| Show JU CONT J aday 10 was it beautiful beautia ua day the stake se e w ts is filled to its utmost capacity we ved in time to hear part of president ben gife st opening remarks ile he dwelt particular n the 1 1 e duty of all ul I 1 to observe fast days yo one was ex exempt the needy must make ir offerings abol they be taken that very I 1 to their own doors in this way all uld id be made comfortable all should rk k and those who did not should not exit t help it was the duty of the teachers PR report tall all cases of want to the bishops and y would take steps to relieve them if re ire was not enough donated by the people the needs of the poor the church woul would ac e to the rescue and make up the deficient r G the teachers were specially exhorted B visit members rs who were rei ote as well those who were near them bishop freestone then rose and said that 6 aff ing to a misunderstanding he could not ike a regular 0 report but lie ile could give a though very meagre one the ward is sin in moderate circumstances the rhe atten ace at sunday school and meeting 0 had 1 up at the approach of warm ile he cens censured ureA the sabbath breaking spir E so prevalent in the church the sunday hoot tea teachers chars were told that litt little h could be A pecked when two thirds of them absented lem ein selves I 1 from sunday school the prin ples of the gospel ii if lived up to would berfect us all as far as this world is concerned ut unfortunately there are those in in the hurch who do not live up i to these i aci nci jle lea and disgrace is brought upon us ui by those sailors iii in the church many from foreign countries oun tries 1 es apostatized because they ure digap pointed in the saints not living up to their religion it has been said that one half of the chi chuch ach since its establishment has acosta sized but blit my experience shows only one to one hundred all will cone come back by persecution but the chief dantrer danger that threatens 7 za the church is from money or affluence great ric liet aie u stumbling block if all could only be couff comfortable it was all they needed till the soil that was commanded but bewan of no command was ever laid 0 upon the members of tho th church to follow mining bishop shaffer said his ward wits was in fair condition conditi ill all I 1 the poor pooi attea attended ded to and the S S well attended relief societies flour ibling sa the baud of the lord through 0 all his experiences since belonging to the church at nauvoo in 1 l exhorts d all to lo be faithful and do their duty ja nes shatter s said affairs in berries ward wae decidedly in bad condition they had no bishop but got crot along as well as they cirild under the circumstances members complained that the teachers did not visit them thein in some instances for a year it was a number of months since they lud had been able to obtain reports the people in the ward were energetic and were trying to live religiously sonic some however never went to church jeremiah hatch said we were havi having good od times speaking t 1 and prospects of a good harvest particularly requested all to be diligent earful ani and frugal and to look af after ter the fruit trees that so many had set out our soil and cl binate were pal particularly ticul arly adapted to fruit raising abi which h would prove a blessing to all ile he thought all would be blest blesa in spite of persecution in spite of the arraignment Z of the people before the 0 great bar of our country undo uncle jerry declared we tire are living 0 in the afre age 0 of the of prophesy that we are actors in one of the most important epochs oj 01 duty that this year is one of the most important in ages and that the perplexity of nations heralds the coming ot ol the th I 1 great aud nd mighty day of the lord 1 ile he exhorted all to I 1 look k facts acts in the face to stop their easy way of living and prepare by laying in necessities for the day when the do aogi 0 of i war V ar will be N lot let loose 1 wo we must confess that uncle jerry rattier rather frightened us he is so dead in earnest und and if he was ivas honi hori lied filed about the hust hm day dav as we tire arc lie ho would not be so glad to see it com coming comilia ilig bishop abplanalp his hia ward as in in good condition lind sunday schools nourishing some sickness but only one death dath ith since last conference afternoon services opened b by prayer and singing the bishop from dry fork reports showed every one hopeful and every thing favorable however the teachers 4 wera delinquent in duty much sickness the past winter t but health of ward im improving P bovino 0 R S collett colleti said reports of bishops any aning but encourage in some even had no report spoke of the discouragement ono i felt t in working for any cause if their efforts n hlat act with no encouragement that eu il hardest thing to endure was a spirit of indifference to the saints there was no immitti immaterial brial sido aide to life their s spirits p brits were material the future was waa material thought the ending 0 of f abife alife a life well spent with an unblemished record must husi be vastly different from that of a life IM spent kecki recklessly I 1 to such a one the future must be a blanks blank thought the world ahou should ILI I 1 not lot 6 condemned for not ree receiving biving the gospel when many of those raised BH as saints were equally he said h b believed however that the roughest men of morman parentage when confronted by emey emergency gency would sympathise with their parents and parents church mr ar black madu made a favorable report lor for his ward and particularly dwelt on the necessity of proper interest in sunday schools school and sand showed how responsible sunday sun jay school teachers were as the 0 coob teaching of the younger generation generall on led ou them thein he then gave the delinquent high priests a talking to saying tt it was no credit to the them u not to atte attend nd the their I 1 r aniced meetings ings mr bartlett closed the afternoon discourses by a good lecture to those who never unless by accident attended church who alloN allowed ved their children to make sauda a general hot hoi ida Mori monday elay we natt but took no notes tc of the proceedings r 1 |
