| Show UTAH STAKE CONrE conference renoe the quarterly conference of utah stake of zion was held in provo city commencing 10 a d m august 1879 counselor daniel H wells of salt sait lake city A 0 smoot and david john of the presidency of stake with many of the ward bishops of the stake were in attendance after the usual devotional exercises bishop john brown addressed the conference referring to the progress of events as being in accord with the prophetic spirit exhorting the saints to live close to their re ligion president A 0 smoot followed on the many weaknesses of the poo pie cautioning against the power of the adversary and exhorting all to be on their guard to resist his approaches pro aches councilor david john said suid to become brillia brilliant lat and u useful s I 1 in the tho kingdom king dorn doln as latter day tiu tsu saints al ants wo we should watch ourselves and cultivate the holy spirit aa as without it we cannot honor and magnify the priesthood given us for the development of the human and divine nature of man our pride and ambition should be in the worx work of god our efforts as beare beards iset isef of the priesthood should be to raise mankind saturday 2 p in the statistical report of the stake for the quarter ending july 1879 was read showing shoving the total of souls as birtha births deaths 46 actual increase 46 63 in fast last quarter the report of the stake organizations of relief belief societies bho sho showing 1771 members enrolled was read after which the authorities of the church both general and local were presen presented tod and sustained by the unanimous vote of the tho people A communication from bis bic bishop bichop hop david ryans of lehl lehi was read I 1 tendering his resignation as bishop of lehl lehi on account of old age tige being 75 yearn it was accepted prest preat wells after making favorable mention of the labors of bishop evans alluded to the national movement inaugurated to injure the god la in attempting to curtail the emigration of the saints advised the maintenance of dt political rights and the purity of the jury system no good man could conscientiously excuse himself from jury service while his was of effect in sustaining law and order spoke of the need of the people to be prepared to defend their rights not to at aggressively but on the defensive at all nil times tt mes sunday 10 a m after the odthe sacrament apostle albert car humorously alluded to his hia late incarceration in the penitentiary and expressed his appreciation of the kind attention atten tion tiou of tho the warden and other officers of the penitentiary peril ten ton nary dary while under their care then ihen gave an outline of the inari cate nature of the business busin ess eks of the tho executors in carrying out the provisions of the will of the late lato pled pied dent brigham young continuing at length exhorting the tu to hold the wealth of this earth as secondary to self improvement and the culture of their minds minda and moral natures 0 F whitney of salt lake city followed reviewed the faise false ideas of the world iu ja regard tu lot the immaculate characters which their imagination gave the apostles of old and from such false premises they concluded that men k ho were at all imperfect imper fact could not now claim to be apostle ap ostlee he recited cited the casem cases of peter who denied hib hia mastor master sla Ala ator atar and jadam who betrayed betray td cd hi him hia to snow show that the ancient apostles were far rom from rum perfect and claimed that lue the of today to tu touny day could not be expected to be immaculate or perfect since they gre bre chosen from the ranks ranka of v we e ak K humanity and posts ed bill lugs like other people it was nut inot not expected that men should should become perfect all at nt unee but it was waa certainly their duty to approach perfection a ws rapidly as possible and with t the he nii mii mi nl I of the holy oly tand individual exertion become shi shining altig lights lu in hie kingdom of god while we wo strive for the mastery of our evil natures god will pardon our inherent weaknesses weakness ea but for our wilful disobedience be he will hold ua us in strict accountability sunday p in president D H wells occupied the greater portion of the time in an instructive and interesting man ner speaking epe aking of the allurements allu sliu allure ments rementa of wealth and the simplicity of the gospel followed by president AO AA smoot who briefly reviewed the teachings given at the conference and instructed the newly appointed missionaries in their duties to preach and teach the gospel of christ in ear earnest nesty nests making known to the people that they are on the lords side benediction by president david john the organist and choir added greatly to the the tie enjoyment of the conference by the effective rendition of the new now musio procured from england by our returned mis missionary flonary brother john 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