art tanking good Christians or AN IGXOUANT PEOPLE ft ldcnt Anton H Lund refuted thc fltrtlon that has hcn mado that the 31 I ° Crt1InH are an Ignonint has people It I Ul mlt that We lIr c an Ignornlt oplr anti that the Ktrcnglh or the rhurrh II > In hnorn nC j Mid Prcsldpiit JJund ThIs Is not the caec Ao want ill the children to attend school We hook upon Ignorance ns a hindrance to Gal vat 1011 Vc hoar from our academies the peaker continued that there IP a better bet-ter attendance than usual A c > eater ppropriatlon wa < made this year than ever before for the pjipport of these I schools We believe these t Institutions will be the means of saving thousands oC souls Many who go East could go to the tnte university and learn Just as much as they do In the East Religion ian not be taught at the university as all lasseJr and erred are represented there but there I should be some way by whIch the principles of our faith can bo taught to those who wish to study holpgy 4 SHOULD NOT DEBATE Some one bus saUC President Lund ontlnued that we are afraid to de That Is I Imt on ciueHtlonH of theology not true ft Ih not that AVO arc afraid Jut we do not car to debate V > wjinl to follow the I master and not win bat t ks In debating Those who fek to obnlc with our Aiders am those who thirst for the honor of beating them Thoy are seeking contention and not nowledge Therefore we advise our I ilbsionarles not to contend ABOUT HOOPEK YOUNG Hefcrrlng to the 1 murder of which looper I YpuuK Piands actused and the haiges that have been made that the ntfiipiices of Mormonlsm hud SOIIK thing to do with the offense Mr Lund asserted that Hooper Young probably lnew little or nothing of the teachings of the faith uu was OU tin the woild that I he learned wrong and not from the caching of our faith the speaker asj t crtcd WORK FOR THE DEAD President John ft Winder urged that the Important mattel of doing work for he dead should not be neglected lIe aid the friends and relatives of those who have passed away should have thc work In the Temple done for them een ns the Prophet Joseph had said that people should look out for the spiritual wel fa re of their dead relatives URGED PAYMENT OF TITHING In regard to the payment of tithing Ir Winder said all should be careful ndconfTlLntIous In making these pay ncntH He thought that In paying tith tag people should not care so much for the dollars and cents us for the bless lug It brings The conference closed with the con nnatlon of the ofllcers of the church |