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Show GENERAL CONFERENCE, i " w Til inn DAT (tnrtmJt.) : K Afternoon Seta. 2 pm. d The choir sang: b wnh jor " TBT rBU, Lori, Thr mialiun bcknr. OrdiloetuipakTirtra-habJol, i; Tail all Tbynwaa mxj koov. 1'nyer by IMder C. W. Penrose. t A special hymn entitled '-Won t wlllbefree," wassungbythechoir. j Alslle Ilrbrr J. Craal s Uriilly addressed tho conference. ( Ue said in cubstance: I have great a Fitltactlou in siclng to large a con- I grrgatlon present. I havo never 1 attended a conference at which , more of the Spirit of the Lord was , manifest. We Lave been united and , tbe speakers have been Inspired by , the fcplrlt of truth. May I bo able , to contribute ajmothing of the same character as that already given . for the l-eneflt of all rresent. I rrjulced Iu the Urge Priesthood . meetlug held hero but night, at which Uie.Splrit of God was prw- , cnt. I sustain a testimony borne , at that gathering to thu effect that Uio man a ho contributes to the sup- i port of Gjd'i work will be rewarded , both tempomrily and spiritually. I i have been gralillnl with the re- , marks that have been made about event, w hlch some have imagined willtakopIaceinIs9l. Bomespcnd marly tho whole of tlielrtlmo In hunting mysteries, whllo neglecting neglect-ing Important duties as they come along. Tho best course to pursue is lo fulfil dally the duties rtqulred as they prevmt tbem-clves. In this way a man is rewarded as he goes along, an I walks In tho lath that leads to salvation. Atmslle Jein W. Taj tor Was the next speaker. He said substantially: I feel thankful to my Heavenly Father for the privilege privi-lege of attending IhW Conference. It is the best I ever attended in my life. I am iu the habit of saying tills every half year. I am liken hungry man who when ho cabs declares that tills is the beet rural he has rvcr partaken of. God has fulfilled ful-filled His promise to Ills people and provided for them pastors and teachers after His own heart. I was glad to bo confirmed In my Impressions icgardlug what some have expected would trausplm In 1S01. 1 Invite you all to pay your tithas and offtriug, that tills may be a land of Zioti tons all. I am fully in accord with tb lew of Elder 1 Grant In relation to the ttnral duties of the solnls. When we cn-ga; cn-ga; to serve the Lord we do so that we might reap salvation. All that you will find yourselves cosecd of 1 as a foundation w hen before the bar of God will bo your w Ives and children. chil-dren. If you train not your cldl dren you are blind indeed. There Is aspirit wonting a-nonztlicSalals ' b e-Jurata their own offspring. If i ourrhlldrcu will be all wc will have , for a foundation of glory i u eternity, how needful Uiat they be properly ' trained. The ChurJi schools nre 9 the greatest institutions among this 1 people and will be one of the great-. great-. e-t lowers fur good as one of the he lid In tho wori: of UoJ. About 1 two years ago an easU.ni paper pub-, pub-, lMied what purported to be a cor- Tret report of minions schools. He . asserted that 5000 children of the l Latter-day Saluts, iu Utah attended ' them. If this be true It shows quite J a lercentage ot parents who are In- J conbtect with regard to their ru- ' ILrlous duty. Tho ordinances of . tlie Gopel have been taught to us and we are responsible lor our , children being instructed in these ' things. j The sjiciker here read from the ' Itook of Doctrine aud Covenant" ' regarding the responsibility of par- ' cuts rcKardlng tho proper Instruc- , tl in of their children. If I sere a ' Catholic I would wish my children to be of that faith. So with any other religion. Being a Iattrr-day Salntldrs.ru my rlilllna to be of that faith. Ofhertrlre I would be a hypocrite. Thtro are among us wolves In sheep!! clothing ready to lead astray our little ones. Tlie cry lias gone forth ".Let Zioa be di- filed." Wolves do tiot devour old i sheep wheu there are any young ones. I hae herded sheep long enough to kuow that. Look after your children. If you are faitliful liver a lew of them God will make you ruler over many. May God bless you all. Atntn. Apostle JIarlner W. Mri-rlll Was the uxt speaker. The sub- stinceof what he Slid was asfol- 1'iwst I bue to have your