Show SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE LArge and Interesting Meeting of tho Union Meld Sunday Evening The aemtann Sunday school con rerooc convoed In the fuhrnclo ItleATUTaIrnaIl Sunday I nlnir I October 3 In ddl Uon or he genal uprntndnc there cr prcnl nrly all tho recta bv of Ihe uDlon board many Iadlog theillOurilticla Church aulhorIU and a I g pre entaUon of corn1 Sunday school ork The mUn wa called to lelralcalled oaorkIrn by Assistant General Superln enetent ejeorRC lodeUnl Tho choir nanff Oh Listen to the Irumpl IjTjp UrcAarKe 10101 oltew the opening prayr and the holr ng tllnrr and I > oo to Men of Old 1 Bemlary I Wliltnki culled the roll of Flake anil presented I the general Sun rak8h4nj outhorlUca ho were unanlmoly autalned o a follows George Q Cannon general auprin Indnt Uorg Ooddard first nlo out uprinlndn Itorl 0 Meaner ocond nollont superintendent Georgia l1enol 1 general I jensuavras merni are 0 tho Dueret Sunday Hohool Union lioard leorue Q Cannon Ocarge Godda led Karl j Mcavr nolg a nynotTho C Griggs Jo W Ill rnm1rha 0 Loll W ltIbrd Frnel or M Llyal lIbr J Ont Jo M Tnner Oorg TeaadIlIugh J Can nun and ndrw KlmblI resident Cannon staled that Ihe raon Kleler John C Cutlers name ommlttfil from tho union hoard waa AlTG1axA1ruIIAguA bIrli w a tianar ho hall It grcat many din d-in perform hlnff enllY heen md < ounlop t a a mhul 1 aad tI IR toclher 1 i th1 AAY olher dutleo which prevent him performing the labor h1rn1AjrIarm1ng eonneele1 with I tho Union board The ecrctary then read n circular lellr from the general nlrlnlendent urging list only such IdlIerlIN be a Ad talnod who Ile cp the Word of WIdom baa ave the lablnlh day pay tithing and I sustain the IllestliooJ rlder OeorKO Joeldonl Aid he remembered re-membered lort > cleht jenrs aco 11 hen All Iho Sunday school children belonging be-longing to tho Latteret Rlnl coUld lot ftecomnioelateel In n i loom 10 IG noW It wuld requlro eight Rare h tabernacles ad j one In which the meeting we As hlnll held to Ilccomno date all olh Were v hencot faithful Bunday cheol I WIrkere lie tell sidereal thl It wonderlul chane lout lookt forward with grnnt antllpa tlnn for n gretor lucre I 10 the name lenolh ot tlm acrensit fe rule 110 cngh 01 the Ileauro A memle of the board had In nttonjigng thc thlrlyplx a nual nd I I Stake con I IrOln t rioces since April last And noted with plensum the I retold growth and Interest Ire I F h r line i work To further help the cato re ca-to and teachers he referred to tho list of questions recardtnff the conducting con-ducting nf Sunday achonls that have been sent 10 each school for their guidance and truled Gait elooo at tent Ion would truiataed to them by nil In 1 ittalnlng the consummation BO much i desired lie railed attention to the Importance of using the letter Sunday school hymn book and tak traff part In oil the long of the pehool lie tated that 1ldr John M Whit nker had < 1 hen called tn the Pastern stores on a ollonho had been a faithful secretary i now frbcAut nino yen ran all eommnolrnllon for the Italian boat1 I should fop the Irent ho ent to Oeneral Secretary D B Sailed Union board lldcr A leoiKe noynod ailed alien tloi to the dltlhutlon of NickPlol olopt a to be used on the 311t at It ber this Year TncoiVectinBtiie l Niokel i l lund It wan slrTilile he said that this fund Too > sent Immediately after Its collection b P 0 order check or the most convenient form but not In the envelopes 00 oe h1 lone In the pat III revard tothe leaflets rlder leynolds stated that thirtytwo nurn Vrs I had already hn sent it the hadnd 010001 and tho othei clght wouMooon J I enl for toll Thei were on i Dlble subjects lie regretted that In more school no uo wood made of them 1m portent Iunn In hem they er uxeil perhaps onco nnd 1ld nmun1 wanted or destr iyed He urget that they be taken great fSi ed as they are late nded Aad4 lluh 1 good 1 nould follow It hail hn deemed wise should the authorities of any < of > the makes prefer to have their Bun day school nnnual conrernc hete1I now and April 1808to