| Show conference influences conference has pasted away with its predecessors in somewhat of a mechanical way as many would assume pr par p r ticul arly since bince the railroads bring and return from all points visitors to the great ariit occasion loom compared pared with old times when travel was slow and tedious and rondo doubty or muddy there has baa been much of a change but many came then who do not come now the ox team or even the hone borne to is voted slow alow and many remain at home probably among amone these some of the most moat impressionable and devoted of the people and now advanced in years they care not for the trouble of a team campina out eto etc so 0 o they have to ast the enjoyable inspiration of years gone by somewhat at t second band moat of officials come as aa a ing matter ater of course aad many no doubt reproduce tho the thoughts suggestions counsels and revelations that are givon with great fait foulness and fidelity others do not possess the faculty of retaining or of rb representing that which is heard beard or learned and only in a very general and fragmentary way can many settlements get the u unction nation and spirit of this great gathering of authority yet the main interest of conference to is educational corrective suggestive expounding and developing truths lorig long known yet like all divine things ever evolving new phases features ideas light as an the exigencies of progress and growth may demand topics presented pass through quite ai a diver efty of mentality in the speakers speaker who are mainly of the presidency and the twelve so that if consideration has hall been given whatever may be pro prominent M or first foremost and it has been in some sense exhausted many sides at least have been presented jo in this sense also there is a general sowing of the seed 1 and finite man probably can never tell where when or how that may germinate and br bring forth fruit the average laflar latter day saint is wonderfully receptive when a truth or a 8 true WIDOW principle Is enumerated 1 but all soil to is not quck in 16 enjo ac ies seasons soine are not riv favorable and after all ideas long pondered i upon auvo n lines of action anat matured U ed after la lapse as of time are each more likely akely to be ae permanent and enduring than when created under momentary impulse by the magnetism i of language e or even the of inspiration felt at a given time and place men can be move dupon by enthusiasm by the contagion ot of a multitude by the influences around and by a generosity ot of soul which in moments of exaltation sees no obstacle aud knows no sacrifice crince na until it comes to practical experience then and not till then does sober second though i assert itself and it is found while the spirit was wae and Is ie willin the neah flesh is ie weak some borne are critical because so 80 little that is new invites the attention of the conference visitor but this is the thought mainly of those who enjoy continually the droppings drop of the sanctuary to them the food may have an everyday ev ewry ery day kind of taste about it but bug the visitor is ia not so much surfeited to him or her it to Is a feast of fat things hinge of wine on the lees well re oiled fined I the first to is somewhat captious the latter is in hungry the ferat wants the trimmings the elegan cies cles the rhetorical eloquence of the well trained speaker the latter simply asks something a little different from what he be has at home where variety to ia none to abundant and even the expressions of some local brethren are as an a thrice told tale Is the inference Is not unfair that the intellectual friction of headquarters and surroundings should develop a broader mentality than does the little hamlet or country town and this thought Is laye ys no doubt at the base of missionary appointment in stakes but it also unde underlies riles the institution ot of annual and semiannual semi annual conferences for the presiding authorities cannot personally visit all the stakes of zion to say nothing of the host of localities lees significant an attempt is made to generally recognize the entire people by holding stake conferences where members ot the twelve and others visit and to such points the people congregate in part dart but there are probably thousands F may be tens of thousands thousand iu ill utah who never saw or heard beard president woodruff or his counselors here and there a pr bromine omine t representative is seen and heard beard but the general culture the enlargement of the spirituality of the mass masses waits in part upon the spirit as poured out in the great general gatherings called conference that a great wave of life and power passes over all the faithful whether at home or abroad from this central point at such times is a fundamental idea in spiritual science but greater probably than that is where representative men can return transfused with tho spirit of con COD arence erencen not ot the letter only not the word alone but that more intense inspiration which reaching out sees a th thousand collateral ideas which en shrines in the word are made manifest through the essential lire life giving force if thu word has come with power NOT nor need we assume that this thle fire this educationally progressive spirit is ie confined even to the word atte uttered red it is belt ip n the be prayer as it J ie waited up I 1 ward WE 4 log by an i amen it to Is I 1 enjoyed in the sl singing hud and the mucio which w I 1 d h bartl with it power a ader which subdues refines nes expands ennobles and sand dispels the worry and care the anxiety of life fretting its interests just as effectually as the evil spirit was exorcised by music from the disturbed and stricken saul humanity u moved upon by that sublime spirit is in yet pushed forward by illustration by COMI comparison Darieon by example still more so is the one influenced by a loftier spirit he feels the beauty of order the grandeur of surroundings soundings roun dings the voice of authority 1 the inspiration of the heavens heaven H he returns to his family his home his bia settlement his hie charge with a desire to improve to lead out to create those harmonies which are the soul and fitness of things so bo there cornea comes a higher tone into life a fuller consecration grander thoughts and aspirations which mould slowly gradually but surely the extremities of our zon that all the culture and soul may not glorify the head or heart alone but that these extremities and even individual members of the grand body may be assimilated in beautys beau yand nA excellence and order and life to the center of priesthood i and privilege and blessing for ever a and nd ever there never was a more hopeful time for zion prognostication moving on the same lines as that of the al clent prophets can hardly say may more than they did but the half has baa not been told yet of that glory which already breaks breake from the womb of time of that dispensation which is charged with the culmination of the des designs ignis of the father and towards which countless worlds of glorified are looking as to the consummation of all things and the fruition of earth eartha va faithful children in the she program of the gods nor can cab the he dividing line be marked between the spiritual and the temporal in the one to Is involved the other the gospel of the kingdom and true civilization are synonymous terms for the power of the former penetrates the latter it removes the curse from labor it redeems the earth it fosters invention it utilizes science it prompts tato to discovery it je is the parent of order te beauty auty propriety rev reverence brence and peace it inspires faith hope and charity it to Is the friend of all ennobling the bum blest bleat comforting the forsaken and broken hearted all evil will flee from before its beneficent spirit all rivalry save as to well doing will be destroyed all poverty all crime all disease will know kaow of its beneficence it is the manifestation of christ of salvation to a waiting alting Vi world and by it revolution will come into social life industrial life moral life and political life for it is the science of life revealed by the author of life and instituted foreordained fore ordained to ultimate triumph and success this is not rhapsody it Is not enthusiasm the begin beginning ning may have been weak it progress slow its future disputed but truth is mighty and will prevail 03 the little stone 1 the piece of leaven 23 the mustard seed were emblems selected of divine wisdom the first filled tb the whole earth the second leavened the th whole lump jump the third grew until the fowls fole of heaven lodged lodge din in the bia branches bea thereof 1 86 conferences atako take or ok general priesthood local or presiding preening inspirational sentiment and loving works are the elements of progress pro grew increase development and education now are we the sons bone of sod and it doth not yet jet appear what we should be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him and w e shall see him as lie he is 22 that la Js the test the opportunity of contrast the assurance of the spirit the solution of the problem the of the promise so bo mote it be |
