Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-09
AN EXCELLENT CONFERENCE.
Elder Edward Stevenson Writes About
His Visltio ll,ber CITY.
HEBER CITY, wasalch Co., Utah.
Mays, 1896.

To the Editors
We have jnst closed an excellent con-
ference ut this place at O'Clock pm.
on Sunday OF this lovely day, Of tue
fragrant month oi May.
II wassaid by one who ought to know
beosu,e he had tho audience counted
as they passed out, that II numbered
Just thousand persons, and that only
on one previous occasion had he seen
tho church 70 we'll filled. There were
more reasons than one for this turn
out. Ono was, tbs balmy sunsnino--
Just such ss May eau Afford 10 bts.ow
In one OF the many oitolo valley.
This little valley II capable VI aus.
taining, as Il now does, 800 souls. IL
IL Isolated In tho tops OF tue everlasting
hills, spoken Of by the patrlstohs AMI
fatheu--Jaoob and Moses, Of oldon
times.
on Jacob we real in Gsnesls, 49,h
chsptsi:
And Jacob called his sons, and said,
Gather yourselves together, that ! may
toll you that which shall boiall you iu
tho iast days.
Gather yourselves together, and hear
70 sons OF jacob. aud hearkun unto Israel
your father.
There In something 90 attractive In
the life aud history OF this great man
OF G0d, with blessings aud promises ~
peculiar and intefosting, IA which all
NJ us now living arc deeply interested,
that 1 will digfess ~ little by looking
up MS original history, beginning with
his sub'lsty In supplAnting his brother
Esau. 10 Genesls 20 Ia and 27th we
Teau:
And his father Isaac said unto him
tJucobl come near now, and kiss mo, my
son. God give thee OF tho dow Of
heaven. and tho iainoss Of tho earth, and
plenty OF corn and wine. Lot people
serve thee aud nations bow down to thee;
be lord ovor thy brethren, and let thy
moihof'- sons bow down to thee; cursed
be- every ono that cursolh thee, and
blessed bo no that bIosso,h thee.
Thy brother came In with -ubiloty and
hath taken away Thy lEsau'sl blessing.
And have blessed him, yea, and he
shall DO blessed.
10 the - ulnitu;
And Isaac called Jacob and blessed
him. Aud God Almighty bIess
NOV hhu i,lnNY lu'o ,'nl' Nuu ~ ~
by 'noe' .ua, '1ou ,ll'yt,l DC q iilu.'lluus
a. pyup,u' nun s'su NV ul.ss''' X. ~
. nuINnh,' w. ,nVu, anu 70 ,l,y s'ou WV, WV,
wherein thou nrtn stranger. = The
blessings u Thy iahor lJacobl have pro.
vailed above tho blessing VI my pro.
genitors tAbaham aud lsaacl unto tho
utmost bound of tho everlasting hills
lIho Rocky Mountain-l. Ihey shall be
upon lhe hesu OF Joseph, AM on tne
menu OF MN 'hHt was separate from MS
"'o'''''"'
Jacob, the father Of Joseph, TO whom
GOD gave the inheritance VI this choice
land u America, aud blessed him, said,
Geo. 40; %:
al ,,.t ,,i ,!-,.'. s,, ,a',n.
icbidYo9i ,un oSer ill., Val io,os Si'''''
Moses, Just before his death, leit his
blasting with Joseph, as found In Deut.
58i 10, which plainly describes Ameri'
On ~ the land that jacob bestowed up
on Joseph;
And n, Jo.onb bo said. Dlo..sd n, tho
Lord be MI. land. Tor tho preelous things
of heaven, And fot tbo proclo,is
fruits brought forth by tho sun, and Tor
tho precious things put forth by tho
moon. Aud for tho chief things of tho
things OF the lasting h'l'-'
"a " Vel ma" Jsysiop"d nina MIN '"I ami A ,SS