Show MISSION FIELD I GOOD SCHOOL I TELLS BIG GATHERING ci But It Must Never K De Dc- Degenerate generate Into Int Reform School lIe JIe Adds SAINTS SAL rS CHRISTIANS Apostle A Smith Urges All Commandments Be Kept SALT LAKE LAK CITY April 5 By By ByThe ByThe The Associated Press Man Ian Man Is Incurably religious s John JoJn M. M Knight of ot Portland Ore iden of the wet wet-lorn states mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Latter day Saints Mormon formon told tol l the sev soy several eral thousand attending the nine seventh ty-seventh annual church confer confer- conference once enCl here today The desire to Is Inborn he added a etI He lie told his audience that there arc some fifty tift million people In the United States affiliated with th thi churches and some sixty or sev- sev seventy enty onty million who are not affiliated I find however that many of the thelast last class claM are arc deeply religious and that they think for themselves It Itis Itis Itis is from this class that thata a majority of our converts con rome MISSIONARIES I ISE ISEI John G. G G Allred of at Minneapolis president of the central states mis mission sion Elan of the church declared that I the missionaries of today had a I characteristic in common with the tho 12 apostles chosen by Jesus Christ I to spread the gospel in that they j i go out to declare the things they I krow O are true t Heber J. J Grant president of ot the church hurch who Is presiding at all con con- conference conference ference sessions called on all the th mission Slon presidents attending th th- conference for short talks during the morning session The confer confer- conference conference conference ence will close cloe tomorrow night lO i 11 Y SALT S. LAKE April 5 The The mission field of at the Latter day Saint church Is the lest best 10 15 t school In the world but must never ne de de- degenerate degenerate de- de degenerate generate Into a reform reform school said Apostle David O. O McKay In speak speaking InK before the seventh ninety annual conference of at the Elements Clements necessary for a 1 world world- worldwide worldwide wide church arc arc- are are l til tilL L Li D. D S S. doctrines he declared adding that Mormonism gives a strong personal faith and appeals to the individual both through his emotions anti and reason POINTS PO lE Two vo points were vere emphasized by bytho bythe the ho speaker One was wa g that the tho members of the church have an abiding assurance that the gospel as taught by the Redeemer and later changed has been restored and the other that there Is an abiding conviction In the heart lart of every ery member of ot the church that thata a a. responsibility rests upon them to preach their religion Members of tho the Protestant churches do not like to lo call the Latter day Saints Christians Apostle McKay declared but H a t Is the paramount desire of the Saints to Christianize the world Ho lIe said he hc knows I of at no religious desire In the hearts of the people so potent as that to preach the gos gos- gospel gospel pel in all the world Nothing can be more powerful he declared than a conviction cO that stirs to action SMITH li Apostle Joseph Fielding Fielding- Smith said members of ot the church should be a a. little more careful In ob ob- observing ob- ob observing serving the commandments and an l desires of the Lord They should teach their children to pray Iray and should get gel the spirit of prayer They cannot afford not to pay ia- their tithes and they must walk walkIn a lit litIn In the light of nil all the truth the tho th speaker said They cannot make male use of some of the truth and neg neg- neglect neglect lect bet the rest They must keep I all the commandments of the Lord If It they expect Him to recognize them then as Ills His followers |