The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19

sion showed increased missionary and
church extension collections. The in
crease in membership was 10 per cent
against 10 per cent for the previous
year. This closed the business of the
mission. except the announcement of
the appointment of ministers for the
coming year.
The report of the committee on tenn
perance said, in part:
The liquor traffic is still a menace
to the American home and to Ameri-
can civilization. Locally. we note with
alarm that the liquor traffic is en-
trenching itself more and more strong
""
The committee emphasized the desire
for the passage of local option laws and
commended the action of the common
schools in the teaching of the effects
OF alcohol on the system. Churches and
Sunday schools should give instruction
along the same lines. The report closed
by saying:
Inc saloon power in Utah is a pow
er that we must meet and we ask from
our temperance organizations and from
the Anti-salOon league and from all
law-abiding citizens hearty co-opera-
ton in the eternal and uncomprOmis-
ing warfare against the evil
Church Extension.
The committee on church extension
reported that by the aid OF the board
Of church extension. thirty-one church
es had been established in Utah. and
So l45 had been paid in fees These
churches had received from the board
$4,000 in loans and $50. 600 in donations
and it was thought that in the coming
year all the churches in debt to the
board of church extension could. by the
aid of the Twentieth century fund, pay
off all their Indebtedness. This commit
tee adopted a resolution thanking Dr.
j. NJ King for his address on this sub
ject.
The committee on Sabbath Observ-
ance reported that with great regret
they found the Sabbath in Utah sunk
TO the level Of the ordinary week days.
They thought the blame for this con-
ditiOn could properly be laid upon the
dominant church, because il has the
majority of the voting population. and
has the power because Of this to enact
laws. The other churches are not held
entirely blameleSS in this matter by the
committee The committee recommend
I'd that all church members work fer
the enactment and enforcement of cor
rect laws and ordinances for the proper
observance Of the Sabbath
Polygamy in Utah.
The report of the committee on the
state of affairs in Utah was devoted
largely 70 a discussion OF the Roberts
case and pOlygamy. After setting forth
the conditions under which the minis
ters were called to labor. their poverty.
their anxiety to get away to save their
children from the prevailing influences
around them. the difficulty to stem the
tide against the strongest OrganiZa-
ton on this continent" and the diff
Guilty Of keeping the people spiritual
after they are brought into the church,
the report goes on to say:
Since our last annual meeting the
case of B. H Roberts. the pOlygamOuS
cOngressman-elect from Utah has been
prominently before the whole country
and was effectively disposed of by the
body to which he was elected. The
superir tendent OF this mission, along
with leaders OF sister denominations,
are to be cOngrd tuiated on the success
attending their labOrS in behalf Of the
true Christian home It is safe 10 pre-
diet that no pOlygamist will soon again
seek to defy the Christian sentiment
of this whole republic.
1T has been constantly affirmed in
/ Utah and elsewhere that our Superin-
/ tendent and other workers opposed the
seating Of Mr.. Roberts on the ground
of his religious faith, or because he
was a Mormon. We continue TO affirm
that nothing is farther from the truth.
| The sole ground of our opposition was
! the practice Of pOlygamy, and We shall
continue 10 oppose the teaching pre-
/ Cailing so universally in this region,
! viz, that pOlygamy consists alone in
1 the taking of new wives. that a man
/ may live with any number of wives
| sealed to him before the manifesto and