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Show CONFERENCES OF THE CHURCH. Commenting on an editorial In The Standard, the Logan Journal says. -This may, we think, be truthfully said That In these days of railroads and rapid transportation, and uow that the general authorities are able to snd do devote their time to the service of the church, instead of bt ing compelled to work on their farms as in pioneer days, now that each stake, or nearly all of them can be readily reached within a few hours ride, and some of the general authorl ties are in attendance at all quarterly quarter-ly stake conferences; now that any desired Instructions can be almost In-etantly In-etantly disseminated to all parts of the state, and when each district has Us own temple, the spiritual needs that In the earlier day rendered general gen-eral eonferences a necessity, no longer long-er exist, and they could therefore be I dispensed with without material spiritual spir-itual loss, and with considerable ma- terial gain to every other section ot j the state, each of which, following each general conference. suffers short period of business depression. . and misses the money withdrawn from general home circulation to b spent in Salt Lake. Then1 may Btll! be good reasons for the general as semblies. but the subject Is worthy of consideration and discussion." Unless the fundamental law of the church calls for two eonferenrPs I year, It would be an excellent move to reduce the number to one |