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Show II INCREASE SHBWI II NORTH WEBER M J' The officers and members of the North Weber stakp of the Church of j J(!8U6 Christ of Latter-day Saints as- f soiubled yesterday at the tabernarie l In their twentr-slxth quarterly ronfer- i ence Two sp?eions were held, with ! President John V. BJuth preMdliiK, twing to the absence of President James Wolherspoon, who is in Oregon. Ore-gon. The principaJ speakers of the day were Apostle Joseph F. Smith, Jr., and Presidents Bluth and Francis IV. Stratford Hip attendance at tne morning session was sufficiently ar-to ar-to comfortably fill the building and in the afternoon was so large that a number of persons could not gel Into In-to the buildinc. The musical numbers furnished at both sessions by the Tabernacle choir j and soloist, under (he direction ot i Professor Joseph Ballantyne, were cx i ceptionaJly well rendered and apprc o:ated. In the morning, (he program was as follows. Organ prelude "Pastorale". . Lachner Sam F. V hi taker. Solo and chorus "When My Feet I Have wandered" louglass Prian and Chotr. Duet "God Is Ixve" John P. and William Stephens Duet and, chorut "Pome Ye Disconsolate" Dis-consolate" j Myrtle Ballinger Htfley, Leslie ! Savilie and Chotr Solo and chorus Hosanna' Agnes Warner and Choir. Trio "Saviour Breathe an Evening 9fl Blessing" Mrs. Higlej, Mr. Seville and Mr Brian. Organ Postlurtr. . Sam F. Whitakrr The Invocation was offered by Flder Joseph Waymmt and the report of j the f-take presidency for the year 1014 1 and the first quarter of i?15 was gft : en by President Siraiforri The in era! condition in the stake, he said. I was very good and among other things he staled that there had been forty-four baptisms. forty-tVo children born and filty Messed during the three months. During the year 1014 I j! the population ol Mie stake increasr-i) L50 soult;, or from 8307 to 6457. With i t gard to ward work, the Statistics E lowed that Si0.s45.93 had been col-I't col-I't trd and disbursed for the inaintf im.tco of the wards during the year The ward teaching ftatlstics showed II that an average of 7a per cent of the pop!e had been visited monthly and j President Stratford urged the teacli-I teacli-I ers to make a strong effort to in I crease this average during 1915 I The second speaker was President I mmon Green Jr., of the fifty fourth j quorum of seventies, who gave a re l-ort of the work of that organization He stated that five out of the six quorum presidents had been on mlF-slon.E mlF-slon.E and that the sixth had onl re I cently been appoint o.d All of tn I officers and members were engage in the work in their respective wards I In sddition to that especially as- ligned tt Lhcin as seventies j ' Charles Kingston, president of the I hlli priests' quorum of the stake, reported that his quorum was also active in their priesthood capacities and that among other things were becoming deeply interested in gene ological research Apostle Speaks. Following President Kingston. Apostle Apos-tle Joseph F. Smith, Jr., occupied i the remainder of the time His talk w is on the theme of "Duty" and In It he outlined the social organization of the church, making clear that in its many priesthood quorums and auxiliary auxil-iary associations there was work for every member of the church to do. for the benefit of all the people In view of this fact, he urged the members mem-bers of the congregation to be faithful faith-ful in the performance of their duties, du-ties, whatever they were, that their work might proe a blessing to their fellow men. as well as to themselve. Following the closing song, the benediction ben-ediction was pronounced by Bishop's Counselor Walter N. Farr. As an organ prelude in the afternoon. after-noon. Organist Sam F. Whitaker played "Berceuse," by Frislnger. The tint Bong was "We Thank Thee, o God for a Prophet," sung by the congregation con-gregation and choir, and the other musical numbers were as follows: Solo and chorus "The Angel Ga-1 Ga-1 brlel" William S Wright and Choir. Chorus "Don't You Mind the Sorrows" Sor-rows" Choir Solo and chorus "Gospel Restoration" Restora-tion" .... id Agnes Warner and Choir. H Authorities Sustained. , I The opening business of the ses-I ses-I J slon was the presentation of the gen-H gen-H eral and stake authorities by Presi-I Presi-I dent John V Bluth and all were unanimously sustained by the cougTe- gation. President Bluth then anil an-il nounced the series of ward concerts j that are to be given In the stake for .'l the benefit of the California eiposl-SI eiposl-SI Hon trip fund of the Ogden Taber . 3 nacle choir, strongly endorsed the "I trip of the choir as something that - would do much to allay prejudice ' 1 against Utah among the thousands of .', I people that would be at the two fairs, and urged the people of the wards to . j insist the organisation as much as 'f.4, possible through the medium of the ; ; concerts. Following this announcement, he V'J took up a d!t,U6sion of the Mormon j ;1 doctrine of "Faith and Works." de- , j laring that ihe two went together f'-'i i2 the only medium by which (o at :ain salvation and that the doctrine $A 'hat many could be saved by belief Id God alone, wa? a fallacy, (frj Apostle Smith who made the clos- 3 Injj talk, spoke of the present aae a- m one of skepticism and unbelief for J which there vas no good excuse to niter He gave a review of the great 3jjn "appenlnga of the twentieth centurv s'X 'ii the field of bcience end invention f'M r'm'' sa,d t,iat oiI of theeci things had $M heen predicted by the prophets of old l&fl ud that thej werr being done for gg Iho benefit of man. through divine am inspiration, These wonderful blss- xB hags, he ialu, had been made possible, mm I:; thr will and power of God and fO Should be a warning against. pkepti- jH c Rni. In conclusion, h- urger: his i isrers to ;;ve in harmony with rh. 91 a3ed truth and said that the time JrS Mould come whr-n meu would receive M fullneRS of power and would bb SH jcn? of Gcd In vary deed, WM The cIcaUis remar8 were made by mwM President Stratford and In them he 1 thanked the speakers for their excellent ex-cellent talks, the singers for their line music and the 'people of the .take for the respect shown to the presidency by their attendance at the conference. The benediction was pronounced by M. S. Marriott 00 |
