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Show THOUSANDS ATTEND 1 MS CONFERENCE II gal Fifteen Thousand Persons Pres-; Jl ent at the Meeting Sun- jsij day. Afternoon. H BUT ONE ALLUSION MADE BY W SPEAKERS TO TEMPERANCE lm Subject Which Was Elaborated S Upon 'First Day Relegated ' m the Second Day. x jM ' ' 1 m There have been crowd? in the grounds on which ia located the temple, a ; the tabernacle and the assembly hall, ' but, never before was there such a jam 3 ' of, people as gathered there on Sunday 'f when the second day 's session of the 2 seventy-eighth annual coufcrcnce f. j opsued. The crowd was estimated 5 at" from 20.000 to 25.000. In ' the great tabernacle every inch J of space was occupied, and the v jjw attendance at the morning session was -Sl at least 12,000 persons, while at the afternoon session 15,000 people were packed in the great apditorium. and A' every one of the many eutraucc ways St was jammed. ' &fa There were overflow meetings both morning and afternoon in ihe assembly Sm? hall, and in the afternoon there was an mZ outdoor overflow meeting iu addition ' to the one in the assembly hall, tho speakers addressing the crowd from tho , '"jB" portico of tho information bnroau. Great Crowd Present. I '(i It is believed that outside of Salt wl Lako about twelve per cent of the en- ' tff tire population of the stato were in Salt !l Lake. The day was a perfect April day. mf It was just warm enough, it was just ' "vkf cold enough. Tt wns au ideal spring in '"-fl- a country where nearly every dayu the . year is an ideal one. ' -Im And Salt Lakors turned out, too. 'u There were more handsome women and 'A'm girls upon the streets of Zion on Sun- ' ;1 dav afternoou than were ever seen there ' ;! before. And the men. too, as likewise ;S :;l the younger ones, wore better lookint; . than usual. Thronged as were the f . ' streets and the Temple block grounds, . the day was frco from accident. It was 5$ almost beautiful da-, and at no April 'a -I conference in hiator- did the weather Yj man receive jo inanv blessings as ha i A ,i did Sunday. . M I Temperance Question Ignored. " y I'Vrm I Th the two aessi6ns of tho confer- Vw ence hold in the tabernacle, there was f 4,,B i one thing that was particularly notice- J ! able In addition t'o iTie great sea of ? , . ikm laoes that made up the l'ig congroga- '''?V'B lion, ami that was that not a single '1)9 speaker referred to the temperance ' 'All question, with the exception ot Presi- t'-")Uwl dent Jkiviett bf Fremont, fldaho) stake. , Mul who in his invocation at the opening of M the afternoon session made a rofcreuce ' -m,,T to temperance. In the overflow moot- XlMi ing in the assembly hall in the morning, J -jni over which ' Apostle Craut presidod, he ''z'W also alluded to the temperance qiies- V ' 1; tion, while at the Saturday session ' 1 tx temperance was tho theme of every s " 3? .speaker, beginning with Joseph l ? ' V Smith and on down the line of speakers. 'f ff Thames for Addresses. j - , jij:. The Word of Wisdom and the Doc- i -l ( trine and Covcnauis were the subject? Mi most frequently referred to Sundaj'i and "? V$ all were urge(l to heed both. M!ost of : ' v ' li the addresses were in the nature of doc- ' V - j trinnl sermons. Apostle Orson V. Whit- fi ' ney occupied nearly an hour at. sthe v afternoon session in telling the pernio r i' i what Mornionism is. " f,. ;r Tho general authorities were not an- V, l nounced at the Sunday session, but will J ' : V bo today, t had been nnnouiiccd that. iS M thny would be presented at the Suu- ,r ,f 7 daj- session, but for some reason thev !..' I ' were not. There is but one more npos- 3 f tic to be hoard; that one is Anthonv -jV' Tving. He . will in all probability bo ' 'Mv 1 the first speaker this morning. " . mh-' : Sunday Morning Session. ' . Promptly at 10 o'clock Sunday morn- ' HmV ing, President Josoph F. Smith called . JT- the conferenco lu order. Twelve ihou I' m,i sand people were present. The hymn. a . - "Harkl Liston to tho Trumpeters,'"' waj : sung by the ohoir. The invocation waj . ' 3 i! offered by President Andrew Kimball .y Itl of St. Joseph stako. Arizona. This 1 was followed bv the choir singinq" Y - 5- Simple Souls Who Strav.5' President J? ; J? Joseph F. Smith then admonished the Jt big audience to keep as quiet es'.possl- ' '.'