Show MINUTES of the quarterly Conj craw weber stake held in oycie city adymt alft 1879 TEN A M present anthe stand were apostles lorenzo snow and franklin ards of the presidency of the stake laster J ll errick and chas F mid dicton besides many of alio llio bishops and leading aldem of lie county meeting called to order by L J ll errick after the usual opening exercise prest C middleton Midd lelon ad dressed the congregation said lie was sorry that were no more present but hoped tant tho time woul doun colff whitall thi tall would alie nece oily of attending rhems meetings advised alio bishop to give truthful their live ward said that i were to purify ouis elvas as ft people and live so lait we may enjoy tue lil eings of lie gopel go pel for the kiino had come when thoo who ifould hot live up to their covenants would have to bo for their misdoing alie brethren to flop contention backbiting back biting and going to law alio following reported report od the condition of heir ward i hobt ric and 2nd ward winlow win low fiihr ad ward amos maycock north ogden edwin stratford counselor ath ward r D F thomas allred slaters villo and james marriott Mar riots alio reports conci and pointed A steady growth in each ward each bishop expressed him self M of doing hi duty singing jiow ann a foundation adjourned until p m THO r v after singing and prayer the following wards were reported hunts villo by bishop F A dammond nam mond mound fort by bishop david moore thompson plain city by lip liui alio reports were abo il tle same as thoe in the morning excepting that biad buffered considerable from scarcity 01 water grasshopper and tarro being only about a liala a crop this year meetings on the sabbath day as well as the meetings of the several societies wore usually well attended day and sunday schools were in ses sion the saints as a general thin were trying to do right the poor were provided for bishop clobert rio next reported the labors of the committee appointed by alio county court to regulate the distribution of water va pleased to state eliat they biad succeeded in arranging matters so as to favo lawsuits he spoke in high saints of the various ward wardi i alio had been avoided law byl i little preaching o thought the lord was better pleased with us by getting along with it in this way than by going to law bupt supt Ri chud represented the sunday schools as being iu a prosperous state aud on lie im prove in order to increase attendance at the several schools lie his associates biad thought it best to six prizes to schools could exhibit alie best average attendance during alie past six months which so far hail good aft act there were now about 2600 children between the ages of hix and twenty live enrolled there was omo slack ness on alio ant of the teachers but he hoped this difficulty wo would soon overcome elder joseph A weal represented the Y M M I associations in a prosperous condition of ohp good attendance and tifrit ed at heir ls conference and the anxiety on alie part of alio members to inform themselves ou alie plea of the gospel by which aliey were studying good boaks alio membership now numbered about laid been sen I on missions A very large number of chapters in the bible and other church works biad been read the blerk of the otake read alio report of the societies bishop david MS gave notice that tithing stock would bo received on the and etli of alm month lie exhorted the saints to pay their tithing and receive the blessings of alie loid brount fro of tithing paid last las t year was more than on the previous year and the amount paid up to this time this year was equal to that of baat the clerk oe tho haake then read the statistical report with tho following totals one apostle patriarchs seventies high priests elders 97 priests teachers lua deacons members arid members children under eight of abt and atonal of SI 58 the number of families there have been 11 marriages 47 births of maleef 39 of females children members members removed baptized 20 deatha of females 21 of males and in dirvin pit apostle richards then spoke h eloquent terms tho labors of the water committee who biad so ably nettled alm m antei yh out laving now ft blawut hanging over alem fi gayo some instructions yearly report stating that ho would bo pleated to have eliom in writing president gans notice clial president taylor and apostle deoreo Q cannon acro expected aft meeting uncil tomor to mor am 10 AM singing softly beams the sacred prayer by counselor edwin stratford singing 10 lo y me of hew en apostle lorenzo now read from covenants page alio following upon which ho delivered an exceedingly interesting inter eating as to our auti in temporal aal jirs therefore if any man halt take of tho abundance I leavo and impart not his portion according to the law of my gospel unto alio ioor ond needy he with tho wicked lift up his cycil in hell being in tor mant alno on page behold this in what alie lord of every man in li steward even w tho ord haqq ur khadr appoint ULO any man and