| Show cis AT of SA president frel dent joseph F smith declare church la Is in sympathy with movement for curtailment of liquor traffic record break ing attendance of con frence forence salt lake cita at the opening sea blon a 0 the benenty seventy eighth annual con forence ference of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints saint lu la this city a on april 4 it Is estimate d that the at was larger than for any opening day in the past with few exceptions all the high authorities of the church were mere present in addition to president smith there were on the stand the counsel lora of the first presidency john R dindor indor and anthon 11 II lund all of all of the apostles were pres present crit save two iho absentees were reed smoot who is in washington and 0 W penrose mho la Is on a mission to europe president smith in his bis address at the opening se ses blon declared that the church was waa in sympathy with the Illo movement that Is sleeping seeping the coun try for a curtailment of the liquor traffic other speakers akeis members of tile the quorum of twelve apostles als alao urged the more general observance of the rules of temperance rance having ba ing that the embargo laid on axe ashes in the word of 0 wisdom la Is a command ment not only with mith regard to strong think but as aa well in respect to tobacco profanity and tea and coffee the church was mat declared declai ed to bo be in a better condition than ever before the societies mere ft ere reported to bo be flourishing as aa never mever they hid had in the past the testimony nony of ident smith and other speakers was tb that at the favorable conditions were a tact fact in a as well as a temporal way fhe lav am s laid down in the gos lel I 1 el are observed with greater fidelity than they have ever acen it w N as as sorted president smith in the beginning of hla his lemacks extended a welcome to the saints it was extremely gratl graft dying lie he said eald to see sea so BO gleat an out of people we have every reason said Pie smith to feel grateful to the t lord for hla in mm ill blessing bles bing showered upon us since our last the eyes of the almighty are upon his people and lie la Is mindful of their welfare wo we do not claim any honor for the deliver ance of our leople aiom enemies and we thank god tor far his met mer cles cies and ble blessings sIngs the president said that it was writ ten that voe m oe Is unto them by whom offenses ofte uses come and a day of reckon ing Is suie sole to come the speaker said that hs he did not for an all instant doubt the truth and divinity 0 of the gosiel that has been restored to man reeling feeling reference was made to th the e brothers and sisters who had been called by death since the last confer ence baling that they had bad gone to t await tho the resurrection on the tha subject of temperance the president said I 1 believe the time Is near at hand when we shall observe the lama of temperance in accordance with tho the avoid oid of wisdom we find that the lord knew better than we hen ho he gave that revelation heu see a man professing to be a member of the church befouling his mouth with mith tobacco and liquor it pains me greatly and my heart goes out to him in regret we wa believe in strict temperanc lempe temp rame erane we believe in ab stin enCA from till nil pol bonous and per licious things just now there la Is a movement spreading over this for the extension of local option and I 1 hope that every latter Latt erday day saint will co operate with this athla temperance movement I 1 and my brethren are in bar many with the movement mover rient we think the people ought to have tile tho right to bay whether they will have drunken noss ness murder robbery and riot in their midst or whether they will have peace tho the president declared the aubil dailes of the church to bo be in excel lent condition he said they were active aul energetic and declared that the spirit of contention la Is not known knon among the latter aty diy saints and la Is present boniv among those who have become apostates and have lost last the spirit of the gospel ident smith in malting making a par bial report said thit on oil december Dv ember 31 1907 there were in the field 1810 1310 missionaries during the year there wore sent out elders and re turned tho the returning fees of these being p paid tid by tho the church forty foul font sisters accompanied their husband i on missions president smith said that the elders who go 90 out into the field do so BO at their own expense and support themselves while hile in the field john R winder of the ilist hist aiesi doncy spoke of the tha work vork performed in tile the temple last 3 ear referring to the felt at tho the additional in terest lerest taken in the work of redempa tion fr the dead the work pel toiled in the temple said mr win ikin der has often been so great that puo pio tilo havo have been bean turned away not indre qu antly president anthon it II lund apol spoke e on the principle of gathering ile he r said bald that taught it to joseph before bea 0 re any one waa m as baptized into the church president lund said that revelations bearing on the subject or of gathering were vere given to the church during the first ears of its existence t