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Show CEDAR WARD CONFERENCE. Ward Aullioriiics Unanimously Sustained H by lite Vote of the People, -x H X H PRESIDENT U. T. JONES ON VOTING M Church Authorities Nominate and tho H Members Elect. Nominees Cannot. "1 Hold Office Until Hlected. Ward conference was hold intCcdar ward last Sunday at which the ofllcem of the ward were presented to tho peo- H pic for their approval. Before tho pt- H seining of the names of the ofllccra H President U. T. Jones addressed tho H congregation on the subject of voting .. H on such occasions, explaining tfTatT'lt H was Important that all church momborti """"M should vote for or against the IndlviTJ. H uals that were presented, and "that H without the saints sustained tlio ofllcem H they could not hold tho offices that they H were proposed for. In relation to ncg- H atlvo voles the president said that H while it was the right of every one to vote as they felt' yet no one ought hi sH vote against nu officer in the ckurcTi H without having a reasonable causa, for WH so doing, and that prejudice was not a H reasonablo cause; also said that ho H would not care to vote against one of , his brcthcrcn even It ho had what ho H considered a reasonable cause, without 'H fit-bt acquainting the person with the 'H fuet, and giving him iho chance to re- H move itor cxnlaln lilmsclf, or in case H of his failure so to do, laying in a com- 'H plaint against him to those in authori- r H ty over him. Explained that In the s- H lection of these ehurcli olllccrs It Is ecu- H 1 orally understood that tho authorUk-n H I hayo the right to nominate, and liu H I members to suioatn or vojectv.anit l ihu poptursect, tho nominee. Utrctalo; 'H ' i BtaBetl, 'It wouUl bfi no useto place a -ul C man in oiT3a Ust tlio puopSoJrmtd-nm ZH ri(HwtaH.f,ad Hifdition to Its TjeJngVttm ' M . 'ward confereaee-it wis also recoj-Sday ,M ivhcn the records of tho different Or- H gnnization.s in the ward should be pro- B sented fur insKctlon. It in Important H that a record be kept of thoordinatlonp, H removals, organizations, etc., of cacti H association, society or other part of tlib bH wardr . - v 'al The. Sunday School was reportedU'by H Supt. Palmer ih being in n s;iti&foctory H condition. The Relief Society was' rV,- ported lu fair order by its president, M Sister Annie Thorlcy, and tho V. M. 31. H I. A. and Primary association were i-o- H ported in good shape. Prof. Joseph H Cosslett reported the choir as being M all right, aud invited the peopla to vis. M It them and ge, an Idea of tho labor it H required to keep up with their part of B the worship. |