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Show his iulvuciuy of the "word t tom," mul otii'orivnu'nt of ,e l' stcild act. lie siii.l he hm , ymniR people ot tlie c-huix'K vwi nut I'l1 illfllK'lH Oll liy t LlO ''n,, '" Manila" If iiimlifieiuiun lu'opcr.' Aprwtip Jusppli Fielding pursued the Easter siihjeet in final address uf the iirtorno.io 4 I elariiiK that one who believes i V ciin not reject the Son of Cd 'j quoted much from the seriiij,,,.. with brief comment on emb lion. , The invocation nt (lie nfi,,nii. session was by AYinslow Kan-president Kan-president of the Ensign stuki' ' the benediction wus liy Clj;irlvs v itinvan, president of the Garfi,. stake. In the lnusie program of tlio nfi.. noon was a duel, sun;; in ul(l n "An Aiiswl From (in IIIku," by j" Alfred W. Davis, contralto, anon, rum Christiansen, tenor. The fi,,,' under the direction of Professor thony C. Lund, did oomiiiemi. work ill the "Ilnllolujnh Chont,'',, (lie close of the afternoon si; Occupyin;,' prominent front s-m during the afternoon meeting Governor George II. Dora Mayor Clarence Xeslen. Another Overflow inoi'linj; Sll held in Assembly hall m,n (1( direction of IUilon K Wolls of first seven presidents of sevcm PRES. GRANT GIVES SAINTS : GOOD ADVICE Urges Farmers to Save Beet . Industry and People to Patronize Pat-ronize Home Products SALT LAKE CITY, April Ti. In clear ringing tones President Hebor .1. Grant Sunday morning delivered his keynote address of the ninety-sixth ninety-sixth semi-annual confereuee of the L. IX S. church. Keiterating the -stand of the church on the prohibition prohi-bition question, President Grant advocated ad-vocated stricter enforcement of the Volstead net. ITo also condemned short skirts as being immodest and advised the people not to give "tens." lie came to the defense of I Iho women of the church, declaring that no women of the church are smokers. He pleaded with the people to patronize home industries and urged the farmers to plant more sugar beets so that the industry of the state will not be ruined. President Grant prefaced his talk on prohibition by referring to the fact that nt present there is much agitation throughout the United States over the question whether the Volstead act should be repealed or modified. Then he read an extract from a speech of President Abraham Lincoln, in which the great emancipator emanci-pator urged that there be universal respect for law and the constitution. He also quoted the late William F. Gladstone, noted British statesman, as declaring the constitution of the United States to he the most remarkable re-markable document the world had ever known. President Grant then read from the "word of wisdom'' revelation concerning the use of tobacco to-bacco and liquor and ''hot drinks.'' The President read from a newspaper news-paper article in which it was stated that the leading business and professional pro-fessional women in the world today were smokers. "I want to broadcast this to the world here and now," said President Grant: "So far as this church is concerned, that statement state-ment is absolutely false. The name over which the article appears is that of a woman, but I believe it is merely a pen name used by tobacco men to further their business iuter- Pivsidint A. W. lvins of the first presidem-y delivered a purely doctrinal doc-trinal address, wilh the exception of a iviVrenco to the recent exclusion exclu-sion of missionaries from Norway. He said the action had come about through the work of the different denominational sects in that country. coun-try. President lvins told the audience. aud-ience. that passage of n resolution by a convention of these sects, to the effect that the Church of .lesus Christ of Latler-day Saints was not a Christian organization, caused the exclusion referred to. linking protest pro-test to the Norwegian government, the leaders of the Utah church. President, lvins said, had been informed in-formed that it would he necessary to have n countermanding resolution resolu-tion passed by a sectarian gathering gather-ing similar to that, which bad promulgated pro-mulgated the unfavorable edict. "Thus," said President lvins, "we are obliged to go before an unfavorable unfavor-able court to endeavor to obtain justice." jus-tice." Members of the church from Canada Can-ada to Mexico, from New York to San Francisco and from the foreign missions were at the conference. There was almost an unprecedented attendance, it being necessary to hold an overflow meeting in the assembly as-sembly hall under the direction of Jonathan G. Kimball, one of the first seven presidents of seventies. The invocation in the tabernacle was by Fishop C. Clarence Neslen and the benediction was by Patriarch Patri-arch Joseph It. Kecler of Provo. The music at the morning session consisted con-sisted of congregational singing, with the exception of the closing anthem, "O