| Show VAY SCHOOL CON conference FERENCZ use the sunday school conference held in lie large tabernacle tabe macle in parte paris idaho on m and sunday july oth and idich was waa a grand success acome IN IL AL lyman and elder JOB W RUM eummer hay of the sunday school board were present prece nt elm atoo piert wm budge and his counselors of the stake presidency prest john W stuck and other prominent local elders superintendent andrew galloway and his assistants assi tants john and joseph hodges conducted the conference under the direction at f apostle lyman the meetings on the first fim day were sparsely attended owing to the very busy season the bear lake farmers all want to make hay while the sun shines the schools were generally represented and good reports rendered and excepting the small average attendance in some of the schools received liberal commendation commend the singing of the sunday school hymns during the conference accompanied by our magnificent organ was delightful the exercises were good those that attracted the most tenion attention at was a class from st charles under the leadership of elder they are all very creditable emer elder discourse upon ingratitude was intensely interesting varied in its gradation from that ot of children to their parents to that of the creature towards his creators and em pha sized the commandment honor thy father and thy mother and thou love the lord thy god with all thy heart and soul and strength look over the world and see the trouble and distress said the elder you have the best country in the world to live in see these grand old mountains and your surroundings god has revealed in our day the only way to be saved and restored his priesthood and you have it god called your parents out from the world and has given this land for your benefit and all the blessings of the gospel dont underestimate the blessing and importance of being born in the new and everlasting covenant you do not understand nor appreciate these things today but you will in days to come then you will thank and praise god for these blessings and privileges so ao bountifully bestowed upon us then let us be grateful to our parents to our god and to his priesthood in the afternoon pret prest lyman waa urae the chief speaker he set forth in glowing terms the important work being done in the schools these girls and boys he said will in years to come make up the select society on the earth and the responsibility lity of teaching warning and bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the lord in virtue in purity and righteousness devolves upon their parents and next to them the teachers and instructors in the sabbath schools we send out missionaries to preach abroad but there is a world of work at home we have to subdue the animal propensities of our nature all should be subdued this Is a work all may take a part in there la is room for improvement in those that teach and then in the children childre iv what a world of opportunity of work to make improvement pro in them it to is important that our conduct should be correct we should all keep the word of wisdom none should indulge in the use of tobacco and strong drink and should be free from the use of tea and coffee much depends on the superintendents where the superintendent observes this his assistants and teachers will do the same as a general thing so we want to be clean of this habit the jord jard J ord has made it obligatory upon parents to teach their children the doctrines of the gospel before they are 8 years old and they should not be baptized until they reach that age until then the lord has promised to preserve them from the power of satan I 1 judge from the reports given that they are well taken care of in this stake of zion there la in however in some cases an in gerim between the birthday and the opportunity of being baptized the children should not be barred out from taeng the sacrament when from any reasonable cause they have been prevented bishops should know every one and govern these matters in wisdom and righteousness some want their sick children to be ordained and some have been so ordained this ought not to be done they have not reached the mark ordained for their baptism it to is not required concerning them and such ordinations di axe are void until 8 9 years of age and we dont want people to vary from the rule for all are void and not acceptable cep table and it to is important that this should not be indulged in prest lyman gave some interesting instructions concerning concert exercises embracing the ten commandments the articles of faith andani and any other important production showing that concert speaking like concert singing should have a leader whom all should follow such in part were the exercises and teachings of the first day of this sw sunday school conference |
