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Show FITION DISCUSSED BY SPEAKERS AT CONFERENCE . "owds Attend Sessions in Salt Lake Tabernacle; Tab-ernacle; Church Members Urged to Forsake Vanities and Follies of World; Law Enforcement Given Attention SALT LAKL, jd. '. Kducatlon as I gospul truth was tliS' i:is".J Li- speakers speak-ers ai tlio tnirn :- sslon of the semi- ; mnual ooniercnc' of tho L 1 S. jhurch h'-hl m th Salt Lake talv.-i laclo Saturday. Presid-nt Hclcr J , ftunt presided and Apostle -John A. (i'lutso-.- L ' r s-1 r) 1 n t-r I'ntrlaii.h Hyrum ID. Smith, Apostle Melvln .1. Mallard j Knd Ai?U itl.-iiard K Lyman, wren be speakers. J Attendant ;il Uio sessions h -1 fcatur.iay ivas eons, dirably lartf r j than that : Friday An in. rei-.l , mttendam is ;:ir.n ip.a d today when KverfiMW it i " t i n k will l h 1 J at the M.Bseir.1'1'.- li.ill tli. Hun-au Ol ln- Bormn'i"' Fair we-uher has favored fee confer nr.- and unusually ihrone'H uf p. "id' are crowding in o he capit.n 1 city Kbstle lutsoe said the remark-Able remark-Able i oin'.-r. uei '.'"I u-' d htm lo fclnk . i many Important inatters. The weynot- a -Mr. ss of I'n-sldent Grant Cad cauaed Ins min i to turn to thosti BhtTwrv lvinch -iial:.- nelsons obeV Of Kreak laws. He said hi - mind iv.itur- By turned to education and declared Ke Latt.'i -day .s.unts wore an educa-Eon educa-Eon loving people. He gav statistics dhow tnat only an cxtrcmel small trtlon 01 the p' '"'pi'' of tin- st.it' had eyer been to school. Man, he said, mnts spiritual a well a- mental and B ktelkctual education, and the Latterly Latter-ly Saints had adopted th motto, he Glory of God is lnt lllgence, nan .:ii .ni "' ' : Irani- d Ls hut fartly train". 1 h -a..! H urged pat-jonage pat-jonage ol th i hurch schools RECORD KEEPING Patriarch Smitli discussed the urch system ol n rord keeping He fcressed his thanks for improi -Cent in trun:-r.'rtaii"n which enabled Ke to tiacl mon expeditiously than lew ea rs II. i.iK' I tl pr S- mt to snow apju ' "lalion ol the biess- i Which had been b'stow.-d uj.on a and prayed that they might be iful so they might escape ealam-that ealam-that may come to the earth. ie patriarch thought the Church ibers wore too prone to follow ai-he ai-he fashions of tne world, and thus e themselves In a position to re-9 re-9 punishment which would come he world. He urged all t for-i for-i tho tollies and vanities of the d. jostle Ballard declared that he was eased t" mc m t present ago He UIl-J .-rst.."..: I rt- a r-...n-iOt.i; i--s: festlng upon t; i.-tC' -day Saints and Ke end which is destined lor them. H Kid th re then is onl;. on waj lo be Kved, and in..', l. t'n'.'ik'.' plan Even i.y e.o.i, ti... i..- rnai Father He Billed attenuon to the necessity to i Key ti.e Acini.: iii'im ta- ' ;d H" Kid the itp't''1" r "t th' church should j Cy their tith-s and live according to le llgh; w he l. i gf. '.n ( hem. FAILED TO TAKE ADVU I. Elder Ballard then advised men to i fcke counsel ol l u i w r ;s and Show- I fa how they rr'k'iii i." guided bj the Bsplratlcn of 'J -i . . urn h, bolder fcillard taid, ... es not wish to ride be people with the priesthood, hut It J Joes want them to lollow th count i jf the ! adei lb t io n .p -lai d Hi resident Grant hail oeea proved to be Re wisest man In the hurch In fin tn-al tn-al mm ! r- mm .s l. . .n-. i v b -bm is the wisdom coming i" i.,-Pom i.,-Pom God Tin- speaker then r- n pn d the fact that six months ago the Kmbers of the church had been ad-Jsed ad-Jsed I" ra... Lecti. but many Ol jem rolused to ,jo ji they had ne th!.-. p. opie v. ould have been mil- of dollars better off today 0 Elard then said he was anxious for , Kn to pay their t.ihmg that thej gnt be blessed and he then prom-' that they will be blensed il thej ' Bhis. Elder . iiar.l then read from ; Doctrine and .... t i. nd called ! toon all to rej nt and follow the Kchings :' li..': i : i :.- . . ..j :. fit do I" tier than an other, if they W not live different than the Wi Sir condemnation shall be great-cause great-cause :. ' r lighl has been given! aern aposF.- LyinL'.n in, red upon those wo have more money than they know i pat to do with, t.. r. member the lt -fclon class, the B. Y. U. and the M I W Th'se organizationn n led fitun- ml asslstano . lie said. Elder Lyman then turnc his B.tt a- tion to the subject of law enforcement He said tin Latter-day Saints look upon up-on the constitution of the United States as a document Inspired by Ciod and esked if the government under ir might endure. He related an instance when some great, economist sid this republic can endure only if it halt something which the bid repubjfcs of ancient times did not Have. It docs have that, a sound educational system. sys-tem. ine speaker here digressed from his Subject for n momOMt to refer to unsell ishneso and the payment of tithes He declared that a more unselfish un-selfish man than President Grant is not alive, and that ('resident (Jranc has the welfare of this people uppermost upper-most In hh mind, .eTder Lyman then returned to tho subject ol tho constitution and tin; country and showed what conditions prevailed at that time and th changes chang-es which have occurred since. He showed how the general conditions nave changed, the great advahcemont that has born made by science and In I other fields since the coming forth of I this church Bacillus and Its Isolation and destruction has resulted in the building of the Panama canal for that could not hac been done If the mosquito mo-squito had not been conquered. lb-also lb-also showed the difference that has occurred oc-curred In the means of transportation. transporta-tion. WORK OV ORGANIZATION The speaker said organisations are being established throughout the nation na-tion to teach the constitution. The children of the Latter-day Saints have been taught that from the beginning of the church and are being taught it ' this day. Me then explained the work I that is being done by tho Boy Scout and Mutual Improvement associations, among the younger generation, and closed by asking the congregation to repeat with htm, the slogan. "Wc : Stand for a Pure Life Through Clean , Thought and Action."- At the close of Elder I vman's discourse dis-course the song. "Now let L s Itejolce" was sung by the choir and congrega- I tlon and President Heber Q. Hale of Boise stake, pronounced the benedic- j tlon. |