Show priesthood MEETING the priesthood af the salt lake stake of zion convened in the assembly hall salt lake city today saturday august esth 1892 at 11 am president A adicus naus M cannon and coun cou n selon presiding the meeting commenced with sin ring ing and prayer after which the ro roll it wax was called and responded to toby by a goodly number of the pT priding Iding officers of the various quorums ot of the priesthood all the wards of the stake were properly represented excepting the second and aad thirteenth city wards and riverton Bi verton of the country eleven young brethren upon the recommendation of their respective bishops bishop reo received alved certificates authorizing their ordination to the office of elder on condition of their promising to honor ani an I magnify their office and calling it if ordained bishop john B R winder of the presiding bishopric of the church gave rde sr detailed tailed report of the progress being made upon the salt lake tor temple aple gestated he stated that this building would be completed by the time specified viz april 6 1893 hun bun dred and twenty five men were now employed and they were working with a vim and zeal seldom if ever witnessed by such a large body of men they were doing faithful honest and reliable work the amount required to finish the temple has been greatly underestimated under estimated this is in owing to extra work ana anat over looked at the time the estimate of expense was made but the greatest care is taken with the means furnished b by the people every cent being made me the most of president Preside ut 0 W penrose referred to a misunderstanding that prevailed in one oae quorum of elders as to the ordinance of administering to the sick the idea was entertained that there must be two or more elders in ofal officiating idt the error arose from a mistaken idea as to the letter of the revelation concerning those who had not faith they were to be nourished with herbs and mild food but not by the hand band of an enemy and two elders elden or more were to lay bands on them but in the ease case of those who had faith it was different one elder or more might to circumstances even those who had no priesthood might lay hands on the sick in faith it was through faith that the sick were healed preel president lent joseph etaylor endorsed these remarks and spoke of the bho prevalence of disease the abuse of medicine the proper rearing of children the selection of suitable food and the necessary of a by all old and young of the word of wisdom also the cultivation of faith and obedi once enoe to the law and counsel of tle lord president angus M cannon elaborated on these subjects shows showed d the folly of the idea that one elder could not administer to the sick related some seme of djs personal experience of goda answer to prayer and administration inveigled inveighed ed against the employment ot unknown doctors and reliance on man instead of god deprecated man worship p and advised depend dependence enca upon the ibe lord through laita he spoke poke also of the evils of too mu much h amusement and unrestricted strict ed dancing and advised greater care in the an supervision dr v ision of our young people lu io the observance e edvance of the sab bath bishop winder read a letter from the first presidency to show that thattie theorem tem pie could no longer be open to visitors meeting adjourned until the stake conference saturday september ard sit at 10 a m W 0 benediction by bishop J bainder BW inder |