Show QUARTERLY atly acoca A good tims time Valla able ini instructions c given ts to the saints boatti gal music the quarterly conference of tl alie a cache stake blake of zion convened in in the stake tabernacle saturday july colb at 10 a in there re were present on oil the stand apostle Ap M W V merrill orson oraon smith and nolen of the stake presidency elders eiders jas jaa A leishman L LR R martineau N C Edle edlefsen feen and 0 I 1 1 fjeldsted prest orson oreon smith mith called the conference to order and the congregation sang the hymn on pa page 58 come come ye sainte saint no toil nor nol labor fear prayer aas as by bishop theurer the el chir ir san an anthem and prest smith arokel and congratulated the Sainta cupon upon the favorable able acs under which they were assembled he stated slated the reason of changing the conference confere oce to the and liali was on oil account of the stake con ference to bs a held in salt lake on the tha lath and and it if was thought 0 that inasmuch the jubilee was fast approaching many of the cache valley popl p ople I 1 may mav want ti it go to salt lako lake ill time for the conference as our desired doing ile he thought smallness gneiss of the congregation n wa was 9 in in I 1 part due to this the change made in I 1 date of meeting as rainy of the I 1 saints may not yet hev have I 1 heard of the change ile he predicted a good I 1 time said qa d he hd had received word that apostle george Tl fidale edale and bishof W B awauld VF qu id le be up on th the 1140 train e the ij PM P M y ama cache county iva was 8 bi than it I 1 had been for a longtime io V time they chev I 1 were united a and n d benj enjoyed richly the I 1 spirit of god lie ile said aid there was J but little if any bickness Fic kness within the stake for which wh ch we should feel very thankful I 1 L it MARTINEAU said in part 1 I am somewhat taken by surprise sit at the request to bland before you and in atte attempting in 1 ti to do so I 1 ask an interest in your faith and prayers I 1 rejo rejoice ice for this favorable opportunity of again hearing the word of id god and I 1 especially rejoice in the tact that hat as aa I 1 0 grow row older and rain gain more experience ill iny y judgement jud gement growl lowi stronger in file te testimony that this is t the he of the lord I 1 am very glad it ii is so fur for were it otherwise e I 1 would be unhappy and weak and falte faltering ring 7 we judge things from fro mour our different diffene nt standpoints an and d as a consequence there thera is a vast of opinions and ideas A man who nho i ia 3 not a member of the church cannot understand der stand why our elders go to the four corners of f the globe and spend their time preaching the gospel without purse and without scrip down in dakota there are vast tracts of land as level almost as a floor with no hills or valleys and the eye sweeps the country for miles and miles one man planted a bonolo of trees and those trees could be seen feen for twenty miles around and they were sere known as aa the grove and from the standpoint of those people it was a grove it depends from what standpoint we look at a question the speaker discoursed in a roost moet interesting interest ins manner on oil the most practical themes exhorted file faints to be awake to their duties and sustain their leaders in other ways than hy by prayer alone and concluded his remarks by beating bearing an eloquent testimony to the truth of the work and invoking gods blessings bleb sings upon all 11 rl ri delt L S IF f MOLEX MOLEN said raid that for some time he be had bad been working the most of his time on things temporal and had not been laboring in the capacity of his colling calling very much and was when he learned ath of the chang change in n the date of the conference said he could testily testify to the remarks of ilia iha previous speakers they are all excellent and could we put them into practice we would be much better belter off we are weak eak and should look to ourselves and attend to our prayers pr aers and duties I 1 find more difficulty in keeping myself in line jine than in keeping someone else there the speaker referred to the fa faith ith of the Latt erday which inspired them to quit the world and cross the plains into the unexplored wilds wilda of the west of the great and magnificent work they had accomplished through their living active f faith aith elder albert N Al merrill errill occue occupied I 1 ed some time in reading and commenting ing on the he first chapter of lames james APOSTLE br na spoke tome some time on oil the sacred ordinances of the gog gospel liel gave rave it as his private opinion that people used thess these sacred ordinances too otten often when the cause is not great enough to justify their being used need for instance men and N women omen who are well e enough to ha be around will ask to be and administered to when as a matter of fact lie he diding think they should be administered to until they are confined to their beds bed said he be believe much in doctors thotis thought one good doctor would be elou enough h for ill all cache county the choir sang sang an anthem and elder N C I 1 Edlef dl eften cen pronounced alced the benediction |