Show iccone fadd at st ceorge utah may and uth 1876 president brigham young presiding FIRST DAY 31 ORNING friday may kay 1210 the attention of the congregation was called by the PRESIDENT who gave out the brints hymn commencing on once c em anoro ore wo we come before our god which was sung bythe by the sl ert george e choir prayer by elder BRIGHAM YOUNG jr the cedar choir sang I 1 comete come ye that love the lord PRESIDENT B YOUNG youna expressed himself as being happy in the enjoyment of the opportunity of meeting with wit h the people in the south once onee again he said the people must not expect to hear bear him speak very much but he trusted to be blessed of the lord in speaking some during the conference he fie expressed his satisfaction with the labors of the people in the south as far as he had seen and as far as he had heard of those labors he felt espe especial pleasure in the progress which had been made in erect erecting ipg a temple he wished that the people called latter day saints truly realized the great importance of the work entrusted to them ze he blessed the people and MAI ail ali all t their air substance he referred with thankfulness ful ness to the progress of or the work of god among the remnants of df the house of israel among ti the ie lan ban laman naman laan lian ites he said he understood that the promise of the ed in the book of mormon nephi chap 10 par 1 page was in progress of being soon fulfilled when the remnants of israel would woul a build the new jerusalem and we who had been bom born and to some extent tradition ed among the gentiles would assist in this important work he referred to the expression used by some that they were now baptized ioto into the united order for his part he was waa baptized into the united order when he was baptized into the church upwards of forty two years sears ago he was baptized to be one wilh the righteous of this and formel formet ages to be the saviour of the world one with the eternal father and andona andona andone ona one with all the hosts of heaven if we were not seeking after aften this oneness we should dAnd nind find cut short of anticipated blessings he concluded blessing the people in the name of the lod loo prest wells expressed his satisfaction at meeting with the people under such favorable circumstances he referred to the nature of the work of salvation in which we were ere engaged T this bilg work eo so extensive reaching h having a ving to do nob not only with what recalled we called time but with all eternity to come haet had to be gradually accomplished arid asid therefore it required steady and persistent application Instruct ion iou had been and now war waa imparted line upon line precept upon precept and the injunction should ever be before this people to live by every word which edeth from the mouth of god A great work of prep prop preparation had been and still was committed to this people and this work was for every one to prepare himself to administer in the office work of dir the holy priesthood in temples and in every department of the work of the almighty outside of temples the eternal called upon his cooperation operation co with him to aid in banishing sin and wickedness from the earth and to establish righteousness thereon many wany had commenced in this good work who after putting their hands to the plough had looked back and had not continued in the way of well weil doida doing the trials and tests applied appis led to those called to be saints were various what would try one might not be a trial to another but a all ali must be tried and blessed were those who preserved their in proved themselves true to god and his great plan of salva we must preserve ourselves pure in the faith of the holy gospel he alluded adi to the e duty placed upon the saints to observe the W work ork of wisdoms wisdom and spoke of the precious promises contained in that revelation the fathers word werd should be considered as his law ven even when it htwa wag commandment this word of wisdom should be observed according to the spirit tand and meaning thereof it was the duty of all the latter day saints to live the life of Saint saints sand and to prepare themselves to receive and reign with the son of man when he came and should rule from the rivers to the ends of tho the earth elder erastus SNOW said he felt feit sure pure that the assembled people of the south bouth felt with him gratitude for the blessing of meeting and hearing our beloved president Youn young gand and his counselor and fellow laborer president wells he called attention to the responsibility resting upon all saints to be faithful co laborers with these brethren la in executing the purposes of the almighty the variety of experience making up the sum of our lives was all needed opposition trial and test were all for our development and would all be sanctified lo 10 our good if we preserved ourselves in the faith of the gospel he expressed his thankfulness for the guidance protection and blessing of the lord which had attended the church which he has established in the last days it was a source of great satisfaction and joy to see israel grow and inz inq increase z in the way which our eyes were privileged to behold brother snow concluded by expressing pr his most sincere desire to see the