Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-17
Morning Session Devoted To
slower and Pioneer
M Festival"
DECORATIONS WERE PROFusE
Elder Whitney of Quorum of Twelve
Dlscomses Ably Upon Familiar
Hymn--Evening Session.

The quarterly conference of the salt
Lake stake was held yesterday there
being, as usual, three sessions. The
first of these occurred ut 10 o'clock IN.
tho tabernacle, and was under the III
rection of the stake superintendencS
of Sunday schools, the exercises being
designated Flower and Pioneer Fes-
tival' For the occasion, the gallery
had been decorated by the stake Sun
day school board with white bunting
trimmed with festoons of asparagus
sprays and artificial sunfiowers. Green
vines twined around the columns un-
der the gallery, and in front OF the or
gan was q painting of Brigham Young
In whose memory the program had. IL
part, been prepared. Above the picture
waved the Stars and Stripes. the folds
of the nag tiuttering in a breeze pro-
duced by electric fans
On the stand were jars of sego lilies
and other wild flowers gathered frold
the hillsides The main floor of the
building, except the part under the gall
lery, was filled with Sunday school
officers and children. On seats near
the stand sat descendants Of President
Brigham Young. The general pubic
occupied the galleries. The choir snats
were used by the schools from the FIJI
tcenth and sixteenth wards. a beau
tifu sight was that presented BY me
young women and girls of the -Four.
tecnth ward who wore garlands Of
flowers entwined in their hair.
OF the general authorities OF Sne
Church. there were seated OH the staud
President John r. Winder and Elder
Orson f. Whitney, Of the quorum OF
apostles. Before the exercises pesdll'
little girls passed about, pinning roses
on the coats OF those on the stahd.
MORNING PROGRAM.
The following program was rendered:
Singing by The combined sunday
schools. under the leadership Of SAM
uc d Winter. For the strength ~
tho hills we bless Thee" Prayer was
offercd by Elder orsqn r. Whitney.
Singing. "The world Is full OF beauty,
when the heart is fun of love-
a greeting from the stake board was
extended by Elder Osborne j j. Widl-
500. He spoke of the great debt of
gratitude which the children owe 10
brigham Young and the pioneers for
their courage and devotion In founding
and building up this commonwealth,
A solo. Roses" was rendered by lit
tic Gladys Williams, assisted by tho
Sixteenth ward choir
The remainder Of the program was
as follows;
Brigham Young on Our Fiag
Twenty eighth ward Sunday school.
Organ solo. Love at home John j.
Mcclellan.
Twenty-third Psalm. combined
schools, under the leadership OF Elder
Alfred =. Recs.
chant. THE Lords Prayer" Nine
teenth ward Sunday school.
"reminiscences of Incidents ~ tho
life OF Brigham Young, by his daugh-
ter. Susa Young Gates.
school.
Brigham Young on '1Amusements,'
Fourteenth ward Sunday school.
song, Bethlehem Twenty-ntnth
ward Sunday school.
Brigham Touhg on The Mormon
Creed Twenty second ward Sunday
SCHOOL
solo, "A Mormon Boy" by Horace
5. Ensign, the schools joining in the
chorus.
PRESIDENT WINDER.
President John II, Winder told of the
energy and fixed purpose evtnced by
Brigham Young in the early days IN
Utah. while conquering the desert.
Though an almost incessant workel
the great leader always scrupulousiy
observed the Sabbath, setting it apart
for devotion 10 God.
i2ld.r stephen l.. Richards. OF the
general Sunday school board, CONF
uended the schools on their excellent
work and for The artistic decorations
In the building.
Singing Tho Joy aud the song"
The benedictiou was pronounced by