so hold them lh T Stake deslrlnn this should at onct notify tho board and lIon the dates let member of the board can attend the Stake authorities will be piomptly nollned Ho also called attention at-tention to tho Important of every school nt least and An ninny orilre and teaclat As pos lblymtlo take the olllrlal argon of the Sunelnj school the Juvenile ntruolor for on rnny occasions questions e asked and III formation sought by letter that had been IIIIIY nnered In that Iapr ISdcr T L Orlsg called nttentlon to the rationing Items ITh Strike Sunday tracheal visiting book In which aids to various Sunday schools nt Iftli their rOIelh Btalcen nre to be fully ful-ly recorded and report thereof made 2rho necessity that Stake Sunday Fehnul superintendents organize and foster N hcro practicable branch Sun da > schools I I specially In outllng < l trlct so n to enable all the children chil-dren to attend Bunday school without gebut too far And 3Tho quetlon and onsers IIn gongal Church ut Ihorll callld supplement to the lenu hleh are to bo md At It special I feature of the Sunday school conferences Atudrerloug 1898 these should be practiced upon In concert by the entire schools so that at the conferences confer-ences they may bo made a special feature John 1I0101on sang the solo drant us Oh Lord Thy Peace Elder Joo W Summerhnjs called nt ton ticei to the importance of each Sun dy himl obtaining one t of the New 111110 thnrts Iteaardlng me Book of Mormon elmrt No2 ho stated that It ua now being printed und would ho ready for distribution In about tula 0111119 1lder Karl a Mneser staled that In Msltln if the vnrlou annual Sunday Sun-day school conrerrlle durln the pot loar the me an bern of the Union hord found AIftek 01 ellmlrehenBlon In clasp excrcl rendered on such oc c I Allen It was Intended that n i Ihee gatherings the very best clai I > work In I the Stake should take part s 0 that others teaching the same depart ment could profit by the exercise and lie suggested to St like superintended that III arranging n proper program for I too con re rvateen In the future they take notice of the best work of caeh dl > rll1lent and select the name for 1U illrn rn the lrogrlII General Superintendent George Q Caution nutlike aq 1011011 a There has been a small book pub llshed l by the Deseret Sunday School Union eolld The S B Treoll I find on pogo eHnlyfour H In that little 1I0rk ugotlon concerning the leoM to be taught to the children I rod In treating of the ran nf Abraham chow how the people had fallen Into Idolatry And the design God had In 1 I rnlllni him Irom his lathers house The next sentence IsAYR Take up ian founders of the Chard i-an and Igp lIun Arinplres 101l0w the groNth still 1 decay 01 these and ucceeeding nations na-tions aa you Proceed Our attfntion haa ben called l to the fact that I In Maine of the Sunday 0111001 Iho 10 considerable otten tlon devoted to quellon Man the Ito I-to a rend Tat bp Ih fudATf the Chaldean and Cgypllon empire Follow Ibo Rioth anti l decay of the und uooeedlug nations M you pro IIed I I have been told that In some of our schools this has been followed ton to-n very great extent and l far beYond that which was designed In the get ling up of this Treatise I might read from pago ROI have just hap Pencil to turn to that I ceo here li I a subject The ware between and ptnecutlonn of ho Catholics I and Protestants by each other And their n little afterwards Give n sketch of the United States government I eti Some of our tene here are pleased 10 duell considerably upon that history of theme dlltent nations and the ro mutt I that ono of the lessens are so devoted to what may ha called profane pro-fane hi tory that I Is I ancient history that I hero Is I very little said about the Gospel And l very little said about the Lord I think this la an error and such lessons as them should not be carried too far Our Sunday schools are fort for-t purpose of nailing our children the principles l of the Gospel We must I not make our Sunday Atchoola too much like distrift s < hoohV That Is