Show PRIESTHOOD MEET1SO PerlioeDt and Pointed InnrucHoa on Imporbint Duller The regtalir monthly meeting of the Priesthood of the Sit Lake Stake of Zion convened In the Assembly As-sembly Hall at 1 0 today Sat unlayDeccniber7Ui18S9 President A M Cannon presiding All the wards of the Stake responded the I roll call excepting thebccondFhlrd Tenth Thirteenth Fourteenth and Nineteenth wards of the city and the Mountain Dell South Cottonwood Cotton-wood BJuir Dale Brighton and Hunter wards wnn The usual business liclng I dispatched dis-patched remarks were made as follows fol-lows by the speakers named UESIDLXT AM1L8 M CAJNON instructed those who had been recommended ommended and sustained as worthy to l ordained Eldrr in relation to their duties notably that of attending attend-ing fjillifull their quorum mcct legs ito thought it was more or less I of a reproach tint the brethren hat t b specialty requested Jo attend at-tend these meetings and pointedly asked how long an Apostle one of the quorum of tim Twe would b I mittainetl by his quorum permitted permit-ted to hold InsofTicc If he persistently persistent-ly neglected to attend his quorum meetings The members of other quorums should b just a diligent and faithful In this respect as the Aportltfjand i tliej continued t b derelict titer should he labored with and if need be further dealt with according t the laws of the Church Answering a question put hy 1 Iwki wki Bishop K F Sheets as to what z the duty of Bishops In regard to those who left or came into their nards without recommends PreI dcnt Cannon said as to the latter I class that thiny should first L lu Mieu ana requesteu to procuru their certificates and then OI if they failed to do it they should b reported to the authorities of the wards from which they came and if they were unable to procure recommend hl would adMfe that the renew their covenants in the want where they Uicn resided I they proved In corngitilc he wouhi recommend that they b fUpcnded from e lowshlp or dealt with hi fuch a manner as t impifss upon them upn the importance I of manifesting their allegiance t the Church Jlu C honed thu Bishops to trim up I their wards and prune oil the dead bronchus President Young used to say to the Jibhops flat through their rn to deal with trans grc r In their wan they had lost many souls that might hive been saved Every member of the Church owes it ns duty t take w 1th him or her when they remove to another ward a note of standing and thus avoid confusion ml under standing and trouble 1 they fail to do I thujr shouU l dealt within with-in a inter manner lIII1 l CKOIU1E GODDAI thought much of the trouble complained of arose from the fact that thin ward Teachers failed to visit and instruct lie icoi1e is thoroughly n they should Tie Bishop was supposed to know lit > members of his ward and keep informed n to their condition condi-tion But how could ho know three thing j thin Teachers were not faithful in visiting the member and fiithfully reporting their condition condi-tion In his opinion n fiithful corps of Teichen could do more t correct the evil complained of thin any thing else lnEI DJT cS0 coincided with the clew taken l > i Brother Goddard and exhorted the Teachers to renew etl diligence The trouble was we were to much occupied pied with our private affairs and not interested enough in the things of God When the Saints were driven out of Xauvoo anti In tlC midst uf PovertY and adverity they had pleutj of time t servo God and the brethren were as prj as crickets in attending to their duties as Saints but wealth and prosperity had brought neglect and Motlifulnoa In relation to such things rite lon will stir us up if we continue In such ways He can stnpusas individuals as well is i community until we areas are-as naked n when we came into the world and He may do it If we arc not more faithful I And better would it be if we might then have the fellowship lowship of the heavens than to roll J 1IhC 1 tU In wealth and laxuryand lie without with-out the favor of God risnoiJOSKI n roLLAim added a few words in relation to tho duties Bishops and Teachers He hid found it verj didlcult to get len who would act thoroughly and faithfully as Teacher One reason was that the l > cst men hid to much to do too many oftlces to hold to many meetings t attend and they could not be expected to h In five or six places at once Most oC those whose services could b had either old not understand how to aet as teachers or were unw illing t go at I with their wholu hearts Brother Goddinl had struck the keynote of the dimcutty I wis the neetlof good and tflicient teachers He believed 111s ml nIW lieved his ward the Fifteenth was a fair eample of nl the rest I HESIII T CA > ON added a few words of wise coumoel the substance of which was t Iw faithful in all things alI the metIng met-ing wax thin adjourned until the frt Saturday In Jnnuar IS9 |