people called latter day sald said balnas 0 live and move more in the spirit of that oneness which the C gospel 0 11 imperatively demanded the danab choir under the direction efelder of elder eider edwin ford sang bang sweet prett is the work my god my king benediction by elder TRUMAN 0 AN anuell ANGELL OB L I 1 1 AFTERNOON cedar chair bang sang n rii ril ril fil praise my maker while ive lve breath prayer by elder evan al GREENE kanab choir sang awake yo ye saints ot god awake elder BRI brianas hau HAX YOUNG JUN jus expressed his satisfaction wi wath eth fth the people and his gratitude to god ged for the great work which had bad been performed on theme theVe the Temple mple it was further advanced towards completion than he bad had expected he referred to his emotions when standing in the font room he dwelt on the vast responsibility which is inse inseparably p a associated with the faithful I 1 sall saint work for the dead lead and for the t living V g devolved upon us and must be performed or condemnation I 1 tion would come As a people called latter day saints we had not been sufficiently diligent in keeping the commandments of god ha he read lead the par PA r ot sec rec 18 book of doe doc and cov beginning at the words verily I 1 say bay men should boa bea be anxiously engaged lna ina in a good cause anu ana do many things of their own I 1 rree will in connection gon with this passage he dwelt forcibly en on the necessity which existed for the latter day saints ta live fu m obedience to the principles I 1 and requirements of the holy ge united cited order elder A 11 al M MUSSER dwelt to some extent on the building of the teni feni temples ples pies in nake lake city olty aad and in st A george georgei he contrasted the want of union among the peoples of the nations and the union uhlon which exists among the latter day saints yet said ivd h 0 there thero Js is roomi room much 10 room om forthe lne Jue increase reise of union among the saints he enjoined I 1 olied upon the people the necessity of falth faith faithfully fully and diligently prosecuting their political duties as voters office holders jurors and wild as citizens generally he stated staled that some arty forty carp earp carpenters entera enters era pra were on the way from the north to work on the chest bt george temple the following low named carpenters were call cali called 41 to toen engage gago gage in the same work of st george isaiah cox horatio picket george laub H H riding W V 11 thompson wm barnes jas jaa cragan wm J F mcallister david rogers joseph judd and john peterson washington warren tenney rockville thomas bowman hebron 01 arles glendale GIen glen dale daie james Leath head bead johnson joh Job charles S cram orani i and two wo others r chanab kanab lorenzo waid watsons ai L 1 d city aup one carpenter PREST 13 youg youa said if we wd could inspire the hearts of the people EI by the aid of the spirit of the lord ord to push forward the work on the he bit kit george temple so as to it it was contemplated to lold bold the next annual april con ference arence here he H spoke of tue the ad verse circumstances which had sur rounded the latter day saints while the kirtland temple waw waa being built he related some oah personal experience as a workman on that temple exhibitive odthe of ithe stern poverty in worldly gooda t which was the lot of himself and of I 1 those in kirtland in those early days it was easier for the people of st tit george to now build a tempie temple uch such as that in Kirtland thad than it was for the entire church on anth tle the earth at that time to do he i sald said if the people would do ilo their cuaty in paying their tithes and offerings the storehouse of the lord boni would be filled to overflowing instead ot of being lean and empty as was noir no too often in referring to the united order he said that hb his judgment and decision were that with proper security under the lawt lawi of the land a large majority of the latter day saints were rendy ready rea dyani ane and willing to enter into the combination in IR temporal things required by the gosp gospel el or in other words required by the united orden order he spoke of the extravagance in dreu drea which existed among the latter day saints saying that fathers and mothers were too often remiss in to their deportment and failed to properly instruct their sons and daughters in the principles of true economy si st george choir sang holy holy la Is the lord I 1 benediction by babp P lel IEL LUNT SECOND DAY MORNING i 1 saturday satur Fatur day alay J jtb t 10 c h 0 ir sang on mountain tops tor appearing prayer by elder MILO ai pulls cedar choir sang hear my rny prayer alord elder eider MILTON H hanny ex pressed his bis joy meeting in with the people of the bouth south he forsire for nire fire years had been in the missionary field he and elder morris young were now ti travelling velling tra as missionaries to aid in organizing mutual im pro provement prove meat associations among the youth of our community in laboring as missionaries among the young people they had endeavored to impress upon them their individual duty to take a caume to know for themselves that tha god had spoken from the heavens in this gener genei generation ati att on and that he had organized his church again