Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-06
The Second Session Of the Sew
enty-eighth General Confer
ence Largely Attended.
TIMELY INSTRUCTION GIVEN.


to order by President Joseph f. smith,
and the congregation and choir sang,
"Our God We Raise To Thee The
opening prayer was offered by Elder
Joseph f.. Taylor. after which the cons
gresation and choir again Joined ana
rendered the hymn, praise 10 Ths
Man Who colnmuned With jehovah"
ELDER DAVID o. MCKAY.
of The quorum of apostles, was the ttl'st
. speaker. He quoted n phrase frcn the
document read this morning 10 the el-
i feet that the purpose Of Mormonisin IS
. religious. OF spiritual, development.
; One way by which this development
{ may be brought about is ny resisting
whatever Within us tends TO hinder
spiritual growth. AT baptism we agree
10 leave off whatever is not in harmony
with the gospel to bury all the sins.
evils and imperfectlons that belonged
NJ that old life and we were born again
into the Church OF Christ. This is what
we all did. that is where we stood once,
forgiven before heaven OF our trans
erosion. There was before us then Il
life of spitu;tl growth, and we sought
the true religious development.
But along with the seeking of spirItu-
MI growth, .here must be strong pow
er OF resistance Someone has said
That when God makes prophet he
does not tnfnase the man. 1t is so
with us ALL Many times cur weakness
es follow US after ba pttsni. Satan en-
deayors 40 assault us by attacking our
weakeset point. 1T was thus with Jc-
sus when he was tempted of the devil
AT the moment when Christ was hum
Cry Satan said, III thou be the Son
of God, cause these stones 10 be made
bread And sc, II is with US We are
tempted through our weakest point,
True the temptation does not come TO
us III the form In which II came to our
Savior, but it does come, 1t may be
that we are tempted to resume that old
nine which. al the waters Of baptism,
Wa, agreed to Hay aside Have we the
power TO say, as Jesus said, Get thee
behind me- Satan
Elder Mckay read from the eighty
ninth section of the Doctrine and Cow
cnants, and commented thereon He
emphasized especially that part con-
corning the use OF wine and hot
drInk% The things mentioned in this
rovelation-sp irtuous liquors, tobacco,
bot drinks-shClid, tho speaker de-
clared. be resisted by all those who
Wish sraly to follow the line Of spirit
,al development Every young man
should know that in order to grow
spiritually he must resist the use OF
these things, lSS resisting them We
become stronger and more able to re-
sist other evils. Then, TOO, SOME times
We Imagine that because we are not
particularly oyerc ONE by the wine cup
We may partake of II without
much harm But this Is the moment
whore resistance is necessary Temps
Ia ton must be withstopd lin whatever
form it appears IL there is 10 tnilow
pny real development,
Sister Edith Grant sang Fear Not
q Israel
ELDER GEORGE F. RICHARDS
OF the quorum Of apostles was tho
next speaker tIe rejoiced in the fact
that Christ came among the children
OF men Difd Himself taught The Cos
rel. He made Himself an object les
son 50 far as concerns the principles
or the gospel, He lived them onl in
His life. Jesus REQUIRES OF us only
that we follow in His footsteps. He
reioIcad in the thought that We had
So much recorded about the details
Of our Sayor's life among men.
The speaker referred to tho work
accomplished bs the Latter Saints
He thanked God that 50 great u MUM
Der had heard and obeycd the
gospel The saints have made many
sscriicss for the truth. They have
left good homes. many of them- where
they were respected, 10 Join an nn-
popular faith many Of them have
llndprEDDe SACRIFICES AMER lAAlts iAtAti
connected themselves with i've
Churcla. ard some had been requiS
to lay down their lives FOX thelr CEN
vlctons.
No true Latter-day SAINT. no one
who is in fun standing in the faith,
but is willing 10 DO whatever Is re-
duired OF him 1t Is a mistaken idea
that there Is no agency among the
saints so far as their lsLbors IN the
Church are concerned that they are
coerced into doing this. that or the
other ching The exact contrary is
true, Men and women are perfectly
flee to- do as they choose whether TO
do the right or TIE wrong But once
Il man has been thorough converted
TO the truth, there Is nothing ne VIII
not do for H. This Is evident from
the vast number of workers We have
ia the Church And that these men
and women are sincere, no one, the
speaker thought could well question
There Is too much 10 show that they
are sincere Tho HE OF the whole
people IL an evidence to the same
effect The La.ter-day Saints arc not
required 20 obey what they are not
converted TO- bat when the saints are
converted to anahlng they are Willing
TO perform thelr duty
Elder Richards bore testimony to the
faithfuncss of the saints In the stakes
and In those parts OF Lbe world which
he had visited He Had Travelled, ne
declared, 10000 miles during the past
year, and had seen many evidences If
the ialshfulness and Integrity OF tho
saints, He did noi believe that very
many oi the young people Mpule prove
reoreani to the faith o. their fathers,
ELDER GEORGE ALBERT SMITH
Elder George AibaH spith. neSi adj
dressed the conference rae saints Ia
said were lODlsiuv faflghrd To the tfmc