Show WEBER STAKE conference the quarterly quart erly eily conference of the weber stake ofelon of zion was ws held in the ogden tabernacle tabel nacle nacie january 17 1 and an 1880 there were present on the stand of ti be the twelve Apost apostles lw erastus snow franklin D eio Elc richards hards and joseph P F smith the pled pied dency of the HP hery epry lesterj herrick errick Jl and charles F middleton also aleo leading elders and bishops the meetings on saturday were devoted to bishops reports from various wards of the tue stake these reports were of a very encouraging nature and proved the saints to be in a progressive state they possessed the merit of being honest and impartial representing the bad bid as well wall as the good the meetings were as a general thing well we attended and the everal several r beveral associations were we re earnestly engaged ell cri in tha tho nobie noble cause of mutual improvement some of the wards had been afflicted with that fatal disease diphtheria and in one ward uintah it had almost de depopulate populated a the sabbath school the report lepor L of the sunday schools on sunday morning showed an increase of children during the last year there being nowa children and teachers enrolled while had been expended expanded for the purchase of books boob the statistical report read on sunday morning by y the an increase se of about souls over that of last year apostle frankiin franklin frank Frauk liri D exhorted the tho saints lo 10 increase pw prible sibie sible the number of cutters on the temple to our own schools and educate men for te teacher achere and to eus hub fiust aiu ald S our ur own 0 w 4 publications p u that might m ight ba b aau justly s aly represented of boing represented misrepresented rais nals by enemies apostle eratus era tua snow followed follO wed Ted coun counseling ling tn nim saints to a continued tilori ID in gu eti each other every b hrom me i uter prise e that they the y might dui nui theer rights 0 to o the cs of kingdom of 0 god 11 finally ads ady result in bing being deh deD deprived rIved 0 nor zor their rights at the polls polla and electing such men moo to office 0 b J ec would bo be to persecute us and us again from our cur ho homes m M J strongly endorsed endo eudo reed th the ren kark Q elder richard and urged the saints to heed hils fils instruction in the afternoon the off omm meers officers of the church and of the stake presented by the clerk after which apostle joseph P F smith preached a powerful sermon on the duties of a citizen in tho the kingdom of god A man worthy of that position would be a fit citizen for any government on the earth yet the world had always opposed the true representatives of gods kingdom from enjoying the rights of citizenship they bad deprived the savior of that r right h r and nd finally of an existence on t the hg e eart r hand band the same enmity was today to day being urged against the latter day saints he was much pleased with the reports of the bishops and earnestly entreated the saints to attend the saturday meeting as well as the sabbath meeting at conference time for on that day they would learn the feelings of the bishops with respect to their positions and stan standing diug dlug in the church his remarks were listened to with profound attention and all pronounced the Con conference ferenc one of the moat interesting held in the stake L P clerk of the stake |