? 1 L ble in order that the speakers nlight bo J il heard r '.1.1 Apostlo Olawson Spoai I ,jf-1 Apostle Rudger Clawon was the first I. iTjl 4 hpeaker. Man Was timid, he said, in t " . facing a vast congregation such at- r , Ti') present this ntorning. He referred to ( "li1'!Jl the priesthood meeting held on Satur- 'ttlfl day night in tho tabernacle, when T3S9 ffll souls were presont. Tt was a homo- "15 n goneous gathering, not n heterogeneous 1 ilL ill one. Had a sirancer been presont, ho ' ' llti'l saidt that stranger would havo seen the 1 ' .( I presidency of tho ohtirch, whoso author- J ity was supreme, from whom no appeal could bo taken, as it was so ordered , 1 by the Lord. IFe would have sccu the ' v Ir'i quorum of the twelve, the seven' prosi- 1 ' v f - f dents of riie seventios, the patriarch of ' tho church, tho presidents of tho fifty- t . ''':.. six slakes, the elders and the bishopric, l ' :t the- bishops of 05L' wnrds in tho stakes ' "7 f of Zion. The stranger would have also"-. ' 1.1 seen the several auornms of -the var- r I -' ft ions priesthood. HJad those nien ben . 1 -' 1 called to act then, continued. Apostlo. j J Jr. jl; Clnwson, each would havo known how f iv Jf ; to act and over what his authority ex- $ J ' V' tended. They would have boon n "solid L) I' m . phalanx. Such is the priesthood, and IK h I this, he said, is tiio result of seventy- J i I Jl eight years of trniniug; of showing the. 1 ' J?j1b spirit of obedience, of harmony, of one- i 'K- V 1 ness of purpose. I Nowhere, he said, could such a bodv J ''1 of men as tho one assombled Saturday i .i hflt niijht be gathered except iu Utah. Ho . A' rcrerred to a hymn in which ihe ts projdiot was praised, aud said the hvnm K ''' ' expressed a spirit, which was un'con-' Hi tfm quernble. Ho then gave in brief the i- .ffi.sl history of the prophet -and of tho time t ' 11 U when he wns put in Carthago jail and V illvifB there suffered martyrdom. It. was thil ' t. t i!r lflH Binnt that burned in the hearts of . p Pf,r 111 " ' ii 1 If i Brieh'am Younjr and John Taylor and 1 "Wilford Woodruff, the roal missionary I . wuo carried tho rospel lo nil purls or. 1 1,0 -world, as also Lorenzo Snow. It is 4 t the spirit thai; burns in tho heart of i . the present head of tho church, llio prophet. Ho then paid a tribute to ' losoph IT. Smith and tho work lie was - i ioinEf. J Professor Kent's? male chorus then I saiiR "Nearer, Aly God, to Then." I Apostlo Hynun M. Smith Hoard. ' Apostle Hyrum Smith was tho nest speaker. After admonishing 4 the jLiidionco to koop as quiet as t possible, no said, whilo all arc not living up p to all the commands and covenants of I, .the church, he bolioved that the Lat- j ter-day Saints -wore endcavorinr to so '( Jvc. ilo beliovod the Paints wero jrot- . , tine hotter. Tho congregation Is an J n'idenco. he said, that, the Latter-day Saints do not live by bread alone, but. are extremoly desirous of hearing the word of God as it was givon through his servnnts. It is the truth the saints sock, he said, and no ono is bettor bet-tor acquainted with tho tmr.li than w " tho oracles of tho church. Wo want ' knowledge and truth, he continuod, I7. want to know what are the commands of God, so that tho people may keep them. Ho rejoiced, ho said, in tho faitht'ul- i ness of tho Latter-day Saints. lie ad vised the saints to eontinuo to follow ' ! tho lead of rho presidency and gon- j eral authorities, as hy so dninir they -would never go astray. Lro urged all x to look upon tho president and the ' quorum as examples worthy of emula tion. I Apostle George A. Smith Brief. I" Apostle George A. Smith, in opening P, V his remarks, indicated that each spcak- i j. or had been allotted so much time in which lo make his address. He said ho looked upon the sacrament; of tho 1 Lord's supper an of the greatest- ini- v, ' portnnce. The scripture in many if places teaches its importance, as did L j the Lord when ho was on the oarth , ' and in the flesh. He wns glad that ! the Baints attached so much to the vl sacrament. ' Our hearts must bo pure, our hands must be clean, he said, beforo partaking of the sacrament; then it would