Show CAL conference abo sixty first semiannual semi annual conference of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints was characterized with the old time fervor on the part oe the members of the church thousands flocked to the capital for the occasion hundreds of whom had come many miles distance though conveniences at salt lake were not the best and some had to spend the night on the street abot being able to secure a bed there mur mering many of these camo persons who flocked to salt lake may perhaps have received the gospel in foreign ands where they endured great hardships to have the pleasure of ming liag with each other in worship many perchance have walked miles to attend meetings on a sabbath and on the way may have been subject to the abuse and even mob violence of the unfeeling world this same rel legious enthusiasm still burns in breasts today to day and the same feelings of hate on the part of a biased world are manifest that raged in days of yo re never die out as long as the saints continue to live their religion some excuse will always bo found to har rasa them and their opponents will ever delight in trying to make them renounce their allegiance to their ra ligion and their godin the past it has been polygamy that caused the enemies of the mormon church to ra se they must renounce it has boontje cry but when the president of the church came forth with a manifesto they hoped against fate that it could be make out a lie because it took them eo suddenly that they were not prepared for it the tribune has that the mani festo did not come about in the right way it is not strictly official and authoritative etc the action of the aught to not only the tribune but tho whole world that president manifesto is strictly authoritative and binding on the church it will now be in order to drop the polygamy bugaboo and harp on priestly rule or some other theme that they may in their imagination concoct because we cannot see how any more can be consistently asked of the church on the polygamy question |