Show beaven neaver stare STAKE conference the twenty fifth quarterly conference of beaver stake convened in the latter day saints meetinghouse meeting house in beaver city aty on saturday sept and continued on the called to order by president john ashworth and after the usual opening ceremonies was addressed by prest J R murdock who had now arrived ile he said he felt assured we should have a very profitable time during this session was always pleased to see the time arrive when we meet together in our oar quarterly uart erly conferences to have our minds refreshed and our spirits renewed and to talk over our spiritual as well as temporal duties in this eventful f ul dispensation particularly in regard to our mission here on the earth an and d the rolling forth of the purposes 0 of f our heavenly father spoke with muc much h of the hearty response of f the people to the call for cash donations for the tha furtherance of the labors on the siant slant temple and dwelt ap provin cly ely on the improvement among the young people the uhe next speaker was elder isaac grundy who felt pleased to adduis add his mite malte to the work of the lora lord and spoke of the manner in which we have compiled complied with the commandments of god in yielding obedience through h the ordinance of baptism and by the covenants we have made and portrayed some of the feelings he experienced in his associations with these principles and explained how we can conque rand lu in the end gain an exaltation in the eternal kingdom of our god elder john J griffiths addressed some good and ampro appropriate ate rem remarks ackson on our aptness to forget the teachings we receive from time to time spoke on the tiie foreordination of certain benhow that they were chosen before they vere were born to carry on the work of god on this earth gave expression to some of his views relating to the patriarchal order of marriage marriage and the causes that led the decree 0 of the almighty to david king of israel that he should not build the temple unto the lord because he had done wickedly and exhorted hort edall edail all ali to be found trying to keep the whole law of god that we may enjoy ills love and approbation counselor parkinson f felt elt satisfied the holy spirit of the lord is with avith us and the desires of our hearts have been made known to the lord in the prayers of those who are here he HC gave a good report of the ward and said the people feel first rate in that they have contributed of their means as well as their prayers and faith to the building of the temple at manti mantl recess was taken until 2 pm on reassembling assembling re prest mm Al dock called on each of the bishops present to give an oral report of their respective wards so that we may be advised from them of our true situations as to the advancement we are arc makim reports when given were f ully fully satisfactory showing some improve erakly in bluy bany many respects some that were dil jil dilatory atory are renewing their dilli gence and making some progress pro grees in their endeavors io to observe the commandments mand ments and laws of god sabbath schools are prosperous and improvement associations are well attended for generally ene raily rally althou although h there is yet room for further improvement the reports of the different quorums of the priesthood so far as given were all that could coula be expect expected eI atthe at the present time however there is much more room for advancement to be made ja ia some of the quorums qu elder geo goo eyre made some soine very interesting te remarks on the duties of ward teachers the fulfillment in due time of all the pur purposes joses of the lord the many subdivisions of the christian denominations and the unity of feel feeling lu 0 that is accomplished with th this Is people through the observance of th the 0 revel revelations of god given in this dispensa dispensation tl on after which conference adjourned until tomorrow to morrow A meeting of the priesthood held in the evening eveni ngat at which apostles brigham young toung and HJ grant wele present having arrived from their trip south since the afternoon service bishop J AV crosby accompanied them then n and was the first s speaker ile he treated douthe on the purposes and objects of meeting together in this capacity the benefits derived from the guidance of the holy ghost and advised a strict observance of the instructions given by the servants of the lord and exhorted all to f fear ear car god and keep lits liis commandments apostle grant occupied the re main maln derot the time in showing there is an individual capacity in man to ac comp com with the aid and assistance ot of the lord whatever he may choose to adopt for good and in contrast thereto showed how man may be led to do evil when under the influence of the opposing power the speaker also urged upon the elders in israel to persevere with all due energy in the dutle duties s de devolving ing on them in lat connection with th the e rede redemption in eption of the de dead ad for which end he desired that god bod would strengthen his people and give them power to resist the evils that are seeking to destroy them ini the he conference was resumed on sunday at 10 a in the time was very profitably occupied with instructions by the apostles grant and young upon topics calculated to infuse both energy and spiritual life into the people the afternoon services were devo devoted ted to the ministering of the sacrament the reading of statistical reports which were all satisfactory and in presenting the general church authorities all of which were sustained without a dissenting vote as were also tae tac local authorities of the stake the remainder of the time was occupied by bishop J W crosby and presidents ashworth and murdock in instructing counseling and admonishing admonished the people to refrain from fro in doing evil evir A conference of the mutual improvement associations was held on sunday evening and a very enjoyable time was had W G stake clerk |