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Show t , 11 I . . --111 II 11 I m. . ., . ,. . , ,. , ..,, t , . . , M "", QinisiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiimmiHiiiil,y wmmmiiummimuuiiiuuiituliutiiim THE PAROWAN STAKE MUTUALS Reports of Associations by the Stake Officers Jones and Bulloch. GENERAL BOARD IS REPRESENTED. JEldcr E. J. Palmer Talks on Word of i Wisdom Mrs. Etfdlngton's Good Advico to Girls. I ' Mutual Improvoniont conferouco of tho Parowun Stuko of Zion was held in tho Codar tnhornaolo lost Suu- I -day. Many of tbo mooting googg il . woro Hiirprlnod to soo tho stand occu- VI piod by tho preaidonoy of tho Mut- M unla, us no notico had boon Riven out 1 , on tho previous Sabbath, owing to V tho local authorities not having boon I " ' uwuro Hint conference) would bo hold BO 80011. I Aftor tho usual oponiug oxorolscs, Counsolor Samuel 11. Jonos of tho ' I stnko prcsidonoy of tho Young Men's fffi associations reported tho condition i of tho associations throughout tho H stake, Btatiug that tlioy weio fully JL organ izod and ready to begin tho 3K season's work. f H Mrs. S. A. Bullooh, president of t tho Y. L. M. I. A ., said herself and Kg counselors had not had tlmo, owing WK. -- to thoir having boon so recently jSS" appointod to tho olilccs which tlioy H hold, to viBit all tho assouiatluus in lL9' tho slako yot this fall, and that all JmLWJ tho Young Ladies' associations uro &SvM not yot fully organized, but ttbo Wf - iuatlor lyonld'b attended to eooii- ! t Thoao roporta wqro followed by tho w .. sustaining of tho general and local otllcors of tho Mutuuls, tho voting m being couduoted by Eider Glnwson for tho young mou, and Sistor Sarah "' ' Eddiugtou for tho young ladies.- 1 Elder Edward J. Palmer followed 1 with loaturo on tho "Word of Wis- I doin. " Tho spoukor said that in m ordor to speak to tho boat advntitugo M on any prinoiplo of tho gospel, it was (1 nocessary that ouo should bo an ob- 1 server of tho law whioh tho prinoiplo ,1 taught. That in this instanco tho ' ' spoakor wag not as oloso an ohsorvnr 1 . of tho requirements of tiio Word of if Wisdom as lio ought to bo, although jl , ho waa n firm boliovor in it, and in TB a gohoral way an ob&orvor of its -Il rules. 'jj Road from tho Doctrlno and Oovo- il nuuts ho st&tomont that all blessings como through obodlonao to tho law in on which they ro predicated. Also il rqud the rovoliiUbh 'tm tho Word of )I Wisdom, pago t) of Doctriuo and z Govouuuts, qm&ing'from u discourse jf of Patriarch ityrtiln Smith delivered 41 . to tho ohurch a Whdrt tlm& iiHflf tho ' m'I rovolatlon was Wen, in oxpMfjutlon " ''i ' oortulu parts of tho law, pnrtlaulur- f 1 ly in roatiou td what is roforrod to I under tho hoad of "hot drinks," .. ,1 whoroln it is said that toa and oolfeo ii wero espooially meant. In this dla- '1 course tho Patriarch said that God jl would not bless with his spirit tho .1 man who usod tobacco nftor ho ho- 1 ooino acquainted with tho require- . I mouts sot out in this rovolatlon,. 1 Tho restrictions in rolutlou to tho I uso of moat aro in tho iutorests of I tho prosorvutlou ofauimal lifo, which I tho Lord does not wish to Iiuvo s.icri-1 s.icri-1 ileed unnecessarily, as well us in the , I ' iutorosts of hoalth. I Tho idoa entortaiod by somo pooplo 1 that tho uso of swluo's ilesh Is fcr- ' 1 biddou by this rovolnttion Is not I I .. boruo out by tho toxt. Tho fact ' I that it 1b said hi tho rovelatioti that ' 1 - "ryo is for tho fowls and for swino, " I sooms to indicuto that such animals ' 1 woro to bo used, and man has not discovered, as far as tho spoakor . know, any other uso for swiuo tlinn i 'that of eating thoir flesh. Tho I spoakor considered tho blessing pro- 1 mised for tho obsorvanoo of this law among tho greatest of whioh ho had j any knowlodgo, that hud been pro- mised by Deity to man. 1 SISTER SARAH EDDINGTON, a mombor of. tho gonoral board, said if thoro was ono tiling moro than nnothor from which sho shrank it wns appearing boforo tho public, but it was a duty that had boon placed upon her and sho realized that those who roly on God for strength havo generally surpasod in success in gospol mnttors those who dopond upon thoir own strength, wisdom and education. Thoro Is great uncertainty hi tho world today in religious matters u clear kuowledgo of tho person and attributes of God is somothiug tlioy do uot havo. A great work 1b bolug dono by tho missionaries of our church among tho nations. Our young ladies should do all thoy can tolighton tho labors of thoir mothors, and by tho cultivation of n coutonted aud chcorful spirit, iufuso suushlno into tho homo. Another meotlng was hold hi tho evening at which Eldor J. S. Dalloy and Eldor Olnwfeon woro tho principal spoukors. A MATTER F 'HEALTH H r.- 1MB Auso!ui'a3y Pup 0. H a& m BUBmmis M St. Goorgo to work in tho omplo. Tho sick uro nil improving, nnd- H thoro romuhiH only n fow cases of bad H Mr. Goorgo I. Batty aud sister Alico mado u trip to St. Georgo dur- H ing tho week. |