The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-22
.SANPETE STAKE.
Quarterly Conference
at Manti.
A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL
Two Fall Days Of Pleasant
Communion.
THE PROCEEDINGS IN FULL.
The Addresses of Those who Spoke
Instructions and f, horta-
lions to tho Saints.
A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL
THE PROCEEDINGS IN FULL.
The Addresses of Those Who Spoke
Instructions and E2 horta-
lions to tho saints.
MANT1, SATURDAY, May 70, 1888.

MANT1, SATURDAY, May 10, 1888.
The Quarterly Conference of the
sanpete Stake of Zion began at Manti
at 10 O'Clock this morning. There were
present on the stand Apostles Lorenzo
Snow, John Henry Smith, Heber J.
Grant, John w. Taylor and Daniel H.
Wells, Patriarch John Smith. President
A. y. Smoot, of Utah Stake; President
Petersen, OF this Stake; President John
r. Murdoch, of Beaver Stake; Presi-
dents John B. Maiben and Henry Beal.
OF the Presidents of the Seventies
there were John Morgan, Jacob Gates,
Robert Campbell, Bates Mobiles, Judge
Bean, of Richfeld; George c. Lambert,
David James, Robert Patrick, James
Dryer and Frank Taylor, of Salt Lake
City David John an Isaac Bullock, of
Provo; Lorin Farr, of Ogden; DR..
Isaacsen, William Taylor and many
others were present.
The choir Gang the hymn on page 166.
The meeting was called to order by
President Peterson, Elder John Morgan
offering up the opening prayer.
The choir, under the leadership of
Prof. A. G. Smythe, formerly of Salt
Lake City, sang in fine style the hymn
on page q.
APOSTLE JOHN W. TAYLOR
was the first speaker. The last time l
met with you in this city it was in
schoolhouse. l am adnonished, this
morning, to make my remarks brief
and l will endeavor to do so. It
is very difficult for me to
do this. When 1 have but five
minutes to speak, 1 am thinking
of the time and not what to say. The
first time 1 ever spoke was. as now,
called upon to speak five minutes. and
do not know whether l thought of
anything but the time. 1t takes me
about one meeting to get in crested n
conference. | presume it is so with US
all. That is why the Prophet Joseph
told those called upon to administer not
not to make social visit, but to pray
and make the administration the object
of their visit. At Sister Eliza r. Snow
Smiths funeral, the elders were called
upon to make five minute speeches, and
none of them said anything. They
couldn't in FIVE minutes. l expect that
an elder should speak as the spirit
directs and quit when he gets through
always feel great freedom in speaking
where [ am not known. In this valley
am not ST aid, for l have done wrong
to no one in it-where my daily conduct
is unknown, and therefore l may say
something by way of rebuke here that L
would not say where am better
acquainted. l don't see how anybody
can talk to the clock. can't.
Apostle Snow here rose and stated
that there were about twenty-five per-
sons to speak at The Conference, and it
was thought best that the addresses
should be brief-about twenty TO
twenty-five minutes. Brother Tayior's
difficulty in speaking for brief time
had not been taken into con-
alteration. Brother Taylor should now
have an hour that he might speak in.
Apostle Tsylor-I am daily re-
minded of my own weaknesses.
When 1 get into trouble and
have done all L can to help myself, |
go to God and ask Him to help me. !
want you to ask God to give me
strength to say something that may
you are praying for me. When an ell
der asRs for the faith and prayers of
the people, I feel in my heart to ask
God to give him portion of His spirit.
Humility, above all, is necessary 10 a
Latter-day Saint. l remember icing
in a humble fast meeting one day.
| Previous to this a young man and l
had PRAYED for testimony. We had
PRAYED for a number of months. When |
got to this meeting. peculiar spirit
| took hold Of me, and | wept like
child. One sister spoke in tongues-as
with a tongue of fire. After she fin
| ished, another interpreted. It seemed
to be concerning myself, and my
bosom burned, as it does to-day, when
would decide that which is right
from wrong. 1t directs me continually
when l am humble. When the inter
probation was finished, arose in way
that astonished me, and gave my tes-
timony. have seen humble persons in
lowiy fast meetings. bear a testimony
that has filed my heart with joy. be-
cause it was the power of God made
manifest. It is by this spirit that God
is to confound the wise things of the
earth by the weak. On missions, our
young men show an intel igence and an
influence thst gives them the appear
ance of learning when they have not
been to college. The power of God has
quIckered them and made them bright
and powerful. When the spirit comes
upon a person, it makes him as humble
as the meekest person in the world. 1t
was said the Savior was like lamb
and was meek and it was because of
this spirit that He was humble. When
a person is not willing TO listen to the
most hum BILE person in the church, he
WILL fall away. A song. accompanied
by the spirit of God, fills my bosom as
with fire. and / understand the spirit of
, the words sung. | never, in all my ex-
perience, heard two testimonies alike.
We all differ; our understandings vary
and wh al cnnvinces one will not con-