Show conference CONI FERENCE TOPICS some of the torices treated by the speakers tit at the last stake conference were of a purely temporal nature but very time ly prof hinckley of tho tha B Y U while speaking atthe afternoon session tok ook his text from ast 1st chapter of genesis und and read the 26 27 28 verses as follows 20 26 and god said let ua make man in in our awn image after our own lihew likeness gs ind lot let them have doi dominion nimon over the fish of the sea and over the fowls of the air aarand andover and over ov er the cattle and over ohe die car burh till and over every very creeping thin tiling 0 g that croe cree poth path upon tile the 01 27 so god created man inan in his own own I 1 image in the of god oret prettied tied he him male and fe t majle created he them thein 28 and god blessed them and god said unto them dhembe embe th e faithful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it etc the speaker emphasized the injunction und subdue it t and then went on to show that the subduing of the earth has been and is now a very import tanto four our mission in chisdes ert country and how ut utterly terly some have failed whilo while others have succeeded most admire ably related a case that had come under his observation or of a man being in possession po session of a ten acre field where lie he wont went out in the spring and scratched it over calling it plowing then bowed sowed bowed sowed W wheat beat on it broad east cast ond and scratched it over with the harrow then L hen left it and went out to work in a mining camp leaving it for the lord to do the rest and see to lo it A that there might be a bountiful harvest and when harvest time came it being a fertile piece of if soil there was a crop but it i was a variety crop of great thrifty weeds with very little wheat so the man got discouraged and said farming bo be damned and sold his 10 acre lot for to a man that did not believe in imposing the work on the lord but went to work him self and cultivated the land which paid him liberally for his trouble I 1 in n stead of raising weeds mixed with a little wheat he raised onions and other garden truck and sugar beets 27 tons to the acre and on an average the 10 acre plat ne ted fed him 1600 per year and ho he refused an offer of 3 7 go for his little farm which he bad so well subdued I 1 the completion of the sevier bridge and the storing and utilizing the waters of the river was very earnestly urge urged dupon upon the people of millard county and the appointment of the hon james A mervil melvile e as special agent to work up the project inspires inspirer us with hope that it will be accomplished mr melville is a man of affairs and experience in such much matters with good judge ment and influence among men mr melville will examine in to the status of titles arid and claims and see that everything is on a sound legal basis and then lay his plans plan sTor for the moves to be made for the of that to the people of millard county so important enterprise it is a great undertaking and will bring great results it is a move to subdue the earth in this splendid large valley |