| Show IN UTAH STAKE yesterdays meetings of the quarterly conference SUNDAY BUNDAY the wisdom ot of the authorities in eh changing a ging the time ot of holding our stake qu quarterly angerly conference from saturday and ami sunday to sunday and monday was apparent aDo arent from the large attendance 0 ot T saints at the opening a session this morning at 10 ori elock when president A 0 smoot called the as sem blage to order alter after singing and prayer by bishop john brown of pleasant grove BISHOP 0 P WHITNEY made the opening remarks of the conference lie he enjoined en upon the lat ter day saints union in all things and urged powerful considerations for attending our meetings and to our duties gene generally I 1 Y the he fallacy a acy of libe liberty y in n divis division on was dwelt u upon rut at length eu the spirit irit of truth th does not tell the truth at one time and falsehood at another and it is our only safe guide wished the people to post themselves upon events made known by the daily newspapers as well as a in history and science honesty of purpose should characterize latter day saints then there is no hypocrisy let each search himself through that if any deceit is there it may be rooted out in other pursuits of lite life men go at their labor with full purpose of heart but the work of god is neglected by many such practice must prove the sincerity of our professions A knowledge of the truth cau can be had bad only b by honesty and darkness is doubly dari dark when the light of truth has been extinguished this work never was s intended to stand still aid it never has done so the only way to keep in its liht light I 1 is s to go 0 onward n W ard every ordeal has left it brighter nat quantity but quality is mi god wants let me te tell 11 you you are not justified in committing sin because of the misdeeds of others no one stands between a man and his bis god there is one key to truth and that is the holy ghost god will honor more that man who comes freely with his gift than he be who comes with wit n trembling and fearing his gift will be stolen the principle of tithing was dealt upon by the speaker as a blessing and asame as a means ansof of proving ourselves we shall need the benefit of obedience to every such principle it we endure to the end do right for the rights sake and for the honor and glory of god because we do this the world do not inq understand der ad us let us go on with the wor work k t god and to do th this is we shall have tabe be continually growing as a this work s grown within our miledge Mw ledge we must expect persecution nor innovation has always always met with it history has only one page the leocle people worship the dead prophets and mo mob the living ones let us stay tar far from bigotry and expect greater progress thin than we now dream or of live by every word of god toda today yand and you will be prepared ifor or his teachings tomorrow may god grant that such may always be pur condition after sin flinging benediction was pronounced by president jacob gates SUNDAY president david job john n called the congregation ere gre gation to order and elder wm H kelsey of Spring springville ville offered the opening prayer the sacrament dment was administered by the bishopric of ithe first ward of provo jiboa JACOB was the first speaker he dwelt at considerable len length ath on t the he his tor tory and growth of the church and the present duties and privileges of toe the faints it has been contended la in all gospel dispensations that ahalt w works must be mixed with faith auld and th lukits iu teach but the world do not like bear or of prophets living in ia in our day we find dad the organization of atthe the gospel very efficient juthe afi the gov beament of the people and we speak as paul does regarding any one who preaches anything but the truth the speaker compared the condition of the church to the parable of the ten vire virgins in s exhorted the saints to stand ready my testimony is that themos pel it Is all it profess protes eal to be may god help us I 1 r PRESIDENT DAVID JOHN I 1 felt elt thankful for the spirit at our conference As was said this morning our course has always been upward and onward and we may expect no nothing else now still all that can de shaken will be our pretensions will not admit of commonplace common place virtue something more than is expected of the infidel ought to be seen in the conduct of the people who have received the plan dt 11 redemption he had bad just heard thai thad three ministers of ann arbor had announced last sunday to their congregations that they had in their midst a secret meeting of cormons mormons Mor mona mons where the sacrament was partaken partaker par taken of saying that such conduct must be stopped this is nothing new for mormonism our young folks attending the university there are just betting getting a taste of the experience of the latter atter day saints from the first we do not care for the outside pressure it we can only keep ourselves ure pure within we wish to reach the hearts hearts of the people here to this end word was sent out to all the wards to have the people visited at bome hom elbut but up to the present no word has come back now president has received the sanction of the twelve apostles to send out in the stake a number of special missionaries to do this work we have urged the saints to pay their tithing honestly regardless gard less of what may become of it it if we ke keep this law the destro destroying yin angel will be ept from our midst we we call u upon OD the bishops to receive these 11 missionaries aslon aries in the proper spirit and to go with them from house to house to visit she be people occasionally we call upon the th e people to throw their minds upon n the love of christ and the goodness 0 of f god the speaker k erze jet erred forred to the sacrifices made for or the me gospel bythe by the savior and his apostles in lormer as well as in latter days in view of this we should arouse from our lethargy lec bargy it if we dont pay our tithes to the church well pay them some other way ten times over let us be true and faithful I 1 ask you my brethren in this stake act up to your dalles or resign the speaker bore a powerful bw erful t mony of the gospel A 0 SMOOT announced that some of the twelve were expected this morning mornin and are looked for this evening we the wave of infidelity passing over the world Is reaching the latter day saints we are drifting into the civilization of the world and it is not with the ahe young alone for many years ayears after coming here we were a very moral people but to a degree we have abandoned these principles shall we not lay aside our evils it if we do not I 1 tell you god will rebuke his people let us pay our tithes and build our temples and work for our dead the speaker announced a general priesthood meeting for the evening the choir sang an anthem and president H H duff cluff pronounced the benediction W PROVO dee dec 2 1888 |
