| Show SPECIAL conference i ACCORDING to appointment a j cial conference of this stake of zion assembled this morning may irth 1 l ath 1 1877 at ten in the new tabernacle ilie tite tIIE present SENT ON THE STAND presidency brigham 11 young john W young daniel H wells of the twelve apostles john solan taylor orson pratt sen C crich Ij drenzo grenzo snow erastus snow JP D richards geo Q cannon patriarch rohn john smith of the first seven presidents 0 of f seventies joseph you young 1 ng albert P Joh John ilVan livan Van cott of the presidency of the urah high priesthood edward Sue grov e ella eila Elia ellas morris 0 O the presidency of thib this thi t s stake of alon angus sM M cannon david 0 calder caldor jos joa E taylor of the presidency of the 7 ric fe edward hunter leonard W hardy there was also a number of residents bishops and other othen leading elders from various portions of the territory the tho assem assemblage blage blige was called to order orden by bv b v president BRIGHAM the choir sang bang my god the apra spra sprine spring ang ot of all my mv joys joss i tha the lifo lito of my the opening prayer was otfred by bv president jolin JOHN W YOUNG A is H i hi s i f sweet Is tho work my god my ang fung F rang ranc ato eralso thy name give elve thanks and sing bins W was a 9 sung bung by the choir chol r president YOUNG ad dressed the congregation in tho the j olour course be of his remarks he stated that the conference Cen ference ferenee was called to answer the desires of the latter day saints probably quite a number of the brethren would fe peak and the discourses would be necessarily brief he gave some bome val vai valuable liable and pointed instructions relative to the course the people should pursue to accomplish the building up of bf the kingdom of god def defining liling many of their practical duties elder Q CANNON was the next speaker the e great variety of circumstances in in which we were placed and the growth of the work of god required that we should be continually instructed regarding dui our duties of vital importance that we should seek to be more united there was a greater desire among the people toward union than ever heretofore manifested the cause of union would be advanced if all who had any dissatisfaction existing in their feelings towards their brethren from any cause would seek to clear such matters away those who did not take this course were not living in the spirit of the gospel he was glad that president Brigha mYoung would instruct the twelve in their ti travels traveis throughout the church to have hav ei wrongs known to exist righted th there ere was not the degree of ave dve lovean and d charity among us that there should be there was wag too much of a spirit of fault finding which tended to alienate the saints from each other if there was a feeling rankling in the heart of a ember member ef of the church who thought hew he was injured by his brot herand he t talked to others about the real or supposed wrong he had endur edhe had no right to partake of Sacrament the of the lords supper it was the duty of that man to go privately to the party he supposed had injured him and endeavor to have the ill feeling abolished unless a proper course was taken in such matters the spirit of god would be driven away confidence would be broken and union prevented if we took a L proper course in this respect it would be a blessing to us it was the right of the servants of the lord to admonish and chasten the people when they did wrong but it was not our privilege to animadvert upon the character of our cur brethren and sisters we should never say anything about people in their absence that we should blush to say in their presence the lord said if we would come unto himlie him he would show ushur us our weaknesses elder cannon exhorted the sal sai saints ants to faithfulness and desired that the lord zord would pour out his spirit to enable us to see more of our own faults than those of our neighbors president danien DANIEL H wells followed he heil bell believed eyed eved it was s p the aim and desire of the great majority of the latter day saints to do the will of god it was that for which we had come to the valleys of the mountains where we could be more united in carrying out the designs of the almighty in the building up of his kingdom we could not do this in a scattered capacity we should divest ourselves of those errors that conflicted with the gospel we should be united temporally and spiritually we cling tenaciously to ideas that we had imbibed through tradition and custom regarding temporalities ties there was but little difference of view among us however with regard to spiritual doctrine it was necessary that we should be educated to a point where we would be able to adopt a proper mode of action in the ordinary affairs of life it was a part of our religion to be economical careful to beautify and cultivate the earth to have good habl lations tat ions and to that all were well provided with tho the good things of life I 1 it t was t the te highest type of charity to direct la labor borund and industry to enable people to obtain a foothold and sustain themselves it was far in advance of the system of dealing out a transient pittance to the needy Preel president dent B young had done more to substantially