attention ' thttyouniay hear what I have to eay. This position Is not to mo a ' de-Ira1 Is one. I am not here of my ! own i holce. May the Ixird favor ' me with His good spirit that what I ' ida say may be ol profit. I liave : I fell that if ever there w&salime . wheiiriaihUneededlhetestlmonyof ' Jrsus It U now. Tho Saints need ' that witness for themselves that they may un lerstaud the revtla- ; tiuns as given from time to time. . There wa one gl veil to President Taylur in 1SS2. It direct.d that all 1 the quorums should 1 fully orgau- sj i-1 and the families of the Saints : , stt in crJer. This was that the r Prf-sthood and fieople might be prrs rved. We couM hardly real- ' lie the importance ot the word of r j tht- lcrl in that rx-lation it that '. I tiniA Wc can " It now. Events e sine- then reiUTu tho SalnU to kniw fur themselves cf the divinity I of t'lts great work. There Is more c orlenfault-Jlndingandcumplalnlng t aaiost each other among the peo- e pie. When, this is the cao wo ., j sliauld consider thLs matter, for thi j Lord has sjioVeu on this subject and said we must forgive one another. li It is written concerning tlie dl- n clples of old, that there were en vy- I Ingsaud strifes among them and they fjrgave not eac'H other in their ; , hearts, aud were severely chastened d , In consequence. Thrt may have , I been an outward form of reconcllta- ' tion, but they forgave not one an- , oilier iuwardly and were in cono- " quence afilWcd an I sorely chast- li!rii.-.I. He who Till not forgive his r. I brother staii!s eondtmued and there " I remains I i him the greater sla. Tlie speaker rrlatis! an Incident wherein '- mo man n-lii"! to f rive another, 10 1 although Ihe brother against whom i. j he cuterained fieliugs asked for- i?Iveiies and rrauested to know hat he could do to regain his good w.ll. It-i-umlng his comments, Itntlirr Mirrillsaid: Is there any-bo.ii-here who feels lhus7 if so he sUuJs under condemnation, and lies uidtr thu greater tin. Wc ought cescour full-fiudlug, and aetk the Lord in fervent prayer morning, noun and eveuiog. There is n J other prober cojre for S-alnts. We must carry our relision into tho actions of our live?. We must fer-siveoueano fer-siveoueano her as wo desire lolic forgiven. If wc do not, God will not bear our iTaytrs. He will bestow to answeroursupplicatims. Thisevil l more or less prevalent. It keeps lopIe away from their meetings. The time Is now when we should llvo according to the light ot thu Holy Spirit that the Lord may favor us. Make all things right with each other, and make restitution to each other whero you havo wrongeil any one. There was a time in our history when wc did this and when we confessed our sins. When this is done, let us set our quorums and houses in order, and the peace oi the Lord will be with us. Wo should fulfil our obligations and covenants with each other. Some of the leopIe are living beyond their means and fail to mett theirengagements at tLe proper time. This is acau.-o of much ill feeling. My policy lias al ways been to p .y ai I go. Do not Ijcur financial obligations: obliga-tions: do not mortgage your homes, unlaw some lircumstaneea exist that demand that jou should do so. Pay day altrayacomcuaround. Ills easy to sign a note, but, wheu it matures, the one who gives It is sometimes una'iic to redeem It, It is contemptible contempt-ible for a man to take advantage ol tho law of limitations and hide behind be-hind that statute by refuting tore- lecmanoteorrdy book account I fbcathey are oulU-ved. If you an'tnaj for what you want do ?lthou7lt. Wj have -" irlls of mortgaging homes. Thou-andsof Thou-andsof farmers in the east have I lone M and have lost their prorrtP. . It will not do for the BalnU to thus Wing themselves into sndage- Many of our young jrP'ow1" ' Ihey cannot get mar ried " ' Ihey cannot provide a 'onl borne. ThUbot only applies to the oeonle of Salt LakeClty. but largely uf ?bo Throughout the Church. , The tendency toward extravagance is Increasing and is dr. The -i-iltits liave good crediL Vinen egaed en rallmad construction "ntrlHs In the .