| Show unselfish service toward humanity keynote sounded in speeches at conference 1 I 1 I 1 14 D S church now mow embraces souls president says more than expended in year in education building unselfishness service to god and humanity and the spiritual development of the youth of the land urged by the speakers at the opening session of the ninety eighth annual conference of 0 the church of 0 jesus christ of latter day saints which convened in the tabernacle at 10 friday morning for days past members of the chuich have been arriving in ill salt lake from various parts of the country to attend the conference sessions and when president cleber J grant called the opening meeting to order the seating capacity of 0 the great tabernacle was comfortably fort ably filled the opening address i was made by president grant who j called attention to the tact fact that friday was the ninety eight h wani a ini ot of the organization of the chuich chui cli that organization was effected with six members he be said and from that humble beginning the membership has grown until today it includes more than persons during his opening address president grant read a report on the activities and expenditures of the chuich during the past year general authorities sustained by masses near the close of the afternoon session of the conference friday the names of the general authorities of the church and officers and blaids af 0 t auxiliary organizations were presented by Pie giant and sustained unanimously as they stood upon the conclusion of this formality foi mality president grant said ile he had in his possession an anonymous letter which predicted that I 1 he would not lot be sustained at this conference confers nce as head of the chuich one oae of the features of the afternoon session was a brief address by di ray 0 wyland acting g director of education of the national council of boy scouts of america who ivilo traced the giarth of the boy scout movement and paid a high tribute to the church of jesus christ of latter day aay saints for its activities with the scouts i more alore than of 0 the tithing paid by members of tie church I 1 was expended in 1927 for state and waid purposes pui poses education temples charities and missions grant declared in his opening ad dress elress il ress of the total amount thus thug expended wont went to the stakes and wards fur for building con coll maintenance an and oceia opeia tion i was use used in the coast construction ruction and operation of the church schools school was expended expend od lor for the construction maintenance and operation of tern temples went tor for tie the care of the worthy poor and other charitable purposes pui poses including hospital treatment and for the operation and maintenance ot of all missions mis and for the construction of places ot of worship and other buildings in the mission this made a total of expended feoni the tithes of the church for tile the purposes named shows many church sites purchased in addition to charities the tithes as before named president grant grail there wee atso also disguised during the year the fast offerings other charities and assistance tendered by the relief society to the amount of 89 making a total of i expended by the church in charity assistance dazing the year ear coll collections e raised la ill the various wards and paid to the to assist in ill their maintenance amounted to during 1937 1927 the report of president grant atso also showed that the number of sites pui purchased chased for church buildings and tae tle number of edifices purchased or under construction duding 1927 amount amounted to in the stakes and maids of the church and to thirty two in ill the missions making a total T leo the he purchase of 0 tiie the hill cumorah and adjoining farms in the state of new york at a cost of there are now ninety nine stakes in the church president Pies ident grant re polled in which are ward arid and seventy evv two 0 independent branches there also are brenty seven sevell missions ns in which there are branches president grant also i ic ported that there persons en lolled in L D S church school i in 1927 ea enrolled rolled in semi I 1 baries and enrolled in re ligion classes making a total or of persons riece receiving ivin g weekday week day religious education the average attendance in the teacher training classes of the church in 1927 was 2173 missionaries in field during year D 1927 fileie were 2173 mis aries in tile the mission field th s president said of that number 1943 were long term missionaries I 1 from ro ril th the e intermountain countey 1221 short term missionaries and local missionaries besides these were 1032 pei sous engaged in missionary at home the report of president grant a also I 1 showed children blessed and entered on the lepoids of the church in the stakes and missions during 1927 there were also 14 children baptized and converts baptized during the year some persons were recommended to the temples of the chuich in 1927 which was a gain of 41 avs per cent over the number in ia 1926 social statistics given by the president stowed showed that 70 per cent of the mormon families own their own homes it Is shown further by those statistics that the birth rate among the mormon people is 30 per 1000 t the be marriage rate per 1000 and the death rate 75 per 1000 |
