Show f PRESIDENT SMITH OPENS GENERAL CONFERENCE A Announces ounces Building of Another Another Anther An An- other ther Temple in Hawaiian Hak Ha- Ha Hawaiian k Islands T TAXES ARE RE EXCESSIVE V t I Total of Persons r. r in int Atte Attend Meetings i I i t Temple T emp I e S. S Square qu re I j Too 00 much money is being r f and too spent nt for education and top Wile little attention is being paid by bythe y t th the pe people peaple as a whole to spirit spirit- de de- de- de ft growth and has been the growth So great r of the Church of Jesus Christ ChristI l. l day dav Saints in the tle HaJ Hawaiian Ha- Ha J islands tat thata new temple isto to be built i in l the islands for forthe f. f the b benefit neuit of the faith faithful These were the most interesting interesting interest interest- sing s- s ing state statements made made by President dent Joseph F. F Smith at the c opening session of the conference of of the church churchIn In inthe the tabernacle Sunday There There were fully persons in attendance at the meeting every seat i iri in ii the great structure being bein filled fitted with itt hundred hundreds of worshipers stand stand- jJ ink Mii In all ali parts of the building The Ue was ivas as equally large at both th the morning and the afternoon meeting meet meet- i ing with Ith fully persons attend- attend lf n overflow meetings making 7 t of l-of of persons In attend attend- anc ance President Smith made his ann ant an- an n that a temple will be ber t r bi Oahu JI r. r I. I I I. during the course courso 1 of hi address on the temple building activities s of th tire th-e church There now are four temples in Utah Utah Salt Salt Lake St. St George Logan and Mantl Manti antl The Theof of fifth temple is under construction at Ale Albe Alberta t. t l Canada Authority was I r. r enor the construction of a sixth on fh the fhe northern border Of Mexico but Was abandoned because the Mor Mormon mon colonists were not permitted to remain in We shall build our temples within L the confines of the United States where liberty libert prevails pre or where it P hafl lev e all n. n for it is co coming ming our tt President Smith saidie said Ie ie Il da lay y is not far distant when dl shall prevail pre In the ft i It lf han be permitted to serve oj f Go Grid to the dictates of ot OUrI our conscience Ch Church Cheh eh It Prosperous I i Smith said that tie te pe peo- peo f pl pip of the church are more united in 10 and in III spirit now than they have f J at any former time ThE They also alio alsot t are pro prosperous In temporal matteis I the general organization of the h also is prosperous L II In his hi discussion of ot expenditures i- i Y for tOr education President Smith led IellI ta fa the subject by hy discussing the lIth- lIth I 1 mE Ing Accounts I which are better he tie r fit i i said aUl 1 j th than n they were a year re ear r ago Gi 3 thiis Is is a lug he hesT sT A because much money is being lf spent ent for tor church school purposes I i. i While on on this subject I will say 11 haf t the state X has proa pro- pro c a 1 splendid public schools up to 51 the eighth grade rade It has also given tisa university which has no superior 1 tn In the country It helps too to support sup- sup V. V port ort rth tI agricultural c college which Is t doing a work of usefulness here But j now oil I observe that th there re i is a t 1 i go too far with the high school F i i idea In 10 fact act some people have hare become be- be beI come education mad Their activities 1 t 1 Ii burdening the people leople with too j I 1 10 many taxes j I j Tax Taxation tion Excessive j 1 f There r trE Is is an excessive taxation fur for 1 I He e br school purposes as at a result f Of OJ this disposition on the part of ot I 1 many people If a man desires to I send end children to a school I the they can get the religious training i which hleb they should have haw in In their youth h he must mast b b-at b at jit the expense of ot i f J them outside of the state schools school L 1 T 1 b- b Bible has been barred from these I a and regious I teaching In them Is IB in in- ri fe bite so that the man wishing to toi I I IJ J i give ghe his children an nn ecclesiastical I r training must must submit to an expense t I In fn addition to his taxation to support I thep bUc system It It is d that the on p ob- ob erve more carefully the ia law la oh nu fast I offerings s. s If this item small as all it l Its is to each cacti person were faithfully attended at- at II i tended to tu there would be no nt need ned d of ot i taking a dollar from th the tithe funds to U Ip the w p.-w r r. r It m is our nor dut duty to a t I t there are M r are rt many kinds of poor you know and r f m mean an the 1 righteous ri poor poor- anI and this fast r I Ing was instituted for the purpose pf pC I J. J doing this tilts duty t T ve met mft here six months I t t we f organized four tour new stakes ago I lj The These e. e jt U. U must be understood I are I 4 v merely divisions of ot older stakes The I j- j regions wherein these divisions have i taken take place have hae become more thick thick- I ly 1 settled and e liars s. s enlarged and I extended ex- ex tended their Pro prosperous P rous communities In In addition we have twelve I tf new hew ew wards ards and five l nd 1 Pendent I Il w l branches which later will b be made I t. t wards wardi as a soon as they become but suf e t self let There pre are re now In the church ReV sev two enty-two stakes 64 wards and thir thir- eight ty-eight independent branches t to ward ward During the pa past t six months montha some changes have ha b been en made in the missions in Tahiti and Japan TV t f have helped eighty wards I in erecting meeting houses hoults and amusement amuse ment halls or ha haas lu v as assisted them In paying off Indebtedness accruing from former ormer building activities President Lund Speaks 1 j President A Anthon 11 II L Lund spoke also at the morning meeting lila Iii re jre- jre marks ii of doctrinal character 31 urged the the- people to not nt become weak ak In faith through the mockery or derision of adversaries fc President Charles V. V W. W V. V Penrose was It the first speaker at t the afternoon k session His address addre s was largely I doctrinal Of the church he said This Is hI no sect of religion This I is II no man-made man organization It is I divine from the very beginning and 1 it will 1 b 4 brought to a a. glorious consummation con con- summation We Ve are to draw near unto deity with wah our whole hearts and serve the Lord with all all all' allour our our might and mind and strength Through h Jo Jos Joseph ph Smith the prophet God has revealed anew the plan phin of salvation and restored rp a all the gifts lit ot old for tor he is the same today as he was of yore f f C |