behold nano ire exempt from this law who to the church of tho living iod yea neither the neither tho agent who the lorda neither he atho is appointed in a stewardship to sni ral thi ngit cal ditl required w to makoe et hichi to thosa who not enlightened by alio spirit of iod appeared almost ap pallin no greater than he required or abraham isaac jacob and fall tho holy pron liet alio biad lived sinco man bac n created ho knew the abraham had to through in to enable liliu to i celestial crown alia man who cime to claiming lie had kept all A i fahr ar lie commandments of god from his youth up falt sad when he wa required to sell nil he had and giro to the poor thin to libin wai too grant sacrifice for ho knew that ho would not have the glory and honor in thi world that riches would bring icho sold all lie had and followed the savior the lord taught this people what was required of their tern when the gospel was revealed to them but wo sometime forget the contents of this sacred book the doctrine and covenants and because u forgot we thought wo were cucu ed from its command menta but alie lord biad aid he would require an account of our lile in alio day of judgment wo were sometimes displeased with the principles of god but it was aim ply because wo did not comprehend them when god created man he placed the elements of deity in him that he might understand alio glorious principles of the priesthood liec god biad not given any law compelling any man to give up any particular portion of his proper j ty but had left him to exercise his owai benevolence in alie matter however biad made ome miserly who arru bow rolling in wealth while others of the saints in diner benl enl countries were su nerin under poverty and tyranny anxiously look ID to zion tor deliverance con trusted alie of alie poor woman who paid one dollar tithing to alie man who paid a thousand out of a hundred thousand he had ninety nine thousand left while the poor woman had but nine left wo had been driven from neighborhood to neighborhood from county to county and from state to state and in h n opinion we would be until wo obeyed the laws of god better than we had done we should remember tho words of tho savior to his apostles feed my sheep and feed my lambs he repeated several times because lie was going away his feelings were deeply wrought up in aliis because aliey were his children he had begotten them in the eternal and he willied them nourished and fad that lie might enjoy their again aim tie joseph F smith followed n powerful and eloquent dis cour upon our present position in pin hll aai he biad always believed eliat beffie the faints f could bo united on any principle they mut understand it it wu r an old maxim first to be convinced and then go ahead if we understood spiritual bilings better and were more united in them in his mind it would be an daiy tiling to unite alio people on temporal things but the trouble was we were not united in spiritual hi ings as wo should be hence the difficulties in temporal things take alio world as it is and their affections were more strongly attached to temporal things than to spiritual clience we must oe educated in spiritual bilings until we could say father thy will not mine be done but now if wo touched a mans dollar we touched alie amplo of his eye and it was like wringing liis heart strings to attempt to handle it we were not converted to the truth enough in order to deny ourselves the lux cries of this world if men would conduct themselves in righteousness before the lord ho as to inspire the people with that confidence that when aliey were entrusted with temporal things nothing would stick to their lingers he believed eliat alie people in general could be in temporal thing ho hail implicit faith in president ohn Taylor lor eno snow george cannon and others lip could nien tion because their course was lucli as to inspire that confidence but he could not say that of ayery man we should so live that wo could discern mens characters as to their honest or dishonest intents and then place such men in office in whom we could have implicit faith he believed if alio llio sainta could comprehend what flod wanted of them in alio name of the would do it but if we attempted to become united on temporal thing first wo wore placing alio cart before the horre ho could mention many spiritual principles in which we were not united some of us thought there were great blessings derived irom plural marriage while others thought there were no blessing in it we acro not enod in covern mant ns wo bo parley aratt finco remarked that hohag preached the nt principles of the gospel for years and lie presumed if ha lived fifty years longer lie would have to do lie same he was in favor of anything that would unite the saints of god and make bosoms broad as eternity to alie comprehension of truth and righteous UPS and the of anco to each cither he prayed eliat wo not bo divided but would unite in all things singing Sing inq the lord Is great prayer by ilder joseph F smith |