Show ANNUAL conference proceedings aiji ot of mhd id ColVer ellea of lite church tf if jew jesus christ of latter I 1 adlet baij da y anu 8 hew tit at prove april pal G 6 7 and 8 in view new of 0 the stormy weather which the people lave have grown accas forced to during the conference sea bou bo 13 tha th auspicious diky of wednesday wua was grout 1 alii n h joy ous surprise by bj conferee Confor owe f gi g iu 1 i a lid il in bringing a rubt front surrounding fits t to alien I 1 the ihu 0 diening f B os wion awn 11 u c lock aimed irive 1 abo of provo prove view ero crowded with strangers and the be wit wagon oil loads of vi bitor were coming in in is as rapidly as over ever the HIB morning service began at 1015 10 15 apostle i snow presiding in there were present ont of the hosid W ive bc sides apostle snow apostles F D richards heher heber J grant and john IV taylor there 1 here were also present president Pre identA A M cannon canno eldor elder john nicholson aud and a large larne 9 number of distinguished dignitaries from bait luke lake hud and the neighboring stakes the 1 he assembly was called to order by apostle snow and the choir sung bung afflicted saints to christ draw near ar prayer by president ditt A III cannon choir sung smug goil god moves so in tt a mysterious way APOSTLE J IV president snow his baa requested mu me to make a few remarks 1 I 1 lim am extremely thankful for the privilege of meeting with the saints in in another general conference I 1 am thankful that peace and quietness reigns among the L latter atter day saints baines it t may be a question in in the minds of ome gome as aa to whether the present per 8 He e e cution u tiou of the saints is 19 being ot of benedit b e n to I 1 bad tho pleasure a fhi chrt rt time since bauce of meeting while on the D it RG G train traina a distinguish ed d eastern man laange asked if I 1 thought that the recent legislation would have bava the effect of breaking brna liing up the bation of the mormon church he seemed to be quite urgent on this question quest ionI I 1 told him that the latter day saints fould could take up the be scrip tures tares and give aleason a reason for the hope that was within them and they were ready tolie to lie down their lives rather thau than forsake their religion he seemed pleased with this he be said he al mired sine sincerity I 1 answered that there were a great many sincere p peo so pie in abu world that were mistaken in their opinions he said it was wai a the way the government was tr treating this people that of cour course I 1 knew before be told me bat bal it til did me good to meet an aa honorable and liberal minded man from thu thi world in ID the doctrine and covenants there is is a commandment that the tha poo peo pie should meet together on the first thursday of each month tor for fasting and and prayer no body appears until recently to have attended these meetings except who have a baby to bless or a few old veterans that have baye grown too old to work since the deputies have beon been going the tha rounds the houses bouses are too small to accommodate those who come coma to services the saints remind me of a colony of auto yoa lot let them tone alone and vory very few ew come out where t they hey can be seen but disturb them in in any way and bey albey come coma but in in swarms Brethren we have bane out not been ding di our duty many of our oar former gifts have been taken from us the gift kifton of healing his has waned our chil dren are boing borne by hundreds to their grave because wo a have neglected our on r duties and our prayers are fruit less no mun man can enjoy the tha gift of healing unless lie he is is it a man of fasting and prayer how many are thera herd before me ine that have fasted mondays ten ton daa days I 1 in ten years I 1 but we are are all awak ending to the ft of oar since we began to io be perse persecuted there is another thing which the raiders raider sare are doing for u ua they are cle Plug our congregations frera ua no believers and aad corrupt manual men anti wo men n they lire are ibo byco arta e and nd the hel liars ars to dej ito them hem 1 belas and we now more than 1 ever evar before know who tire are our enemies A few years coara ago president Pies ident brigham j igo young esta established shed an aa academy in in this place pl ica for the instruction of the chil drw dreu of the tha latter day saints not long since more not wort morn than inao a doami from froia attending that that flat gumbei has baa very greatly we must give the tb dop the credit ol 01 0 this goud ark wor kIam I 1 an tod old that there ther aare are children of the latter day saints sainta attending the so go tailed called mis sion aion schools s ial if I 1 were ware a catholic CathoN cl I 1 want my children aught gaughf to be ba Catholic i if f iwer I 1 adra fl a I 1 should want t hem taught to believe Is my kalf I 1 admire the sectarian soc u 1 fonaries ion aries for their de terminal e efforts to convert our children to their belief but I 1 do not lot admire the let ter day saints that permit them to do so BO I 1 say to the latter day saints attend to your prayers pray for your 13 I 1 pray F always fur for my eneau e t to ba itra thwarted wit ted in in their purpose to overthrow this people muy may god sanctity sanctify whatever may