be benefit efat his big fellow creatures in that regard thau any other man that he ho was aware of we were here ready io to receive the direction of the will of our father in heaven to prepare for the com indof our lord and saviour jesus christ wo we wished to be citizens of his government and if we attained to that privilege we would have to be united and lay aside malice ill will and everything tending to divide our interests and feelings if wo we did not command the conn conf confidence idenie of each other how could we command the confidence of god the speaker adverted ad averted to the deplorable plo rable state of affairs existing in the world regarding the temporal jilter interests ests of the people and exhorted the saints to listen to the instructions that the lord who desired to place us beyond such conditions 7 was wag willing to give us through his appointed channel elder JOHN SHARP addressed the conference we should ask ourselves the question whether we were living in accordance with the principles of the gospel wo we professed to have adopted the practice of them brought peace joy and love and the confidence of our father fathel he expected of his children that they would love one another the spirit that we enjoyed from pursuing so cons consistent isten t a course directed us in our labors and buoyed us up under every circumstance the individual who practised practiced righteousness and sought to benefit his neighbors and honor god enjoyed that was beyond comparison we had a house to build to the name of god in this city in which we could receive the blessings and ordinances of the gospel it required faith and works to erect it the people were asked to contribute to its construction and they should respond with alacrity to the extent of their power president BRIGHAM JYOUNG addressed the conference he delivered a lucid and powerful discourse upon somo some of the evils exist existing ingin in the world and in relation to the practical duties of the latter day saints the choir sang an anthem 0 praise the lord prayer by elder LORENZO SNOW adjourned till two p nl FIRST DAY SATURDAY AFTERNOON may 1877 conference reassembled assembled re at two pm the as assemblage e was called to order by elder GE GEORGE 0 rge ROE Q cariso casson CANNON T the choir sang with jos joy wo own thy servants lord thy ministers below prayer was offered ered by elder E ERASTUS R SNOW I 1 when earth in dark darkness cess tess long lone had lain lato and bartness oart dart ners ness oer tho nations reen td was sung by the choir elder JOHN TAYLOR addressed the conference he made of the visits to the southern settlements of hims himself elfand and other members of the quorum of the twelve apostles on the j journey bourney to and from stgeorge st george alluded to the beautiful appearance of the templo temple at latter place and described the pleasurable feelings experienced by py those who entered and offic officiated in that building in visiting the people he discovered a strong desire among them to build temples to the most high god they were very desirous of uniting together for the accomplishment of that object A temple had been reared under the direction of the prophet joseph smith in kirtland ohio in which great manifestations tat ions of the power of god were given there were but few lew people to take part in rearing that tein temple pe and the lord accepted it in nauvoo another temple was reared and all sorts of difficulties had to be met with within in prosecuting that work at that time alt all kinds of lying tying reports were set ret afloat about the saints emanating from corrupt and wicked men just as they do now the speaker also adverted to the building of the temple in this city the brethren had willingly contributed towards its erection and the spirit evinced was togo to go on with it A site for another temple at manti sanpete San pete had been dedicated for that purpose he found a strong feeling in that neighborhood among the people to aid in a the erection of that building another temple was soon to be eomme commenced need at logan in cache valley and thus the work of the lord in the matter of temple build building ing was daspro progressing g ba dg elder elden taylor continued for some time explaining the ob objects deeta deets and uses of temples and showing the breadth and comprehensiveness of the gospel he also stated that the desire to be more united in their te temporal interests was becoming lii ill more ore widespread p read among the saints and various institutions were being established for the advancement of that object elder GEORGE Q CANNON presented the authorities of the church who were sustained as follows by unanimous vote of the co conference fer brigham young prophet seer beer and rev Kev revelator elator and Pies Pie ident aident of the Church of jesus christ of lat ter day saints in all the girio worlo world john W yeung young au ast d daniel H wells counsellors coun 6 to president brigham young lorenzo snow brigham young jr albert carrington and george Q cannon assistant counsellors Coun to president brigham young john taylor wilford woodruff orson hyde orson pratt sen charles C rich bich lorenzo snow erastus snow franklin D I rich irich ards ads george Q cannon brigham young ung tr joseph F smith and alberu albert I 