I not the purpose I The Sunday schools lire to be entirely devoted to the taching of the principles ot the Ooipel Wi want to make Latterday balnts of our children chil-dren It I send n child to Bundul sihool 1 want that child taunht the QOSIHI I II A can leoa hllory out of the Bun day school He can learn hlitory ami n great many other things outohle 01 the Sunday school that ought not to I bo taught I Athe Sunday school In the t Sunday schools we should confine our labors to the object for which they I have been established of I the I Oil Sunday Allucaking Schoo tell r in Union our mri r that all 011I nM 10 the I 1 nor n-or rules or of anything that villl fetter fet-ter the Sunday school teachers We Sunday Min want to teach the children the simple principles of the Uospcl Care should be I taken by the superintendent A to see that this 1 Is I lone anil that the limo of tho Sunday school Is I not occupied In teaching subjects the knowledao of which con 100 obtained outside of the Sunday school I wish this could be Impressed upon The minds 01 our superintendents superintend-ents and teachers Th Sunday school I n Retailer n 8 I ave Paid and 00 you all ought to And do understand for tho purpose of giving our children Instructions In-structions In the trlnelples of tho liospel to Indoctrinate them with our prInciple und It we give them any story at all I 1 It I should bo the hlstorv of our Church and the dealings of Clod with our people that Is I from n sacred standpoint a religious standpoint stand-point or course InfOl ma lion ronrnln the hlolory of t > < OIlo cu h taught or brought to har Imillonally Illus trallnA God dealings with nnklnd 10 prepare tho waY for the carrying out 01 III to wurk This I i proper but 1 It I IB 1 net proper 10 go Into I Lt ndot I leon I Ar uonculor history some lime ao I wo vllllng one or our quarterly Stake conferences nnot I rental It good many of the Latter lay Saint hd come from afar driven long 1Itnne In ho present ot tho meeting and the forenoon 0 had bn given uo Accord llng to In struon wait lovo1 to the Sunday I school The meeting holne was not I large enough to admit 01 the gather Inor togelher 01 the children and I SainI tho had com from A distance Il seemed too hal that the ho I mine such distances should It I rtO r I wait until the afternoon meeting In order to get Instructions and I rug reated that we hould meet at lIne ocloek will the Sunday schools And hold the meeting ay IInlll tnlhlrl and dismiss and allow the IBlal to near Ito I Ih a meeting house and forth for-th e conference to thenbeopened 4 The I object In doIng thl wax not 10 Interfere I Inter-fere with the Sunday sell ac but tot In vent to-t ou much In to r f err AII wllh I I Ih conlrenc of Iho stake 1 thought both urpoe could Ienl in an wcred by such an nrronent In consequence ot this II was suggested sug-gested that the Sunday ohools In the Stakes should met at nine n m In nice d of In where the Stake quart Iy conference was to be hold and where the bullllln wa not Irgo enough to acrommoda I e t he adults as la l I bee carried children out to This I mtd believe extent But lately we have heard that other cooIrenc have bn h d 01 the 9undiy schools havcbc I n 4 I lm i thit they could meet at 9 n th Instrad of 10 a m Now It in I n rule that h prevailed and It has li en ell n It ly the FI at Pre1daocy < Ihat th Sunday morning should be devot d I 111 UK Sunday Sun-day schools alld we 10 not want this rArAingement mal for the Btake quarterly confeu < < 10 t i made i er monent with anything elo In other Aordaa wo do net woOl tI Ill Sunday schools 10 10 chnng front lime tot to-t to suit the convnl nce 01 other organizations Iheref wo wall III lIke It 10 bo understood b nil ouprln tendnl of Rundoy BhI I that 10 oelock in I the hour for Ih meeting of the Sunday chol x tlna In In Planets 01 the Stake qn trly confer clcis an I hae monUo 1 alIt I al-It Is I found by eleprlMni I our chit Inn from attendln the Sunday school that It breaks In upon the rand cf the schoolnnI there I have hn remonstrance 10 the Union