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Show , . . . . ... . . . - -. t : - . . . V . .:- - ; ' ' Remarkable Speech, of Presi- 1 dent Smith and Vote of y Dissent Excite Much In- ' terest in Conference. rejoiced more in the condition of the church, than I do today. I hold this that eery man in the church will be tried and tested so he will know the gospel is true and not accept it because their fathers vere authorities. I thank God sometimes when npoptles and authorities die, because their children then know of a truth that the gospel is true. Ears Open to God. '' "There never was a 'man whose ears were more open to the voice of God than the ears of Joseph F. 8mith. You know he is president of this church by the wish and consent of God. ' , "I -sometimes think this people cannot live as they should unless they have the wolves to bark at them. - Get Lots of Suckers. "Like a net that drags fish from the sea, we pick up lots of sharks and lots of suckers. The slickers will go back to the river. I .have caught lots of suckers and many of them have gone back to the sea. ... - " '. ' ' '. - May, Go to Hell- ' . "Sometimes the4 blood in ' my nerves wants to burst forth and tell some de-famers de-famers of the truth to go to hell, but that isn't necefcsary, they will go there anyhow. any-how. . ' , 5 "Some ministers oppose us honestly. Others persecute us because they want to be as mean as the devil will let them. , President Smith read a number of notices no-tices of meetings of various auxiliary organizations, or-ganizations, conference reunions and other ( meetings, to be held today, and tomorrow. Several notices of articles lost yesterday were read.- Among these was a diamond earring, wnlch the finder wae requested to leave on the speaker's! tand. ji Bed tals Begin Soon. j ' , ' He also announced that the organ recitals, re-citals, to continue through the summer, would begin next week. A special organ recital will be given at the close of thl. afternoon's session, for the benefit of visitors. The choir then sang the anthem "Let the Mountains Shout For Joy." Benediction was pronounced by Bishop William B. Praston. and the conference adjourned until 2 o'clock this afternoon. t; . . t ' .m opening session of the second day i -. of, the seventy-fifth annual conference of i ' the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was not attended by so large 'a ( . congregation this morning as were the i' ' morning and af ternoon sessions yester- I The remarkable speech of President Jo- i; seph F. Smith, in which he excoriated the I j "enemies of the church" and the unusual '. incident of objections being raised to the ! ' Confirmation of 'the authorities of the ,1 , , church at yesterday's sessions, tended to i ' key the interest of the conference to a j . high pitch. Here and there knots-and groups met and in monotonous undertones ! olsaussed the incidents. j Oniv Two Negro Mormons. y Noticeable among the crowd in the au- m oitorium - were two. colored .persons the ! ' only ones in - the building. , They were "Aunt Jane" Jackson and her aged broth-i broth-i er. Both are bent with vears. and their J , hair Is white with the silver of great age. "Aunt Jane" was a servant for many years in the home. of President Brigham . Young. She and her brother are the only, j : negroes who are members of the Mormon church, and they are faithful members. Never' comes a conference nor a Sabbath r . day-service In the Tabernacle but they oc-'. oc-'. cupy the seats well to the front and in f ' the center of the building, that by long I use ' and tradition have been religiously 1 ' reserved for ther , - t - Opening Prayer Offered. ?Tsldnt J.D. T. McAllister of the klanti Temple offered the opening invocation, invo-cation, thiring God for the privilege of meeting in conference, and asking. that peace, blessing and salvation be with the authorities of- the. church, the acknowledged acknowl-edged prophets of God. -; ' .' The holr sang with great sweetness the hymn, "Earth With Her Ten Thousand Flowers." . ; ..- Apostle Lyman Speaks. J President Francis M. Lyman of the quorum, of apostles was the first to address ad-dress the conference. - ' "My heart was full of Joy yesterday." I he said, "in listening to the reports of all ," we have accomplished. It .wonderful to ' . have brought . together -In seventy-five i' . years so. many people from so many nations, na-tions, so perfectly organised and united, to carry the gospel to all the world: . "We see today a great multitude gathered gath-ered to worship God. and we learned yesterday yes-terday from the presidency what we have . . accomplished together, for we are car-H car-H rying forward a remarkable work amqng i the nations of the earth. Sustaining of Officers. ' f . "WbalS remarkable oneness we noticed I. yesterday in our voting. We,-see alike and believe alike. We have faith in all 1 our leaders.- These men have all been se- t lected with great care and prayer. We W ' ' have no object .whatever but to -obtain the A very best men and women for responsible ! ' positions. ' "Lies and Falsehoods.'' , j i "Our enemies believe the lies i and the falsehoods that are written and preached , about us. People believe they are doing )j - the Lord a service when they malign and persecute iis. They believe we are "de-luded. "de-luded. What a wonderful delusion! Abide by the Government. - "The church has not been broken to pieces and it will not be broken to pieces. i We huve been preserved. Wc have not i been scattered. . We expect to do like all ,1, other men many men upright men. mor- i al. bJ'.ness, upright, spiritual men. - We' ,1 expectr 10 be loyal to our State and Nation I as any. other people. ' We will bear our il burden-of Government in peace and in si war. We will love our neighbors. We ) will not hate.-despise and abuse them we will love with them. V "Are we not a good, peaceable element? (' -Are we not doing our share for the Gov-! Gov-! . ernment? - "The things that belong to the Government Govern-ment and the State we will render to the I' Government and the State and We will give to God the things that are God's. equal to every other people in the world. ' Will Gather to Zion. : "The people will gather from all the world to Zion and the gospel will be ' preached to thenv "Thank God for tie liberty we have in talking, working, and preaching the word . . of God and may the. Nation abide in llb-- llb-- rty of speech and religion forever. i "It is not necessary for anyone to tell; us we are a bad people. We may be naughty but we are not wicked." Miss Edwardina Perry sang a sacred solo, "Oh. Dry Those Tears." Her voice ,' was sweet and sympathetic and her enun-' enun-' , elation was unusually clear and distinct, those sen ted in the most remote parts of the building hearing-and understanding , .- every word and note of the solo. Have Church in Kansas. J. O. Duffln, president of the Central Ii States mission, was called to represent his mission In the conference. , He said: : ' - . .- "Thi work in the mission is in good condition. con-dition. The people are increasing In their - . good, work and strength. . "During the past five years the tithes in my mission have Increased nearly 600 per cent. . "We are doing a little In a colonizing t -way. In Texas we have a colony of slxty- three families, with a membership of 200. i. In Kansas we have a, colony wnera we . have our own place of worship. "Six or eight houses of worship have been built In the mission during the last ! two or three years." . ; Elder Ben E. Rich, president of the Southern -States ' mission, reported that I ' the work js-progressing nicely there. He said: . - , "The work Is going on gradually. There j is scarcely a day goes without a baptism. i Bomet: nes we have from fifty to eighty a Tree;- I ' Ilejo.-s'to. Chnrch. - - ; ''I never saw a day in my life when. I -. ' - - |
