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Show Of the Y. M. M. I. A. held in Hyrum, Sunday, Oct. (October) 15, 1882. On Sunday, the 15th inst., a conference of the Y. M. M. I. A. Associations of Wellsville, Hyrum, Paradise and Millville was held in the Hyrum meeting-house. Besides Supt. (Superintendent) L. R. Martineau and Asst. (Assistant) Supt. (Superintendent) S. A. Langton of the Central Board, there were present on the stand Bishops W. H. Maughan, Geo. (George) O. Pitkin, S. M. Molen and O. N. Liljenquist and the presidents of the associations of Wellsville, Hyrum and Millville and members of the Associations. Paradise as not represented. After the opening and sacramental exercises, Elder Langton made remarks relating to mutual improvement, especially urging upon the youth, the necessity of leading lives in harmony with our profession, and of abandoning habits of intemperance and setting worthy examples before each other. Elder Martineau explained the character these conferences were designed to assume and referred to some of the advantages that would accrue to those who attended them. At future Conferences, there would be a programme of exercises; to be rendered by the Mutuals of the District, embracing subjective lectures and original essays, select readings, speeches, etc., reports and general instruction. The officers of the associations of Hyrum and Wellsville were sustained, and a meeting for the reorganization of the Millville Association was announced for Sunday evening. Verbal reports were made by W. S. Poppleton of Wellsville, Wm. (William) Neves of Millville, and A. Israelsen of Hyrum, to the effect that meetings had been appointed, and missionaries would be sent week after next, from each Association to the others in the circuit. Encouraging remarks were made by Bishops Maughan, Pitkin and Molen, expressing much interest in the work of mutual improvement among the young men and women of Zion. They referred to the integrity of the leaders and apostles of the Church while in their youth and showed how impossible it was in after life to reap a harvest of wheat, when the springtime of life is devoted to the sowing of wild oats. Elder Martineau made a few remarks concerning the mission of the young men, strongly appealing to their teachings, traditions and sense of right, to protest against intemperance, and vice of every kind; to protect their own, the virtue, and chastity of the daughters of Zion. Referred to Prest. (President) Cannon's remarks at the late Y. M. M. I. A. conference at Salt Lake in reference to young men and boy's standing around stores, and loafing on the streets, with their hands in their pockets, and how much might be learned by devoting a few hours or moments each week to some good book above the Church works. After singing by the Hyrum choir, Elder O. N. Liljenquist pronounced the benediction. |