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Show ATTENDANCE AT CONFERENCE IS LARGE Salt Lake April 7 The 83d annual conference of the Mormon church came to a close yesterdaj at 4 o'clock o'-clock with three gTeat meetings By resolution presented n the main building Hip Saints declared the confer. con-fer. Mice to have been the moat help- i fill held in y ears. A conservative estimate placed the Dumber attending the three meetings yesterday afternoon at 18,000 The Immense Tabernacle was crowded to Its utmost capacity. At least 12 000 I persons occupied space In the building build-ing At Barratt hall an.) at the As-Bembls As-Bembls hall crowds filled hoth places. Last evening the Deserct Sunday school union held a meeting at the rabernacle, when the great auditorium audito-rium was again filled The principal address yesterday afternoon af-ternoon was delivered by Apostle Hyrum M. Smith, a son of President Joseph F Smith Apostle Smith advocated ad-vocated marriage among the young men ; a remedy for the gross immorality immor-ality which ho said was rife In the world Marriage must be according I to the laws of God. however, or It would result in misery. It was con-trary con-trary to the- law of God, he said, i for a Mormon girl to marry a Gentile Gen-tile girl Marriage must be for i m and eternitj and contracted In the, name of the I Inly Trinitv The general authorities of ihej church were presented and sustain - I ed without opposition A telegram was read Horn pos tie Reed Smooth at Washington. Sen afor Smoot expressed regret at his inability to he present at the con- J ference, but he was with his breth-1 ren and sisters In the spirit. he wired From New York came the usual semi-annual message from John W Young, a son of President Brigham Young. A telegram from Mr Toung is rend at every conference. He con-( gratulated the Saints and the author-ties author-ties upon ihc- continued growth of the movement and conveyed Ins vcrv best wishes I wish Brother Young would ge' j enough humility, wisdom and hard i mule sense to come bark and live with (he Saints and be honest, ' com mented President Smith, which is said to be the first remark called forth by a telegram from Mr. Young. Penrose Speaks. ( barlea v Penrose, second counselor coun-selor m the first presidency, was tho first speaker of the morning aes-Presldenl aes-Presldenl Penrose said that enemies en-emies of the church had predicted Iti disintegration in the third generation, gener-ation, and vet thai generation and the fourth generation found il on n tirmrr basis than at any time in its history. This bad been amply prov -en, be said, by the testimony of the i stake presidents and the mission presidents who bad told the confer- n e of the wonderful work and how I glcriouslv it was being carried on President Penrose said the character charac-ter of the LaMer-day Saints was con-I con-I stantly improving ns new generations j were born "The Science of eugenics." he said, "has taken something of a I hold upon tht people of the United ; States, and it is being followed j not too far. 1 hope by the Latter.-, Latter.-, day Saint? in order to bring forth a I utalwart race of men and women President Penrose closed with the assertion that the great work would j go on until all humankind had been redeemed and until Satan had been driven out. He said this work would pioceed in the spirit world even in greater lorce than it was being pursued pur-sued here. Advses Parents Francis M. Lyman, president of the 'quorum of the twelve apostles, fol- ed President Penrose President I man exhorted the elder6 lo do their ! ' '. and urged parents lo teach tiioir children in the ways of righteousness Children should be thoroughly Instructed by their par-ei.ts, par-ei.ts, " he said, "so that poerlt. mav saj that wo have done well and that our neighbors mav look upon us and cur children with regard and respect " President Joseph F. Smith said a few words in indorsement of the remarks re-marks of President Penrose testifying testify-ing to the truih thereoi He rejoiced, he caid that he had an associate who had the ability to so clearly and fOrcefullj explain the revelations in respect of the order of the priesthood Aposile Heber .1 Grant was the firs ipeakei of the afternoon session He said thai, in Lis official capaeity, it was a part of his duty to visit the various stakes of Zion and that be had always found a ?re;it love of the work and a deep devotion to the Lord of the stake officers, ward officers an auxiliary organization heads The speaker touched upon the re-marka re-marka of President Smith concern; lug the beauty of speaking good ot one'a neighbor always and ill ol him never That hit me." said Aposile Grant There hae been man many times when 1 have spoken alighting!) of mj lellowman, but henceforth It is mj P '-pose, with the help of God, to Bpeatf III of no man again It has been my privilege," concluded con-cluded Apostle Grant, "to have known I the heads of the church for the last fiftj years at the age of C I was i;ivn some wholesome advice by President Brigham Young ami I im ' er heard auy oi' them Utter one v ord but that was for the uplilt of I all the people " Smith on Marriage postle Ilvrum M. Smith followed Apostle Grant He paid a tribute to the stake presidents ho bad spoken on the first two da s of the confer-lence, confer-lence, and declared those splendid men typical of the first minlstn of the church. He would like to have heard others of the fiitv or sli stake presidents, but time forbade 1 1 heir speaking. Apostle Smith touched touch-ed upon the beauty of filial devotion. and declared that nowhere on earih ; wre young men and young women so dutiful to their parents as In the I stake of Zlon. Apostle Smith then launched his discourse upon marriage- In sub-i sub-i a q e he said The normal condition of the world today Is bad. It causing widespread concern anions others than ministers of the gospel. State?