Show NEBO STAKE CONFERUNCE I On Saturday and Sunday last the and dedication Nebo stake conference JJe I of the now tabernacle took Illnco at PnYBolI with largo allli uppreclatlve nlllllences President Iyman and Elder El-der Jensell of Snit Tasks were present Presidents Smith time first day ent on amid Lurid or the first presidency and Patriarch Smith on Sunday Ireslltunt Page presided Elders Lemon nnd Gardner his conl1sellors the bishops councilors Patriarchs Evans and high Wilkins and other office bearers aids and assistants had their places on the stand President Gardner of tho stako was the first speaker upon the financial stringency of the day and In a very plain and forcible manner showed the foil of speculation EIder dS reminiscences der L man followed In giving niscences of Payson In 1S52 of his visit then and now In the afternoon President Lemon gave n synopsis of the stake then President Page gave an account of the building and paying of the new tabernacle Its cost was about 22 000 collected from the Saints In about two years It Is a plain neat and commodious house with the Most Improvements and lighting proven eats In heating and lighting In point of time cost construction and iiccoustic properties Is the expression expres-sion of thoso whoso official knowledge of tho various stakes pronounce It an IDEAL structure Elder Jensen took up tho balance of the time and told us Zion Is growing In numbers education and In the testimony of tho gospel There was a priesthood gathering gath-ering In tho evening where matters Pertaining to affairs of tho stake were discussed On Sunday Elder Lyman President Lund and Patriarch Smith spent tho forenoon in giving advice and counsel to tho assembly In the afternoon President Smith offered tho dedicatory prayer and occupied oc-cupied all tho rest of the time In his usual forcible and fervent way A new departure was announced by President Lyman that in place of the people who could not come to hear the general authorities they were coming to tho people in every ward In every stake In the church They began by Elder Lyman visiting Benjamin Ben-jamin In tho evening and Elder Jensen Jen-sen Lake Shore The singing was excellently well done an anthem being sung composed by a native of Scandinavia and another an-other one composed by Professor Mc Clelland organist of the tabernacle Salt Lake ho being a native son of Payson The usual Y M M 1 for the stake i was held In the evening nil tho speakers speak-ers of the conference being present M B |