be said and done at this conf conference orenco to 0 o the ml gu I 1 of those anoa present and to 11 nil 1 r the people amen abita anitta 11 CANNON I I 1 have hava been I 1 deprive ibur fir two years frici on pling i ie oeral Cun forence with tile in lit latr r loy lisi luts oni I 1 teal fel thankful far this privilege vilere my luy broth breth run ron of meet 11 irmith ahli you iou it hua has i mt 1 l dinisi hint the he loom doom of ini ania i wui wm baled ua led but gd G il tm hii I 1 m TodAy to ly the afi pie lire i p mint through sentry I 1 1 I 1 I 1 ir J 1 I 1 ainu f but it if will lor irini fr ll 11 lloid kid hie 0 ll ut of ny people prop lk we VM mity lilly be ba billed fallati cs lint but thero hire aru none who have this work w urk but it inn t ile bo convinced that there Is in soi thing more than delusion it in what whai we are doing nothing but th have hava helped this people to bear up under the of af have parsed through I 1 am ain pleased in my travel anning 1 the he people to see a rowing to too the work ot the iho litter Li itter day saints and tako take hold with an purpose to do tho the will of ond god you have come from your several iveral St homes it to learn of tile the things ou on should do anti to absorb a portion of he af of gild hut abides here ai f fur n r the or of hid as people leopie wo wf need not fear oud G d will wh it look after them thein anil and see I 1 that hat the progress of his work Is not obstructed liy by their Befar loui design it if there here la is ono one among us its who it li la not prop trod to ke is flee for or the ihu work ito li id 6 p in ili it would bo be far better fur for hint that hut he withdrew drew front from tile the cont lim fur thy the tt is aurely earning coming wherein till all shall sha I 1 be been precisely pre cidely its HS they aro allben when the loid shall holad lip zion Confere oco adjourned until 2 01 lock p tu in benediction by b y president A 0 smoot afternoon choir prayer by elder john nicholson choir Choi we are not lot ashamed to own our bord 11 APOSTLE 11 J I have listened with interest to the itle remarks mide m hiie this morning I 1 trust that mit tile the testimony that lies has been horne will stimulate us in the performance of our dutle dutley fig saluta I 1 bin ain gratified gratl fled to bear testimony to tile the increasing ln lereal manifested in the risa ion if tile SAIr ils chave I 1 have not noticed iced ebli chiq increasing interest lat in my recent travels through the south and it is iss a testimony tea that the evil doengi of our ene enemies lules instead of tri injuring juring ja is ta 1 effecting ui for good instead enste dofoo of op position distro destroying ying the one energies ales of men it if they know they tire are right it incites thern to rented vigor and determination to pursue their tit la bors bora faith faithfully fully if we mra engaged in the work of god the iho so ao orderly orde order ring lr our live that that a testimony will in creaso us is tho the greatest work we ran can perform if ita a malu do le sires the inspiration of iha ho spirit of god he can ret got it by ia boring fur for it there are am many who seem to think they can abt ain tile the greatest mesa bless lug log of heaven without la labor borina lne for it this sa Is tin an toua in this world or lit in thy the wort world d to come ddn lie obtained without labor lug in I 1 forit ial if I 1 go S into a house houe afflicted with nesi where the m mother t her and the hither hiva have not I 1 lived ved up to the laws of god I 1 am willing to pray in their behalf but I 1 pray without faith but if f 8 all within the bouie househ bold have lived in purity and faith before god and have labored to his will I 1 pray with I 1 11 i o 6 urance that my supplication supplications ions will be ba answer ed ad it to today day the latter day saints were dependent upon the faith and add testimony ot of their leaders they could not stand eland as they do the persecutions of their enemies but they hive a testimony of their own of the tha truth of this thia gospel the neared nearer we live to god I 1 the purer we are the tha more are we atit entitled to a testimony tee of the but we profess a great many I 1 aings that we do dot cot practice and the be world regards us as hypocrites As I 1 understand the jospe gospel it is our duty when we wa go into the world to preach to proclaim the he principles of 01 truth ai we wa understand thorn them and leave the rest real with lot to go fortt forth and begin tearing down lie the re gigions of the world if wt wb do this ibis and aed are persecuted it is la our own faults I 1 hope to so order my lay lite and so BO live before god that my mind may not become darkened the iho man that does docs this need have no bocare care forthe for abe future I 1 trust that we ive dball beall receive rrt eive I 1 ouch much good and have hava an enjoyable tune time at this a amon amen ANGUS M CA CANNON ON haus said 14 1 I came not cot to do my lay own will but the will of him that sent roe me why are we riot not off of the horldt we have been baen called to set ovir houses in order to purify our homes to observe our fasts and a nod ad live more strictly in accordance with gods commands let it be no longer as am assine said that the earth is lie be fouled iy ay the