Show FEAST remarks at the conference OF THE SAINTS c thousands were present to hear the instructions overflow meeting the general conference opened on sunday morning with a crowded house president geo Q cannon presided the choir gang hor firm x foundation y saints 0 the lord etc opening prayer by elder john morgan the choir sang nard listen to the trumpeters trum peters they sound lor TOl president woodruff druff I 1 have always been opposed to try to address a congregation gre gation that cannot hear my words I 1 haye a few principles that I would diketo give to the latter day saints there were some very strong testimony given us yesterday I 1 must refer to tho remarks of president abram H cannon in talking about the gospel when joseph smith wag called and laid the foundation stone of this work he was a mere boy when he prayed to the father he received an answer his history from that time a constant scene of revelation anyone who will read the and covenant will afe convinced of this after the church was organized with revelation it was not particularly necessary that written revelations needed be given to president and president taylor because they had the code already before them 1 say unto you that god has not forsaken the church revelation has not been withdrawn nor it will not be until the second coming of the son oi man all that are called upon to go and preach are labor at home are called with authority tho rity if it were not for this authority where would this congregation be to day what would utah be A mere howling wilderness no the lord has not forsaken the priesthood you may trace the history of the world to the present time and you will find that god has always given some persons the priesthood father adam bad the priesthood he was given the Melchised ic priesthood does the world expect eliat god is going to wind up the world these last days without giving to the world the gospel if they do they are very mistaken ha trill fulner all the promises uttered in the holy bible there is no man that can use eliat holy priesthood for any evil purposes if le does it is of use now concerning our testimony or the working ot tho spirit some of the br ethern testified yesterday to the divinity of this work well they the spirit of god hag given them such and tasy cannot well do otherwise well no all need thia spirit no elder ha a right topeat unless hd has this spirit our responsibilities are great my br ethern and sisters va don t pray enough we should I 1 pray always says the good book hy being prayerful we partake of the holy to guide us in our every day walks apostle F D lUc hards I 1 feer thankful that our aged president can rise up and to us with such vigor and spirit we have need that we cherish evry virtue of life alie lord is making hia church to haye a power in alie earth the people of god have learned ny practical demonstration that theirs is tho kingdom of god now that this leaven is placed upon the earth it will reagain until it leavens the whole lump wo ar placed here and we will no go hither or thither to beet out of the way we ar going to reagain here come what may As a woman has to knead up the bread and acet the leaven to every part ao with the gospel it has to be taken to all parts of the earth we are apt to have very small notions of thugs for the ways of man are not the ways of god the lord will move on his pur joae and I 1 testify that the work is truo th increase of knowledge and power continually depends on our own good works how thankful wo ought to be that our eyes have been permitted to ae that our ears have been permitted to hear the truths of god strive therefore to do the things of god as they are revealed reve alad to us apostle closes thatcher thi vast audience of people is a living evidence that the work of god is not in decay everything Avery thing that man does bears on it the emblems of decay but it is not so with regard to the works of god 1 haye recently been reflecting on the loyalty of the saints to this great government ern ment AH an individual I 1 have not been able to sea biow a man could be truly loyal to a government unless lie was first loyalty to the maker ot that government I 1 rec read in a catholic paper the letter af an apostate that ane t lu abow that the assassination sassi nation of was with tha knowledge of the pope As proof he eave it town forty miles fruia any telegraph anaw of the act before it had happened though I 1 read it with I 1 was not prepared to accept aliu as truth comma from an aub taie i relate this incident simply to show how the views these are to bear on the questions of government the speaker read from the doctrine and covenants to show that god declared that lie had made the constitution through tha influence of hia holy spirit tho speaker further read the 27 chapter of Jer minah to establish his position thia latter that was with the hebrew children and preserved them from the nery furnace tha same the was exem il shown in the days of daniel thua god bag defined the position of the bilings we owe to him and the duties we awo to the government so also christ explained the position when they sought to entrap him they asked him unto whom tasy should give tribute he called for a coin and asked whose sup it they him cresens Cre sers he then answered alender under cader the things eliat ara Csc sers and to god the thida ihal are goda thus alie sines are plainly drawn few instance ot of where religious laws had been enacted in come of the stales the wo mans christain aej ci tiou had passed a resolution in b that acknowledge christ would be the king ut e and ot temporal laws was ril ri l to show thai uther people besides the laher dav sainta believe that aliria Jl iria il ei artigu supreme on tha eartis r ay iy hii caf gnau of utah will have yet pui i in their necks the golden chain af al honta then they will meet alie ri i ui te ir brether fl of this ecat feed f eed f ro 01 bondage ard will tail heir necks aal vi beep for auy the choir sea the mount altis for j y f benediction by apostle H J TUK AFTERNOON were called to order by GPO Q cannou he announced that daring th morning eer vicea some pick packets were iii the audience and one ady lost 10 another 12 the congregation arose and bang to the man who communed with jehoveh jesua anointer ano intel that aad seer prave by seymour B young choir gang the anthem how beautiful on the mountain president geo Q cannon read from the book of abraham pearl of great price and said in to speak to this large congregation he did it with fear and trembling the saints who have come so far havo not come to hear my doctrine ant to be taught the gospel I 1 desire not to ven dilate my thoughts but to speak the things of god the words I 1 have read in your hearing convey tersely the feelings of gods servants in early days and especially the feelings of abraham we may not be able to concey our ideas so clearly as did abraham but we are led to exclaim those are my benti in regard