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Show COLTON SPEAKS j AT TABERNACLE; Utah Congressman Says Religion Gains in Nations Abroad t Apostle George F F'.lchnrds and ! Congressman Don B. Colton were the) principal speakers at the Ogden stake1 i quarterly conference held In the Og- den tabernacle Sunday, with sessions at 10 a m and 2 p m. President 'Thomas E McKay assisted by his counselors, John Halls and Samuel 1; Dye, presided over large congrega-; congrega-; tlons. The quarterly reporl which was pre-1 I pared by A. M. Merrill, Joseph R 1 I Morrell, Aaron ''"racy of the stake: high . ouncii a id Stake Clerk Bll llol-I llol-I 'on, was r"- by Blder M ri i : 1 and 1 showed excellent progress made In the stake during the past bIx months J Apostle Richards, referring to the part of the report relative to mar-riagea mar-riagea deplored 'nat fait that there haa been but 1 ) temple and 27 civil marriages. lie thought some young people did not appreciate the fact that the temple marriages were just as legal as marriages performed In other places. je pointed out the! great blessing to be derived in temple1 marriages by husband and Wife i" ing sealed together for time and eternity ( UM 31 I .N lS Ml HU Apostle Richards expressed his I pleasure at the excellent report and remarked that tb church was making religion 0 part ; daily living. Relig- Ion, he said, led men to be in harmony with thi principal of growth and with God. Himself. The speaker said there Is no dividing IIim between the temporal tem-poral and spiritual with the Lord Tft world, he said, is in m-ed of spiritual training and this is the answer t- the problems of the world today. The, spirll of Christ 1 sj, reading In the earth and he thought the lime was I near when the worlu would accept the 'cm hint: 0f Joseph -Smith. The speaker uiclai ed the L'nil. u States set a splendid example In tn ! settlement of the Lo.er risings, when, Mist, ad in a. ceptir-, millions el men , . jan Invitation vv.;s extehdod to v.-ung1 Chinamen to r celvi an education lu the IllKtllUtlOns 01 this country. "Thi i niieit States government was established es-tablished or (,',.! i0 i. in 1 .;m-n or; liberty to the nations and China was now necking : 'constitution patented after that of the c lited Stat s." The congressman rejoiced : uat England Eng-land had partaken of the spirtl of true rellgif.n when 111 seeking t.. n Ward its civil service that nation se)v . j one of the most humble of Its 8110-.ie 8110-.ie iv 10 b,- honor- d wiih knighthood Prance, hi .s.iid. was following tit-policy tit-policy of rewarding the most human aci by going to one- of the humbli Villages and honoring a 19-VI ir-old girl, whose father was Insane and! mother dead. Thr3 iri caret foi i(- . eral brothers and sisters In additloi to working dally Ir, a tactorv 11 he said, was the spirit of true re llgion Congressman Colton aald he did mt like the example of certain congress men in the violation of the Volstead law. Recently, he said, a committee was sent to Canada to Investigate a certain matter for the government hlle in Canada the congressman drank as much liquor as thev could consume and returned to the" United Mates with their grips filled with liquor, each fooling that the federal oftlcers would not suspect congress-men congress-men Of violation Uw The representative repre-sentative irom Utah who was a mem ber of that committee did not violate the luw becaus-j the church taught hi in to respect t he law . he sahl CRITICIZES P1A1 SABBVTB 1 President MpK declared that if tb. Lat CJ pay Saints were doing their full lutv there would be no picture ShOWS In operation or baseball games Played In Ogden on Hie Sabbath dav Ah rubers of tb , h u i I, were respon-' respon-' 'i lor the large amount 01" S.iLtbiiili breaking he declared and said tmu Inbiren .anno' rise up an. call tn.-ir Parents blessed li tney oreah th Sabbath day Th.- speakers urged :.ei parents the necessity of becoming be-coming companions u their children and tea. hlng ihem th. .,. i,y ev ample. President Dy - urged more use of the church hymn book which he Safd was on- of the standard works of the Church and contain., I tK. truth oi the goepei. He commended in.- members of the stake for interest they vor. ;ak-Ing ;ak-Ing In temple work and declared i-iat thev who do not h.