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Show SUNDAY SCHOOL SSSON OF SWKB CONFERENCE. (Continued frowst yCek.) A I prophesy that thfcftouatry Is going to bi a great countryjwllfoads, mines, manufactories, etc. nljTwIll bo here. Don't go away and leaMfii, Tho Mor mon people nro In thehbltol moving away just as tho frultjwjredy to ptukr, and leaving tho Mwjg?'" 'or others. Wo really know verj'jjlule. Learn to pray. It la an cxcwW thing to know how to pray 40Hi.wd to pray' at;tho B. Y. 'cademylinDr. Muo scr required mo to tnlceicfcarge of ono of the meetings, Idldfnot know any more about prayer than two congress men that 1 heard of, oneoj whom bet the other that ho could not gay the Lord's prayor. Aftcrthe wajjer wan laid tho congroRsraanl slirtlnj; out "Now ( lay mo down to sleep, I pray tho Lord my soul to keep, etc" When ho concluded thd othsr concres3raan handed him tho monoyiajloR ''Hire's your money. I did notthinfcTOU know It." f I am teaching my boyTtopray, and I am having a tough job of it, too. I have a daughter who has learned how to "pray and I am thankful or"it. She is .1 groat help to rao in this respect anil I do not healtato to call on ber in tho family circle. I ' My father was ono of tho most offeo-tlve offeo-tlve prayers that I ha,vo, cter known Apostlo Hobor J. Grant bill ot him that while listening to him be felt as it tho Lord was right in the rewn. Our children ought to bxUajjht to ask only for things they onjt to- have. Ask for power to repeat tbatjou may get forgivnessof your slnt; pray for faith, God knows you will ued it. We aru being subjected 'RrI&l, and some of our young peoples aw Inclined to go back on tho rollgioa cJthcir father fath-er because of trouble. Iu? not that' klnft of stoefc. YojJ,hJaVpilfy till vnu n'inth'r:riWflWBrii. litwavs wait till you learn tbo triinboforo you tako action, r have tho reputation, ot having preached tho tmst unpopular Bermon that has over beta preached in the church, and all thnucliltho way In which tho newspapers gont printed. Tho speaker bore an eloquent testimony testi-mony to the worthiness of lils parents, whom ho dcclured to havej'hqen of the most excellent churacter.jiReferrlng to the charges that uro matte against the Lattei'-day Saints being5 an unvlr tuous people on account ofithe practice of polygamy, ho said thero, aro more virtuous voung men and women in our church than In tho nutloaHWas him-self him-self a poltgamnus child and nad been taught from his earliest rboollectlon to load u virtuous life, and thatadultery is tho gravest crimo that mortals can commit, murder alone excepted. Teachers for Sunday sonool work should bo tralnod. Hail noticed that young women ceased their work as teachers, as soon as they got married, Wu should teuoh ourchlldron loyalty to tho covurnmont and make them awaroof the fact that tho nation to whloh wa belong Is the greatest and grundest nation on earth, Wo have, many great men at thd head of it, men who are not afraid to do right, President Presi-dent Roosevelt is ono of these, and he neither fears the cannonof hja enemies, nor oven sectarian mlnl-ere, . Tho speaker was listened, to with o'loso nttentlom by the lajgo 00?v ' chtldrea and young pcbpo nnd"' tho many older ones who were jircsept ,and at the clo3o of his remarks Suptv01lor-ton Suptv01lor-ton said that ho did not agfeq with tljo statement of 'Pres. KlnjWl that ho could not hold tho uttoutjon, of ohll-dron. ohll-dron. JM |