Show church leader sounds warning at conference elde joseph fielding smith of Qu bruin of twelve represents general church authorities at meetings here saying he came not to tickle your ears cars by telling you how good you are but to raise a warning cry joseph fielding smith member ot of the quorum ot of the twelve apostles of 0 the latter day saints church delivered 1 some powerful and very cry timely discourses to members of 0 the f parowan carowan stake who attended the quarterly conference here saturday I 1 and sunday elder smith represented the general authorities of the church at the conference here ile he is ready he said to admit that the latter day saints are among the best people on oil earth but that they are not as good as they think they are the world is getting worse he said instead ot of better and that Is in keeping with predictions only ocly about halt half the latter day saints will be prepared tor for tile the coming of the savior con coa drons will get worse instead of letter and there is no escape except through repentance and right living the first meeting of the conference wa was held saturday afternoon 4 at 2 in the west ward chapel president palmer extended greetings to the assembled saints in a short talk and then the meeting heard from bishop H L adans adams of the carowan parowan Paro warl west ward and scott at Al matheson atheson of 0 the take presidency elder smith was the conclude jig speaker rp eaker the opening prayer tor for the mooting niec ting was offered by thomas W jones of paragonah Para gonah and the closing one by ira heaton of cedar edar city A meeting of high council stake presidency aul bishops was vas held at tour four p 1 m and the meeting at elder smith spoke briefly to the latter before separation tor for departmental instruction k sunray MEETINGS gustave 0 larson of the seminary at cedar city was the first speaker of the sunday morril morning ang meeting he reviewed the colonization of america first by the spaniards then the french arid and later the english which included puritans Purl Puri tons who gave us our thanksgiving day so eo recently observed elder howard wood of it the cedar first ward who has just returned from a mission to great britain gave an interesting report of his hia mission and orton durham former parowan carowan man who Is just horle hone from washington D C and was ils ia ting biting here from nepal talked briefly ot oi his experiences and his teachings in a religious way stake patriarch samuel F talked tor for a short time and was followed by elder smith the prayers at that meeting were offered by bishop oscar J hulet of summit and thomas D adams of carowan parowan Pa rowau rowan respectively at the afternoon meeting following I 1 rig a song by the congregation 1 prayer by wm win C mitchell and an all anthem by the choir directed by ray D garner acting stake clerk C E riddle presented the general and stake of the churche church for the approval of the members ot the stake the vote was unanimous arthur R fife of the stake presidency vasi was the first speaker and vas followed by thomas W jones jonea ut paragonah Para parag gonah onali who said had bad just been selected and sustained as a patriarch the choir sang a number and elder smith occupied the remain remaining hig time of the meeting it was waa during durin this talk that he said he came win a warning to members of the church to live in harmony with the teachings of the gospel it they would br b and exalted ile he would leave it to others he said to tickle our ars ara by sayi dg sod god things about us maybe they have done so toa much already our good qualities he said will take care of themselves but it is ia our weaknesses and our that we need warning against the speaker criticized the failure of saints to live the principles of the gospel mentioning r abbath sabbat li ob ur vance the ot of wisdom iii ste i tc ile he co it at the disregard tor for the counsel and advice ot hurch lm ch le lea derc adera continued to back page CHURCH LEADER sours BOUNTS WARNING WARMING AT conference continued from first page arly that thoua every pr pride president ide at ut ito church h tj i shokat in op opposition post to card ri pitying tying members continued to diar 1 l g pard a r d that thal bel el then h he e 1 launched a u n e h ed into a disc dischi or ana slon of t the h e f future ot of this earth its inhabitants quoting reely freely irom front the four our standard looks books ot of lae 08 church to substantiate his stati meals ants concerning what has been predicted and revealed on the subject concluding a very interesting discourse he be said there I 1 have birve given you the history of 0 this earth and its people which ta yet future at tho the close ot of the meeting tile t choir sang the harvest time and ana wilford day offered the closing prayer praye 31 1 I A SESSION sunday evening the stake al I 1 A conjoint meeting of the conference was held following a song by the congregation and the opening prayer arl y e by bishop H L adams mrs airs S J poster foster and mr air otto larson stag sang s tag i a duet miss margaret williams williami discussed the al 1 I A slogan tor for ie e year miss irene marsden played a piano solo and scott gardner ot of cedar city played a violin solo v W th I 1 mrs virginia larson at the ciaio elder smith began his talk by referring to AL 1 I A slogans of t I 1 past and wondering it if they hal r 0 deuced any appreciable results ile he referred to the ones concerning alis as use ot of tobacco and liquor and ed out the trends and the public attitude altitude toward these cheso things cordi lions are not one tenth as bad as when we had saloons he said find and yet saloons will return it if we get what we voted toi foe at the last el ct lon loll he advised legislators to tor for the eighteenth amendment political affiliation has haa more than church affiliation to J ma ii ny people he said and the state Us been disgraced in the way its el cl I 1 zens voted his hig talk was interrupt 1 3 by the lights going out through a disturbance to the distributing ss tem when an automobile ran ito one cne ot of the tha light poles the closing prayer was offered by Cl clarencs arenci E raddle the attendance at ille the confer conference ice meetings was not as good as due president palmer thought to in the tha sickness in our |