Show THE LATE conference tue TUB general conference which closed it its session yesterday was a gathering of potent significance the attendance was large the building in which the inee tines were held being much too small to accommodate all who were anglon to attend the people werl were counted by tellers appointed for the burp purpose use and placed atthe entrances ott on tuesday morning this afforded aut au excellent opportunity to test the capacity of the provo tabernacle and also to ascertain how many were enabled to be present at the meet meetings trigg the footing was this taken in the abstract is not a large showing but combined with the masses of people who were unable to get et the structure it makes a cl fair ir numerical exhibit if it had not been generally understood unde stood that there was nothing like commensurate accommodation in the provo tabernacle for a gathering of the usual dimensions on such occasions doubtless many thousands sands more than did would have flocked together tobe to be refreshed and renewed in their faith and determination to walk the strict line of rali religious lous duty on no previous similar occasion was ever greater unanimity of spirit exhibited so far as the saints were concerned every man on every hand seemed seemed to meet A a brother and a friend the good people of provo showed a hospitable disposition to visitors that could scarcely scarce lybe be excelled the meetings were lively the instructions spirited and to the point and the proceedings passed off without a jar the alie great feature of the occasion was the epistle of the first presidency deacy it was listened to with rapt attention and ana pronounced to be one of the ablest papers of modern times the fact that a although ou una unable e to see the e presidency res enc in I 1 person erson the saints were enabled ble t to receive so grand eloquent and inspru instructive ive a communication from a a majority of them was a source ot of great joy to the assembly there was among the people a general and it might truly be said universal desire the epistle spread broa broadcast deist throughout the land the belief being beau strong that it would be the gnei means ins if liberally disseminated of doing a large degree decree of good A significant feature of the conference was the powerful determination to sustain the principles of religious and general free freedom olom even if af need be ar ac the risk of personal liberty or life itsell there was no appearance of f beai eai the rel reign n of terror now operated against the saints to the contrary notwithstanding this condition is but another of the numerous evidences which history furnishes of the fact that religious conviction cannot be crushed out of the human heart by wanton cruelty and ironhanded iron handed tyranny |