Show ADVOCATED AT MORMON conference president smith and counselors and other leading men of the church admonish saints against use of intoxicants salt lako lake cly city at the opening session of the seventy ninth semi oil ap fitial bonfe conference ronco of the church ot of jesus christ of latter day Sal saints lits a resolution was offered by apostle ile he her bor J grant and unanimously approved pledging its officers and members to uso use every proper means to further tile tho cause of temperance to the passage of such laws lawis as may bo be necessary to close saloons and otherwise decrease tho the sale eale of liquor and also pledged themselves to the support of a sunday law despite tho the th o inclement weather the was wag large overflow meetings being necessary to accommodate the largo large crowds nearly all the speakers ahers or of both sessions of tho the opening day of the conference dealt with the subject of temperance as based I 1 on in the revelation of tho the word of wisdom which prohibits tho the use of intoxicating liquors tea coffee and tobacco and which recommends tho the sparing use of meats after but a brief mention of uio tilo prosperity which had been granted the church since sanco tile the last conference president joseph F smith devoted lila his address to the of tom perance as based upon tho the word of wisdom and to urging the latter latte aday day saints to so BO alvo na as to set tit an example to other peoples lit in this regard and to make their namo name known over the whole world as aa advocates of temperance lie ile also severely censured the use tire of tobacco lit hi any form president smiths counselors john it II winder and anthon 11 lund who also spoke at tile tho morning session sustained the position taken on oil temperance by president smith and pledged him their th e ir hearty support in fit the stand which lie ho had taken the subject was taken up immediately on the opening of tile the afternoon session by apostle F at lyman who did not confine himself to speaking against intoxicating liquors V but who attacked the habit of using tea end coffee and the excessive uso use of meats mr lyman ionian treated the matter from froin a financial point of view and showed the enormous saving which would accrue from the discontinuance tin ti nuance tiance of the use of intoxicants tea coffee tobacco and meats apostle heber J grant also made a spirited plea pica against the saloons and drew a terrifying picture of the results of intemperance after ho he had announced that tile the checking of tire tho aquor traffic was lit in the hands of tho the people whom lie he addressed lie he urged on them that they use every effort in the family circle and throughout ghou the ahe state to bring tile the traffic into disrepute I 1 and by their votes at the coming election to stamp out the saloon evil which lie ho stated Is corrupting the youth of tile the community ile he then presented tho the resolution which received the sanction of tho the entire conference at the evening session judge 11 II 11 of ogden also urged that tit tho people of the church talk with thell their votes as well as with their voices against the saloons in the course of his address nt at tile the opening session iresia president ent smith said the ae lord has blessed us to a remarkable degree during the last half hair year tho the lord lias has prospered alon and I 1 rejoice in the manifesta uon tion of ills his mildness kindness I 1 ani am grater grateful III that the efforts so strenuously made to injure the church and to bring it into disrepute those offo efforts als have been tho the means of furthering the work of tho the lord these efforts against the church have had but the effect of bringing tho the church prominently before the world wo we want the whole world to understand tho the doctrine origin and purpose of 0 the work woric of the church and this can only be bb hi brought lit about b by brin bringing gink the world into contact with our work this is being accomplished through the attacks upon the he church we want the just and abid understanding world to arnow and understand on oil doctrine an our works there ara an vono rone so blind as those who will not no see none so deaf as those who wl ali not hear bear and none so heartless as those who seeing the light and the truth close their hearts against it in speaking of temperance he said theao Is a great movement on foot font throughout the land A wave of tern teni pc pe ance anco Is sweeping over tho the country gaining lit in power every day I 1 am in favor of this movement and indorse it with all my heart ile he then made a forceful and eloquent argument in favor of temperance and declared that oie latter day saints being tit tho covenant people of god should set en an example to other peoples and should be upright and honest living pure lives live and loving and feal gnp con cod 11 |