on earth and that to 0 o j learn bis thi his the youth must go 0 to td god d in humility hurds hurns and get this kno knowledge wedge as their parents had done before the them m another duty enjoined kur kup upon unon on the too youth was to cultivate the gifts of god within them the youth were instructed in the rights privileges and I 1 immunities M m i u of citizens of our great republic gods free 60 born r n the minds of the young we to inquire into the causes of the faith falth self denial and persistent efforts of their parents parent S who for years endured the oppression ana dr ivings of the red hand of the moat bitter and relentless persecution he said the oung young had bad been and were encouraged to diligently seek after that thai faith an fn god which had been exemplified i in the liveson live the fa a and nd mothers of israel elder eider LORENZO hauch HATCH expressed his desire to labor where the priesthood required god had spoken from heaven had organized his church and had through his L servants published glad tidings the duty of the saints was to go forth diligently and faithfully in the discharge of their duty the word of the lord had been and still was freely given he bore testimony many to the truth of the latter iatter day work elder LEVI NV HANCOCK HANcoc rc rejoin ed in the privilege of bearing testimony to the truth of the gospel he referred to a time when he was wag present when the prophet joceph joseph first saw president Brigha mYoung at that time the prophet joseph sa said sald I 1 d po pointing inting to brother brigham there is one of the greatest men med on the earth and one who would lead the world to heaven if they would listen to him he rejoiced relo reio iced in the teachings of the prophets josephann Josep hand brigham he concluded by invoking the blessings of the almighty upon the priesthood and people elder jonn JOHN L SMITH desired tobe used where the lord through his servants LQ desired this had been his feeling and course since he was first baptized he ile felt like upholding the priesthood of the almighty aud and exhorted tho the peo people pleto pieto to do so bishop henby HENRY LUNT expressed his pleasure basure at meeting on tho i ja j present occasion he spoke of his big early experience in the gospel he also spoke of the sanctifying sanctify ing powe power attending the temporal and f ual ministrations of hel ho exhorted the youn young 0 t to hum humble 1 themselves in prayer and to ask god to give them a testimony jo jot r the truth odthe gospel as aar revealed through the prophet joseph josephs he exhorted the middle aged and old to do their duty in rvin buying g according to the of ot the united order aud and called upon all the people to contribute their mites building C tho the temples of god I 1 st george choir sang jerusalem i M my v gl arlou orlou e 1 f nt f benediction a by y bishop WM sow slow r after Afler afternoon noon 2 stgeorge su Bt geor George i g i e s sang ing r i I 1 t i f i t joy to th the tha world wined 7 V L I 1 lap n nearer by E elder elden idon idor robt T N aeh F ab 1 1 kanab choir hoir s sang ng tho might with tho right L J W A LL spoke on the present duty of those wll wil who 0 would bei saints to live accord hig to the requirements of the united order Hs gave encouraging de accounts of the results of the working of the unfred order in dauab kanab ward he ile said however long we as individuals might defer our organization in the united Ord erthe duty to identity identify ourselves i with that order unalterably lay before us usand and we would have to do so sooner or later president yung lif we do not we shall fail fall to enter the celestial gate 19 bishop NUTTALL NUT malat TAiji went on to say we had had preaching enough to save ua us and not only us but the whole world what we needed was more practice of the principles we had been leen so liberally taught 1 the general authorities of or the church as sustained at a the april conference in Salt laka Lako city were tere here unanimously su sustained stained the follo following vying were unanimously sustained aa as local erastus hud snow F president Pre of thu the the southern dij Alj mission sion slon of the high council marlas marias ensign john 0 angus wm empey rastus Erastus W samuel miles richard bentley miles billes P romney jphn farlane erastus Era stua W show Char charles charies pes fes smith john lytle archibald arehibald sullivan james 0 bleak and joseph birch wm fawcett I ocal president of tle tie the high priests quorum wm squire president of the elders quorum bashir washington agton co charles 13 tapley jr president of the elders quorum kane co C P brunnow president of the elders in the western valleys daniel taniel D mcarthur bishop 6 St Georgo Gedrge ward and david milne henry Eyring Eyrin WaIter gWalter granger and abd nathaniel ashley ash ley ha assistants john sohir NV preem preeman freeman n bishop of washington ward marlas marias ensign acting bishop of Santa sauta clana clarr ward wm A bringhurst bishop of ward 1 j john bil Bli hop of f virgen city ward charles N X smith bish rish bishop bp of Boc roc kville ward lorenzo Ij orenzo W roundy boundy bishop oj 01 ward wilbort Wil wll sori sort D pace bishop of harmony ward 1 wm snow bishop of P pine ne valley ward 1 amos G thornton acting |