The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-19
oRMONCONFERENCE ON HERE
,pyCBAM ROBERTS AND APOSTLE
GEORGE SMITH SPEAK.
.nOut 100 Of the Faithful Gather in .
harlem Hall TO Hear the Visitors From
Itah-ROberts says the MormOns
Are Carrying On Chrlst's work.

Itah-ROberts says h MormOns
Are Carrying On Chrlst's work.
Elder Brigham II. Roberts Of the Mormon
rnurch in Salt Lake, who was debarred
SOm his seat in Congress by a vote OF the
uouse of Representatives on December 5,
600 snpeared before the semi-annual
-orference of the Mormon Church OF Greater
Nav York yesterday afternoon to preach
A.. 0ospel Of Prophet Joseph Smith. There
samew with him from Utah GeorgeA Smith, a
=, S.acendanto OF Joseph and n Of thepresent
council ~ Apostles OF the Church OF Latter
Day Saints,
The faithful Of the New York church
assembled yesterday morning in a lodge
.om on the top floor Of the Hawthorne
pnildinr. 1873 West I25th street, to greet
The leaders from Salt Lake. A strong
ruster of the hock had been made. There
rsre about a hundred. all that the church
oIaims in New York, according TO Elder John
q NcOuarrie, president of the Eastern
States Mission.
The elder save that these hundred are
vorkcrs and that there will be more
10 the fold before another conference is
Mold There were about as nan men as
u~omen-mostly young men, who appeared
10 he clerks. When they stood up to sing
or bowed their heads in prayer none OF the
smotionalism Of the camp revival was evil
denced.
When at the morning service Apostle
Smith arose TO speak of the work the central
examination of the church was doing in
Salt Lake there was a stir in the congrega-
tion. For he represents the apostolic sane
titv in direct succession
The apostle spoke at some length on
the tpnets of Mormonism az revealed to
bs inspired ancestor and as interpreted
bv the following apostles OF the church.
He reviewed the struggles OF the Saint
nj Nauvoo in Illinois, their long migration
across the plains to the new home on the
shores Of Salt Lake and the work of en-
pire building that had there been done by
brigham Young and his coreligionists.
Normonism, he said, was a force that
would not down. 1t was being preached
today in every land, and onvert to the
faith were being numbered yearly by the
thousands, despite the prosecution that
was met in various countries. The apostle
closed with a plea for sincere work in New
York and an effort to increase the spread
az the faith among the unregenerate OF
the great city.
Elder Roberts's address l n the afternoon
vas the one awaited by the congregation
with the greatest expectancy. The elder
was more of the flesh than the sanctifled
apostle, and churchly honors did not place
him so far above the heads Of the devout
as to be considered an oracle. Further.
the man who was elected to Congress by
his Mormon constituents and then dis
- =. Nons;JapaI hy MOrnnnQ "a n
martyr.
Elder Roberts read two lengthy selec-
tons from the Psalms Of David and an
nounced that his text would be drawn
from these words. But when a Mormon
elder announces a text saidh he, he usually
preaches a long way from it. This is be-
cause the laws OF the church forbid an
elder to p a sermon before he breaches
it. He is supposed torely on the prompt
Il sometimes think that the world would
he Justified in regarding the Mormon Church
az egotistical. since it presumes to send
missionaries out to teach all the world what
il believes is the true word. Especially
presumptious must our church appear
In that II dares to send missionaries TO con-
vert the people that call themselves Chris
tans. ,,
Christian asks himself. Have we moi
trained preachers to expound the faith
and are there not C0uTCueH u oOO Oh- ONOiy
hilton? Why then these untutored men
from the mountains Of the West. who pre-
sumo TO tell us that we are wrong n that
theirs only is the true Gospelr
The preacher then drew a parallel IN the
umpt of the first apostles OF Christ
In setting forth to teach all the Roman world
anew idea. He said that they believed they
had a new and q good idea TO teach. Nor
monism believes the same thing and hence
it is that the Latter Day Saints feel that
..-A& - anNIfn THAR fnpNhRTA
out through the modern world with the
message that they have to give.
As Elder Roberts got to the meat OF MS
address he warmed to his work and he
began to punctuate his words with forcl6le
tlaps OF his fist into his open palm ana a
monitory forefnger shaken at the noses
Of those sitting directly In front OF him.
Il was hard for an outsider to break from
the idea that he would shortly begin 10
speak Of the trusts or the grasping power
OF capital.
i do not claim for Mormonism absolute
originality said the elder. -Mormonlsm
never claimed to be more than the old ialth
OF Jesus Christ restored 10 mankind. mere
had been such a wide departure from the
commands of God in the life OF the modern
world that il became necessary for a new
dispensation 20 be given the world through
tho mouth Of our first Apostle. Joseph
Smith.
The one great aim of Mormonism is TO
proclaim once more with added emphasis
the divinity of the Saviour. And our faith
does not teach us to worship a sad Christ,
one dropping and dead. who is being lifted
from the cross by his disciples. 1t is a
triumphant Christ, alive and all powerful,
whom we worship.
i believe that He still dwells in the flesh
to-day on some distant sphere, l know
not where, and that he is all powerful in
the flesh in HEAVIER as on earth.
The elder closed his sermon with a second
proposition which is basic in the Mormon
faith. The spirit OF man, he said, is not
acreated thing, but infinite and OF the same
substance as God. Man was not a low,
crawling thing, fearing always eternal
damnattOn, but a triumphant, cody being,
Of inGultn nnuorn and Of nnandinH life