inhabitants thereof the gospel is being preached in ia its purity parity and simplicity it was for formerly morly found necessary to separate the people have hare each one declare which side be was on it i is s being done aga again in in these days The voice voica is is now to 0 gather the people together io in associations lations iati ons clubs ad that be ba a glorified in the purification pf af his F people 00 ale I 1 said to marshal dyer re cea ceolla fily that chat ati the only fear I 1 had bad con earning us was the possible attempt to on n the part of the young men to avenge the abo wrongs of 0 their fathers and kindred in the bujok of doctrine and coven antei a I 1 find the words of wisdom record ft ed by their observance we shall ahall be a able his to run ani and not taint faint walk and I 1 net ito t bo ba weary who is there here her that would be willing to give giva up him hia dobao oo an to be able to bear his trials with a more manly fortitude A man that I 1 bad been taught to loik lo I 1 ik kepto up to as 83 an liono B onor ablo rable counselor w was as ones named to a certain position a of honor io ia the church when the tha president said he be could not ll 11 hi a accepted because he be did not krep keep the word oi of wisdom that mau aaa does not know abst wb it he has lost through his failing to jive up to this a t Z I 1 command 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 I i A I 1 1 ll 11 J j I 1 ti t I 1 I 1 beard Drife Brik bap haai say tit at tit st george in 1863 that no or boult an would be permit permitted tod to belong to the contra centre stake of zion that did not observe the word ot of wisdom men dion are called to administer to the be nick tho the mother will supplicate hum abold to save her child hear the prayers mayers il of 0 thy servants sud and save aavo my cuy child she root her husband before her violating tint commandment rho aho haq hai loft b her r fa thora hearth bearth to join her destiny with this man ilse haa passed abro through 11 a adver a ver sity of every form and witt with all her toils nod and incessant pa plen 07 lings she sees a man at the tha head of that turn fm ily that doca cops not regard this pie and causes his hia children to inherit premature death what chance has this wife to secure them from the hands of the iha adversary I 1 whitt what enczur argement hat has she when this thi H man is ia so I 1 regardless of 0 gods goda favor cavort with the tha liht light and we have lie he ablis va its to observe these laws and this counsels coun counsel the word of wisdom gid gideon A an told his bis men to got get down id aud lap the water like a dog but on ly out of the host boat obeyed the command but with those thosa he bo maintained the army and glorified god take taka the circumstances that now ow surround tur round us BB the world has baa turn turned ed upon us as and driven us na to the wall ancient israel was nevet never in a closer place than we tire to day we do not rob them of their jewelry but we wa will prevent them from robbing find and destroying us ia find this law by which they hoped to get control of our municipal affairs faira af is ia sot not because they love IOTA ns ils israel was crowded to t a the mountains on the ono ona side sd pharaohs Phara host behind them fled and the red spa boa on the other BO 80 th athey had nd chained chacca to falter faller Peter said land and will ou on also forsake mel fuel and the eleven of the twelve gaid to jesus and will yon also forsake us why by said peter where can wo we go W when hen we wa know you are only our 11 true life W where here can the wile wife so go when the thebus hum band treats with abi treat great co unseld pertaining to big bia salvation 7 the next step is ia to ba dishonest in his bia and offerings and the next nest to go down to wreck and ruin duill if the lord bas baa chosen us from the world wo ild and given us light and knowli knowl i ill ige edge and understanding it is not lot supposed that he ha will justify Us in disobeying his laws jaws president toy lor holds out his bis hands bands and pleads wibb the people to turn their hearts to got bod and lie he will turn to lo you ill you continue to let u no and will you yon continue to let your in IT there and brothers live in filthy dun geotis and loved ones banished fr from your association it if not turn from your iniquities t log and as sure as god lives hyes the CLIO beavers be leavens averis will open to deliver the people from bondage Ourene our inies say bay because wo we can tako that oath wego back on our wives and children we will permit the destruction of all our earthly in teresta before going back on god goa our eternal father and our wives and chil children drea are living pledges to god but what now presents itself itself before us bat our oar enemies become v ery lucli enraged because the be her of this ahn L h are willing to lo take the they seek to destroy this organization got at pos possession Bession of 0 our earthly substance and their rush rash souls are bent upon spoliation it is the duty of you latter day saints who have never n ver obeyed the celistial covenant to B to that oath und and defend your brothers and sisters against being plundered and robbed they are mad at us it we wilt will aud and road mad if ws we wont I 1 would |