lilossed Be the Lord," a composition by li. Cecil Gates, in which Dolores Seal sang (he solo part. Charles W. Nihley of (he first presidency was the first speaker of the afternoon session, reading from the New Testament an account of the resurrection of the Savior. President Presi-dent Nibley's address was devoted to the Easter theme, bis assertion being that the church leaches literal belief in the deseripl ion of events at the tomb of Christ, and that members of (lie organization firmly hold to this faith and attitude. President Nibley digressed to say that there is no preaching for hire or divining for money in the church. The 2.100 missionaries out in the field throughout the world, be said, serve without pay and even meet their own expenses while in the service. "We stand on on individual testimony testi-mony of the divinity of Jesus Christ," said Apostle Orson F. Whitney, Whit-ney, apropos of. Easter lRnti(Say--in beginning bis address. "We believe that Jesus Christ was the May Son of God, .)Qrn. of. a yir.gjr) mothnn We accept Iliin as the Son of God and for that, reason we are a'ble. torae-eopt torae-eopt bis miracles, ihci'mlrng the fact that 'he arose . f riiin! .'tlie. 4Te.)iil lOlie great event which is being celebrated cele-brated t,o.day , throughout all .the Christian world." ' ; ''' '''' ' ; Apostle David O. McKay' said the greatest of-all miracles vl-aS1 'b'enig celebrated, 'in form, at least,'' in all tlie Christian world. 'The? speaker devoted his entire nddrcss-::t6 the Easter theme, treating it along practically prac-tically the same lines as those followed fol-lowed by previous speakers stressing belief in the literal resurrection. Sir. McKay also reiterated belief in a personal God. rteferring to the morning address of President Heber J. Grant, the speaker was definlely outspoken in ests." "I regret to say," the president announced, an-nounced, "that I have been very much grieved when walking along the streets to note the immodest dress that the women folk wear. Our daughters, even our mothers yes, pur grandmothers have adopted costumes which do not hold in consideration con-sideration the sacreduess of the human hu-man body. , I hope. to see the day ! when there will be a return to the more sane costumes of an earlier day!" Another social custom which the president considered to be undesirable undesir-able was that obtaining among the women of giving "teas." Fresl- ' dent Grant said that he had read in one of the papers about a 'Uea" that '. had been given at his own home, ' and how the "tea" table had been decorated. j "We don't serve tea at our house not even to our closest friends. We observe tht 'word of wisdom' as closely as we are able to do so. I hope there will be no more news- ' paper reference to 'teas' at my ' home, and I trust that the women of the church will give no more 'teas,' i with prominent announcements of j that sort of social activity." j President Grant was earnest in j his advocacy of support of home in- j dustry, laying particular stress up- ! on the sugar beet raising and sugar j manufacturing activities of this in- S termountain region. "I believe in treating my neigh- nor as I would like him to treat I me. This golden rule stands good nil over the world. If you would j follow this rule you will patronize j your neighbor in what he produces. This will help him to live and carry f his burdens in the community. Some- times tbe farmers have failed to j plant a sufficient acreage of sugar ' beets to' keep tbe sugar factories going. They stand idle or are operated oper-ated at a net loss. I advise the farmers to plant sugar beets and assist in maintaining this greut industry. in-dustry. I do not speak from a selfish sel-fish point of view. Probably I could sell my sugar holdings for $500. From the. time the first sugar factory was built in Utah I have lost $100,000 in helping to give the industry a start." President Grant gave statisties concerning activities of the church in material affairs, chief of which was a financial statement which Indicated In-dicated the following as expenditures expendi-tures from the tithes of the church j for the year 1925 : r. Stake and ward purposes There Sj has been returned from the tithes to f the stakes anil wards for building I construction, maintenance and op- f era tion $1.4X0.351.81. j: Education Expended for the eon- j struction, maintenance and opera- ? tion of church schools, $958,440.07. f- Templos Expended for the con- t struction, maintenance and opera- tion of temples, .$319,415. Charities For the care of the y worthy poor and other charitable ! purposes, including hospital treat-'jj nient, 72,352 74 I 3 Missions For the maintenance j md operation of all the missions. ' j ind for the erection of places ofjjj ivnrship and other buildings in the S missions, $7ti5,!)2i;.70. Total. $3,700,397.01. i Following the opening address y |