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Show I TRIBUTE PI TO IE : ' FATHERS 10 : MOTHERS The fathers and mothers of the Og den stake were honored yesterday at tho morning session of tho quarterly stake conference, by hearing their praises sung in every number of a special spe-cial "Mothers' and Fathers' Day" program. pro-gram. Among the speakers was Elder Charles W. Penrose of tho first presidency presi-dency of the Mormon church, who also delivered tho principal sermon at the afternoon session of Ihn rnnforonrn. There were more than 1300 persons in attendance at each meeting and Stake President Thomas B. Evans presided over the gathering At tho afternoon session, the most important matter of business was tho accepting of the resignation of Elder Charles C. Richards from tho position of first counselor to President Thomas B. Evans; the sustaining of Second Counselor Thomas E. McKay to the vacated position, and Elder Timothy C. Hoyt, to the position of second counselor. The vote to approve the changes was unanimous Tho general and stake authorities were unanimous ly sustained at tho same session and the major portion of the time remain ing was occupied by President Charles W. Penrose, with an impressive doctrinal doc-trinal address and a brief talk by Elder Hoyt who, previous to his advancement, ad-vancement, was a member of the stako high council. The musical program of the afternoon after-noon was as follows: Organ prelude Sam F Whilaker. Duel and chorus "Jesus My Very Thought of Thee," Myrtle B. Higley, Douglass Brian and choir. Concerted number "O, Mighty Father" (from "Last judgment"), Mrs. Higley, Mildred Ware, Douglass Brian, Waller Stephens and choir. Solo and chorus "Hark, Hark My Soul," Agnes Warner and choir. Solo and chorus "If I Could Know," Melba Read Jones and choir Organ postlude Sam F. Whitaker. Tabernacle Decorated. For the special celebration of "Mothers' and Fathers' day, the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle was beautifully decorated with floral baskets and following an organ prelude by Sam F.' Whitaker, the tabernacle choir and congregation sang "We Thank Thee. O God, for a Prophet." The other musical numbers were "Mother Dear" and "For Dear Old Father," children's chorus composed of Verda Shaw, Margaret Shaw, Lois Jones, Margery Knudson. Gweneth Morns, Clare Olson. Afton Petty, Man-on Man-on Shaw. Florence Morris. Esther Har ris, Grant Read and Charles Cramer, directed by Melba Read Jones Solo "Dear Old Ma," Annie Williamson. Wil-liamson. Quarter "Mother" (Joseph Bat-lantyne). Bat-lantyne). Douglass Brian. Jed Ballan-tyne, Ballan-tyne, Leo Madsen and Walter Stephens. Steph-ens. Chorus "In the Time of Roses," Tabernacle choir. Organ postlude Sam F. Whitaker. President Thomas E. McKay made the address of welcome and President Evans presented the quarterly report of the stake presidency, which showed that appreciable progress was being made in the different branches of tho stake work Principal James L. Barker, of the Weber academy, in a briof talk announced an-nounced plans of the church board of education to make the academy a junior ju-nior academy, and the principal address ad-dress of tho occasion, a tribute to "Our Parents," was delivered by Le-Roy Le-Roy Leishman. The tribute, in part, follows: To Our Parents. "The purpose of Mothers' day and one of the purposes of our meeting liere this morning, is to pay tribute to i love second only to that of God is true religion has conceived God to De a God of Love and It is probably due to tins conception of God tho greater part of tho moral organization organiza-tion of tho world has come. In the working out of these religions there has been nothing of greater effect than lovo of parent for child and child for parent. "That God considered this of great importance and of groat worth to the children of Israel was shown when He gavo the Ten Commandments to Moses, the first commandment by which mankind were to have no other gods before him; second, third and fourth provide that we might have tho right attitudo of reverence towards God; and after giving the first four, all of which pertain to our attitude towards God as a supreme being. He gavo the fifth, 'Honor thy father and thy mother.' "The importance in which He held that Is shown by the blessing predicated predi-cated upon it: 'That thy days mav be long upon the land which the Lord, thy God, glveth thee.' The children of Israel wore then on the way to the wilderness, to the promised land. God thought that commandment so Important Im-portant He predicated or made it conditional con-ditional upon the honor that each child of Israel showed towards his father and mother. The elements of mother and father love needed, so necessary, at the time of the children chil-dren of Israel, is just as Important now as it was then; the child still needs the protecting care of parents, and the world needs -more today than at the time of the children of Israel, the nobility and beauty of love of parents for children, the lovo of a babe, entirely dependent upon its mother, is like the love David tells us of in the Psalms, that afforded him such great joy and happiness, the lovo of parent for child is the same as the love God has for His children, and perhaps it the same joy that we might enjoy as children in showing love to our parents. 