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Show Semi-Annua! Conference This Weekend Slated by LDS Church Members from all parts of the United States and many foreign lands will assemble in Salt Lake City Oct. 10, 11, and 12 for the 128th semi-annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. General sessions will be held twice daily each of the three days in the historic domed Tabernacle on Temple Square, headquarters of the denomiation now numbering number-ing a million and a half members. mem-bers. Presiding will be 85-year old David O. McKay, ninth president since the church was established by the Prophet Joseph Smith in New York State in 1830. He has been an apostle since 1906, and president since 1951. Assisting will be his two counselors, Stephen Ste-phen L Richards, 79, long one of Utah's leading attorneys, and J. Reuben Clark Jr., 87, noted international in-ternational lawyer, for many years with the U.S. State Department, De-partment, and formerly ambassador ambas-sador to Mexico. These three, plu3 the church's Council of Twelve Apostles, the Council of Seventy, Presiding Bishopric and other general authorities, auth-orities, more than 30 in all, will each address the gathering for conference during the three days. Twice annually, in April and October, instruction and counsel are given by church le-id'T.s on doctrine and such matters as family life, education, thrift, patriotism, pa-triotism, health, integrity, law enforcement and the basic Christian Chris-tian virtues of aith and good works. Also likely to be discussed arc the church's missionary, welfare and building programs. The first consists of a system of some 5,000 unpaid ami self-sustaining workers carrying the church's message in 45 mission areas located lo-cated throughout America and most of the civilized world. Th" welfare program encompasses a system of farms, ranches, factories fac-tories and storehouses throughout the country designed to insure against want in time of disaster, economic distress or other emergency. emer-gency. In the matter of building, the church currently has 650 structures under construction, In-(Continued In-(Continued on page 2) LDS Conference (Continued from page 1) eluding chapels halls, schools and hospitals. Two new temples have been completed and dedicated since the last general conference of the church in April, one in New Zealand and the other in London, England. Music for the conference is furnished fur-nished by the different church choral groups as well as by the world-famous Tabernacle Choir. This group, which toured Europe in 1955, now in its 30th year of national broadcasting, will leave October 20 for a three weeks' concert tour of principal midwes-tem midwes-tem and eastern cities. The Relief Society Singing Mothers of Southern California, a choir of 500 matrons from the Los Angeles area, will be heard in some of the conference sessions. ses-sions. An expected crowd of more than 12,000 will fill the tabernacle taber-nacle and adjoining halls for the sessions, proceedings of which will also be carried over a hookup of some 50 television and radio stations. Preceding the general conference confer-ence sessions, the Relief Society the Church women"s organization, organiza-tion, win conduct its annual conference. con-ference. This auxiliary group now numbers 185,000 members. |