--I men are much concerned and are con-I con-I ducting exhaustive investigations Immorality is rife in the world and while these conditions are not so prevalent among Latter-day Saiuts. t still some have come close to danger, j As a remedy lor this condition ol IhimOrelltv, H has been urged that marriage is the solution. I think that i Is right. I think It should be advo- ' cated by ministers and others. The principle of marriage has been forgotten for-gotten too long, aud it needs atten-Hon atten-Hon not only on the part of ihc an- I tnorities of the church but also on the part of the civil authorities and on the part of the people themselves j "One of our neighboring states publishes pub-lishes to the world In gre.it headlines and with boastful words, the fact 'hat Hs record shows one divorce In every seven marriages Think of that! Money No Question, "I strongly advocate marriage among the vnung, but It must bo marriage In righteousness We should never speak of marriage In a spirit of leiity, tor that would deter young people from entering Into the sacred marriage state ' Many young men In our midst ought to marry. Some are afraid that tliey cannot support a wife lu the miinicr In which she has been accustomed ac-customed to live. Let me say to these that their fathers and their grandfathers grand-fathers reared large and noble fara-Hies', fara-Hies', and that they started life with far less than the young men of todav hae Bv frugality, Industry and the help of God. those forebears succeeded, succeed-ed, and by the application of the same principles tbe young men of today also will succeed. "It Is also true that some young women hesitate to marry fine young men because they fear they will not be supported as they would wish I canuot bring mvsell to believe that I auv great number of young women i seek imrriage only to get some one , lo earn money for them to spend fori pleasure and In extravagance Marriage Is bound to bring un-happlness un-happlness unless it is entered Into In thl spirit of God Nothing brings so DlUCh confusion In the houBe of God or In the world as the woman who has married five or six times and has been divorced, and who has had chil-dren chil-dren by each of her husbands Equally Equal-ly Is that true of men who have divorced di-vorced several wives In truth, the' ii-sue of such people are without father fath-er or mother and without name almost al-most certainly without name in the I ., nrM Must Marry Mormons. "Our young men who marry Gentile; ; iris create confusion. They arc not observing the law of God Separa-I I Con is certain to come r.l'tc:' thi life No young man can marrv outside the I church without dishonoring his fath-i er and his mother and without break-' 'ing the laws of God Ixt om young i men and women marry' In the church ' I in the holy places set apart for that solemn rite, let their marriage he a ;p.rt of theii religion Do not let a! '.entile man and a Morman girl or a Morman man and a Gentile girl be I l.voked together, for it will bring nf-; fendant miserv and unliap-iine--s. marriage outside the church i6 an . i 1 in violation of the law of God " President Joseph P Smith Indorsed the preceding speaker s remarks, add- i ing that no man can he saved and be! exalted In the kingdom of God without with-out woman, nor yet can woman be so exalted without man One is not peifect without the other, he said No, marriage was acceptable to God except ex-cept it be for the time and eternity ana performed in the name of ihc '"afhei the Son and the Holy Ghost. Hyrum G Smith, presiding patriarch, patri-arch, invoked a blessing upon the conference Brigham II Roberts, one of the seven presidents of seventy, delivered deliver-ed s brief address upon the application applica-tion of the church system of relieving reliev-ing distress to cities, states or the nation. He called attention to the gre;t floods and their attendant dls-tis dls-tis and declared that these disasters disas-ters had been foreshadowed as early as 1831 by the Prophet Joseph Smith 1 F.lder Pioberts said thai in lS-lo the Saints suffered much loss because of! drougtb and the grasshoppei pie sue I The following winter was very severe se-vere and the people lost much of I their stock In addition thev were; called upon to share with, hundreds and thousands of Immigrants on their way to Utah or California their already al-ready depleted Btores. Yet an abiding abid-ing laith in God brought them safely through the crisis. Fact Day Created. Then it was that by regulation of ! the church a monthly fast day was , established. It was set for- the first Thursday in every month Later ibis v as changed io be the first Sunday of the month On fast days the Saints are required to contribute to I the support of the poor at least au i equivalent of which they did not con- j BUme by reason of their last In this w a I . said the speaker, the unfortunate unfortu-nate were always cared for. Yet the system did not comprehend the perpetuation per-petuation of pauperism, for ihc funds' were wisely administered and only tho worthy poor were given assistance. assist-ance. Those who were able to help iLemselves were supplied with em- ployment for which they might h...-ability h...-ability and capacity, and thus were! enabled to live in the nobility of independence. in-dependence. ' "If the six or seven millions of, nomipal christians In the citv of New: York would aup'v onlv Just this fragment frag-ment of Mormonism ' said President Roberts, there would never be heard ' the CTj of distress again. Even if r one -half of those millions of Chris- s tlans adopted this practice so well employed here, there would be rev- 1 euue enough with which to clothe, ' feed and lodge all the poor. ' Not only might it he applied in 1 gieat cities. Why should not tho f at tes sdopt it? Why not the na- ( tion" Did the people hut realize the ' marvelous results that can thus be 1 obtained, there would never acain b, ' heard the appeals for succor that g have come to us lecently, appenls to -which the president of our church has responded with material aid, and we lcjoice that he did so '' Apostle Orson F. Whitncv spoke in relutatlon of statements that the Mormon doctrine taught scattering and a lack of adherence He declared declar-ed that, instead of division the Mormon Mor-mon church stood above all else for unit and unification, for bringing together Apostle Heber J Grant presented the general authorities, who were suhtalned without opposition. There were no changes In the roster. A resolution was adopted declaring the conference the best and most helpful held in years. The great meeting then adjourned for six months. |