Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-04-14

cessful preaching Of the gospel and the
sterling integrity of those engaged In
1t, was an additional testimony Of Its
truth and bore record that God was at
the helm OF this work.
Elder j. @. Dufiin. president of the
Central States mission. reported his
labors. This mission included five
states and two territories. The work
was prospecting there. If the payment
Of tithing was a standard by which the
faith of the people were 10 be judged,
then the prospects In the Central
States mission were encouraging; for
during the last few years the tithing
there had Increased nearly 600 percent
with proportionate amount OF
donations for the poor.
Elder Ben e. Rich. president of the
Southern States mission reported that
there was a gradual growth to the
membership OF the church Scarcely
week passed without several baptisms,
and sometimes in single month there
were 80 persons baptized.
At the afternoon session Elder Rud-
ger Clawson of the quorum of apostles
was the first speaker. There was
time. he said. when the church was
weak, numerically speaking, and that
was seventy-ive years ago; but now
the church was strong, not only in
numbers, but also in faith.
Elder j. G.. McQuarrie reported con-
ditions in the Eastern States mission,
and referred to the establishment of
church headquarters in New York
City.
Elder B. H. Roberts of the first seven
presidents of the Seventy was the next
speaker. During the course of his
remarks he said: THE difference be-
tween the Latter-day Saints and the
Christian world generally Is that,
whereas they believe only in the reve-
lations given to men in the past, we
not only believe this but believe also
in the possibility of revelation in the
present day. But, because we believe
these things, 1t is not to be taken for
granted, as some of our opponents
seem to think, that the president of the
church may enter the divine presence
as he will, or to call an angel when he
will. On the contrary, these things |
are at the disposal of God"
There were no meetings of the gen.
y
nent having been taken on Friday |
afternoon until Sunday morning.
The closing days sessions of the cou-
erence were the record-breaking ses-
iions, so far as numbers were con-
,erned, thousands being unable to get
inside the tabernacle.
At the morning session Apostle Hy-
n 81 l.
we're the chief speakers. and their adj
lresses were followed with as close in
crest as any made during the confer
nee. The former spoke of the news
,apers, the cartoonists, public speak
RS and ministers, saying that they
ave been responsible for murders in
he past, and are now melting the ig-
lorant and the vicious to further
rimes. While in ]. Golden KimbaIl's
peech, which he said he would deliver
n parallels and would explain to any
rho did not understand shot was
lso taken at the newspapers in the
emark that If it were not that the
ons of President Joseph F. Smith
Tere restrained by their father, there
rould be some horsewhipping in this
icinity.
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rst speaker at the afternoon session.
.postle Smith spoke on the purpose
life He related that Jesus came
, the western hemisphere in cloud
fter leaving his disciples in the far
asst; how he gave them the same or
anization as he gave to the early dis
ples after he had assembled to his
lther and returned to EARTH
T<<I,x rIfN hoo
list returned from Mexico, spoke OF
,nditions in Mexico; while William
night, son of Jesse Knight, of the
aylor stake in Canada, told of the
ork of the Latter-day Saints in that
art of the world.
Andrew Kimball. president of the
[. Joseph stake in Arizona, told OF
le damage done in his country by
10 floods in the loss of 5000 acres OF
nd and the breaking of twenty-five
mails.
Apostle Charles w. Penrose was the
st speaker of the afternoon. He en-
red into learned argument to dem
istrate that the Mormon idea of the
of the body after death
as the true one. God controlled the
ements of which the body is COM I
,sed, he said, and these elements are
destructible and eternal. For this
ason the human body is eternal as I
ell as the spirit. and the body will
ldure for all time although it may
reduced to its primary elements by
,ath.
President Smith announced that II
as proposed that one of the great st
differences of the church adjourn for
x months. and the proposal was sus-
ined by the unfolding of hands.
According to the statistical report
the Deseret Sunday school. as pre-