Show Apostle Ballard Urges People to I Marry Within the F Faith ith Speaker Declares That If Youth of f Organization Continues to Mate With Outsiders the Work of Their Forefathers and the Church ChurchWill ChurchWill I Will Come to Naught G that if the young D men and women of the Mormon I J church did not discontinue marrying marrying marrying mar mar- members the church would suffer disintegration and the work of the church would eventually eventual eventual- ly be In vain Apostle Melvin J. J Ballard Ballard Ballard Bal- Bal lard made a vigorous plea at the mornIng morn morn- morn morning ing lag session of the ninety-first ninety annual conference at the Tabernacle today forI forthe for lor the youth routh of the church to choose I mates matts of the same faith Apostle Ballards Ballard's plea was made both botn Ito to the young folks and parents He lie keep their called upon the parents to in the church and sons and daughters from marrying outside it I IARE ARE UNHAPPY Hundreds of young oung Mormon men and andI I women in California Montana and other j other states on the outer edge of the i Mormon center in Utah are marrying those of other faiths and will eventually eventual eventual- ly be lost to the church Apostle Ballard Ballard Ballard Bal- Bal lard declared He said great unhappiness ness had resulted from these marriages marriages marriages mar mar- for at times of sickness and death and when the children were at atthe atthe atthe the the age where their training should commence the parents would disagree as to what course to pursue He said there could be no happiness for the Mormon girl who took tool a husband outI outside outside out out- side her own faith for her relation to I her husband and to her home in fact the very institution of home life which I she had gathered around her were under these conditions diametrically opposed to the ideals of home and her I sphere that she had learned as a Lat Lat- day ter-day Saint It H was evident that it is the girls more than the boys who are leaving I 1 the church through marriage for Apostle Apos APos- tle tie Ballard called caned upon the girls to I give the Mormon boys a chance He lie pointed out that Mormon boys are reared to hold inviolate the laws of or fidelity to their wives that to be memI members mem- mem I bers bels of the church they must be morally morally morally mor- mor ally ally straight He declared that the j I church of the Latter-day Latter Saints had but one code of morality for both men and women and that the themen men were expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex to live up to this standard as aswell aswell aswell well as the women Apostle Ballard declared that Mormon girls by marrying marrying marry marry- ing within the church can protect I I themselves because they hey can obtain from their bishops records concerning 1 both the moral and spiritual characters j I of these men before marrying them I FOR POSTERITY I Marriage with a view to rearing children children children chil chil- dren was another plea that Apostle Ballard made in fighting the great di divorce divorce divorce di- di I vorce evil which is now confronting the world He declared it was because I 1 the majority of marriages are childless that there are so many divorces To correct this evil he called caned upon church members to rear children declaring that to multiply and replenish the earth was Gods God's first command To marry in the Mormon way was another plea made to the conference by Apostle Ballard as another means of combating the divorce evil He declared declared declared de de- that there were very few di divorces divorces divorces di- di among marriages marriages- performed in inthe inthe inthe the approved Mormon way People married in this manner commence to plan how to live together and not how they can get separated he declared I DEFENDS PROSELYTES Declaring that the people of the European European European Eu Eu- I nations who had joined the Mormon faith th had done so not because of their ignorance as some people be believe believe lieve but because of their great intelligence intelligence intel intel- Professor Levi Edgar I Young of the council of seventies of the church and head of the department of Western history a at the University of Utah addressed the n conference Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Young declared that what the I world needed now most of all was the simple faith in God and Jesus Christ Today roday being the ninety-first ninety anniversary anniversary anniversary anni anni- of the foundation of the church of the Latter-day Latter Saints Professor Young traced the growth of the church and told of its early beginnings Professor Young in quoting from an anar anar ar article icle from the University of California California California Califor Califor- nia said The Mormons are the finest type of religionists living today and the speaker voiced his hope that the members of the church would adhere to the strict New England principles which a were a part of the making of the church Love of neighbor exemplary home life agriculture activities splendId splendid splendid did schools and respect for state ar arthe are the qualities which have brought the Mormons to their present high stand ard according to Professor Young D DESCRIBES SCRIBES MISSION Apostle David A A. Smith the third speaker of the morning session said saidI that h hypocrisy evil speech of ones one's I neighbor and speculation tion are the first steps toward apostasy Elder J. J Golden Kimball who has re recently recently recently re- re recovered from a ill illness illness illness ill ill- I ness in recounting his experiences as asa asa 1 I a told of a three months' months trip of over six hundred miles in which I j he and a f fellow missionary preached I I successfully the gospel of the Mormon faith without purse or script The speaker also bore testimony to seeing miraculous healings of ot the sick through faith and by members df f the church Fear that the followers of f the gospel might become too material was ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed by the speaker who urged them not to value money too highly President Heber J. J Grant presided d this morning The Tabernacle was again packed In spite of the inclement weather Opening invocation was offered by byI I I President James of the North Weber stake Mrs Helen Copening Copening Copen- Copen I ing sang O 0 Rest in the Lord Another Another Another An An- other solo during the morning was rendered by Mrs Laurenda Brewerton At the conclusion of the session High on the Mountain Tops the Banner Banner Banner Ban Ban- the congregation congregation congregation con con- ner Is Unfurled was sung by and the benediction was of offered offered offered of- of by President Thomas E. E McKay of Ogden PRAISES LEGISLATURE i Praise for the Utah and Idaho state legislatures for enacting bills bilIs and congratulations of the Mutual I Improvement associations of the L. L D. D S. S church for the active part they played in securing such legislation I marked the address yesterday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon of Apostle Richard R. R Lyman principal speaker at that session of the church conference now being held at atthe atthe atthe the Tabernacle I rejoice that in the states of UtaH and Idaho the sale or giving away of cigarettes or cigarette papers is prohibited prohibited prohibited pro pro- said Apostle Lyman This is not hysteria nor mania it is mathematically mathematically mathematically mathe mathe- right We Ve have met some opposition I am sorry to say from some ome of the leading men of the state but I for one desire to be worthy of the grand old pioneers as a representative representative representative of the fifth generation of one of the founders of the church FUTURE BLESSING Dr Lyman declared that in future years thousands and tens of thousands would rise up and bless the governors of Utah and Idaho and the legislators who helped make the bills laws He concluded his sp speech ch I which included a recital of some of the accomplishments of the church pioneers pioneers pioneers pio pio- and references to the rapid growth of the church with a reference to the morning address of Apostle Richards who had counseled the people to live within their incomes President Heber J. J Grant in indorsing indorsing indorsing ing the stand taken by Dr Lyman called attention to a recent I article published in the Literary Di Digest Digest Digest Di- Di gest in which it was stated that in all the history of Harvard university not a single student who had been a user of tobacco had graduated at the head of his class lass He declared this showed the measure to be nothing but common sense HOLDEN EULOGISTIC Perry G. G Holden of Chicago spoke in eulogistic terms of the L L. D. D S. S church and of the thrift integrity and progressiveness progressiveness progressiveness pro- pro of its members Bishop Charles W W. Nibley spoke In detail of the hardships endured by the pioneers He then referred to the perplexities confronting the various nations today with special reference to the conditions existing in England where he said the very foundations of government were threaten threatened d by the attitude of men who put loyalty to their unions above loyalty loyalty loyalty loy loy- alty to country |