Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-10
Pleasing Feature the SpleHdid
Work of Ogden Tabernacle
Choir
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
Addresses by Elders J. E. ralmage,
l. NJ. Tanner and President
Joseph T. Smith

pleasing feature Of the Sunday
.cbool conference In the Tabernacle
lost night, was the excellent singing by
tine ogden Tabernacle choir, under the
leadership OF Prof. Joseph Ballantyne.
Tho choir came down $50 strong and
. made such a good impression to call
forth words OF commentator from
president Smith, and at the close Of
the meeting a hearty vote Of thanks for
their splendid work.
The conference was largely attended,
,he building being nearly filled, and
che exercises throughout were OF an
Intensely interesting character and of
n nature calculated to advance the
Sunday school cause, The meeting
was presided over by President Joseph
=. Smith. general superintendent, while
the program was conducted by Elder
George Reynolds the first assistant.
AS an opening selection the choir sang,
"True TO the Faith" Prayer was Of
fered by Elder Charles j. Ross of We
her stake. The choir sang the anthem,
"Lord Of Heaven"
secy. George d. Pyper called the roll
which was responded to by so stakes
and four missions. He also read the
annual statistical report, covering 55
stakes and 10 missions. This showed
n total of 1856 schools an increase
over the year previous of 81 out of a
ward membership of lO6,2l2 of school
age. S9,O3l were enrolled, leaving a to-
tal of 1871 not enrolled. During the
wear 46699 sessions OF Sunday school
we're held. The officers and teachers
numbered 1920, an increase of 94S,
The average percentage of attendance
was 70. while the pupils consisted Of
81. g6g males and 6l,33S females, max
ing a total Of ll9307, an Increase Of
SS9. The girls outnumbered the boys
by 1859, The grand total OF officers,
teachers and pupils was 136,999, an In
crease of ASH. OF these 81 per cent
keep the Word OF Wisdom and 81 per
cent are 1.-THE payers. There are 2,0S5
children over the age OF eight years
who are not baptized, The Sunday
school Libraries contain 26,664 volumes,
an Increase Of IBIS.
Following the report the general
Sunday school authorities were pre-
scented and sustained, with President
Joseph r. Smith as general superln-
tendent. Elder George Reynolds as first
assistant Elder ]. NJ. Tanner, second
assistant Elder George d. Piper gem
eral secretary. aud Elder William A.
Norton assistant secretary and busi-
ness manager
RELIGION AND THEOLOGY.
The choir SANG, 30 Italia" after which
Dr. James Il. Talmage discussed the
subject Religion and Theology" The
speaker differentiated between the two
by defining theology as the science con-
cerning God and His dealings with
man, while religion was the applca-
ton thereof in our daily lives. a theo-
logan, said the speaker, was not neces-
sarily a religious man, Theology must
he understood as applying to codiiied
truths. Religion is more, 1t Is the actual
living the law OF God BY way of example
the speaker cited the fact that lawyers
we're not better law-abiding citizens
than those not lawyers. They knew the
law but their living of II was not better
than that of others. So II was with
theooglans. Don't be content with u
mere moral investigation OF theologio
lore" said the speaker, Acquire tha
spirit OF It and live II. Religion Is faith,
not belief alone. Doing is better than
knowing and not doing. Theology and