| Show TOOELE STAKE conference the quarterly conference of the tooele thoele stake of zion convened in the tooele thoele ward meeting ilog house bouse at 10 am sunday april 26 1896 there were present on the stand elders francis francia M lyman and jobo W taylor of ibe the twelve apostles Ap oatlee hugh bugh S gow ad ane and george F of the stake presidency bishops of wards ward a and ana others of the presiding priesthood A notable feature of the conference was the resembling assembling of the goosle tooele ward sunday school on sunday morning in its i regular order going through a program of exercises administering the sacrament to the children and every thing the same game as in a regular sunday chool excepting that instead ot of the classes dispersing to their various class departments they remained congregated in one assembly aes emoly and the time usually allotted lor for class was occupied by elder F M speaking in the tee interest ol of the sunday school ende endorsing this now new departure from the usual custom ot of stake slake conferences by allowing the sunday school of the ward in which conferences are to be hold held to occupy the sunday morning in ane interest of the sabbath school work he said this practise although this he thought was the harst instance of it being done will no doubt become universal in all the stakes of zion alon wherever pra practicable otle Atthe at the gundaY afternoon meeting after the administering vf of the sacrament elder john W taylor occupied the time speaking in regard to the ane attitude ot the latter day saints with the religions of the worl referred to the recent of presbyterian ministers at spanish pork fork at which they issued a maul lesto excommunicating the latter day saints from the of christiana this should not discourage the saints or of god it is one of the signs ot of the times as ae spoken bythe by the prophets Prop bets of gid the speaker read from the book of mor mod chap 27 11 II bouk book of xepha setting forth the awful condition of those who raise their deande against the be work of th tb lord the judgments of god await them and unless they repent they will be destroyed deex fie exhorted the galiati to live liva to the truth anu anti thereby have a claim on the me blessings of the lord after the opening exercises of the meeting on monday morning the declaration as presented and voted on at the late general conference ot of the was read by eler elder hugh 6 gowan alter which elder F M lyman occupied the remaining time of the meeting speaking la regard to the document its ito scope and general bearing saying that those who mostly come under its ita are the first presidency twelve apostles presiding bishopric pint first seven presidents of seventies stake presidencies cies and the bishops of wards he said the saints must use uce their own agency in voting to sustain the document it is a true declaration and to Is the word of the be lord it was then put before the conference a majority confirming and sustaining it some voting not at all and tour four bands being raised against it the general and stake authorities were then presented to the conter center ence and sustained unanimously A at t the monday afternoon session the bishops reported their respective wards as being in a fair and prosperous condition of course none were perfect but generally we the people were trying to live up to the principles of the gospel elder F M lyman elder eider taylor having returned home this morning occupied the remainder of the time speaking of the situation a man places himself in when he is in opposition to the word ward of the lord as an proclaimed through his tb showing forth that such snob were on the ahe road to apostasy he exhorted snub anub it if any there were lo 10 0 repentance anu ana to put themselves in harmony with the principles of the he gospel of christ he said in regard to we the declaration that it was a true declaration and was from the lord and that it bau bad come to stay altogether the he conference was a most remarkable one making plain in many instances instance that members of 01 the church who have covenanted to keep the commandments mand ments of god cannot pin their faith to the arm of flesh and expect to keep faith in the kinga kingdom orn of god the singing during the conference was excellent and assisted to inspire the saints with a higher and nobler ambition toward a life fit ef purity and goodness jno W TATE stake clerk |
