Show THE Mormon SemiAnnual Conference at Coalville has adjourned It was more thinly attended this year than usual and the proceedings were less spirited and interesting in-teresting than have characterized former assemblages of that kind The letter from the First Presidency signed by John Taylor and George Q Cannon is a dreary combination of verbosity and assumption makhig five full columns in the Church organ published in this city It is the old song about the persecution of the Saints the fulfillment of prophecies Gentile corruption and wickedness and exhortation to the faithful to live their religion re-ligion despite the laws of man or the decrees of Federal Courts The only new matter treated is suicide which is referred to as a growing evil among the Mormons as among the other people of the world |