The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-29
fUTUAL IMPROVEMENT.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AS,
ISOLATION HELD YESTERDAY.
Three Meetings at the tabernacle
The Attendance Large and Some
Interesting and Instructive Adj
dresses Delivered.

citation of Utah, the attendance at the
tabernacle was very large. AT the
morning services the president OF the
Association, j. H. Felt, and Elder He
Yer J. Grant spoke very instructively
and .entertainingly on the manner OF
conducting the meetings of M. l. A.
and on other topics in connection
therewith
In the afternoon Elder ]. H. Felt
president of the Young Mems Mutual
Improvement association of the Salt
Lake stake. presided.
The services began by the choir and
the congregation singing the hymn.
''The Time is Far Spent after which
Elder Angus NJ. Cannon offered
prayer.
Elder Junius f. Wells said that
while he had been absent from the
people of Utah for the space of a
year or more, attending to urgent bust
ness, he had felt the influence of the
world, and had, to an extent, partaken
of the same. The speaker wished to
confess that his life had not been
spent strictly as it should have been,
but his faith had remained mistaken.
Reset by trials, temptations and great
difficulties, he had overcome obstacles
and expressed his joy and thankfulness
to God to be able to stand before the
people of Zion, to listen to the heaven
ly strains of the choir and give his
testimony.
The truth had been with him in all
his hours whilst absent from Utah,
and the divinity and goodness of God
asserted itself stronger every day.
The Latter-day Saints live dedicat-
ed to God: they have sacrificed them
selves to God on the sacred alter; they
have given their lives to their fellow
men and have journeyed far away
through great vicisSitudeS to teach the
, word of God to mortals ignorant of
truth. From q distance the work of
he6ud seems greater than it does to
those who are continually in the midst
of people who are striving to do that
work, and the greatest pleasure the
speaker had experienced while absent
was in finding that the prejudices of
the world were fast becoming obsolete
and the Saints were seen in a different
light than formerly.
In conclusion his testimony was that
this was the true and living church.
and to be able to gain record in the
life which is to come we must keep the
word Of God and strive to gain his
favor and appreciation in all things
Apostle Moses Thatcher addressed
the congregation in a most fitting and
eloquent speech, which was substan-
TALLY as follows:
There is something in the human
Seart that raises the mind to the
ADiety. Happy is the man with the
confidence of the young people of
Zion; happy is the traveller that labors
In their behalf. 1t has always been
of great interest to me to know the re-
1igious views of different men, and
to me there is no delight greater than
an knowing what qualifications exist in
the breasts of the young, for the ad-
Vancement and enlightenment of the
world, by teaching the word of God.
The word of God is a. foundation strong
|, and sure whereon we may build and
4 know that we are safe from the waves
OF adversely.
He who in his youthful days learns to
fear God, will be loyal to his country.
kind to his fellow man, and true to
himself.
L have noticed with great pleasure
and satisfaction the improved educa-
1ional system of Utah. | am delighted
to know that our young men and ladies
can he given such a wide scope of
learning as the schools of Utah are
capable of giving.
To me the prospects Of our youths are
exceedingly bright: they do not enter
the race of life Handicapped. but look
hopefully forward with all their func-
tons developed. The youth of Zion
must understand that the definition OF
success is work. Without labor no.
thing can be accomplished. The day
will come when thousands of the wise
men of other lands will come to Zion
TO receive the finishing touches of edu-
cation. In other countries education is
seemingly taught in a higher and
/ broader manner, but there is no science
$50 great, SO broad and which
l1elT
8that taught by the Latter-day
y Saints. To know God. Jesus Christ
and of the life eternal is the sum and
- substance of this science, and endless
8ages of progression will result from this
|science.
Man is the highest type Of the ere.
ator's work AS man is God was. and
as God is man may be; the Godhead is
in man. When we gaze upon the works
of man, we raise our voices to high
heaven and thank God for the i'm.
planting of his genius in the soul OF
man.
The youth goes forward with a
happy smile: bright eye; the brooks
sing happy song in tine woodland
,dells; the flower raises itself as if tC
Eeach its God, and breathe forth its
Thanks for life, and everywhere we wit
1865 the hand of God. Paul the apostle
Gays: IF the dead arise not, why dc
the principles that teach the
consignment of human souls, who
never heard the word of God, to a
place of torment has long been brushed
aside by modern theologians. Men can
not understand the fact the souls of
the dead can hearl0en unto the truth
beyond the grave, but the time will
come when all will know. Gods mis-
sion upon earth was not ended. II
on nd mic irr,
of love and goodness to all.
There is but one class of people
whom God will reject. All others will
live eternally. This class of people are
those who have received testimonies
that the Church of Jesus Christ OF
I.atter-day Saints is true; whose hearts
testify to its truth, but who reject the
truth and become unbelievers by
choice.
Young ladies and young men OF
Utah. see that you belong to the Mu-
tual Improvement associations. Even
in the midst of your variety of occu-
pations. such as service and politics
\ DON'T forget your God; don't forget
lthat there is a promise extended to
(you; and above all, don't, 1 beseech
%gou, forget your dead friends. If you
have desire to see them, live nobly
before God that you may soon meet
them in happiness; work; gain know
ledge from the reoesses of all good
books. that you may eXpound the
word of God to all.
| would to God that every youth in
Zion was a prophet OF God that they
with a voice that will ring in the Do.
minion of Canada on the north to the
republic of Mexico on the south, pro
claim that this is the true and living
shurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day