Show THE BIG conference crowds of visitors attend gathering overflow meeting necessary dent smith chief speaker big sunday school event attendance at the opening session of the seventy ninth annual conference ence e of t the h p mormon N 1 or m 0 n church which beg began an su sunday n d iv is i s e estimated bt i ma ted at ferons pe rons sina the conference of the deseret school union in the evening was characterized by president joseph r P amith as the laidet lai get gath cang ing at i sunday school conference that he had aver witnessed for the morning session an overflow in the amsl assembly ably hill hall wis vis necessary to ac 2500 who could not crowd in the tabernacle in the afternoon about 4 persons attended the two over overflow flom meetings and in the evening it t the sunday school confere conference neu the tabernacle was field d to its with miny many 1 lite ite arrivals unable to gain admission president smith with his counselors and all of the apostles with mith the exception of reed smoot and C W penrose as well as nearly all of the other high officials of the church were present george was honorably released as first assistant to the general auperin of the sunday school union on account of poor health david 0 mckay beci nd assistant was addine d to fill the vacancy and stephen L richards was appointed to succeed mr air mckay president joseph F smith was the principal sneaker at the orenna s session on sunday morning ile he urged the members of the church to a life 0 of good work and to 9 sek ek first the kingdom of goa in ardi r lint all other things might be added the people should be ready at all times to their all for the gopel and announced himself in readiness to siv father here I 1 im am and here is all I 1 hae I 1 give it freely to fhy cause john it birder and anathol 11 lund the coura counselors elors to the president tnt occupied the balance of the time the former gave thanks that he had bad teen been permitted to live liveS 88 bears and that he had bren active in hurch church work president lund spoke of the c hurch church conditions and said during the last 3 vear ear we a hav have e seen more baptisms than for many years before and a great deil deal of prejudice has has been removed throughout the world pres lund rexi reviewed eed the v various arious mission fields in the last year saying a that in japan the book oi of mormon had been translated into japanese and would soon be publish ed it had also been translated into modern greek and would soon be published in that tongue we have tried to have legislation passed against the saloon in th this is state and we have failed said pres pre a lund for this reason it behooves ua to exercise greiter care to protect our children from the evils of the saloon we wanted to get the evils of the liquor traffic stopped but it was impossible our people should never be seen in plaes places where liquor is sold now that we lid did not succeed in getting laws passed to do away with this evil it behooves us to be all the more on our guard we also tried to get a sunday law passed so 0 o as to get sunday amusements stopped but we mere also unsuccessful in that but let us guide our children so that they will know there iq 11 no better pi ice than home we do not believe behee that a p person erson should not smile on sunday for there is joy in serving the lord we do not believe in long faced religion but we do believe that sunday should be properly observed td he spoke epoe of the work that wis being done in the church school sc hooli and roli religion ion classes clashes that the church had about reached the limit of its financial support for schools out of the general funds SUNDAY AFTERNOON sunday afternoon apostle ivins talked on the divinity of the book of mormon and related some of the falsehoods which are in circulation against the church and the orinn orianof of the book apostle david 0 mckay followed in a scholarly scho lirly and interesting address on the mormons cormons Mor mons as benefactors benefi benefic etora tors and up builders in which ho he bevic reviewed acel the work of the mormon people from continued on page 4 THE BIG conference continued from page I 1 the of thi church sri and the ns of the mormon alor men leaders arid and doeple i home I 1 I 1 3 ilderem ile he enlarged on oil the N alue of the home to the state and nation Chi charles aric 11 hart II 11 tined tilled on the ch h irister ir acter of joseph smith and quoted quotin joi johnh ill quines sta state trien n en that come future historian might isk ik what american america of the lath century exerted the grea greatest tet influx nee e on oil the humin churnin and that the JS cr might mell bell be jovia jo ali inith the mormon prophet ile he also quoted irom from various la rious writers elbert hubbird laid ind his recent writings con coil laning tho th mormont SUND k I 1 EVENING this as s inen over oler to the sundi school union A feature of the meeting w is the singing of the das county counts of 00 loaces oice under sunder the direction of prof chirles ch irlas ki kent tit this was one of the bc best t exhibitions of careful training tr lining in the art till anine ine which N aich has been seen ir in the big for some time the ch changes changeat angea in the officers is ds given above were wera announced george georg reynolds is in such poor health thit thil it was vas a relief to him to be relea release ed from rom active aati c work vork 1 I do not think the equal of this g has eer cler been witnessed before at a sunday school union con ference said president smith as he surveyed the audience aich which filled the tabernacle sunday night 1 I hope too toe ehlt th it the br ethern and sisters who mere a ere unable to get in because the doors were vere locked 0 minutes after the meeting began will mend their vas as before then the apply to st ateer for admi bicaci it the gates george D per gencil gener A retarN ec of the sunday school union re reid read ad comparative reports report of atten attendance dabice for blob 16 showing sh Ning that there were enroll ed 55 children in ili the sund sundi a i schools of the church the age of 5 and 20 23 the erroll enrollment ment for 1908 showed oa gain of 5 is iq compared cm pared with aith a gainok gain of 1 for the ore IOUs N par the cl census an n the organized stakes shows hons that children ire re not enrolled in I 1 he sunday schools during IS a cotil of 51 sessions vere held an in increase creace of leui for the 3 car officers and teach teachers enrolled in 1908 A were ere an increase of 1213 and the average atten attendance dince of for abe thc 3 bear car was 61 64 per cent in an increase of 1 per cent ovar 1907 in the state of utah there were enrolled in the parents parent claset cla EeK showing an increase of for forthe the bear 3 ear A comp comparative aratie report of the sunda sunday school enrollment for the last tuo ears that the number hid hd h d increased in response to the roll cill la th tho secretary everi stake responded ded nith liall a or representative with the exception of maricola maricopa Man Mari copa although it was rech rec ar to call all bingham four cimei t lefore before i a re was gained of the barou states aej foreign mi missions 11 re to roll call the sec secretary retarN said this vas the virgest represent tion of mi minions at a sunday sandal school ori on ference on record alcord four minute falkson talks on the Great greatest cst need meed in our sundi sund l school work were vere given gien by several stake len ten dents A L dark clark of dais daig said the cultivation of the spiritual side of the sunday school work was most important W T atkin of ensign aid systematic organization sacrifice ac on the part of the teacher and love for their work and vork work work wre w re the needs deeds J F merrill of granite stake advocated a general spirit of loahr tin on the part of beacht teachers irs and officer cerr and nd a more deo devotion tion to duty as tre alc prine E E delhi of fremont said the sunday schools needed teachers who ho loved loed their work ard did ii il for that rca deion on rather than as a duty H B I 1 olom of liberta said the teachers needed a better educational equipment ard more careful tri lIlIng a their special work ork and 0 J P idtse said tile the schools nedd from g fc iturea in the class icam that the chil iren might lie be retained after they arc were enrolled flow howard ird it brigs i oke on the need ed for care in using and erang g tia te song buol F s in ane sundie schools and gjoke at length on the necess tn for ardful of for the and tile the importance of their duties dutie |