first was waa little to encourage the young prophet joseph in the belief that the gatherings ot of gods people would ever reach the maggit u do foretold in the revelations but it has all come true the speaker said trat tra t the idea of 0 migrating to utah did not originate alth 4 ith Bri girair young but ft with ath the tha prophet joseph who bo predicted cd that in these regions a fruitful and pleas plea int place ot of abode aboda would bo be found at the afternoon session apostle r lynian lyman spoke on the tero tem perance question saying baying that the members of at the church are a tern tem pente people and that when this gibat wave mave of at temperance is sweep ing the cot country no people are so well prepared as the Latt latter erday day saints in further praise ot of the cleanliness ot of the lives of the latter day saints mr lyman said that the opponents of the church may question our mony many but they cannot question our lives apostle john henry smith con granulated the mothers who had been given lvin the opportunity ot of thoroughly instilling into their children the rules laid down in the word ot of wisdom in ahn they were mere much more tortu fortu nate nata than many of those in other faiths apostle cleber J grant also spoke on the subject of 0 temperance and ol of the condition of the church and the flourishing flourish lne condition of the los ies second days session la all of the addresses addres bea bes at the sun da day y session the second day of the tha conference the speakers Bp sp takers confined their remarks to a discussion ot at the doctrinal aspect of the mormon maranon church making comparisons in a general way between the mormon church and other churches faiths falth sand and creeds creeda there was aas throughout the addresses addi esses an expression of gratl fica tion at the condition and continued growth and pimp erity of the chuich the speakers akeis declared that the tha church chuich sa is in a more flouti flourishing shing state today than it has ever been before and that the outlook for the furuie la Is more than bright A postles apostles rudger clawson AT smith george al boit beat smith and george 17 Rich richards aids were tho the speakers tit nt tile the morning bes sion bion speaking breaking of the members of 0 the tha chuich apostle said sev se v c nty enty years of 0 training have inspired thorn them with the spirit which Is ancon quei able tile the spirit that fired the ha heart ot of joseph smith the spirit that fired the heair of brbgham young when he led his big people into the allda of the rocky mountains and there es em a great and flourishing corn com the spirit that fired the healt of bohn taylor the champion of truth the spirit that died the heart of mlford allford woodruff the great nils alonar alonar the spirit that fired the heart of lomenzo snow who also carried the gospel to all the eaith the spirit which aich fired the heart of the present leader of the church h who has lived to see the happy culmination ot of III hi efforts to tree free the chuich chinch from debt at the afternoon session apostle orson IF whitney dc delivered livered a doe doc ad aeiress adl Iress ress and among other things declared ehlt the mormons cormons Mor mons were 0 o not the enemies of the gentiles ile he gave the definition of the word gentile saving that in the ancient times it meant one who was wag not a jew and in the present usage of the word mord it means one who is not a mor afar mon no opprobrium attaches to the designation he said the mission of mormonism is peace it alms aims to bind together all the people of every nation of the eaith apostle david 0 mckay spoke on the subject of choice of service whether one shall serve the lord or the world apostle mckay said tatt it was the hour for the 20 people on the sacred temple grounds which they would choose lie he believed in the gonel of doing and it if the latter day saints at once would resolve to serve the lord much of happiness would result for in nothing Is there a source of so much happiness as in r right ight living which means serving god tile ane hour has arrived he said eald to choose between truth and brior en or one cannot go on always serving part r ot jf the time the enemy and part 0 of the time the church the L lord 0 rd said that no man can serve two to masters and that he be cannot serve god od and mammon closing session the conference caroo came to a close with the sustaining of the general authora ties tes of the church at the afternoon sea afon b 0 o n on monday tho the audition committee of the chuich submitted its report mas ana accepted the adopted a resolution expressing the confidence jf the conference in tho the integrity oi 01 the trustee in trust who la is president Pies ident smith I 1 here five speakers chief among these was wai daigh ain 11 II roberts one of the first at f the sev antl 0 to and apostle anthony W ivins who ho was elevated to the office at the he october conference all of 0 the ers era confined theli addresses to a dla dig cission of the of the church apostle post lo ivins however hoever ho ever went a little faither and said bald that the saints should take part in politics to the c ex tent of seeing that only the best men are chosen for civic offsets |