-.st I have been asked by business men who have been asked to let wagons and sup-Jd?eso sup-Jd?eso on credit, w hether the persons per-sons "eslrlng U.e fa ? were "Mormons." Said they, II Seyare it will I all rich., a. they will pay their debts." We are more rradyto pay other, than our brethren. breth-ren. We should pay 'ItUo" ; Unction everybody. Hut the better way Is not to purchase until we have ability to pay down. It Is good to bo a free people financially. This status can bo uislnlaluedbj our living within our.means. The policy of extravagancejs all wrong. t-nUTcountry will taUndof Ziou to all thotowho live within their means, ray tl"lr tithing, and effej their prayers morning, noon and night. That clan will always be Impressed Im-pressed wftli the will of the Lord when It comes through His servant". I was recently in the east, and 1 kuow tint w hat Brother Cannon has stated about the moral condition of tho people tber la strictly correct. Brother Merrill bore tethTiouy to the truth of tlie Gopcl, concluding by laying: God bleta you. look after your dead, and live yuur religion. re-ligion. Aposlta Abraham II. Cnn Spoke briefly. He raU: If any !il Imagined that God had withdrawn with-drawn His Spirit from His Church, ilicli ideas must have been dlsllled during this Confereriue. Every heart must have been touched by the Inspired Instructions that have I n given. When the servants of God are not bodily present with the ix-oplo and their voices are not heard in tntir congregations, they liegln to murmur and complain. Hut when the Prcphets aro with them the sheep soou recognize the voices of the shepherds and they are again established. ThU lias ln-en exemplified In other ages. In-stances In-stances IHustratlvo of this truth occurred oc-curred In the hbtory of ancienl Israel, when Most was their lead- r. So In the days of Jesus. Hisdls-ciflca Hisdls-ciflca had heard his teachings ami I Understood them to bo cf God, 1 riiey beheld Ike miracles lit wrought. Ytt when Jesus wai : hung upon the cross His fcHowen ' Imagined their hopes were blasted Henc-o It Is no uew thing for thi r iiconle to be mistaken when separat " Ui tor a time from the servants o the Lord. If the Instructions givei "' duriug this conference are carrlei out, none will be without light an. ' none uw-J be led Mindly. If Uil " spirit of Intelligence dots prcva 1 . Zion will indeed be the lre li ' heart. Tlie condition of the Saint I will grow brighter and Utter, whll the course of tlie world will b " retrogressive Since the rt-stora , lion of the Gospel and IU proclaim 1 tion the world lies under condemn: K tion, because they have, in man. nsUuces, rtjected the ugnt. uou s being ruled out of everything. Hie voice of the people Is aeceed is tlie voice of God, when Ihe legitimate order Is the reverse. The aolce cf Cod hhould.lK- the voice of the people. Bod will give co reaelatlon through Ilis trophets but what can be Irsttsl by the faitliful among the ioplc, to whom tbe channel ot coiuniunicallouwltli the heavens is ui..n. God's ways are not as the ways of man. anJ in the nildt of our trials Ho lias never deserted His Saints. Tho speaker predicted thesprealanl triumph of the work of the Lord, to the divine nrialn of which he bore U-stimonr. The choir MUg an anthem: Lord that is man.' IjrJ nh Is mu; , I'mltlrni W. Woodron" Stepped forward to the breastwork of the stand an J sal J: Before dis- , miaiug this Conference I want to i tay a few words to tho Latter-day Saint. The Lord has said, by revelation, reve-lation, to those who hold tho keys of the Kingdom of God: 'Whomsoever thou shalt bits I will bless and whomsoever thou shalt curse I will curse." 1 have traveled something like a hundred and seventy-five thousand miles In my day and time, and I liave preached the Gospel to the nations, to the Winds of the sea aud to my owii country. I have met, In suniu Instances, men who professed pro-fessed to have faith In Ool ana to Iwlieve Iu the Lord Jesus CbihL, who have stood up before me an J currd the Prophet of Clod, Joseph Smith, and blasphemed tho name of God. Hut In the midst of all thite things, I have never swn a moment of my life when I felt to curse nny-body. nny-body. I hope 1 ncrer shall. But I haac told these men, under thie clrcumtancvs, that the curse of God would overtake them; and ic no iHstanco, when I havo been moved upon b) say that, has t ever fa'bn unfulfilmi for thry have