be a i blessing. In this requirement tho Lat- Ter-naj' Saints are Improving. He -vj. urged the cleanliness of vessels used J iu tho sacfamout. The sacrament should not bo received, he said, with a glovod band. Ho said tho Lord had spoken to tho j people through the Bible, the Book of ATormon. and tho Doctrino and Oovo- nants. He believed that tho sacrament . is not tho body literally, of the Savior, $ as some others do, but that it is par ity takon "in remembrance of 3Ie.,J Ho cited Eection 20 of Doctrine and Covo- uants to sustain him and concluded I' "by urging that the church bo as one I unit. J Apostlo Richards on Salvation. I i Apostle George F. llichards was tho ! ; next speaker. Hq was suffering with a j severe cold and spoke with some diffi- !-' culty. Ho sustained all that had been said" "by "all preceding speakers during this conference. He quoted from Lnko 'joriv. 14th verse, and showed tho folly of nttompting to build a stmcturo without with-out proper plans and preparations. Ho used this to impress upon the pcoplo The neccssitv or having plans m all that they did. Tilings earthly, he said, are typical of things heavenly. So that this great plan which moans tho salvation of all must have an archi-tect archi-tect wlio. prepared his plans and worked -out tho details for the structure. .Tho Iji Lord, said Apostlo Bichards, is tho fr great architect, .tho builder. Ho indi- cotes to his. workmen, the prophets, to a - what He desires. Apostle Bichards then quoted from .the prophet Joseph, regarding the great plan of salvation for the human family. fam-ily. Ho thou defined Mormonism as -tho machinery to oarrjr out the plan. There is no confusion in tho work of BJ the Lord; the confusion in tho world is duo to the plans of men. Mormon-ism, Mormon-ism, said Apostle Bichards, is the big-Hn big-Hn gest thing m the wide world. It is the law by which tho children of men fill all ho nudged. Whore thcro is no law there is no judgment. Where B, formonism exists, no continued, it is BH'. a savior of life. It is tho law. Tho H.h; .foundation is revelation. And upon HB' A this rock of revelation has the church HH he on builded. j ATormonism rises in adversitj', said H Apostlo Bichards, as 'the moro tho saints H , and pounded and houndod, the more H they thrive. Whan onr opponents kick H ns thoy always kick us up hill, Baid BB he. Mormoniom, he declared, is grow-' H i ing moro rapidly than over beforo. The HH ' church had a humble beginning, but it HH ) . has progressed and will eo continue ti until it fills tho whole earth.. To doubt Hl j Mormonism, ho said, was to doubt the word of God. B j. Wo know, he continued, that Joseph H Smith is the prophet of God. Tho choir then Bang the anthem, " In r1' Our Redeemer's Name," the bonedic- B tlon was pronounced by President H Shurtliff of Weber stake, and the con- f forence adjourned- until 2 o'clock. HH , Afternoon Meeting. Hl n ' When at 2:06" o'clock this afternoon j A President Joseph T. Smith called the H 3 conference to order, thoro wero not less H I than 15,000 persons in the tabernacle. J, Every available inch of space was occu- f pied and hundreds wero turned away, 4 unable to gain admission. Whilo the i . audience was assembling. Professor Mc- 31 ! . Clellan, the organist, played a march H'j ' from "Tannhauscr'' on the great or- ft When the conference was in order j vl tho choir sang the anthem, "Oh, Beauty J I f Holiness." Tho invocation was by j' President Thomas H. Barrett of Fre- H, jnont, Ida., stake. In Ids prayer ho H. alluded to temperance, tho onlj' refer- " nce to the subiect that was made in a tho tabemaclo during the day. The LJ thoir then sang the anthem, "God Is 1 Our Bcfnge." H -J Apostle Whitney First Speaker. ; Apostle Orson P. Whitno'y was the '"a vnt speaker, who began his remarks v' nrit'1 n Btory- 'IVo ministers, ho said, H 'H "ere conversing, when one said to the ft other, "Why Is it that people love to ''h eT,V011 preach? Why is it that they ' j' dislike to hear mo?" The reply wabi J. .J- Km always telling the people how yc .they can bo saved, whilo you are al- k wyn tolling the people what not to do f. r "ej "will be damned." There is no f, Jl damnation, said ApoBtle Whitney, in the EU P.ofPel, but there is