Show hold blomes homes iff 1 2 and farms is s advise of church fl head V V ead period calls for sound thinking declares L D S church leader in sessions of general confer bence ence A more equal distribution of 0 wealth a as 3 a means of restoring tog Dg peace a and na stability to the world as the domi dominating theme of addresses delivered at the sunday sessions of f the one hundred and second sem sem lanual conference of the L D S church the th e speakers included president heber J orant grant anthony Aut hons W ivans first tint counselor la ln the first tint presidency charles W elble second cou counselor coun belor melor in the first presidency senator heed reed smoot george albert smith and melvin J ballard members of the council of twelve epos ties and sylvester Q cannon presiding bishop of the church the tabernacle was packed for both the sunday sessions and thousands who were unable to gain admittance mit tance stood amund the temple grounds lat listening ening to the addresses over loul speakers president grant t e thi th i concluding speech after calling tor for a sustaining vote ote on the general and departmental authorities of the church the new appointees who were confirmed by the congregation were dr jeph F merrill men ill as 23 a member of the council of twelve Bp ap postles to succeed the late orson F whitney and antoine I 1 R ivins as a member of the first council ot of the seventy commends members president grant orant in his concluding message commer ded the members of the church for their loyalty to and interest in the faith and issued a warning against against the acceptance of any books or publications as coming from the church unless they bear the stamp of approval from the church authorities he conferred W blessing upon latter day and the nation specifically ment menton aning mg president hoover and his cabinet j in these times of trouble he said we are fortunate in having such a man at the head of the nation it Is my personal opinion and I 1 am classified as a democrat that no ro truer or finer man ever aver sat in the president presidents s chair than the one who now occupies it i the first tint speaker ot of the day was president ivins who de colored it red 4 an eloquent plea for people to turn to god for solutions of the social po ar ara economic problems which beset the world I 1 men come to us he said corn com meriting on economic conditions I 1 and tell us there Is 13 no depression I 1 that it Is 13 only imagination such talk to me Is sheer nonsense when great Brit britain aln tor for years the financial bulwark of the world sends out cries for financial help when germany for years the eader leader in music and science Is on tre tle verge of collapse when banks in cur own country go down like block houses there must be something wrong aarm with governor Gorer nor 1 I believe with governor george it dem dern that this a period which requires sound thinking and action but let us be calm ha he contin aed and hare have futh in prophecies of the past I 1 hare have seen this cornin corning ing and have borne witness to it many times from this stand for many years I 3 have pleaded with our people to put their houses in order to to keep out of debt to prepare for R hat as surely coming because the lord has declared it there is nothing man can do to avert the fulfillment of these thee saying sayings man lacks the wisdom their selfishness in the accumulation of material things has had much to dp dc with the present conditions the solution he added lies in the overcoming of that selfishness and a more equal distribution of wealth in keeping with the plan of the deity discoveries president itu commented also upon recent discover es in the egyptian tian pyramids and of prophecies based upon a system of symbolism which the discoveries supposedly have revealed some of these symbolic conclusions he said are being published by members of the L D ri 8 church and in some instances ire ate being accepted as coming from the church president ivins said that he did not presume to say that the conclusions were right or wrong but he emphatically stated that they were not the of the church when the church has his anything to say he concluded it hlll ili come from the chi ach d directly and not from the writings of other men it will come to you in a manner you will understand and it will not be speculative philosophy but eternal truth governed by common sense president resident nibley the second speaker commented on an econom economic de and political disturbances the mutiny of the english navy the abole ole system as a means ot averting revolution and the hordes of unemployed the world over million millions want mori men by the millions he sa so d want to work but can tan find no work to I 1 do we have national state and cederel unemployment committees purpose Is to see if those who I 1 haze have will give to those who have not all chesl are signs and turns one to the quest on has not the lord provided a way out president nibley voiced the con diction that the lord lias has provided i a way put and that his plan nasi as revealed to the world too years ago he ile then read passages from the doctrine and covenants which ho he contended revealed resealed the plan the passages follow for behold the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air and that which cometh of the earth Is ordained ned for the use of man tor for food and tor for raiment and that he might have in abundance but it ie is not given that one man should possess that which Is above another wherefore the world ileth in awa sin I 1 for zion must ta creast in beauty and in holiness her borders borden must be enlarged enlar gd her str strengthened yea vertly verily I 1 fay un to to you zion must arise and end put on her beautiful garme garmen garments tf Me therefore I 1 give unto you this commandment that ye bind yourselves by this covenant and it shall j continued on page eight HOLD HOMES ROVES AND IS ADVISE OF ilerd continued from page one be done according to the laws WWII of the lord behold here la is 0 30 in me for your food good and you are to be equal or in other words you are to have equal claims on the tte properties for the benefit of managing the concerns of your stewardships every man according accord tn to hb his wants and needs aa wants are lust just and and all this for the benefit ot of the church of the living god that every man may improve upon hia his talents ys y y s even an hundred fold to be cast into the lords lord 3 storehouse to become the property ol 01 the v hole church every man seeking the interests of 0 his neighbor and doing all things with ith an eye single to the glory of god this order I 1 have appointed to be an everlasting ord ardt r unto you and unto your successor successors inasmuch I 1 as you sin not Ilevia we latter day saints sho ho pay a tithe president niney sad approach the conditions described in the passages but he suggested that if they could pay ten per cent of 0 income into a fund tor for the common I 1 good they might eventually overcome co m e selfiA