been marked w. of the Judi-nie-its cf God overtaking them. But with regard to We-sing, I will say, If ths-rc was ever an Hour In my life that I felt to bless Uin Iatlcisday Siiiits, il I a the present time. My hrt Is.'riwn out with love an 1 grat.tude towards Gjd and my brethren with whom I am sUrnrl'iJed I havo hrcnnir-talni hrcnnir-talni as a wnak lnlrU.nr..i In the hands of God as the-President if this Church. Since I havo been called to this office I have lieen sustained sus-tained by the Lxtierdiy H.lutn. and for over fifty yinra f myli'e as an Apostle. Why should not my heart bo drawn out In love towards to-wards such a soplt? The world know nut tho love o" Uic Iittcfdny Saints. They do not contort hend It. It never entered IntJ their souls. I am surrounded here ith Prophet, Apostle. EUtts and Saint of the living God; anJ in the tnoruiugvf the resurrection, when they come out of their graves, Ihey will pass by the Go-is ani the angels who "are set there to watih the Interests of the celestial world; th-y will go to those thronrs, kingdom", king-dom", priiicinalltlta and powers which havo lieen ordained of God for them to occupy tho-w who dwell in this dlsjwnsatlon as well as In otheragesofthe worll. If I am faitliful, I shall meet you there; I ! shall meet tliis people there; I shall meet these Saints of the LilngGod there. Therefore, I feel It Is my privilege to blesa the Iiatter-day , Saints. I cannot go abroad, as a man, and sprea I this Gosj! to the world and administer to tliem tiie ordinances thereof, to have any ; effect, without the Holy Prla-toood; i and I, as a mm, cannot bless the I Inhabitants of tho earth, so that the i Lord is bound to acknowledge it. , only by the power of the Holy ; Priesthood; ana Uiat power I feel i to exercise at tlie present time In blessing my brethren au J slstr. In the name of the Lord Jesui i Christ, I feci lobltsa my Counselors ; Presidents Geo. Q. Cannon anil Jos. F.Smith. They have stood by i rao in all the labors of life, as far as i wo liave been associated, since w ; havo entered into the new and over ' lasting covenant. On the same principle, prin-ciple, I feel to bless these Ajn-tla i who surround me. We havu beet , united. We are united In UieGjspe: ; of Jesus Christ, and they havo tb ; gratitude of my heart for the labon , of love and llfo which they ha , carried o at in their day and time I I feel to bless the Presidents of tin Seventies, with all their quorums it , thisChurch.wIlheverybletslngtlia ' I havo power to bestow upon tliem ' as a servant of tho Living God I feel to b!ei the Higl , Priests, who bear the high au i Holy Priesthood after the order o - Melchlsedec thelrPrel lent and al f who belong to tbe quorums. I uU - feel to bles the thousands of th Eldea of Israel who have entero Into covenant with tho IarJ, who have received a portion of the Met-chlsedec Met-chlsedec Priesthood, and who have cone forth and been faithful in the Srdlnancescf the House of God. fetltoblcsa theBUhopric and tho Lesser PrlesthoGd, which " the order or Aaron tho first I rlesi-hood rlesi-hood sealed upon the heads of Joseph Jo-seph Smith and Oliver Cowdery by John the Baptist, who hell It, and who lalJ down his own life for the word cf God and testimony of Jesus Christ. I feel to bless these Iftter-day Iftter-day SalnU, as fathers an I mothers, as brothers anil sister". In all the ordinance of the Houe of God. I feel to bites them In their families, in their flocks, and In their herds, and in Ml they nut their hands unto. Aafaras I have tho power to bless, they havo the blcfslngs of my heart and my spirit. In every senso of the wore. And I say to all Israel. God bless lUt live, brethren and sisters, that when wo have finished our work aud our testimony, s other generations have done, wc will receive re-ceive the same exaltation and glory. Tho world do not know you. Tho worl do not know this wor. nitv do usit understand IL They have hot entered into Uicspiritnfit; Ihey never will, except tney ol-y tho Gopel of Jesus Christ awl the law of the celestial kingdom. Tlie vast audience thtn rose to their feci and PreslJeut Woodruff protio-incnl tho final benediction. Conference aojourncd till tho 8th day or Ami!, 1SU1. John Nicholson, Clerk of Conference. . - |