a great deal out- Kr vi 5i 5 f ' Icn conaemn themselves, fe- v God nses all possible means for the sal- H' 1 ' vaticm.of men. He will fashion, form J Sn" .s'lBl)e conditions to meet salvation H"7I 5or - 1 ineu- 3amnation follows tho re- , nection of tho means of salvation. Sup- Hmf i .a man -fallen into a pit, un- 3 . abJe. to emerge or get out. Then comos B9 i a fnend who says, "I will help you." MW i Ho passes down a ladder and asks the to climb. But if ho rofuse it, who" ! BW $ 5p responsible? By transgression man '"J I01L tan cannot be virtuous or honest Hv enough to save himself, hence a gospel HC-'h v?8 Seted for him. Jesus offered B. himself to save tho world, and ho be- Mi heho ?f, lif? of salvation. B. 1 rt1?183 tho laddor in tho pit and V sked the world to climb. The first HH' Und,0f the Vad4er iG ith; tho second, V repentance, of Bin; the third, baptism J bnndBlraeTS1n; fourth JayiuK on of K'.- ' Mormonism, continued Apostlo Whit- noy, is n gospel of Kalvation. H not only saves tho living, but also savos the7 dead, ".losoph Smith's revolt wns against Methodism and the lurid theology the-ology of Prcsbyterianisin," is tho way an eminent minister put' tho (juostion to mo, saying: "Had he known my church, thcro would bo no 3d"ormoniHin." This, Apostlo Whitney said, was not truo, for Joseph Smith wns a froe thinker. Ho took God nt His word and received the word. Ho referred to a lime that Joseph Smith and Olivor Cowdry, ho suid, wore transcribing tho plates; both had gone into tho woods to pray and woro visited by an augel,who conferred upon thorn tho Anronic priesthood. This angel declared de-clared to these two men. said the apostle, apos-tle, that there was a still higher priesthood, priest-hood, tho MolchLzedok, which would later bo conforred upon them, ''ndcr this authority, ho said, the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was, on April 0. IS30, organized. Apostlo Whitney thou road from the Doctrine and Oovonnnts and said two years beforo his dentn the prophet, then in hiding at Nauvoo. sent a dispensation dispensa-tion to his pooplo regarding tho baptism of the dead. Apostlo Whitney then ngain read from tho Doctrino nnd Covenants. The past belongs to Tvlormouism, tho future likewise, continued Apostlo Whitnoy. Mormonism is not a nineteenth nine-teenth ccntur' religion, but hns como down from Jehovah. When did Mor-monism Mor-monism originate? T know of no better bet-ter explanation than the one given by Joseph Smith, viz., that God, finding Himself surrounded by spirits,' created laws that were for nians progression, and that it is by means of this gospel that wo aro onablcd to attain to ctorual life and go on to perfection. Mormonism, ho continued, declares that Adam and Pvo received the gospel and wero baptized. It will take a thousand thou-sand years to redeem the dead who never hoard tho name of Ohrist, said the apoBtlo. Abraham had this gospel revealed to him. In the meridian of time comes the Savior, who chose tho twelve apostles to preach tho gospol, and on down to Monnonism. Mormonism proposos to save all men, ho declared, but upon eternal justico, so that a man will be known by his works. The principle of -vicarious work for the dead has been revealed of later years. Mormonism deals with tho past, as also tho futuro. It is not an enemy to tho hnnianN race or tho Gentile, and this is not used in a dorisivo waj', but it moans all who do not belicvo as tho Latter-day Latter-day Saints. Columbus and Washington and tho founders of this great government govern-ment of ours,, said Apostle Whitney, wero Gentiles. Mormons aro not eno-mios eno-mios of Gentiles. Their mission is to save all men. The choir then sang a hymn, "True to the Faith;" Apostle McKay Is Heard. Apostlo D. O. McKay said the greatest great-est good of assembling together was tho fact of new thoughts being presented. This conference had been particularly fruitful in tho awakening of thought. If tho 20,000 people assembled on this ground today, he said, would say. "I chooso to servo the Lord," what a groat army that would be. Why cannot all Israel choose to servo the Lord 9 Tho church, though in the world, is not of tho world. The church stands for tnith, the world stands for