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Show ! hood himself the day will come when that Priesthood will be taken away from him for God will have this Holy Priesthood Priest-hood honored for it is a sacred thing and cannot be trifled with so we had better do our duty today and continue in so doing. As we keep a record here so also is a record kept in heaven and we will be judged out of what is written in the books, Ilezekiah Duflln having returned from a mission to the Sandwich Islands, said, I was called in 1391 to go on this mission and the blessings I received under the hand3 of the servants of God was always on my mind and was a great comfort to me. They said I should be able to speak the principles of the Gospel to the people of those Islaifds in their own language which was verified to the very letter and I certainly was blessed in this regard. After studying the language about throe weeks I was sent out amoi2 the neonle i where I was an entire stranger and when I was alone in this ecndltion I would look back to my home, bnt yet I never desired to return until 1 had performed my mission, The food was pol and fish and fish and pol continually, and it was a hard diet for me but God blessed me in this 60 that even that kind of food was good to me and I did not sutler in this respect, and I found out that if we are humble and seek to God for his guidance he will be with us and will comfort and bless us. I was gone 3 years and 4 months and I had the privilege of baptizing bap-tizing over fifty persons and I feel thankful thank-ful to God for his great blessings bestowed upon me. I desire to be faithful to the end choir sang an anthem. Benediction by Richard Bentley. 4 m ' 1 11 CONFERENCE. Monday morning March 16th 1896. Choir sang hymn on page 55. Prayer by Robt. c. Lund, choir sang hymn on page 38. David II. cannon said in traveling among the people we And many who arj trying to live their religion. Encouraged the bishops in looking after those who are dilatory in attending to their duties. Advised all to pay their tithing. Said that the Presidency of the Stake in traveling trav-eling through the Stake had sought to impress upon the people the necessity of laboring vf 1th those who are careless in performing their duties, not because of a benefit that would be received by those who labor with the people but that those -Who are delinquent in performing their duties might be benefited thereby. The 5 -duties of the Latterday Saints are of that nature that we cannot affored to trifle ! with the Holy Priesthood but it is the i Priesthood Itself that God has given us and we must gustain that Priesthood as Tre will not be held blameless but every man that holds the Holy Priesthood if ho Is careless and does not honor that Priest- |