hou1 III relation I to this moltr rNluUn > t hat the Sunday schools be not Inter fered with by funeral A lo ir other lilt farent meetings held on Sunday Mara f nhntJ Ing Sunday morning has been no I Ad 1 nl to the Sunday schools and A hould not be Inlerlrd with Another Point In connection with the Sunday school organization There Is I a good deal if zeal being lIInlld nt tho time very Total noithy zeal In the organization of theM the-M I A throughout the Stakes of Zion It has com In U4 that In Rome Instances tho local officers have taken Sunday school workers out if the Sunday tjchot la anal appointed them to labor In the M I I A U do not wish In the leasI do notto curtail tho Influence cinclency And good work l > ling done by organlzitlons so potent for good as arc the MIA but wo do not wish nnd It Is I nt proper that one organization should Interfere with another The Sunday school workers should be permllled 10 work In their respective dichooln and ought not to be taken from thlr work And on the other hand the Sunday school officers should not In Pat manner 1m Ialr the mclny or od work ho Ing I done by Iho I M I A 1I0lh organ Itatlon can run rroll1 and perform their labon and not Interfere In Iho least I with one another Upon this Iolnt I think wo ohould I all Agree Dud ought to be very careful A In our movement move-ment so ns to preserve good I feeling unit < to repress nnithlng that I would cause a spirit that Is not of the Lord to arise We tire all laboring for the sam purpose speaking In general termsonll we should rejoice In the rroprlty and surceps of every one ot these organizations Primary Sunday schools Relief Society and evrythlng ot this character I do not know another people upon the face of tire earth no mUlh organized As we ne We have organized gathering gath-ering coverln the III of the people almost front Infancy to old Age onl we should do nil In our power to maintain their efficiency and to pro mot them and aid them In doing the I good work designed for them I am greatly pleased with the In torest manifested this evening by so large n congregation attending this mtlng we have In use 10 ho very thankful to tho Lord for that which He Is doing In the training t I of our children I have nald beforo I It was n most timely oiginlzatlon of tho Sunday school In our midst the or ganlratlon A of n system b which they cm be carried on systematically and thoroughly There was perhaps am doubt and dialect 11 nation on Ih 1 art of different persons In the Slakenn1 ard regarding Sunday ehool In the past Some olHcers did 1 not care to attend the Sunday schools nnd thought It was Interfering with other matters and other orgnltUon Trial that feeling has gone I do not think there In I It 1111001 anhro 1w or any olher officer who Is I broughT In contact N lIh the people ihea does not feel pleased and thankful that there I euch an organization as the Sunday school It must be a hell to the IIlshol and to the Ioeh I And 10 all the quorums avid different nilliers the High PrIests vcntles Elders Pllests I Teachers and Deacons throughout all the Stakes of Zion Consider the condition we would befit be-fit It these schools ere not organized I Wo would have our cuntr tilled with dnnomlnollonal Sunday choole clients taught by those ilao do not belle In our dtrln ho arm II would be to propagate their doc I r ties nnd destroy tho faith of our children In the Gospel an we understand under-stand It Hut with Gall thorough organization nil Brother Uri ago has t told you this evening In discussing how wo ma y becoino more thoroughly i organized l lIy the establishment of I branch Sunday schools we can thtoiv unJo lId 1110ol j rafecunrds around our chi tire n An prevent hm from Imllhln unbelief I NAunt to say here that titers Is I n wave of unbelief siveeplng over tho I land And l us ran feel the effects of It among 118 The loading magazines or the popular magazines ue nll1 with ideas tending to uiibciler sclentl no hypothmn thnt are designed to destroy faith In the Hlbl faith In the creation 01 the world faith