Show cihi 11 LEADERS take OBEDIENCE ILEA with the largest attendance in years the ninety third semiannual conference ot ok the church of jesus christ of 0 latter day saints was adjourned sunday after the twenty six general authorities had been unanimously sustained in I 1 office and president heber J grant had delivered his final word of counsel I 1 and advice to the assemblage J 11 ILI howard president of the american I farm fa rin dureau bureau federation was a speaker at tile the session the tabernacle was tilled filled to overflowing in his closing address president grant expressed 1 gratitude for the virtues of his people and defended prohibition not only as a moral issue but as a measure of national economy looting luo ting statistics to show that thai the eighteenth h am amendment was saving the tha united states more than annually i As given in the lie keynote speech of president grant on friday obedience was the theme ot of this conference tho importance ot of obedience was stress stressed od by every speaker and the admonition to obey was given in discussing civil and moral law the laws and regulations ot of the church and counsel on spiritual sp ritual and material affairs uttered b church authorities Poll political issues and party politics were rigidly excluded from even the barest reference except that in plain and unmistakable language the people were exhorted to disregard party ia the exercise of their elective franchise and place in office only such men inen as stand tor for a rigid enforcement of the laws ot of state and nation including prohibition and the antici garet law the general authorities ot of the curell curch all of whom wham were in office at tile the last as general conference cone rence and who were sustained sunday follow heber J grant president charles W V penrose first coun counselor anthony W ivins second counselor rudgar clawson president of the council ot of the twelve apost apostles lei with reed smoot george albert smith geo george r ge F richards orson F whitney n y david 0 mckay joseph Fl fielding fieldin eldin smith james E talmage stephen L richards richard R lyman melvln J ballard and john A widtsoe as the remaining members of 0 the quorum of the twelve hyrum G smith was sustained as presiding patriarch and seymour B young president and brigham 11 roberts J golden Kin ibal rulon 3 joseph IV mcmurrin ln charles Cli arles 11 II hart levi lev ed edgar edar ar young as tile f first seven presidents ot of the seventies charles W V nibley continues as presiding bishop with david A smith and aill josephil joseph welsh as ills counselors joseph fielding smith Is upheld as church historian with andrew jenson brigham Drig hain IT roberts A william lund and junius F wells as assistants the church board of education remains unchanged including in its personnel heber J grant C W penrose Pc nrose A W ivins willard young rudgar clawson orson P F whitney and joseph fielding smith the retention ot of A C lund as choir director B cecil gates as assistant director J J Alc mcclellan Clellan as chief organist edward P kimbau kimball and tracy Y cannon as assistant organists and all the members of tile the tabernacle choir was unanimously approved in ills lad address dress president grant announced that before the april conference the question of holding tour four day sessions would be seriously considered so that all the general authorities might have an opportunity of sneaking to the people ile he also read a synopsis of the first con conference ferente held at the tabernacle fifty five years ago and pointed anted out that the subjects then under discussion were very similar to those presented at this conference ile he challen challenged Zed the worlds attention to the frugality trag fraga allty lity industry honesty chastity literacy and love of knowledge of his people and declared that when judged by the injunction by their fruits ye shall know them the latter day saints measure higher than ihan any other in n the world |