| Show une THE inte late co conference bero beed before m the late laie bonfie it lit was A ri thought hought that there would be but fe new few of the tho he people from distant settlements present at the meetings the execrable condition of the roads and the pressure of spring work favored this idea contrary to these expectations ut attendance was very large and the ne new tabernacle amato ample ampie e and anu roomy as it ift is was inadequate to furnish the people seats seata and during several of bf the meetings hundreds were vere disappointed about finding room sn the buli bull building ing A building sufficiently large to accommodate the people who attend conference has neven never yet been erected by bv aro are talat latter ar day oai saints the new tabernacle building can hardly be called completed yet and there is a pressing ri necessity bormore for fon more room I 1 galleries will have tobe toyle tovie constructed ted ta toj accommodate 9 few more thousands but when they the y liall liali be completed there will still b ba a a cry fir far more room and if all the avalia available bie ble space in the ten acres of ground gerdto were to beo ofed in ih by the tho time the work finished I 1 the space would not be ve yno auoe to tila tiia than sufficient io to lold loid hold hoid the hipperd the late conference has been heen bebenin ia many respects a very lery very important on one almost from the beginning of the thiu church in these thesa latter days the organization of the temporal affairs of the people has been knownly known lo be defective upon spiritual matters doctrines ordinances etc has not been difficult to reach but I 1 in union business a great ilek lack hafg haff always abt is a stran strange gd feature in the human character that while itis it is universally admitted in christendom that the spiritual part of man is of infinitely greater importance than his earthly part men will entrust without questioning or apparent doubt thel et ernal interest and the future ham hav happiness ness kess of their souls to persons I 1 in whose hands they would not for a moment place their money or other earthly substance the latter day saints have inherited this peculiarity and it has iris been one of the chief difficulties they have had to ovar overcome ome omo in early days many nany who were willing to have the prophet joseph smith balth teach and dictate them in all their spirit spiritual ua I 1 concerns would live have instantly relented his interference and rejected his counsel in relation to the management of their property thil this has i been an ac acknowledged knowledg ell eil obstacle which had to be overcome and the efforts to remove it have been increasing the progress made has necessarily been slow but yet it hasteen has hag been progress and at no previous conference could BO so favorable a report have been made badeas as at this which has haa just closed the union which we a have reached is not all till that is desired but it is an ii important step in the tho t 0 right direction and it is hoped wi will I 1 eventuate in a more complete identification and consolidation of our business interests and the triumph among us of those principle which we must fully adopt accomplish to our ur destiny F I 1 I 1 behave a difficult problem to solve nt at least it has been so intricate that its successful solution is deemed impossible by many and aud we have it in our power to simplify aua ana anti antt settle bettle it the world has seen what we can do under the guidance af pf of the almighty in bringing religious unity peer peep almost algios t every creed form of education and na have been ga gathered thord together ina lna in a wilderness and made one ode our religious lous ious interests are identical it remains forus for us to teach the world that we can be equally united upon other mat 4 ihan religion not by adopting common stock for such a system can never near be made successful in devel developing op man but by an order which while it reserves to man til he fullest exercise of his agency and the abilities with which he may be endowed makes him a public benefactor cheeks checks rapacity and th the e espos deposition to oppress and take advantage of his nem new neighbor ibor for the aggrandizement of self itis lilg it is admitted that if the productions of the earth were equally dial distributed thero theta la Is enough and to spare for all even in communities where a large per of the people are non producers but live upon the earnings of others this is the case the difficulty is to have these equally divided so 80 that none shall wallow in luxury Id idleness lenes and dissipation while others are plunged in the depths of misery and want without food shelter or comforts to make life desirable the latter day saints must adopt a system under the operation of which such extremes of riches and poverty luxury and want idleness and slavish degradation haughty pride and abject shall be forever abolished Is such a system and such results possible yes but no by dealing in utopian ideas or fine spun theories theor theo rieb leb but by the persistent application application of truthful practical principles princia es which we have 1 in n our opp possession this is the labor which we rave eave have to accomplish this i Is s the goal for which we must aim the present movements are but steps to lead in that direction |
