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Show Relief Society In Conference SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 4 (L'.Pl Nearly 1000 L. D. S. church women, gathered in the assembly assem-bly hall for the opening sessions of the semi-annual conference of the women's Relief Society, today to-day heard a plea for more thorough study' of the gospel. Mrs. Louis Y. Robinson, general gen-eral president of the society, addressed ad-dressed general officers, mission and stake presidents, urging that "the desire for higher life", be sought. David O. McKay, second counselor coun-selor to the first presidency of the L. D. S. church addressed the final morning assembly, which was presided over by Mrs. Annie Wells Cannon. McKay outlined the lives and authority of the early apostles, and said they showed "the divinity divini-ty of Christ's mission and the reality of his resurrection." A general assembly of the group was held in the tabernacle in the afternoon. The first general gen-eral session of the conference will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. Scheduled for presentation tonight to-night was the oratorio, "Elijah." |