Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-06-10
ABLE DEFENSE Of
BOOK OF MORMON
Elder b II, Roberts Makes Stir
ring Talk at Mutual Improve
ment Conference
MANUAL DIFFICULTIES TREATED
Douglass VI, Todd Deals with "Ihc
Excuse Buater'- Meeting OF
Young Ladies'

At this mornings session 81 tho
Young Mems Mutual Improvement oS'
ISOLATION conference, Elder H. H. Nop'
crls was the principal speaker tho iea'
,urc OF his talk being stirring tcsti'
mony IN to his belief IN the aulhon"
tIciiy OF the Book Of Mormon ana q
statement of the reasons on Wlllch M
bases this belief The pddrcse was not
contemplated In the program ana grew
out Of the discussion on tho Mutual
Improvement Manual during whioh
Elder Roberts took occasion To outline
the plans for next years issue,
"'rho matter OF proving the genuine
ness of the Book Of Mormon II import"
ant no declared. more important man
almost any other item OF Chureh MS
tors, this because while tho bringlhg
forth Of the book WAS only an lncidenl
In the founding OF the Church sun "
WAS an incident upon which Morlnon'
ism must stand or fail II II can be
proved the speaker continued, beyond
a reasonable doubt, that josiah smlln
aud his friends IN bringing OUT lhe
book, had been deceived then the most
he struck Members of the chllfch
arc mora easily drawn away IRON
their faith through attacks on TINS
point than on amy other doclnnal mat
Ter and Elders OF the Church are less
prepared Ia meet attack here than they
arc ON other points, " we can get inc
belief I'm the truth of this book drilled
into our YOUNG" he declared y VIII
youeh for their continuation IN INC
faith For this reason the manual Tor
next year has takon up all questions
relating 10 tho book. II deals with All
internal evidences DB 10 rs truth, us
scrIptural evidences, aud all evidences
oe other sorts The theories Az 10 10
origin advanced by enemies or the
church are taken NJ and exploded
The speech was delivered win mnoll
enthusiasm and was listened 10 Win
the closest attention.
MANUAL DIFFICULTIES,
The other numbers of the morning.
program, were discussion Of Manual
Difficulties" by tho house IN general,
and u brief discussion Of the question
OF excuses Cor non-preparallon, 40 free
ouontly offered, Both OF these topics
brought out u general showing OF opln.
ion. On the first II was reported that
some associations found the Manual
lessons long, and hard. These were ad-
Nsed to study with more application,
others who reported that they could
not always finish the discussion OF y
topic at a single meeting, were advised
| that the lessons were meant TO be oN'
haustivo on each topic but like n feast
| need not be deYoured IN its entirety by
| everyone who ate Of Il, In tho gem
| orn discussion, delegates spoke from
| pocatelo, Weber Salt Lake, san Juan
Marlcopa, Teton, Blackfoot, Davis, Ma
had, Jordan Nebo, star Valley Wa
satch and Granite stakes.
THE EXCUSE HUNTER.
Douglass NJ, Todd led the discussion
on "fhe Excuse Hunter" lie spoke OF
this oYi ~ one for which the teacher
| is often 10 blame, and emphasized The
point that II IL harmful TO the child "a
| assign him q task and let him tai
| IN It's completion Teachers should
| keep IN touch With their young folks
| who have parts assigned and see that
| they prepare themselves, Offering al
ways any suggestions and help that
may seem necessary
The services closed with bcnodio-
| ton by Elder j, Golden Kimball after
a song by the assembly.
The program this afternoon includes
| q talk by y. y, llinckley on M l. A
| Machinery" and THE Spirit Giyoll
Life by l., II, Anderson,