1 bt carrington Cair carrington ington members of the quorum of the twelve apostles Apost les lea john smith patriarch of the church angus br cannon president of this stake of zion and aud david 0 calder caider and joseph E taylor his ills counsellors coun william Edd eddington ington lugton thomas E jeremy john H R rumell minor C ct atwood dimmick B huntington theodore mckean merean hosea stout sto u t J B R winder geo 7 tayler henry dinwoodey millen atwood J joseph 0 s eph hor home ne A andrew n drew I 1 W V and george Ne beker beher members of the high council elias smith president of the high esis Ls quorum an dEdward and elias morris his counsellors coun joseph young president of the first seven presidents of the seventies and levi NV hancock henry herriman albert P rockwood horace S eldredge jacob gates and john van cott cutt members of the first seven presidents of the seventies E W davis president of the elders quorum and W W taylor and junius sF F wells his coun sell seli orsi edward hunter presiding bishop leonard W hardy and robert T burton his counsellors coun james latham president of the priests quorum william mclachlan and geo whittaker his coun adam spiers president of the teachers quorum martin lenzi lenz and henry 1 I doremus his counsel lors james leach president of the deacons quorum john H and thos 0 jones jdnes his coun brigham young trustee in trust for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints albert carrington president of the perpetual emigration fund to gather the poor truman 0 angell architect of the church and william H hool foi fol som om assistant orson pratt historian and aud general C church recorder and wilford woodruff his hia assistant george goddard was appointed and sustained as clerk of conference elder cannon then presented the names of the following brethren 3 called to go on missions august wilcken salt bait lake city to mexico job smith and S H B smith salt lake city to california the vote to sustain their selection as missionaries was unanimous elder clil Cirr CHARLES ARLES C RICH was the next speaker he showed in his remarks the marvelous character of the work in which the latter day saints were engaged and exhorted the people to neglect the performance of no duty of whatever nature that could b be accomplished by them in this life we elder LORENZO SNOW addressed the conference it had been falsely stated that the latter day saints sainta were W ere curtailed in the right to think and act for themselves they believed that god had restored kis priesthood to enable them to attain a position of independence the object was also to save them from the evils and oppressions oppress ions existing in the worl dand to enable them to attain to a possession of the necessities and comforts of life there was a goodly degree of union and equality existing among the saints in in some of the settlements especially in the southern portion of the territory the speaker dwelt upon the th office of the spirit of god leading its possessor step by step anthe on the road to a knowledge of the tho principles of godliness and power to put them in practice the el elders eiders d e rs of the church had gone forth willingly into the nations and delivered the message of the gospel and as thel the work of the lord developed an and d progressed numbers of faithful men would be found as willing to labor for the coi solida tion of the temporal interests of the church as they bad been in other directions thousands of people had through the labors of president young been able to progress from a state of comparative poverty to one of comfort and competence pe tenee tence it appeared to be according to the whisperings of the spirit of god that the Saints should be more united temporally that each man might be independent in th that at regard the choir sang an anthem 01 praise god in hig his holl holi holiness ness neEs prayer by bish nish bishop op DAVID EVANS adjourned till sunday at 10 am a in SECOND vay bay DAY SUNDAY MORNING may 13 th 10 ti a in president 13 YOUNG called the conference Confer enee enbe to order orden the choir sang tho time Is it nigh that happy time that great expected blessed day prayer by elder ERASTUS SNOW tile the choir then sang ere long iong ion lon the vail will rend in twain the king descend with all his train elder ORSON PRATT addressed the conference and commend commenced by reading a portion of modern revelation given through the pro phe phet tJ Joseph oseph smith in 1832 1632 upon the nature and power of the priesthood it was his desire for the congregation gre gation to be as still as p possible oo sible as the only object in i n speaking or heming hearing was mutual edification he showed the difference between the tha two priest hoods the and the latter in the absence of its connection with the former was limited in ita power and blessings the priesthood held the po power powen wenand and privilege of receiving the we mysteries of the kingdom of heaven and enjoying the thie ibm communion and presence of abd the father and his son the lesser iee lee or priesthood was simply an au appendage to the Met and ministered jn in the teth temporal paral such baptism ac since the tho introduction bf these two priest hoods the church had bad passed parsed through many modifications and the full |
