| Show PRESIDENT SMITH OPENS GENERAL I CONFERENCE Announces Building of AnT Another An- An f T 1 other ther T Temple emp e in Hawaiian Hawaiian Ha Ha- Islands hands T RE EXCESSIVE T Total Tal tal of Persons Attend end Meetings i in Temple Square Too much money is being spent for education and too Jit little l attention is being p paid id by 1 the people as a whole to spiritual spirit spirit- c ual t e education growth and de- de So great has been the growth of vf the Church of Jesus Christ Christof Christof of f Latter day Saints in the Hawaiian Ha Ia islands that a new temple is to a be built in the islands for forth forthe th the benefit o of the faithful These were the most interesting interesting interest interest- ing statements made by President President President dent Joseph F. F Smith at the opening eIon lon of the sixth eighty semiannual conference of the church churchin in the tabernacle Sunday There were tully fully 1000 per ons InI in attendance ance at the meeting every ery seat I In fhe he great structure being filled with hundreds of ot worshipers st standIng standing stand stand- nd- nd Ing In all oll parts of ot the building The attend attendance nce was was equally large at both the morning and the afternoon meetings meet meet- In ings with fully tully persons Attend Attending ing the overflow meetings s making a total of persons In attend attend- alice ance 8 President Smith made his announcement announcement announcement an an- that a temple will be built at Oahu H. H i I. I I- I during the course of ot hi his address addres on the temple building activities of the church There now are four tour temples In Utah Utah Salt Salt Lake St. St George Logan and MantU Mantl The fifth temple Is under construction at Alberta Canada Authority was given given given en for the construction of a sixth on the northern border of Mexico but this was waa abandoned because th the Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon colonists were not permitted to I remain in Chihuahua I We Ve shall build our temples within the confines of the tha United States where liberty prevails or where it i shall prevail pre for Cpr It is coming our Jat ay President Smith President Smith said The day day- dayis is not far tar distant w when en enc c W gh eo s ss shall shaH prevail pre in the Jan n Y shall be permitted l to serve God md according to the dictates of our conscience Church Is I. Prosperous Pr President Smith said that the people peo peo- pie of the church hurch are more united in faith and audio In spirit now than they have helve been at any former time They also are prosperous in temporal matters and imd the general organization of t the I church also Is prosperous In his discussion of ot expenditures for education President Smith led to the subject by discussing the tithIng tithing ing accounts which are better he lie said paid than the they were wert a a. year ear ago This Is a gratifying condition he said raid because much nuch mone money is being beings s spent for tor church school purposes While on this subject I will say that the state government has prodded provided pro pro- vided tided splendid public schools up to th the eighth grade It has hall also given u us a university a-university C which has no superior in the country It helps too to support support support sup sup- port an agricultural college which IB la doing a a. work of usefulness here But Dut now I observe that there is a a. disposition dispost- dispost tion Uon to go JO too far tar with the the- high school Idea In t fact ct some som people have be become be- be corns comp education mad Their activities are art burdening the people with too man many taxes i Taxation Excessive j TIters There la Is an excessive taxation for tor t secular school purposes as a result result- of ot this disposition on the part of ot man many people If It a man desires desire to send fiend his children to a a. school where whore I they can get the religious training which they should have in their youth he must be at the expense of ot sending them outside of ot the state tate schools The s been barred from these I and religious teaching in them is In Inhibited Ini In- In L i 1 so that the man wishing to give his children an ecclesiastical i must submit to an expense in addition to his Ills taxation to support the public system It HIt is desirable that the people ob- ob 1 serve urve more moro carefully the law on fast fant I offerings offering If It this Item small a aa as it is 0 to each person were faithfully attended attended attended at- at tended to there would be no need ne-ed of ot i taking a doll dollar r from the tithe funds f to help the poor It Is 18 our duty to assist the poor there poor ther are man many kind kinds I. I of ot poor you know anti and I mean the tha i ri righteous poor poor and and this fast offering offer otter ln ing mc was wag Instituted for the purpose of doing doing- this duty Since we met here six months ago we have ha organized four tour new stakes These it must be ba understood are merely divisions of ot older stakes takes The Tha regions wherein these divisions have taken place have become more thickly thick thick- 1 I ly settled and have enlarged and ex extended ex- ex tended their prosperous communities In addition we have ha organized twelve new wards and five independent branches which later will be made matle wards as soon loon as u they become sufficiently suf suf- S self There are now In the church sev sev- two enty-two stakes 76 wards ward and thir thir- ty eight independent branches unattached unattached unattached to wards During the past six months some lome changes changeR have ha been made in the missions In Tahiti and Japan We have e helped eighty wards In erecting meeting houses and amusement amuse ment halls or have assisted them in paying off oft indebtedness accruing from torm former r building activities I Ir i r President Lund Speaks Speak r President Anthon H. H Lund spoke I also at t the morning meeting hn hl re remarks remarks remarks re- re marks being of t doctrinal character He Urged rge-d. the people to not rt become Weak l In faith through the mockery or derl lon of ot adversaries Pr President Charles W. W Penrose was the first speaker at the afternoon session HI Ills His address was largely doctrinal ot Of the church he said said- I This is no sect of ot religion This Thill It Is I i 11 ii no man man made made organization I divine l ine from the very beginning beg and andi i It will be brought to a glorious con con- summation We e are to draw near unto delt deity with our whole hearts and serve sel the Lord with all our might and mind and strength Through Joseph Smith the prophet God Cod haar has haa r revealed anew the plan of ot salvation and restored all the gifts of ot old for tor he heIs heIs heIs Is the same today as he hit was of ot yore |