In the ere Allen of rear ralth In the ollln of man an1 In the existence of Goal l Now those doctrines are being spread very Insldlouly They are being taught In oil the universities and colleges speaking generally of the land with but few exception There ablun gen ratlon growing up who do not la I lleve In the cardinal principles of the IllWo tnusht by our ralher hfnro the Oospel In Its fulness was revaieei Thee doctrines are being unlemln and It becomes the duty of the Latt r toy SalnlaII I the mlln of Ih Lntlcrday Knlnn to uphold thc e old truth nod doctrine that have comedown come-down 10 us rm Ood through the nges to Irenhlen the faith of our children In them An on for An ion can to neutralize the oltort of theee fallip doctrines that are tieing taught Anl our Sunday schools earn among the greatest agencies to bo tioied for thin purpoOlth teachtnc of our latfalren the prlnchl l or the Gospel and l eounterarlln this dreadful untie lief And darkness tht Is I Rereading Oor the land I reel that tills I of grea t Importance 10 u am I di not know of nn orllanlzatlon today Among tiny obirra poonl who tire In the Ioltlon we arc Ihnt 00 PA well Prepared 10 rounteraet these things hcau we ho the hok And records l Ihal call has given Wo have the Illble hut not that alone They may Indulge In their higher criticism nnd tell us A that those aliall tames or allneh1 to the various honk of the Hlble wr not the t nth orm of thml hul we have oomethln more sure than all ti ir cilthMm That Hook it Mormon lo I t dlmo origin II I n 1Iln r r I dlvln I tran Mild 1 In the gift and pm r of lod unit this has com to u hy Ih I power or dud mid we kottn It I UI ll It I was nit transient d by 10UU hllll hne has n rat re uro Noard or Prophesy something to ban our faith upon We cm call upon theN lestl nionleff biaRuse we know they are Impregnable ami cannot IK demroxd i In addition to this via hive the wood I of G not ome to us In this dayth Hook of Covenants that has come frun the Lord to UB It In I the wurd ol 111 Ito I-to us who live now Thcrcfon w hn Tam altneiomai They may asiall the 1 11 hIP an they do And endiator t rroo that the writings allrlLud to different mn wore nuL wmi n I them W leave that to than They can mio ns they please with their learn I Inx will cling to the Illbl lot I aI e know I that whatever urur thr are Are Ih orror of IInluollr nil n who halO I lune the IrumIIIUng tral they must nlll Road they enn root Uon othr ground that w i have Th y title aIled the l1loak if liformo from an mtslde 1 standpoint nnd t claim that It I mis written by some one cine I thnn joleph Smith 1ju t no have cl thut Jt hOI Ik of Mormon hO-I Im 10 u toure having been trjin lated < l by divine Power And It eonlnln IncontrUhlo Internal rvldneo to those who read It And Imow Itathln About the power und l spirit of 110dI It lOn to them with Internal ovidmicet of Rol dllnllY nl Ihey know It I t rue Thflef re w have his hIde h-Ide which we have tho Doctrine and Covenants and those thic vvltnciis enable uo to oecnl illltirent posl Un I from any other religious dIn Inullon un Ibo lace of the earth Wo ohouhl consider and teah our children all these things and firtlfy Ihon against the pomiclolut del Iclng oIrwlat and Iwilla to light In the Inlllullon of learning In the land And fortify them to that they will nilt Imbibe Gal trrorn which will Pann owy for they are not lrue Of course In the theories set forth by sclcntlllc men nation Retention men then I xoArne principle of truth I olullon hit ome Ira ill cOOlel with It I jut vY many of tho theOlI nre mlloodlng I fell Hint I deelred l to Pat y so much uwm Ihl uhject to impress the Sun da ch1 arhor nu it uprlnlenl onto uIth the Importance 01 confining our Sunday h1 I work to Ihe mllon of the 8und > sihooiTtliat talteneliliiR our children the principles of our le llirlon Ood ble ou nil Amen Choir Pang Ood of Israel lIar Our Prayer After which I Too choir nnd congregation l sang Praise Ood from Whom nil lllenslnes Flow Be idle Ilion i by Aposlli Anthon It Iund J M IIITAKrlt Oenral Secretary |