The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-08
SPEAKERS GO TO DEFENSE
OF THE CHURCH LEADERS

The crowd at the afternoon session
was the largest since the opening of the
conference. It taxed the seating ca
pacity of the tabernacle The only
empty chairs to be seen anywhere in
the building were on the mems side of
the choir alOft. Again the choir was
generous with music, Miss Olea Ship
sang a solo, and at the close of the
meeting j. J. Mcclellan treated the
visitors 10 an organ recital. This re-
citaI was heard by thousands.
After Joseph Z. Taylor had offered
prayer, Apostle Rudger Clawson ad-
dressed the conference at some length
He called TO mind a time when a can
vas was run midway through the tab
ernacle, as the building was by far too
large for the conference. He drew
contrasts between the early times and
the present to illustrate the growth of
the church. He also told of the deaths
that have taken place among the higher
officials of the church in the last thir-
teen years to demonstrate how the per
sonnet of the leaders is changing Like
all the other speakers he rushed to the
defense of President Joseph F. Smith
and his associates, and laid emphasis
on their work and their divine mission.
ANY man in the church or out of the
church who pits himself against this
Lord God Almighty he said, in clos
ing.
Work in Greater New York.
President ]. c. McQuarrie of the east
ern states mission told of the work be-
ing done in and around New York City.
To illustrate the condition of the
church and her enemies he told of the
conditions in Russia and Japan. In
Russia the nation is divided, and when
the soldier goes home he is met with
petitions asking him not to serve I'M
der the flag of his country on the
other hand, the unity of sentiment and
enthusiasm in Japan are squirting the
soldiers of the n1ikado on to feats al
most superhuman.
The elders come home a conference
time, Mr.. McQuarrie said, not so much
TO report on conditions in their respec-
tive missions, as to see the unity that
exists among the home guards and to
get inspiration and strength to help
them out on the firing line.
The speaker told of the diScOuraging
features of the mission work when the
elders are forced to charge against
stone walls of prejudice. The aVera ge
is from one to one and one-half bap-
tisms a year for each elder. But when
the clouds of prejudice have rolled
away the stream of influence will sweep
all before it. He spoke of the inherent
power of MormOnism; of the zeal and
energy the elders put into their work ::
this work, he said. they could not do
out Tor the 1acI IndJ IneN are strong
in the support of their brothers. The
work. he was certain. could never be
stopped because the elders were ready
to die in the cause; and if they died in
the cause their death would echo
around the world and still carry the
work forward.
President McQuarrie said that in the
great city of New York the Saints were
forced to meet in a little room 1OX1O.
until he appealed for help and received
s.. coo with which to build a headquar-
tiers. This. he said. was what had been
done with part of the tithing. He spoke
of his controversy with the New York
Herald That paper had complained
that there was no Mormon record that
was not blackened by prejudice or col
Ored by zeal. Mr. McQuarrie replied
that there was one Mormon record not
blackened or cOIOred. II was written.
he said. with the iron pen of industry
and covered like \ veil the great desert
Of America
3. II. Roberts on Revelations.
Brigham II. Roberts was the last
speaker of the afternoon session. He
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