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Show I ENTHUSIASTIC I CONFERENCE. Apostle Jas. E. Talmage and Pres. Chas. Hart Present. Cvcry Session Interesting Largest Attendance In Years Many Visiting Saints. The sessions of the Parowan Stake quarterly conference held last Satudray and Sunday were the most enthusiastically attended atten-ded of any that have been held J in years. There was a larger number of visiting saints from the various wards of the stake than is usual and all seemed to enjoy every session held. Apostle Jas. E. Talmage and Pres. Chas. Hart of Salt Lake City'were present and talked to the people along lines of interest to all. The subjects taken up by Chem were timely and well delivered, de-livered, and much good advice and encouragement was given to the assembled members of the church. One feature of the Saturday sessions was the fact that more of the people were at each than is common. It is usua that at these meetings the attendance is very small and discouraging to the visiting brethren, But at the bonference just closed the Saturday Satur-day attendance was pleasing nnh nnlv f a r rir visirino mirhnri- M.WMttiesJbut to th(fcatake and , local . jPS. authories as well. The Priesthood meeting held Saturday night drew out a large number of the brethren holding the priesthood, and it was estimated esti-mated that fully one third more : people were there than is com mon. The session was interesting interest-ing although a part of the time was taken up in setting apart a l new bishopric for Harmony. Those who addressed the members mem-bers of the priesthood were '' listened to with close attention, f and the subject taken up by , President Hart, as well as that y handled by Apostle Talmage were full of interest. U. T. Jones k spoke for a short time on the subject of "Toleration" and his remarks were to the point and timely. Sunday morning at the Sunday School session the tabernacle was filled to everflowing and many were there who falied to find a seat. By actual count there were over a thousand people in the building. The Sunday afternoon after-noon session was equally well attended. at-tended. The spirit of meeting- going seemed to be in the air , and everyone who could get in f was there to hear the talks given ! by Apostle Talmage and Presi- dent Hart. ' The M. I. A. session of the j conference Sunday evening was featured by talks by Mr. Barton and Dr. James and some splen- v did music. It also received ts - share of attendance. During the conference the gen- eral and stake authorities were ft unanimously sustained, and there were some changes made, among which were the following: Bp. Gotlieb Schmutz and counsel of New Harmony were honorably released and Henry A. Pace was sustained as bishop, with Albert Mathis and Jos. W. Prince, as his counsel, and J. L. Prince as clerk. A change was made in the Stake organization of the Young Men's Mutual Association, whereby Sam'l B. Jones and assistants were released and Walter Granger sustained as president, with Stewart Thorley and Geo. Perry as assistants, and Clarence E. Jones as Secretary. The Stake organization of the Young Ladies' Mutual Association Associa-tion was also reorganized, Miss Anna Middleton and counsel being be-ing released and Ethel Ashdown being sustained as president, with Jennie Leigh as first assistant. assis-tant. The other assistant will be selected soon. The conference, will be long remembered by those who were fortunate, enough to be present, inasmuch as the talks were of such a nature as to cause all to ponder on them for a long time. Many points were brought out which if taken note of will result in much benefit to the people at large, not the least of which were the talks on the patronizing of Utah industries and the purchasing pur-chasing of Utah products. All were urged to buy home manufactured manu-factured and home raised articles more in the future than has been done in the past. It was intimated intimat-ed that if the people would patronize pat-ronize homo concerns more liberally lib-erally the state would soon be far more rich than it is now and the people would be both socially and financially better off. The money spent in patronizing home industries in-dustries would remain at home, wiiuicua uiu muiiuy aua iu man -r-lh oMBW'tm3ftcpi-prTmnrtr'r facturing centers very seldom came back and was a drain on the financial strength of the state. The good advice and counsel received will be of inestimable value to all, and the Saints will look forward to the next conference con-ference with pleasure, and will anticipate more of the same kind of encouragement and advice, which rightfully should be given them more frequently. |