error. Chooso yo this day whom ye shall serve. You cannot can-not sorvo two masters; you cannot serve God and Mammon. Tho Lord said to Joseph Smith, continued con-tinued Apostlo McKay, speaking of the churches of tho world, "Thoy draw-near draw-near me with their lips, but their hearts are not with me." Wo don't want lip service. Every man has his duty to perform; if one fails, things aro disarranged. dis-arranged. President Joseph P. Smith then announced an-nounced that tho general authorities would be presented on Monday, April 6. the anniversary of the organization of the church. The choir sang the anthem, "Ho-sanna," "Ho-sanna," the benediction was pronounced by Bishop William H. Seogmillor. and then the conference adjourned until 10 o clock this morning. Overflow Meetings. j In the assembly hall on Sunday morn-, ing there was an overflow meeting, Apostle Hebor J. Grant presiding. In-cludine In-cludine himself, there wore - six speak ors. The building was packer! the snmc ns the tabernacle. Gorman 1-J. Ellsworth of the Eastern States mission was tho first speaker, lie detailed at length tho work in his field, j "tnling thai 70,000 copies of Mormon literature had been distributed the past year in his territory, of which 5S.000 were piiuiphlots and '12,000 copies of the Book of Mormon. Noplii Pratt of tho Northwest Srntes mission was the second speaker. Ho told of the work done and what had boon accomplished in his vineyard. Much progress had boon made in making converts, and the tithes had boon paid moro promptly than ever before. He was followed by Andrew Jcneoii, assistant historian, 'who scored late comers to tho church for their tardiness. Tho saints, he said, had established their kingdom, hero and thorcforo it was tho duty of all to be prompt, in whatever what-ever they did. Franklin S Bramwell, president of Union staket Lc Grande, Oregon, gave facts and figures rogarding Sunday school work, stating thnt in his stake eighty-five per cent of the children attended at-tended Sunday school, and ho hoped to soon roport'all in attendance. William LI. Swant of Uintah stako told of the recent conforonco hold in that stake and of itn great success. Ho urged parents to set. a good examplo at all times, so that their children could follow them in good work. Apostlo Grant closod the mooting, his nddress being upon temperance, arid was in lino with what ho said in tho conference con-ference on Saturday. Afternoon Overflow. Noarly three thousand persons who wero unable to find seats in the tabor-naclo tabor-naclo mot in tho assembly hall Sunday Sun-day aftornoon and listened to doctrinal addresses by members of the church from different parts of Utnh and Idaho. Bishop George I? 01111103' presided. pre-sided. .After the opening prayer. Bishop Tvoniney introduced Stako President Stephen L. Chipmnn of Alpine. He niade a doctrinal address on Mormonism, Mormon-ism, cautioning tho young saints present pres-ent to bo careful to "obo3r the Word of Wisdom at all times and undor all conditions. iijsiiop Hart of Idaho was tho next speaker, and the major part of his talk waa on the holiness of tho revelations received through Joseph "F. Smith, prophet, soor and revelator. Bishop Hart was followed by Mosos Taj'Jor, who was the strongest speakor for the dn3 He followed up the tamo line of thought which was outlined by Presidont Joseph F. Smith in his address ad-dress to tho saints Saturday. His ad-dross ad-dross was principally on tho Word of Wisdom and tho temperanco movement. In his address, Bishop Hart admittod that in the past there wero a fow cases whore members of the church had fallen into tho ways of a drunkard, and cautioned cau-tioned tho mothers of tho coming generation gen-eration to keep their' children from tho paths of temptation. Tho programme closod with an address ad-dress from Stako President Orlean N. Slowell, whoso principal theme was tho same as those who precoded him. Thoro was another mcctiug hold in the open air, several spoakors addressing address-ing tho peoplo from the stops of tho bureau of information. Sunday night Lho Sunda- school conference con-ference was held in tho tabernacle. A number of addresses woro mado and faotB pertaining to Sunday school work detailod, - is |