4 "G'a atest Joy ,s Uve He has for His children, and the greatest jov to parents is the love for their chll- ill ST1 l8 -hf ioy of belnE Parents. There is a picture called 'Her Gift' by J Clyde Squire, which shows tho SK, thla lovc of parents for their children; you n see upon the faces of the mother and father that cnfld1.7 ?we l0VG they have their child; there are very few nicturPK HnS fhWi aB, W6U " this PiictSS does, the beauty of tho love we are Nobility of Mother Love, It is the nobility of mother love that makes a son pure; throuchont all history tho thing giv nc IS ? fS? and Influence on the mind of thJ child; the child learns to talk a8 it hears Us parents, and as soon as learns to.be able .to think, ideXea its parents tho father in tho smartest smart-est and strongest man and the mother the most perfect woman. The mother moth-er and fathor become patterns; the child tries to mould its llfo to tho Idoals parents Instill in the mind of th& child, which have a great deal to do with their after life. Most of us outgrow this stage of parent-worship, but Its influence Is felt throughout our entiro lives; as Sister Williamson William-son sang: " 'Throughout all these years of smiles and tears, You are my guiding star.' "Manv of the greatest men in history his-tory fell that influence throughout all their lives and contributed tho greatest great-est traits in their character. Alexander Alex-ander the Great so loved his mother he would wear no other clothes than those made by her. Lincoln said 'All I am, was or ever hope to be I owe to my aged mother' Lincoln mil. i"u luiiuvv. ui iiiuuiera love his guiding star throughout his life. Just before her funeral he said to the pastor about to preach the sermon: "Speak of her only as a pure-minded, simple-minded Methodist Christian; say nothing of me; she gained nothing noth-ing from any position I held or any honor obtained; all that I am I owe to her.' Tho same pure influence guidance these men. as Carusa said: 'If you would have the men noble and virtuous, teach women what they are; for men will be what women make them.' "Many men have risen above their base desires and made the very best in them, as Grant and Lincoln, because be-cause their parents knew what -tiroes are. In one church there is a bas-relief with a mother with her babe standing on the world; under either foot a snake crushed and bleeding. bleed-ing. The artist has painted that to show that mother lovo is if there is anything can crush the serpent it Is mother love. "The spirit of Mothers' day should be more than paying tribute' to parents; par-ents; it Is to mako parents draw nearer to ideal parenthood and realization real-ization of the responsibility they have to assume. There are parents' classes In all wards, where difficulties parents par-ents have to confront are brought up and discussed and learn to feel more of this influence over their children that they might also be noble men and women. The spirit of Mother's day should cause all sons and daughters daugh-ters to realize what mother and father is one of the joys of life. "Sometimes a son brings disgrace upon himself and doesn't feel that disgrace, and, furthermore, feels he is the only one that has to suffer; but mother and father are the ones to bear the unhappiness and burden of the wrongs he commits. His friends may desert him, but there Is one friend and love that will remain true to the last that is mother's. If ho becomes hardened to a life of crime; if there is anything can bring him back they are the pleadings of ninf hrti- "In Europe today millions of mothers moth-ers are reading of their sons being sacrificed. The grief and sufferings of this war is not in the trenches or on the battlefield, but at home; the unhappiness and sorrow borne by mothers who have nothing moro to comfort them but that the words on the lips of her dying son was the name 'Mother' There is no other lovo will remain true to the last "The position of father is a noble and important one; the love of mother is more Intense; but it is one of the joys of being a father to appreciate and enjoy a wife's mother-love for her offspring The father is deprived de-prived of the privilege of being at home and associating as closely with the children as mother, but there is something hereoic and noble in what he has to do, to go to work and provide pro-vide for wife and family, and ho spends the greater part of his life in gaining no worldly advantage for himself him-self of an exalted nature, but that the children might be educated and bavo the advantages that make noblo men and women. May God bless all of tho lathers and mothers, and may He cause every son and daughter to realize what it is to-havo a father and mother, and may they all be better sons and daughters." -oo- . |
