The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-06

the remarks made during the confer
ence would awaken the hearers TO re-
newed diligence. Humility and faith
fulness will keep all in the line of their
duty, but self-sufficiency would exert
an opposite influence. He desired all
the saints to grow and increase IN the
knowledge of God. The only way to do
this was to keep the commandments
and obey the authority of his servants
He regretted to say that many of
the Latter-day Saints We're careless in
the performance of their duties. LaZi-
ness was worthy of contempt, and the
idle man was always ailing, while the
busy man was healthy and strong
Every man possessed ability in and of
himself to accomplish something for
the advancement of the kingdom Of
God. He did not need to wait for 9TH
ers to tell him what to do.
Referring to fast offerings, the
speaker said that too small proper
ton of the amount necessary to support
the poor was received from this source
Every ward, he said, could take care of
its own poor, and this could be done
by emitting one meal every month and
giving it's equivalent to the poor. This
was a duty which should not be neg
lected. Yet only rs per cent of the sup
port of the poor was received by fast
donations from the people, and last
year $4,000 was appropriated from the
general funds.
Tithing was not what it should be
If tithes and offerings were paid as they
should be there would be no need what
ever for the church to be in crippled
condition financially. He hoped all his
hearers would be doors of the word OF
God in this and other respects.
Elder George Teasdel was the next
IL n the differ
ence between reputation and character
The law of tithing was dwelt upon and
the speaker showed how the affections,
the heart of the Saints was what the
Lord wanted. Where that was their
acts would follow. Elder Teasdale
closed by exhorting all to live up to
the principles of the gospel, to keep the
and trust in the Lord.
President MILFORD Woodruff made q
brief explanation as to how the church
had been loaded with financial burdens.
He showed that it had been mainly
brought about by the action of the
general government in Selling the pro-
perty of the Saints. Much OF that
which was taken was money that the
first presidency did not have in posses
sion and never had it. This action had !
the undertaking of burden |
some obligations. He spoke hopefully |
in relation to the prospect for the fu- !
ture, however, and eXhorted the Saints |
to do all they could to make the bur-
lens of the church as light as possible /
oy each local division being as far as
self-supporting.
President George Q. Cannon spoke
briefly. He compared the condition of
he Latter-day Saints with that of
other communities. The drawing of
his contrast was favorable to the peo-
Die of this region. The speaker dwelt
lpon the paternal care exercised by
he church over the Saints, and showed
hat it was through its agency that
his region had been populated and
fostered which would. ex-
,ept for its beneficent influence, never
lave been established. This statement
vas sustained by proofs furnished BIZ
he history of this great western com
nonwealth. He showed that the OBJ
ect of the church was to establish
righteousness and truth in the earth
his being its exalted mission.
The choir sang the anthem, so come
cit us sing unto the Lord.
Benediction by Elder David M
stuart.
The conference then adjourned until
0 a. m. today.