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Show CONFERENCE 15 HELD IN TABERNACLE SUNDAY Trie Ogden stake held its quartern-conference quartern-conference in the Tabernacle yesterday yester-day with sessions of 10 a in. and 2 p m President Thomas B Evans presided and the principal speakers were Apostle Tames E. Talmage. Pres Ident Levi Edgar Young of the flr.?t quorum of Seventy and Thomas E. MrKny of the Ogden stake presidency. Henry 1 1 Rolapp of the general Suii day school board was also among the visiting officials. The musical program pro-gram furnished b the Ogden Taber nacle choir and soloists was of hih excellence and the visltine speakers expressed deep appreciation for this part of the service. Following the organ prelude, played by Sam W Whltaker, at the morning morn-ing session, the duet and chorus, "As Pants the Heart." by J. R. Thomas, ivas sung by Katie Blyth Sterling Price and the Ogdpn Tabernacle ehnlr The invocation was offered b Hans C. Peterson and the second musical number was 1 Praise to God. ImmorLiI Prfise," by J J McClellan. suns by Lillian Robertshaw Douglass Brian and the choir Principal James L Barker was the first speaker, being called upon to give a report on the Weber academy In brief, he stated that the institution was In splendid condition, the enrollment enroll-ment being larger than In previous years, the faculty working well together, to-gether, the school curriculum being enlarged to a marked degree and the Students displaying a fine spirit of loyalty. He also spoke of the purpose pur-pose of the establishment of the church schools and exhorted the parents par-ents to send their older children there for Instruction i-oiiowing hlder Barkers talk, President Pres-ident Thomas E McKay gave the stake presidency's report, comparative of the past nine months, with the corresponding cor-responding nine months of last year On the whole, he said the presidency believed that the stake was growing in good works and that it had the strong support of the high council, the stake auxiliary association workers, work-ers, the bishops and the ward teachers. teach-ers. At present there are 92 stake officers and the attendance at the weekly stake officers' meeting was gratlfylnglv largn The Relief society, he continued, shows steady improvement In Its work, both In the stake and ward Tho stake board members thus far this yenr have made 530 visits to the sick and 202 visits to the ward associations, asso-ciations, while the members of the latter have made 2723 i6its to the sick in their wards during the year, Speaking further President McKay ie a 5.UI11 mu iz.fu ii-hmi ui wit" i uu- dltlon of the other auxiliary organizations, organiza-tions, showing that the officers and teachers for the most part performed their duties well. The ward teaching teach-ing too, he said, had been carefully attended to and he hoped that the good work would be zealously kept up. In closing his report he exhorted his hearers to be more diligent in attending attend-ing the different meetings of tho church, saying that by so doing they would be strengthened for the performance per-formance of their daily labor and their religious duties. The song "Cavalry" was .rendered by William S Wright and the chol: Apostle Jnmes E. Talmage was the next speaker and his opening remarks re-marks were of congratulation to the Btake for the excellent report and also for the splendid attendance at the conference He then took up the question of ward teaching, saying say-ing that this part of the work was responsible for the life of the church God knew, he said, that all of the Saints could not attend the church meetings and instituted the ward teachers' department In the church that the teachings of the gospel might be taken to the homes and through them that the people might be kept In the faith Speaking directly di-rectly to the teachers, the Apostle slated that the teaching Bhould be of tin' proper quality, as results not figures fig-ures were wanted The people, he said should be taught to pray !n their homes as praver was necessary at all times for the protection of mind and body Continuing, he spoke on the snhjict of education, saying that there was no reason for anyone being unednca ted in the present age of the world He laid spei lal stress on the import ance of being educated in the church ! schools, characterizing it as education educa-tion for tho whole man. "Work and laziness" were also spoken spo-ken of by the apostle, the first being j characterized as devotion and a i guide to happiness and the latter as a guide, to sorrow and a contagious disease, the possessor of which should . be quarantined. "We should make a body perfect," he said, "and the callouses brought on bv service for good will be a blessing but beware of the cankerous wounds of sin." In conclusion, the speaker gave Iru-presshe Iru-presshe exposition of the Mormon doctrine of the soul, in brief saying that the spirit and the body constituted constitu-ted the soul, contrary to the