Show t ION NOT NOTi f i DIS DISCUSSED c 7 1 aD ODA A Y V YI I MORMON lEADERS DODGE IT H Morning Session o of Conference Conference Confer- Confer i ence Passes A Away way Very VeryL L Quietly PREDICT BIG GROWTH i FOR SAINTS' SAINTS CHURCH Missionaries in For Foreign ign igni i Fields Do Not Need Much Money Contrary to tho expectations of a majority of tho more o than pe persons ons who gathered in the tho tabernacle this morning for the second day of tho the annual an an- nual anal conference of thc the Church of Jesus I Christ of Latter day Saints no reference reference refer refer- I j I ence nee either aither directly or indirectly was vas as asI I hade to prohibition The apostles who rho ho took the thc most i active parts in the recent agitation a for I S 1 tale state wide prohibition namely namey Heber I 1 J J. J Grant Gor George o A. A Smith mith and Hyrum II 31 Smith have havo not ot vet wt addressed the j. j conference It is believed that at least cast castI one of tho the three probably Mr lr Grant I will make malic sonIc some direct reference c to fo tho ho when he is called upon to speak but hut this Ibis is is not certain The three speakers peRk rs this morning t S Apostles Or Orson on F. F Whitney and Richards and anil Elder EIder Serge er o P. P Ballif I ke kc principally on doctrinal 1 matters Tb n Tic was Wa presided over by hy Smith and opened with tho the 5 jc l b by the tho choir hoir and congregation on tot of loW cow ow Let Lct Us LS Rejoice in in tho the Day Dar Daro of o of Salvation n Following in prayer pryer by hy I Bishop 0 P. P Miller the choir fan Bane I Oer O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness I Apostle postle Whitney was the first speak u. u r. r He lie opened by quoting quotin t that hat part of the he Declaration of Independence beginning be he i ginning with We Wo hold hoki these truths ti 11 4 be self elf f evident that all men aro are created ere era equal I I The speaker then referred to the tho or or- 3 of tho the church I am are proud and happy today said saide the e speaker to bo be a member of the hurch of Jesus Christ of If Latter day Saints and I am also JIso proud to he be a n citizen of the tho United States s tho greatt great great- fit t and grandest country countr in the world I oi Gol wa va was tho founder of this church aud S of this government T o speaker declared that tho the orI organization or or- I of tho government Jo was as a ap p of the organization of the church and aDd referred to the small beginning be be- ginning of each and the growth which each had made If we hut hat wait fifty or a hundred urs uis we Wc will find that Mormonism has bas slide n d dc such liuch strides that nb no nation will willbe willbe be be ue al ashamed hamed of its teachings s said Whitney All AU Have Equal Chanco Chance Continuing ont nl ns he said that it was something some some- thing more than a coincidence that the principles ples of freedom and equal ri rights which underlie tho or organization of the tho government of the United States also underlie the Mormon church He dc- dc dared that the declaration that all aU men sere cre created equal must not he be taken to to mean that all aU me men were created alike like put nut that all bad had au an eq equal I ri right ht before yio fO law Not all men mea aro are equal in intelligence intelli intelli- gence en or in in stature but hut God has hM mado made ail men equal for salvation Money Ioney can cm to o 0 many nany thin things s tint but ul it cannot buy salvation sal sll G alien OI nor a p place 1 o in the kin kingdom dom of God I j ho he said Continuing he ho said that the government govern o T meat ment was or organized for lor tho benefit of tu tuo c people and from front the tho people it se se- se c cured us its source of ot power and that tho the c w was ag organized for or the tho benefit 0 of mankind that in in the church God was waa r cognized ro as the source of power and t C people Ie as ag a secondary power Ho I. I declared that God GOll selected the tho lenders lenders' on pago page 4 1 1 t PROHIBITION Continued from pa page e 1 L 0 o of the church but that tho the people of tho the church hall hamI had the ri right ht to approve e or cl the time person or per persons selected Law of Tithing It I is God and aud the people who Jal make makeup makeup c cup of up the or organization of tho the church Christ said aid the speaker Apostle Whitney Whiney referred to the establishment es cs cs- cs of the Or Order cr of Enoch Eloch by bythe bytho the tho first Ica leader er of the tho church as an au order order or or- der which was intended to place tho the people on an equal basis in temporal is as IS' IS well wel as n spiritual matters but that because tho the people el did not live live he up to time tho law hi- hii it i was taken from froni them and anti the law of tithing substituted I At the conclusion of the time a address ress of Apostle Wb Whitney n President Smith said that flint it had bal been called to his bis attention that Ge Washington ton tho the first president pres pres- ident of the tho United States was wa inaugurated inaugurated and took the oath oth of office as the tho first president of this country April Apri 0 3 l 1789 just one fifty one years ars before the theor I or organization of the chuch church I Following a solo the time congregation was addressed Aed by Serge F F. BabEl Baliff who has las jUHt returned from presiding over tho the Swiss and German Gorman mission for four years Elder Ballif Balf expressed pleasure at nt be bc- being in ing pr privileged to ad address ress such a large gathering o ot 01 the tho Saints Saint and told tola briefly of tho time work in the part of tho the world in which he ho had been laboring Speaking if of the tho elders who aro are laboring in the tho missionary field he said Do not send them too much money mone it is nee needed ed hero enc at home bore Do not se send send a them nn any more moro than they absolutely need neer Need Little Litte Money He Ho stated that man many of tho those e now in inthe inthe the thc missionary field feld were receiving little or no money from homo home an and that they were dom doing an excellent work The rime closing closing speaker was Apostle Aposto George F F. Richards whose remarks were entirely doctrinal doctrinal Ho referred to the Order of Enoch which he be sai said had har been substituted b by tho the law a of tithing because because be be- cause the people did not live JyO up to the hi higher her law Ho lie declared that many lany members of the tho church were not observIng observing rin r in ing the law Jaw of tithing tora today and urged that it bo be more strictly observed as this was necessary for the proper a advancement advance advance- vance vance- ment of the church in order that the people might might become prepared for the tho hi higher her law At the tho close of Apostle Richar Richards Richards' s' s address address ad ad- dress President Smith announced that there would be a meeting of those interested in in- crested in temple work in the assembly hall lall hal immediately after this afternoon meeting and that tho the regular regular priesthood meeting of the church would bo be hel helin lucid held in iu the tabernacle commencing at o o'clock clock this evening o Tho The choir and congregation sang Our God We Wo Raise Raio to Thee after which benediction was pronounced |