The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-04
TEACHERS MEET
IN CONVENTION
First Gathering of Educators OF
Mormon Church to Con-
tinue Week.
RECEPTION LAST EVENING
MANY ASSEMBLE AT LION HOUSE
FOR SOCIAL DIVERSION.

Many teachers OF the church of Lat
ter-Day Saints are gathered in Sal
Lake City for the first convention OF
the kind ever held. A number of ed
ucators are here from various parts OF
the United States. The conference viii
include twelve sessions and will LAS
until Saturday.
The sessions yesterday were held in
Barratt hall. Much interest was man.
ifested in the papers and the discus
sions. President Joseph f. Smith de-
livered an address, responses to which
were made by Guy c. Wilson, princi-
pal OF Juarez academy. and Ezra c
Daily, principal of the Rexburg acad-
envy. In the evening reception was
given in the Lion house More than a
hundred were present. The reception
was given by the Latter-Day Saints
university.
Inspect Manual Training Rooms.
An inspection of the manual train
ing and domestic arts department ex-
hibits in the Lion house was made
Afterward an informal program of mu-
sic and song was given. Miss Caldwell
of she university and Mrs. f. J. Milne
wife of the instructor of athletics in
Kirkholm, the director of music in the
stakes Of Idaho, sang a solo. Elihu
Cal and Mrs. Nellie Williams of Salt
Lake also sang. Professor A. C. Lund
at the head of the music department IN
the Brigham Young university at Pro-
vo, and David Reese, one of his pu-
pills, sang: Miss Mabel Borg, another
pupil, gave piano solo.
The girls of the domestic science de-
partment of the L. ID. S. L. provided
refreshments.
Today the regular program will be
Continued in Barratt hall In the fore
noon the work of the schools will be
discussed and in the afternoon there
viii be a discussion of department
work, with especial reference TO work
of theological character.
President Smiths Address.
President Smith. in his address. said:
II regard the future of your efforts
and training and influence and spirit
as being something that will be far
Their reaching and more extensively
and more potently felt in our nation
and throughout the world than can be
made visible today, for the men and
the women you are training or assist
ing to train today will be the men and
the women of the future who will be
the teachers of mankind, the exem-
plars of mankind, because they will
derive from you a cue. an impetus
to effort and toward the future la
Dor that will be required at their
hands. They will be, and they are. the
germ in embryo, so to speak, the salt
Of the earth, the Ieaven that will leav-
en- the whole lump; and this little be-
ginning-ccmparatively small today.
will spread out and grow and develop
and will produce some of the most gil
gantic results that have ever been wit
messed or known in the world. This
work in which you are engaged IS cal
culated TO permeate all nations. all
kindreds, tongues and peoples, and all
of the interests of men in the world.
and not only that for it will reach
beyond the present sphere of action
into the world to come, looking after
the redemption OF men. the salvation
Of those who have died without a
knowledge of the principles which il
is a part Of your duty to instil into
the very souls and faith of the children
of Zion
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