| Show SAN JUAN STAKE conference the q quarterly conference of the san juao juan biake was hold held at moab grand county utah may 25 and 26 1896 1895 conference convened saturday morn in at 10 in the moab meeting house there were present on the stand of the stake presidency F A hammond and william halle S B young of the first seven even presidents ol of the seventies elders eldera william halle hyrum taylor and james jamee B decker the latter two just returned from tue the B Y academy where they have been in the interest ot of the sabbath schools ich and 8 B young occupied the forenoon their remark were in the in terest of sabbath schools and bow to train the young the time in the afternoon was taken up principally by the bishops reporting their wards slid and their labors therein their reports were favorable showing that the saints were on the te improve president Pre hammond spoke a short bort time on the principles of the gospel and the various duties of the saints exhorted them to put away all ill III feeling towards each other that they may partake of the sacrament Bac worthily the wards warda and branches were represented by their officers cerp with the exception of ward and jackson branch during the day elder brigham young of the council of the apostles Apo BUei arrived and there was a priesthood meeting held in the evening commencing at seven neven of elock some very timely and beneficial instructions were given and the duties of at the officers pointed out to them to in a clear and comprehensive manner sunday morning at 10 the conference met to la a grove elder cider woi win halls halle was the first brat speaker eaker so he be treated on the godhead and the resurrection reo tion elder chas E walt walan in a recently returned missionary from rom tue the southern states gave a abort account of his hie missionary labors and bore bora a faithful testimony of the gospel of christ as taught by the latter day saints sainte the general and local author aties were presented and unanimously sustained elder 8 B young followed discoursing upon the book of mormon proving it to be a true and divine record elder F A hammond was ras the fam speaker in the afternoon atter noon he gave W short hort account of his early life and conversion to the gospel elder brigham young occupied the rest of the time his theme was the pro pre existence of where we came from why wu we are here and where we go to his remarks were replete with instruction old brese was out on a lark during the day which made it a little disagreeable for those assembled Con conference ferenc met again in the meeting house bouse at 7 pm elder young traced the growth of the human family in the gospel from before the me foundation of the world to their exalta tion ion elder brigham young said that all knowledge is a revealed from god he upon the gathering of israel and exhorted the saints sainte to te beautify their homes and redeem the waste places of zion conference adjourned for three months to mertat juan county utah primary belief and Y L M 1 I as ec lation conferences were held monday and tuesday sisters stevenson and calne from salt bait lake city were present and gave excellent instruct iona fhe societies of moab were put in order and moab was given a general wakening up CHARLES E WALTON stake clerk |
