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Show LBS Conference Stressed Missionary, i Seminary Support; Leader Urged Saints To Live Worthily Members of the 162nd Quorum Quor-um of Seventy of Roosevelt stake were admonished to get their "houses in order" and be prepared to' accept a call to serve a full-time foreign mission, and to exert every possible effort ef-fort to keep the stake missionary j work active, by Elder Bruce R. i McConkie, member of the First Council of Seventy, who ad- dressed and presided over the quarterly conference of the stake last Saturday and Sunday. Meeting with the quorum members and other stake and Indian missionaries Sunday morning, Elder McConkie emphasized em-phasized the responsibility of the Seventy, who are the missionar- ies of the church, and challenged , them to do the job that is to, be done in this stake. He urged i the calling of the best men in the stake as missionaries, and suggested that bishops refrain from loading stake missionaries! with ward responsibilities. I Addressing the first general session of the conference Sunday Sun-day morning, the church leader cailed on the state membership to accept the Seminary program in its entirety, and for parent to influence their children to register for the courses that are offered each school year. Elder McConkie lashed out at the forces that are attempting to destroy the seminary program pro-gram of the church and tear down the other structures that have been built on strong moral I principals and ideals. "We will always have opposition where moral teachings are concerned, because we teach that gambling, drinking, smoking, playing cards and immorality are wrong, we must expect to be criticized and opposed in our program," he said. "Our test is whether we will keep ourselves unspotted from the sins of the world, place first things first, and support the true principles of government," Elde.r McConkie said in concluding conclud-ing his morning address. Seminary work was the theme of the morning session, with five young students being called from' the audience to tell views about the seminary and how it had helped them. They were Norman Angus,, Inez Houtz, Tom Rowley, Algie Hudson and |
