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Show articles. If we do expect it, we will be deceived. We must be honest in this as in all other things, if ( we would have the blessings of God -upon us. (James G. Bleak read the Dec- ' laration of principles as it was presented pre-sented to' the officers and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the CGth- Annual An-nual Confyrance lnld in Salt Lake City and accepted by the conference confer-ence and as published in the Semi-. Semi-. Weekly J)eserct News of April 7th, 1896, and it has been presented to and accepted by the High Council of this St Georgo stake of Zion, at a meeting of that body held in the St George Tabernacle, on the 20th of April 189G. " ; Prest. Mc Arthur said that the presidency of this as also other stakes were requested to present the declaration of principles to the people for their acceptance. It was then moved and carried that we accept these principles a3 has just been read, there being but one dissenting, vote. Prest Mc Arthur said that those who know this work to be true understand that the preisthood that we have received is of God and we have received His word continually from those who have been and are placed to preside over this people. They have always taught us that we need not break the laws of the land to keep the laws of God for the great constitution con-stitution of our country was made by the inspiration of the Almighty. : i . ; -, . Suriiy, Services. At -it. George Tafcernacli. .I 't ' 'Sunday. April 2G, 189G. Prest. 1). D. McArthur presiding. . The preliminaries being attended attend-ed to Prost. MqArthur said he was glad to see so many here today. : Stated that while he arid his councilors coun-cilors were at the general confer-en'Cei confer-en'Cei tl ey laid the matter of consolidating con-solidating the 4 S,. George wards into one ward, jB the matter had already.besn agitated in St George and asked their advice in relation to the matter. The reply was,- i the people wanted it in on3 ward, ' they had no objections, and said the High Council met last Monday and -appointed an election to be held yesterday for the people to vote on the question whether they desired the 4 wards consolidated 1 into one or not " The election has ' been held and the vote fairly ta.ken and the decision is that a large ine Saints are taught to be faithful faith-ful to the laws of God and the 1 Constitution. We are required to have faith to perform the duties J placed upon us by the servants of j God for we cannot perform these ! duties without faith in the gospel, and we must be submissive to the holy priesthood. Choir sang and benediction by E . B. Snow. Wm. Atkin, reporter. majority are in favor of consolidation.' consolida-tion.' - I want the bishops to settle r up everything in the wards and put everything in good condition. -The report of the election was tfl then read as follows :- 1st .ward, 95'votes for, and 11 against consolidation. 2nd waid, Gl votes for and 9 against consolidation. : , 3rd ward, 149 fcr, and 2 aganst consolidation. . . ' 4th ward, 144 for, and 75 against , (i consolidation, . Making a tpj;al of ! - 449 votes cast in favor of consol- idation and 97 votes cast against it. It was then moved and carried r- that the report be accepted. - A 1 motion was then put that the vote ' i'or consolidation be made unanimous, unani-mous, which was . carried without a dissenting vote. . 7 ; -D: H. Cannon said I am pleased to .meet with you in St. George today, to-day, and am. thankful to see the unanimity of feeling iii consolidating the four, wards, as this question has already been agitated and everybody have, Jiad5 an . opportunity to form their own opinion in this matter. Although some of the bishops have already handed in their resignations, and the others, no donbt, will do so f shortly, -they will not be accepted '", at once but every bishop will go on 'just the' same until arrangements are made in accordance with the regular order of the church. Related considerable business that was transacted at the general , conference and priesthood meeting held in Salt Lake City, among which was the providing for the needy poor; the lav of. tithing, showing the bene-s.fits bene-s.fits derived by living up to . this " law. Showed also that God does bless ' those that pay their tithing honestly, and if the tithing is not properly applied, those who misuse it will be responsible. - Asked' how can we jexpect.to have. the blessings of God if we pay our tithing with inferior |