The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-12
M. |. A. FINISH
CONFERENCE
Organizations Are Shown to HAVE
Membership Over $4,000.
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
TALKS ARE GIVEN ON RELIGIOUS
WORK.

The tenth general conference Of the
Young Mems and Young Ladies' MU-
tual Improvement associations closed
last night with a service in the taber-
nacle. Three services were held during
the day and evening. one beginning at
10 a. m, another beginning at , p. m
and the third beginning at Z p. m
The first was a conjOint officers
meeting and was held i'm assembly hall
Elder Mathoni5ah Thomas. superinteu.
dent of Ensign stake spoke TO the
topic, How May our Association
Create a Popular Sentiment for Right
Things This was followed by a dis
CUssiOn i'm which several members OF
both societies participated Mary +.
Connolly read d paper on The Member
With a Purpose" Elder b. F. Grant
discussed The Mana cement Of Con-
Joint Meetings" and Sssie Heath,
president Of Pioneer stake. discoursed
on The Management of Preliminary
Programmes" These topics were gen
orally discussed. Then there were q
number of brief talks on this reSolu-
ton. which was submitted to the con-
ference a year ago and the discussion
Of which was then set for this confer
ence:
Resolved, That we viii exert every
effort to persuade the members Of our
associations to join in developing i'm the
hearts of the young people a sentiment
Of reverence for sacred places and
sacred things: and to unite with us in
Tefraiuiug from talk. laughter, and all
Unseemly conduct in our wOrshipius
asSemblages. and in keeping all of our
places Of worship clean, we'll ventilated
and attractive
The resolution was adopted
ID rTrr~- So
hymn and the benediCtiou.
Throns in Afternoon.
The afternoon meeting was held in
the tabernacle and was attended bv be-
tween 1900 and 1900 people It was
begun with the hymn. True to the
Faith sung by the tabernacle choir
% the accompaniment of the immense
organ. After addresses of welcome by
the presiding officers and the reading OF
reports Of the work of the associations
during the past pear. the lists of Of
fiCeTS and aids Of the Y NJ. NJ l. A and
of the Y. l. NJ J. A were read and they
were sustained without a dissenting
vote President Joseph +. Smith is
general superintendent of the former
and Martha H Tingey is president Of
the latter society.
The reports show that i'm the Y. NJ.
NJ l. A there are $40 orEaufza lions or
societies with a total enrolled member
snip OF 3O,O16 and an average attend
auce at the meetings of sos Of the
3O-Ol6 members SIS are on missions. The
figures for the Y L. NJ. l. A are: Mum
Der of associations, 592: total enrolled
membership. 2o,92l; average attendance
dt meetings. 1901
Elder B. H Roberts said June 10 was
the thirtieth anniversary Of the organ
lzatlon of the Mutual Improvement So
c!eties, or rather Of the pioneer So
cIety devoted to the mental and moral
uplifting Of the young I'm the church.
There was a man present who took
part III organizing this pioneer society
by direction of President Brigham
Young, who had been invited to speak
on the topic. Tested By the Lives Of
It's Members, How Far is Nj. l. A
work Nindicated2' He then intro
duced Junius F. Wells. to whom had
been assigned the answering Of the
question Elder Wells told OF the ne
cessity that existed thirty years ago
OF the church doing something to bring
about more thought and more study on
the part of the young. He said the
societies had accomplished much
among the young men and young vvo-
men Of Utah and other states. They
had developed speakers and writer's. as
well as singers and artists
Talks for Big Families.
Home Innuenee-The Source of Spir-
1tuai and Moral Living" was the sub
Ject Of an interesting paper BY Ruth
NJ Fox She condemned the disuoSi-
ton that some manifest to criticiss
the acts Of those VINO are set over them
in the church, and said the spirit of
criticism was a dangerous thing that
should be subdued- It was their DUTY
to accept the teachings of the church
and not to oppose their wills to those
Of their spiritual leaders. Mrs. Fox
strongly endorsed the Roosevelt idea Of
large families. and said it was the DUTY
OF mothers to train their daughters
with view to motherhood Sons
should also be trained with a view to
being the fathers of children vet un-
born
Mrs Minnie J. Snow delivered an
address on The Work Of the Primary
Associations Hymns. anthems and
solos, followed by prayer and the beue-
diction, completed the programme OF
the afternoon session.
At the night session Ida Z. Smith OF
the general board Of the Primary assn-
citation delivered an address. and Susa
Y Gates talked on the topic. Effort
May Modify Environment" There
We're several musical numbers.
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