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Show MODERN STYLES ARE COiEIEO PRESIDENT SMITH REBUKES WOMEN WO-MEN WHO FOLLOW IMMMODEST AND RIDICULOUS MODES. Doctrines of the Mormon Faith and Achievements of Mormonism Subjects Sub-jects of Speakers at Closing i Session of Conference. Salt Lake City. The closing session of the eighty-sixth conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on Sunday, April 9, was marked mark-ed 'by the attendance of a huge crowd that overflowed the tabernacle into the Assembly hall and then into the Temple square, where an outdoor meeting was held in the afternoon. Outlining of the church's stand on the question of the liquor traffic, hyphenated hy-phenated citizenship, reports on the situation of Mormon colonists In Mexico Mex-ico and a statement hy President Joseph Jo-seph F. Smith of the expenditures of the church during his term in office had been the features of the convention. conven-tion. Doctrines of the Mormon faith and achievements of Mormonfsm were tie subjects of most of the speakers on Sunday. Prohibition was brought strongly to the front in the meetings at the Assembly hall, and C. W. Nib-ley, Nib-ley, presiding bishop of the church, spoke on Mormonism and patriotism at the afternoon meeting in the taber-aacle. taber-aacle. Modern fashions in women's attire were vehemently condemned by President Presi-dent Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church in his closing address at the meeting in the tabernacle Sunday night of the Deseret Sunday School union. He said many of such fashions originated in the demimonde, and he scathingly rebuked Mormon women who follow what he called immodest and ridiculous fashions. Some of the history of the Mormon church in its relation to the possible future of the organization was related ry Apostle Orson F. Whitney at the morning session. The general secretary of the Deseret Des-eret Sunday School Union reported that there were 1.362 Sunday school organizations at the present time. In these there were 21,761 officers and teachers, or as many as there was of total membership at the time the Mormons Mor-mons left Nauvoo. Salt Lake City. Record crowds attended at-tended the opening session on April 6 of the eighty-sixth annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. An account of. nfs stewardship was given by -President Joseph F. Smith at the. opening' of the conference, which marked the eighty-sixth anniversary anniver-sary of, the founding of the church, and it was given before what is said to have been the largest gathering ever present at a week-day opening of a conference. The report detailed the expenditure of $ 6,943, 94G during the fourteen years of President Smith's administration Of this total $3,714,455 was spent in church schools, and $3,279,900 was paid to the poor through the various church channels. "I scarcely need to add one remark to this report," said President Smith, "but I want to tell you this, that the tithes and means of the- church have not stuck to my hands nor to the hands of any of my associates. They have gone to their legitimate purposes, have gone to their legitimate purposes. I will guarantee you, so long as my brethren are In charge, with whom I am associated, you will never have cause to suspect that your means will be misused or misappropriated." Besides President Smith, the speakers speak-ers of the day were Anthon II. Lund, first counsellor to President Smith, who talked on the religion classes; Charles W. Penrose, second counselor, who handled several problems of theology, the-ology, and Francis M. Lyman, president presi-dent of the twelve apostles, who urged abstinence from the use of liquor, tea, coffee and tobacco. Attending the conference are nearly nil the, general authorities of the church. fK the quorum of the twelve apostles four were absent. They are Senator Heed Smoot, who Is in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C; Hyrum M. Smith, who is In Kurope, presiding over trie mission there; Orson Y. Whitney, who Is 111 with la grippe, and iJavid O. McKay, who is confined to his home as a result re-sult of injuries received In a recent fcutomobile accident. At the annual meeting of the Women's Wom-en's Relief society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, held in the Assembly hall on March 4, lir. Lrrirneline B. Wells, president of the society, in her annual address, welcomed the visiting delegates, and .Mrs. Caine of Cache county responded respond-ed to the address of I)r. Wells. Reports Re-ports of the work In the stakes were given by Mrs. Aggie II. Stevens of Weber, We-ber, Mrs. Alice R. Woolley of Tooele, Mrs. I'hoehe A. Hrougli of Woodruff, Mrs. Minnie N. Robinson of the California Cali-fornia mission and Mrs. Louise 13. Bonaon of Oneida stake. Luring 1915 members of the Relief society of the Mormon church spent 2i!,7!i7 days with the sick and made a total or 78,500 special visits to the afflicted, af-flicted, a total or $"(;. 967. 31 being paid for relief of the suffering, an shown In the annual report of the Relief so iofy. Further data or the report, showed th:it. the society had given direct help to 6,516 families; that it. prepared 2,-054 2,-054 bodies Tor burial, and that burial clothing hail been furnished for 1,646 bodies. The moiety also was shown to have 210,050 bushobi of wheat in ptore in varioii!', elevator;', and thai al! the resources of the Hoeiety, Including moneys, aggregate a valuation of $536,046.29, Minsionary reunions were a feature if the work or the conference, mla iloniirie who had performed service In many In nil --i meeting and renewing lendv' ipft with former laborers. |