| Show C H U headers MEET IN SALT WE HE THOUSANDS ATTEND THE SEMI ANNUAL conference AND LISTEN TO ABLE SPEAKERS president smith pleads pleada for greater activity in church work and exa exhorts members to le e guided by spirit of brotherly love salt lake city the stormy weather may have kept a few people at home last week but one visiting timing tile the temple grounds would not have eastly easily believed such was the case when more than members of the church flocked into the tabernacle to hear bear the keynote address de delivered elverea by president joseph F smith at the eighty sixth semiannual semi annual conference of th the e church of jesus christ of latter day saints pleas by president smith for greater activity in the work of the church both on oil ahe part of stake and ward officers and among the members member of tild the church and exhortations to mormons cormons in general to be guided by a sp spirit irit of brotherly love and settle differences that thai members sometimes take before church and civil courts were thelea the features of tile the opening session with but two exceptions the general authorities of the church were present for the conference george F richards one of the twelve apontes apost es of the church who Is in liverpool presiding over the vast european mis mission and young one of the first seven presidents of seventies ft ho was unavoidably detained elsewhere were the only two absentees president smith delivered theolen the opening address and anthon H lund first counsellor was the only other speaker at the morning session practically what as to numbers number it if possible heard what as to numbers nu abers if po possible sible ble heard charles NV penrose Pc nrose counsellor of the first presidency francis M lyman president of the twelve apostles and apostle heber J grant speak at the afternoon session president smith exhorted his audience to greater interest in the activities of the church and spoke regretfully of the tendency of many of the members of the faith and anddie he referred particularly to the bishopric to io step down and piss pass their duties along to others lie he chided the bishops tor for what he likened to carelessness izi in fat falling to gain a better knowledge of the personalities of their cli charges arges and declared that members of the church should strive to settle whatever differences feren ces that might arise between them without recourse to either church or civil courts president lunds bunds talk urged a great er and more regular attendance at sacramental meetings he warned his bear hearers rs of the dangers of spiritual starvation and ad he dwelt upon tile the advisability vis ability of encouraging singing as martof part of the religious services Irk inasmuch asmuth as the more attractive the service is made the greater will be the attendance joseph smith founder of mormonism and the relationship which he and the present head of the church bear to the divinity furnished the theme of the principal address at al the afternoon session delivered by charles W penrose second counsellor of the first presidency of the church president penrose emphasized his conviction that joseph smith was a prophet of the living rig god adding that in his belief belet he was vas one of the mighty referred to lu in holy scriptures as reserved to come on earth in this last dispensation pensa tion to revive religious principles that had been lost for ages active and inactive membership furnished the theme for mr clymans talk he said that although only a small percentage of the bembe membership iship of the I 1 mormon faith was present at the conference he hoped that all who were in attendance were active members the whole membership could not be present he said tut but the words uttered at the churchs churche conference would be carried to every branch of the church and he expressed a hope that they would have the effect of stopping the necessity of reports irom from bishops to general church officers calling attention to the number of inactive members inactivity tends to darkness lie he said activity to light he drew attention to the lace that everybody is industrious in temporal matters and decried the fact that they were were not as industrious jn insuring the success ot of the ahe religious side of their natures n 4 heber J grant member of the twelve apostles apo apostles sties 61 delivered tiered the concluding address Ld dress he too decried the bende tende tendency licy to sidestep religious duties the the tendency of ct the american am alcan people p to to live beyond their means and to indulge in pi practices 9 that thal cannot chelp but have the effect of making them unworthy nw of the blessing of the beav enly tather was the thune thime of ald reed need smoot at the morning session ut ui the conference on october 7 president ea dent joseph F smith pred presided ded over r both 0 th sessions apostle smoot declared abon his belief that in the end tile tho M mormon 0 r church will accomplish tho the work that the lord designed for li it and added that if the teachings of the church were put auf in force throughout tile world the world would be a great deal better place for it apostle clawson shohe briefly in denunciation nuri nuncia clation tion of moving picture houses and other forms of sabbath amusements for their teLi tendency dency to keep the young from religious observance the irresistible growth of mormonism f from rom a faith lia having ving b but ut six followers in to the churchs churche present day magnitude together with a credic tion that the fathers decree that alij world should be redeemed by meana of the latter laiter day dispensation as promulgated mul gated through joseph smith formed the nucleus of the opening address at the afternoon session apostle geor george ge albert smith the first speaker likened the members of the mormon faith to the leaven which shall some day accomplish the leavening of the world at the same time calling the attention to the tact fact that even among the followers of faiths opposed to mormonism Mormon lam there Is a noticeable ti tendency to incorporate in the revision of their creeds some of the basic teachings of the mormon faith that mormonism is not a book taught religion and that instead of being held down in its teachings and operation to eon old tenets it fol follows loNis the last word of god was the crux of tile the address delivered by apostle orson san F whitney mormonism lie he declared s the fulfillment of a prophecy of the coming of a marvelous work and a wonder made years before the birth of of jozius jesus christ and lie he said that the fulfillment fulfilment of this prophecy in these latter lays days was such a wonderful thing that most men rejected it as a fable apostle whitney followed the building up of utah and the far west through the early days and of the gradual improvement that resulted following the arrival of the mormons cormons in the oxcarts ox carts he declared that it Is C gods will that man should avail himself of progress and make use of the new things as they were introduced and not to bolow follow ideas either in r religion e or life that have become antiquated apostle david 0 mckay made teaching the subject of his address he decried the fact that many of the members of the priesthood believe that their work is not of muc much h importance and declared that no wor work k in the church could be considered more or less important than another the music as usual was one of the enjoyable features of the ton conference ference at the morning session on sunday october 8 it was necessary to hold overflow meetings present day extravagances both by individuals and by the governing bodies of cities states and nation and the seeming tendency of members of the church to take part in sunday amusements and card playing furnished themes of addresses delivered by apostles anthony W ivins joseph F smith jr and james E talmage war was another topic touched on by apostle ivins in my travels he said 1 I met men who advocated war they told me that our national dignity had been injured and they demanded in return that the guilty be humiliated the only redress they could see was the humiliation of the other fellow mexico Ill exico Is ia smaller than the united states and it may have looked easy to austria to enter serbia but one never can fell where these things will end it if w war ar comes to this country I 1 say let it not be of our making let us stand dand for peace an example of kindness n ess and peacefulness to the world the modern dance picture shows sunday amusements and card playing came in for denunciation at the hands of apostle joseph F smith jr should the redeemer return to earth he said he would find faith among the people that is a small percentage of the people he would not find it generally among the nations of the world apostle james E talmage reviewed the benefits that have been derived by members of the church in attendance upon the conference session by the words of the speakers aliers praises had not alone been given he said but warnings also during the afternoon service the general authorities of the church were sustained president francis M lyman of the quorum of apostles read lead the list of authorities and as the names were called hands were raised in affirmative approval of the selection made the general authorities are t the he same that have held office since the last conference with the exception of the appointment of anthon C lund as conductor of the tabernacle choir in place of f evan stephens who was honorably released at his own request several new names were included in the general boards of auxiliary branches but tor for the main the incumbent authorities were reinstated atthe at the afternoon session seymour I 1 B B young B H roberts and C W nibley were the speakers |