lir z to a point here I 1 th they ey mould wa w n I 1 contribute 20 per cent 40 per cent or all of their incomes to the common good he ire frankly admitted that such a system bould uld be impossible of realization aliza liza tion in times ot of prosperity but added that changing conditions conations might it about george F richards Wc harda member ot of the council of 0 the dt dL cussed various tenets of the church and urged merr bers to be faithful to ithone i those belief beliefs i the latt f r day saint he sald ill al know th truth it if tt it ey are faithful and will know that their leaders have been b cn called oy cy god I 1 bishop cannon warned against the worship at 0 alse false gods such as wealth and luxury and urged all church members to obey I 1 la of tithing so that the needy can b eared cared tor for blet ble t leadership the church he said has been blessed with leider leadership ship which an aal irl cis rent conditions and slid advised how to mitigate them these rulee rule laid down by tv t church authorities he quoted a a follows ft I 1 lire live within your income 21 cultivate Cult thrift and ret get out of debt 03 3 avoid 4 ai 4 pay u yau go and dot dolt t mort fatge e the future 5 Pat patron ronke home e industry 46 6 watch markets and avoid omer overproduction production 7 CY errene and greed e obey the law of tithing had tha advice been heeded 13 bishop cannon s aid members of at the charch would ha have ve barely felt the effects ot of the economic depression the tle speaker while contending that the needy should be fed and clothed by those in prosperous circumstances cum curn stances assailed the view that tha t an equitable distribution should be brought about forcibly equalizing of wealth he added cannot be brought about by test legislation it must come through education and religion Is the only saira from which this education can come the church he con concluded eluded the rhe church he conn concluded eluded stands tor for greater equality and it observes the tithe system as the moet most just method ot of brin bringing thia about opening MUSIC the opening hymn ot of the morning session was praise to the man who communes with jehovah professor anthony IL lund conducted tho the singing and edward P kimball was organist the taber nacle choir rendered an angel froin on lugh and jesus only as a concluding number the in 10 vocation cation was by 3 S norman IA lee e of the box elder stake j and the benediction by muton 11 II welling sec of 0 state the first speaker of at the afternoon session was Seril genitor tOr reed smoot who stressed the tle ned of rel glon gion in the arh codly I 1 he ile mentioned menti ored cun oan expert en e ai si a united frei autor and told hor hoar he lind been ridiculed fa believing t it oad god had reeled led himself to wan rian 1 ta B t I hp ie e I 1 I 1 a cord eions i the 0 o d 4 today and en un tn D them I 1 know that if U the teach res of the lw 4 D 8 S church viere ere universally practiced t ce e d no such conditions would exist the senator expressed the view that the tle time timen people are row caming through will turn their heart hearts to the th supreme pa power wt e r b but U t tie he delored the be present att attitude u ld of the nation as a whole hole toward prayer my mother he said taught me that the yay to receive a testimony wu never to stop praying I 1 hais hae been fol following loNing that teach 1 even th it ugh my has brought me ai contact with men I 1 ak ho ridiculed the practice but I 1 am afraid that our america is not a praying nation senator smoot expressed hta his firm belief in the word of wisdom adding that only thoe ho ab ato de by that law can enjoy the true spirit of cod no p pe pie he be continued hie we better than the latter day saints but vf we are far from perfect aa I 1 have noticed since my return home ernie of 0 our members and I 1 espell illy regret to say that some of them are omen so tar far forget themselves as to become intoned inace clime crime blame blime the senator blamed atheistic for the tle increase in crime saying adyln that the attitude of ut the criminals and gangsters Is it zat no one orne can touch them unless they get caught and that they do no not intend to get caught noah S 8 pond until recently president of the northern states mixon mison apoe briefly telling of the olea aurel and of mb conary lonar york ork geoff geo gr albert smith declared that if the people of the world would come to the L D S church they find a panacea for the tits ills of the social order and that it could be found in no other way it Is not our purpose he aid said to criticise criticism critic ise other rell reli gloni glom or to take from beope e the satisfactions of those religions our purpose 14 to divide up with ith them the blessings ble aings which only the church of jesus i christ of later day saints enjoys relates eidt the speaker told of 0 recent tours f mission fields and spoke mystically cally of the progress being nade made in expanding the and scope of 0 the church melvin J bollard ballard emphasized the necessity of a more equitable distribution trib ution of 0 balth v but criticized criticised organizations and factious fact lor which vituld bring this about by force wd and strife for the needy to take v force shat tut does not them in he aud ud is not the spirit ol 01 chr christ or 0 the L D 8 church fist he e charged h r rg d that the se wealthy althy ho however ever anh nn the responsibility ot of caring for their brothers through the pay payment inert of an honest tithe 1 I wish he commented that the wealthy throughout the land would feel their te to god and give one tenth ot of their incomes for or the benefit ot of their tellow letlow men some of the tie needy edy unemployed emp oyed are in distress through ug fulte of their on wan o n the speaker continued docs does not relieve society ot of giving them aid the tile lord he in slated has plainly indicated that alt all of his children should be fed ana and commenting on the statement ot at an eminent financier that the world cannot stand permanent pen per nanet manet prosperity mr mir billard ballard expressed the conviction that if the lords plan were followed out the people would not abuse prosperity he ile cautioned of at the cl not to tell bell their farms or abandon their flocks predicting that tha bood good times would a assin an return lo 10 the per pw it of 0 zion A spec J 1 musical feature of 0 the after afternoon noot session was the ging of god of israel an in anthem by the lite evan setphen by the tabernacle choir A clant giant bouquet off 0 flowers had been placed on t the he stand u tribute to the mamorv a ot oi the former conductor of the choir and he hyran was iney pir it of god uke like a fire la Is durning burning une sung bat the 11 the in ir vocation catton To wn was offered by thomas E 1 licay president preel dent of the tle ogden I 1 stake the caret idine hymn aung sung by th tho choir vas was 1111 elujah the benediction WM was offered by taylor ay obeida nelson president of the ccelia tae Tribune |