| Show INDINIA conference this conference commenced at lankfort indiana schoolhouse school bouse on april ath among those present were president of the mission C W stayner local president C W rockwood elders J H armstrong K A thorley T A nixon robert duke and A C sorensen two new elders geo P ward and marion L corbett after the usual preliminary exercises elder C W P rockwood opened conference with some appropriate remarks elder antone C sorensen next spoke upon the principle of faith and its workings elder R A thorley referred to the organization of the church of jesus christ of former day gal saints ants and drew a comparison between it and the church of jesus christ of latter day saints proving by quotations from the bible that they were one and the same president C W stayner bore an earnest testimony to the work of god at the evening meeting elder J H armstrong was the first speaker and d welt at some length upon the principle of faith president stayner devoted a portion of his bis remarks to the subject of duty he spoke of the hatred of the world to wards the latter day saints as the people of god but said that thereby we knew that we are the saints of the most high on sunday morning the conference was called to order at 10 elder robert duke addressed the congregation tion chiefly upon the principles of the gospel of jesus christ president stayner took as his bis theme in the outset false religion versus true religion the latter taught us to be happy in this life and told of happiness in the life to come he also spoke upon the gift of healing an I 1 showed the difference between a usurper of authority and one who was endowed with power vind and authority he traced the apostasy apo stacy ot of the primitive church and the killin killing of the saints Saint of god there the ree to tation 0 of the gospel to man and the second coming of christ was also touched u upon v in the a afternoon r r aou elder C W rockwood dealt with the knowledge and understanding that we have concerning the things of god then took up the subject of the pre existence of spirits president stayner said the latter day saints expected to undergo persecution and trial for be that liveth a godly life must suffer on sunday evening elder G P ward addressed the meeting and expressed the hope that the people would give herad heed to the teachings given them during this conference he bore his testimony to the work of god and the truth of the gospel elder marion L corbett bore his testimony to the divinity of the prophet joseph smith anth elder A C sorensen spoke similarly elder A nixon spoke next and exhorted the poo people le to investigate for theMO themselves and declared taisto be the work of god elder R A thorley having spoken president stayner closed with a few appropriate remar remarks 9 encouraging the people to search for truth elder E W rockwood offered a few words of thanks in behalf of all the elders present for the kindness and hospitality extended to them during conference the benediction was pronoun pronounced oed by elder rockwood Bock wood A priesthood meeting was held on saturday afternoon elder J H armstrong reported as an to the ohio mission field and elder T A nixon concerning the illinois field elder robert duke also reported favorably the following appointments were then made joseph H armstrong and george P ward to travel in ohio headquarters at columbus grove putnam coohil Co Ohio C W rockwood Bock wood and A C sorensen to travel in northern indiana headquarters at robinson greene co indiana T A nixon and marion ii corbett to travel in southern illinois headquarters tu illinois arters leamington leavington Lea gallan gallann co robert duke to await the arrival of an elder from utah and to travel in southern indiana headquarters taswell crawford co indiana the general authorities were unanimously sustained as presented at the last semiannual semi annual conference the local presidency was likewise sustained unanimously with C W as president of the northern mission and C W rockwood as local president of the indiana conference A all 11 the elders were sustained to fill all their respective a appointments polut ments elder K A borley thorley and st simpson are about to return to utah having been honorably released frol from their mission here A mN secretary april ath 1891 |
