Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-01
Priesthood Meeting

The regular monthly meeting Of
the Priesthood of the Salt Lake
Stake OF Zion convened in the
Assembly Hall at II am. today.
Saturday, March 1st, 1890, Presi
dent Angus NJ. Cannon presiding.
All the wards OF the Stake res.
pended to the roll call, excepting
Draperville, Bluff Dale, Riverton,
Herman and Pleasant Green.
Owing to the train from the south
being late in reaching the city some
Of the Bishops and other leading
brethren did not reach town in time
for meeting. Fourteen quorums OF
Elders were properly represented.
There were representatives Of the
Lesser Priesthood from the First,
rhird, Fourth, Fifth, Eleventh,
Fourteenth and Sixteenth Wards Of
the city; also from Mill Creek,
Sugar House, Granite, Draper and
Brighton.
Thirt zen young men We're recon-
mended by their respective Bishops
as being worthy to be ordained FL
ders and, on their promising that
they would honor the Priesthood If
it should be conferred upon them,
their recommends were endorsed by
unanimous vote of the meeting.
President Angus NJ. Cannon re-
marked that it had come to his
knowledge that the Presidency of
Elders quorums were issuing rec
ommends to brethren moving from
one place to another, after the man.
ner in which the Bishops of wards
gave nUtes of standing to men,
beers. He did not understand
how this practice Of recon-
menGing Elders was brought
about. The late President John
Taylor had expressed his view on
this question when it was brought
before him, which was that when
men were ordained Elders they
should receive a certificate of their
ordination, and that this entitled
them 10 recognition wherever they
went, in connection with the Bish-
ops note Of standing. 4 Bishops
note Of standing or recommend was
all that was necessary to transfer n
member Of the Church from one
place to another, and this rule should
not be departed from. Where
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certificates Of ordination they
should obtain them, and the
presidents Of quorums should see
that they are issued. The
presidents Of the quorums in this
) axe will please see b this and fur
nish every Elder with his certifi-
cate. 1t Is reported that young men
come to the Priesthood meeting and
are recommended 10 be ordained
Elders who afterwards neglect their
duties, such as attending quorum
meetings and otherwise magnifying
their Office. Any person thus guilty
OF omission is a covenant breaker.
and should be tailored with in
spirit Of kindness. Efforts
should be made TO save them, but
if they prove incorrigible they
should be cited before the Bishops
court and dealt with rs the law of
the Church directs. Men who are
guilty Of wrong doing are not
worthy Of our fellowship.
President Charles w. Penrose de-
fined the duties of the Priest and
Teacher, and showed that where
these brethren magnified their call
ings a good spirit prevailed among
the Saints. The house 10 house
visitors need not always be
reminded Of their duties. The
best men that can be found
should he sought after to attend
to this, and they should enter upon
their labors in accordance with the
spirit thereof. Hasty visits or frivol-
Gus talk should not characterize
these ministrations. The families
of the Saints require TO be fed with
the bread Of life, and it must needs
be that the spiritual teachers be
alive to their duties in every par
ticGlar. Wherein we have erred
or sinned in the past, see to it that
we profit by experience and become
the people that God designs we
should be, laboring solely for each
others interest and well-being, and
He will bless and prosper us &C
cordingly.
Adjourned until the first Satur-
day in April, providing the general
annual conference is not in ses-
SION then; otherwise the next reg
uiar meeting will convene on Satur-
day, Nay Bird, 1890, at II am.