Show priesthood MEETING jhc thc subject of attention WHICH SMOOT GIVES WHOLESOME ADVICE high council report on hiis tiis matter staka tabernacle from saturdays DAILY alie regular priesthood meeting con in alie priesthood dooin aliis morning being called to order promptly at 10 by president D john eighty two members wore present prayer wayon t red tred ly bishop john ion provident smoot wished alie brethren i chippy new year and hoped it might bo a prosperous one felt satisfied alie knect of the fast with alio nation and aliis people the past year was very eventful he hoped none were behind in tithes and olle rings some changes are contemplated tem plated in regard to the ti thins he thought that alie various wars would be called to bear the very greab los lo s effected by over estimates of inythe loss was very in bably thirty three per cent had been loat should sustain the los it property it biad appraised utah county biad in 1889 paid about worth of stock which would scarcely bring many old broken down family biad beau paid and appraised according to the love of alie family for alie old standby he sympathized with the general tithing office and thought alio matter should be corrected by alie word officers it is the desire of the presidency to bring these things prominently before the bishops bishop johnson thought eacle individual should bear his own losses and not alie ward elder james W bean said that many articles came in for kitbing that were considered secondhand second hand because they were in the office while the really were more than what they would bring bishop halliday of american fork thought there was as great a variety in mens tithing accounts as in their cloth ing Those who the tithing should have the support of the presidency pay cash if possible for on that there Is no waste or loss while the presidency of alie stake apply their remarks directly to the bishops they are lashing other men over our heads bishop packard of springville Spring ville endorsed the remarks of bishop halliday thought the bishops had a hard row to hoe they could by taking good care of ano tithing paid in deal justly with the people handle the people according to the material of which they are made about alie only thing I 1 have refused is young pigs because they eat their heads on president smoot said that since arc oton had been acting he had worked to reduce alie tibbe payments down to alie current cash basis while previously set prices were not deviated from president david john requested a report from alio high council who were appointed to visit the wards in behalf of alie stake tabernacle alie report from every ward represented was exceedingly favorable and very promising of good results president john said that in spiritual matters the people were quite harmonious but in regard to temporal things there are all kinds and shades of opinions alie observance of the law of consecration together with commandments prepared the people of enoch for translation this law has been given to the people of these days but they receive it very weakly in another revelation god in hia mercy revealed to the people that compliance to tho law of consecration would not be exacted until the redemption of zion but that the people should be tithed of their surplus property ninety nine per cent of the saints have not kept aliis law of tithing every saint should lay liis financial condition before alie bishop and let him judge of how much is really necessary for eliat persons worldly wanta and what portion is surplus the are judges of spiritual things and should be of temporal most of the people quarrel over dollars and not prayers president smoot said I 1 have for twenty years paid our own expenses and the little expenses attendant to our calling any man not an honest tithe payer be to ask tor a recommend to go to the house of god when people feel like consecrating everything to god then the persecutions j will end if they dont make more harmony between spiritual and temporal affairs iliev will some day approach a gale through which they cannot pass meeting adjourned antil the first saturday in february benediction was pronounced by bishop anell |