-ird.-n their hearts ar. the elect of C,0. and would receive the metigc of the gospel In their hes rts. President Aaron Ti.jv ber college announced the college would be open tor registration on Septembei f. and 9, He spoke upon tne subject or Fathers' and Sons' outing urging upon fathers the necessity of becoming becom-ing companion to their boys, and accompanying ac-companying thTn on th Ir annual outings out-ings In th... canyons 1 Kisroiirrs school The quarterly i.pon contained the 'following announc -m nt r g. inline the !oeal church school: "Some changr-s have taken plaeo in our local church school since our Last quarterly conference Heretofore the school has been known as 'Weber Normal college:" Recently, however tho work and scope of th.- institution have been very materially br b n-d and the name has been changed to Weber College.' Phis was done tQ more adequat.'v xprcss the purpose for which the school Is established This Institution will ;xivc hereafter. besides the regular normal work courses in art. science, literature etc Tho high school department win be retained and the work Included In 1 1 . tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades will bo continued. --once the school has been a 1 ollege, i I bee. HI ev IV - .Mi lii -.(,.! r . I t . II 1 n - to tvo divisions. It will therefore include in-clude ( 1 ) t he Weber s, r High school, and 2 the college, which Includes In-cludes the Junior colletre of arts, literature lit-erature and science the junior college ol medicine, law and business administration, admin-istration, and the normal training school, each offering or nours, or oni half of the work necessarj for an A B , or B. 3. degree Some changes in the personnel of the school have recently been made. Prof Joel K Ricks recently resigned ns president of the Si hool to a. i , p the appolntmen; as bend of the department de-partment of history at 1 he Utah Agrl- ultural college, and Prof Aaron W Tracy, has been appointed to succeed him. As one indication of the vnlu. 01 I church school training, u is pointed out that of th 52 missionaries from OgdSn stake now laboring In fori .1 fields, 3S Of tin 111 ire -.indents 7.1 graduates from our local school " REFERS To gym. The report also contained the following fol-lowing gurding the Weber gymnas-lUm; gymnas-lUm; '"According to reports receive, i from the treasurer on August 2 1932 Ogden slake has paid a total ."f Jla7-1S1 Jla7-1S1 23 toward the Webter college gymnasium gym-nasium fund The total assessment is $30,206,90 This means, therefore, that the wards of this stake havn yat to collect j l,02ii 67 "Accordlne to information given us all but three of the wards Ciat liavfi i nor completed their payments have ! secured pledges, payable In the neai future, sufficient to covet the amount; esse a. The Middleton. tder L-'ourth and tgd n Seventh wards ar still behind In this work, as all of tht mo-.ey has neither b en collected noi sufficient pledges been secured tc the as's.-ssin. n, it is important that not only these wards, but other that have pledges to collect, follow th matter up very closely, because the money will be needed for actual const con-st ruction work in the near future. "As reports showlnc the status ol rym nasium eoniructieh contracts hav. already be-n published, it Is probably nci dleas to state that bids i.u the work were received a short lune ago, and they are now being ' ib iUted for fuiiher consideration b i be general committee which meets on W. nil -day, Aug,- t 16 'The businessmen f Ogden. which Irii ludes many Individuals not of our Cafth h.ive beer, very liberal in their contributions toward this worthy en-t. en-t. i nris and it Is important that the I liter raj Saints discharge, .nt the earliest possible date, their obliga-'inii- in this connection I nd. r the direction of Lester G H-inchcllff with Sam P Wlittaker at the Oregon console, the following mus-Icaul mus-Icaul program whs given "Seek Ye 1 1 rd. ' i double male quartet with ph i Pernellus is soloist; 'Abldi With We," Mrs Artie Dlakeley; 1 lt U'g Have Pence ' Joseph f Fe'rne'ius l-fear My Cry. C Lord." Mrs Mvrtle I. Higley; "The Peace of Qod" and Within This Sacred Dwelling." 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