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Show Time-Honored Members of Clnireh Meet ! ,7V m i e- ,. I. Mr, J M 1 CONFERENCE CROWDS FILLED WITH VETERAN MEMBERS J. R. N. Edholm, 83, 40-year member, right; J. Golden Kimball greets Mrs. E. E. Olrson, 3 Blessings of Temple Work Are Reenacted Before 4000 The spiritual benefits of doing temple work were set forth in song and story before an audience of 4000 persons at the conference meeting of the Genealogical Society of Utah in the tabernacle Friday Fri-day night. Youthful speakers recounted many incidents in which power tn kve the gospel hsd been gained through this work. Edwin Eriskson of the Third ward Junior genealogical genealogi-cal organisation related a World War Incident: members of the Mexican Mexi-can branch, Pioneer stake, presented the story of conversions in their land; Nita C. Verhaaren. Wilford ward, told of the gospel being carried car-ried into Australia, and Ruth Home, Forest Dale ward, told of gospel work In Sweden. Other speakers were Joseph P. Lewis Jr., Eighteent ward; Juanita Robbins, Seventeenth ward, and Howard Pearson. Fourteenh Ward. A dialogue, "The Day of Ephraim and Its Significance to Us," was given by Milton and Virginia Weil-enmann, Weil-enmann, Liberty ward. |