belief of the sectarian world that the spirit and the soul are synonamous. In substantiation of the doctrine, he said that Jesus did not go to the Father until he returned and took up his body. Elder Levi Edgar Young followed Apostle Talmage and spoke briefly as his work during the past week had weakened his voice In opening his remarks he said: 'That which we get today and carry into our lives tomorrow is the good wo shall get out of this conference, it is the spirit of the meeting that counts nnd the heart throbs that flow from speaker to audience that are Important Im-portant The spirit of God brings happiness and its expression is love, honor, good will and respect for everything ev-erything in nature." He then took up the discussion of m experiment which he bad made recently re-cently in a study ot the high cost of livinc In the country, he said, were evidences of prosperity on every' side, while in the cities, the opposite was largely the case. In his stud;, of the question from the latter phase he recalled the fact that in the old das In the cities of Utah the people had raised almost enough produce In their hack yards to keep them In food almost the year around, while now the yards are full of weeds, parked or used for purposes other than those whleh would solve an economic problem. prob-lem. As a specific ovldence of this, he cited a visit he had made to , . . i , 1 C .. 1 4 T - 1 - - 1 (he conditions past and present were us stated. The solution of the problem. Elder Young continued, was that because of the present generation was not as productive as the previous one, It must seriously consider a return to the old ways. If an Independent living liv-ing would be achieved. Productiveness, Productive-ness, he said, gives a spirit of Independence In-dependence and the young people must get hold of more land and stay by it, if they de6lre to possess this spirit At the conclusion of Elder Young s talk, James Jacobs sang "O, Holy Father" Mr Jacobs is a blind stu dent at the state school and possesses a flneh cultivated tenor volee His 9ong was sung with a depth of feeling feel-ing that has rarely been equalled in the Tabernacle and many members of the congregation were moved to tears mi.- i;. nrr "Tlicro la a f.reen I lie CIUD1UB miiK. o"..v Hill Far Awa." was sung by Lillian Scott and the choir and the benedie-tlon benedie-tlon was pronounced by Elder Henry H. Rolapp The organ prelude at the afternoon sess ion was played by Sam F Whltaker Whlt-aker and the opening song was "Gospel "Gos-pel Restoration,' rendered by Mrs gncs Warner, and the choir Mrfl Warner was In excellent voice and carried the solo part In a most effec the manner. The invocation was offered by Pa triarch David McKay and was followed follow-ed bv the singing of. "It Is Not Death to Die' (from "Lazarus , by Mrs Myr tie BaUinger-Hlgley Walter Stephens and the male members of the choir Mrs Higkn has only recently joined the choir and her beautiful singing of the big obllgato to the male chorus chor-us was the cause of much pleased comment from her man friends Mr. Stephens' singing was op to its usual standard and the work of the male chorus was much appreciated iu r the number was concluded, President Presi-dent Thomas B Evans presented the general and stake authorities to tho congregation and they were unanimously unani-mously sustained The first speaker was President C. C. Richards who old of the recent death of Stewart Eccles. Sr. in England, Eng-land, and gave a sincere eulogy of his life as a man a church worker ;md particularly as a member of the Ogden stake high council and as a missionary. The concerted anthem. ' Hark Hark Mj Soul" (Shelley), was sung by-Mrs by-Mrs Hlgley. Mr. Stephens and the choir, and Apostle Jnmes E. Talmage then delivered the principal sermon of the afternoon Me spoke more than an hour, expounding the doc-t doc-t tines of the church with regard to the keeping of the Sabbath day holy and on the life and works of Jesus Christ. The sermon was followed with a short talk by Elder Levi Edgar Young who followed up his theme of the morning and added to it a discussion of chics With regard to the latter, he Bald, that true citizenship meant high mlndedness and that to be a citizen cit-izen a person must take an active interest in-terest in the economic, eivic, political, religious, educational and commercial life of the community in which ho lives. In his opinion, the city governments govern-ments should take active supervision of amusements, so that the cities might be made as clean as they were in the former days President T. B. Evans made a few-closing few-closing remarks, expressing his ap preclation for the good attendance at the conference and for the fine program pro-gram that had been carried out. Ho rlso exhorted the people to continue diligent in the performance of their duties The closing. Bong was "Nazareth," which was exrellently sung by Robert Rob-ert Blnnie and tho choir. The benediction bene-diction was pronounced by Patriarch McKay. oo |