to building temples few cleople understand why we do it other denominations erect cathedrals and boatly domes but the motive the lat ter day saints nave in building temples is entirely different from that of the builders of human know ledge cannot estimate neither do the minerals vegetable products or any chinson earth convey the thought of the sacred reverence the saints have tor their holy temples life is a mystery and there is great doubt in tha minds of many whether there are any connections between tho body and the spirit or the other world our existence here is not merely to eat and drink for is not a single iota pertaining to this life that we can take with us therefore the possibility of this existence to mate us joint heirs with jesus christ is made apparent by those holy ordinances performed in the temples there is no doubt that there was a covenant made with adam and successively through his posterity that arfat blessings should be to after generations this is why abraham isaac and jacob and the jews received such abundant blessings hence it is that we receive blessings that were promised to our forefathers the jarra and the indians have alike suffered intensely from disobedience but the lord promised that he would renumber and save them in the latter times the present terrible conditions condi tiona aie a result of the mighty covenants the lord has mada with his servants thiea blessings will extend through the endless ages of eternity we live today to day to see the promises of the lord 10 abraham fulfilled which he promised in the land of ur of chaldea salvation will be given to all mankini excepting those who sin against the holy ghost but there are different degrees of salvation or glory and men will renew that chich they are capaci bated to enjoy and have merited but some will ask what will become of those who arc good and noble who nave gone before I 1 will give my opinion on this subject and you can take it for ahac it is worth if a person is baptized baptised sed for another that person will receive what ever he is worthy of and that various offerings will hold good but the sealing power belongs to but one man on aarah at a time but ho may ordain lothara and thus are all the children of god be adopted into tha great family of mankind those who have not been united for eternity must be sealed aither in this life or bv their heirs if they have died I 1 think it wrong that there are so many unmarried young men and women in our midst no is true hearted and faithful will object to marry a young man because he has not the comforts that her parents possess I 1 consider that all young men over twenty four years of ago are a dangerous element in the community our young people should be married in tha proper order and they will be successful and be blessed apostle heber J grant addressed the saints aa follows lol lows if the elders of israel were as ready in all duties as to go and preach the gospel there is no power on earth that could retard this work if wo figure financially it will cost a man more to preach the gospel abroad than to attend other duties some say the church is losing its power but I 1 lear testimony that it is stronger than ever look at this vast audience and the throng that went away and we see tha evidence of the progress of gods wo rk some have longed to see the time whan we shall have such grand meetings as in times past and in such a person I 1 do not believe the spirit of the living god thrives with that person we are all differently constituted and the baat audience furnishes an object lesson in which we learn that the letter kelleth kil leth but that the spirit light 1 bear my testimony in soberness and without excitement that I 1 know that the gospel of jesus christ ia and it is the spirit of god that teaches every hu man being that there is a god the eternal spiritual facilities testify to this alone the reason cant do it of itself the apostate 5 realizes like satan that there is but one caunce for him and that is to destroy the work of god conference adjourned until 10 on monday choir sang the anthem grant u poage 0 boid benediction by john henry smith IX THE ASSEMBLY BALL AB meeting was held in the assembly Asi embly hall and still hundreds were obliged to stand on the outside or leave thu grounds altogether apostle lyman presided at the assembly hall after the usual opening exercises elder john morgan said that alie scene of so many thousands flocking together from so far to worship god presented a most remarkable remor kable inthe eyes of the world here are brought together people from the various nations of the earth and it seems by this that god desired to ob all national lines we have no evians no englishmen no germans or any other nation in the strict sense of the gospel AH thet tends to draw such lines ia a mistaken idea there ia ia such sectional ideas it was such feelings that was largely to blame for the war of the rebellion thac lasted for four long weary years elder J M tuiner said it undoubtedly acebed to the world that the title of which we bear is a title of conceit ot so with us however the arm means a serious matter and we should have a worthy object in view and seek to magnify the title we bear it is dangerous however to have too much impatience in trying to reach the cherished goal impatience is a dangerous thing on the pan of any people elder BU if I 1 had no other evidence than the gathering together of the many keople as we see today to day it would be sufficient to convince me of the of words of the holy prophets of old As a people we hava endured no but what ft ill yet re donned to our own good and taiti glory of our faller which is in ht aeu I 1 am fully convinced thai every man and woman nill pasa through such scenes as will be best suited to their in li vidual character I 1 he read from the doctrine and covenant a beautiful selection to show alie odthe asse ration then let trial come in kneir corat form they can but us better if we prove faithful so ft lien we of trials iu the future alie ep taker showed we were not talking of imi inary ti lings they are bound to come upon us for god has so de creede ii it ye have been looked upon as a violent people though we have been proclaim ne peace since our early existence and some day the world will know that we are for peace and good government Apostle Abram H cannon Baid that if there is one thing above another that he dreaded it was peace and plenty among the people it strange that we as a people should be able to endure what we have in the past but since we have passed through them we acknowledge they ware necessary for our well being the work of these days has flourished most when it was oppressed in all the various missions established in foreign lands hag opposition been had to a great extent so also has opposition been had in the advancement of all the great inventions of modem times men therefore should not hesitate on account of opposition to seek to advance |