Show THE MEETINGS AND attendance the sixty third annual conference of the church of jesus christ of lat erday er day S sciota lots which convened in the tabernacle in this city on the morning of april 4 h and concluded in the temple yesterday afternoon april marks in all respects an extraordinary and important epoch in this dispensation pensa tion the occasion will be demor abl 3 for asfor many reasons no conference of the church has baa ever bee i so long protracted the period of time occupied being beina exactly three week or twenty one days there has baa never been a conference at which in the aggregate there theria has beeri been so urge irge an attendance and most extraordinary of all there has baa been no symptom of weariness or failure in vigor on the part of either singers gers or audience though upon a comparatively few of the former the great weight of the 1 labor vae rested each session teemed seemed to be I 1 if IT anything wore interesting than ghosto which had bad preceded it and there was as ae much fervor and zoal zeal and as much of cf the good spirit manifested at the last meeting as at the first altogether there have been thirty seven even meetings of the people thirty one of these in the temple four in the tabernacle and two on the second day of the conference april jtb as overflow meetings in the assembly hall in addition to these there have been fur priesthood meetings one in the tabernacle before the temple services began and three in the latter building one of these three lasting a whole dy ay 0 on n friday and saturday the and there were five meetings specially arrange I 1 for and attended by sin day school children and their teachers altogether the conference has baa acco been beeb made up of forty six see sto ns no an average of more than two per day for the whole three weeks the attendance cannot be so definitely ascertained though it may be estimated with reasonable accuracy the services in the tabernacle were crowded to the utmost and even the overflow meetings mee tines in the assembly Ape Ap embly hall were insufficient to accommodate all who were desirous to attend admission to the dedicatory services in the temple being by card it would be easy to tell exactly how many persons had attended if each person had been admitted to but one session Not with standing land ing that many were permitted to attend several sessions and some indeed hadeed were required to be present at all of them it Js is a very low estimate that enables us to conclude that at least two thousand nw now faces appeared at each session the smallest attendance of all was at the evening session of friday april ath this being arranged to accommodate the overflow from the four previous sessions but even then there were 2100 persons in i the ball while on some gome other occasions more than 2600 have passed through the doors door taking no account of the priesthood meetings ani an 1 estimating the five children Is sessions ap an being attended by half of W whom hom had not attended before it to Is a thoroughly conservative calculation to say that the dedication services have been attend d by people |