Washington County News | 1927-04-07 | Page 2 | Ninety-Seventh Conference is Held

Ninety-Seventh Conference Is Held Salt Lake Divinity of Jesus Christ and of the mission of the Prophet Joseph Jo-seph Smith formed the keynote of tho ninety-seventh annual conference of the Mormon church as voiced by President Pres-ident Heber J. Grant in 1m opening address at the tabernacle Sunday morning. The theme was taken up by other speakers and stressed throughout through-out the day, special emphasis being placed upon the claim that, while other churches are being torn by discussions dis-cussions on the divinity of Christ, the members of the L. D. S. church stand solid in their testimony that Chrir.t was the Son of the living God. In the opening address of the afternoon session, Charles W. Nlbloy, second counselor in tho first, presidency of tlie church, scoffed at the Idea advanced ad-vanced by some sectarian writers to the effect that the L. D. S. church Is crumbling and that Its members will embrace the other faiths. He asked what the other churches have to offer, of-fer, and declared that he had no 111 will toward the other orgnalzat ions, and no bad feelings, but that he felt sorry for them and wished to help them.