| Show california conference los LOB cal oct 22 1896 to the elders laboring in southern california the past week has baa been one replete with pleasant events the remembrance mem brance of which will linger long with thein hem conformably to an appointment by president H S tanner our regular semiannual semi annual conference in this thia part of the state convened at los angeles sunday october the elders from the other fields in this confer bace arrived here during the previous week our number was increased inore aeed to eleven by the addition of elders A N murdock and charles brown who had bad been laboring in the north rider elder H S 9 tanner and rider elder willard bicow croft and wile wife who intend to make an evangelizing evangel izing tour of the fields opened in this conference were present by way ot of advertising band bills bille were judiciously distributed MOM moat of them being let at the doors doon of residences den ces three fairly well attended meet lega lags were held bold beginning at 10 a m anu and 2 and p m respectively presided over by the president ot of conference elder P T wright after opening ope nini the be service in the usual way the mission president conference president and clerk were sustained by a vote of the saints and elders eldero present brief reports from the different fields were read showing twelve baptisms since last april with fair success in allaying prejudice and creating an interest in tue gospel preached by the lord and master rider elder P T wright made a few appropriate opening remarks after which he be called in turn upon elders jon JOB 13 berry W C horsley Hor E A bushman Q G F harding and J D irvine who bore faithful testimonies to the cause they represent and spoke respectively in an earnest and logical manner upon the she following subjects faith faatu and works baptism and the holy ghost the effect of the meeting was enhanced by the rendition if A an anthem and a solo at appropriate I 1 intervals uter vale after opening the order of the afternoon was as fol follows lowi elder bider E M whitesides Whites ldes spoke on the of 01 the gospel a solo was rendered by elder bider W church was explained by eider joe jas carlsten son een devine device authority was proved to be a necessity in all gospel work by elder german E ellsworth ells worth an au them by our visiting trio from the elder W Soo wcroft spoke for a short ashore time on cardinal doctrines oct rines of our savior sister wright favored the he audience with a solo the audience of the evening was wao the largest of the day president tauner occupied the time on the subject a force which unites and blends all revealed lod truth he said the savior was not a plagiarist as un believers haul had charged because he taught trual a 8 found in the oriental religions of kilo his day the gospel had bad been taught successively to adam nosh noah Al abraham Draham and moses which accounts for the similarity of old to the divine principles taught by christ during kilo his personal ministry thie the philosophies embraced many truths mixed with error the gospel contained the same truths with the error eliminated divine truths truth that have been lost or clad in garbe garba of superstition are found in their aim in mormonism so called toe special music furni abed abod by our 41 visitors irom from san francisco and sister bister wright was an agreeable feature of the conference A good spirit prevailed throughout and all pronounced it a day of spiritual up building and felt to give thanks to him from whom all good cornea comes A priesthood meeting was hold held the following day october 19 at which president tanner talked to the elders nearly four hours giving them some gome excellent advice pointing out oui possible stumbling blocks block and sho aleo ways waya to avoid them each of the elders received a circular letter ol of uniform instructions with the request to read it carefully aud and often we were assigned to our respective fields of labor as aa follows of labor as follo follow wp elders P T r wright jer man E ellsworth W C horsley james and charles charle brown to klaos J ios angeles angelee elders J D irvine 0 P F harding Hardt ng E A bushman anu and joseph joaeph 8 berry barry to ban dieg diega elders A IS murdock murdoch and E M to san bernardino and vicinity the elders eldera received in a good meas ure of the kindness and generosity ol of the saints on the evening of the the eldera dera and many of the saints batata were guests of brother H C jacobsen and wife that part of WO lue 8 enjoyment which ministered to the inner man proved brother jacobsen to boa be a master at catering to the ept opi curlan aide of human nature the artistic and sumptuous spread served to regale the eye as well as satisfy the appetite the table setting revealed the work of an artist arniat it was a marvel of beauty the sight eight of which would have mauu maue the mouth of a well fed man water P F T president of conference 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