Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-06
Gathering Of Sunday School
Workers in Tabernacle
Last Night.
PRESIDENT SMITH A SPEAKER
uc Eshors His Hearers TO be Diligcnt
In puty's Path and Advises Preside
ing officers to be Lcnient.

rrowth along all lines was evident
,,hpn the reports of Secy. George d.
p,.nor of the Deseret Sunday School
,,,,on were read at the annual con-
,orenee of that organization in the tab
.r,acle last night The reports showed
mare bows and girls enrolled in the
various classes, more teachers and Of
eeers and better per centages of at
tendance than in past years. At the
conference every stake in the Church
MAS represented with the exceptions of
riar,copa, Snowflake and st. John.
There were representatives. from five
~ he foreign missions. The officers
os the union and members of the gem
.rll board were presented to the con-
rregation by Secy. Piper and were
Mn sustained.
President Joseph f, Smith presided
nj last nights session. The Sunday
schools of Ensign stake furnished the
choral music and gave as the opening
number, "Our mountain home so dear. g"
Anostle Heber j. Grant pronounced the
Invocation. Following the singing of
Utah, the star of the west" by the
Tpsign stake schools, Secy. George ID.
pyper read the following report:
sECRETARY'S REPORT.
Total number of Sunday schools in
Me Church 1,105, an increase of AZ
schools. total number of children in
organized stakes between the ages of
and 20 inclusive, 119, 1856: of these, 103,-
Ill are enrolled, leaving n balance of
1905 unenrolled, as against 1888 IN
1905 Number of school sessions held,
1888, an increase of 1867 regular meet
ines. Number of officers and teachers,
llSss, an increase of 1927. Percentage
Of attendance in the stake So; in the
missions IS, an average of go and an
increase over the previous year of
per cent.
Pupils. Males, 5S,O29; females, 63256
.-5927 more girls than boys; increase
of males, los: of females, 1899. Total
number OF pupils enrolled, 1855.
Departments: Kindergarten, 23,746--
loss of 6SS; primary, 23062-a loss of
sA THE losses in these two depart
ments were caused by promotions)
First intermediate. 27O51, gain of
ga second intermediate. 1917, a gain
Of 1928 theological, 26,707, a gain OF
756.
The percentage of attendance in the
organized stakes was SO; in the mis-
sions 10; an average OF 61--a gain of
per cent.
Enrolled in parents classes. 1868; n
gain of SOIL, The average attendance
In parents classes was 40 per emit, n
loss of 10 per cent; but while this
shows a loss, yet 1858 more parents
were in session each Sunday during the
year, than IN 1906.
Total stake officers including board
Nom hers ty1 an &c
total OF Sunday school officers and pu-
pills, l5S,525, an increase of 11,242. Num-
Der OF Latter-day Saint children over
years, unbaptized, 2,S53 Percentage
q officers and teachers observing the
Word OF wisdom, 81; pupils, SO per cent
Number of seventies released from
Sunday school work to attend their
quorum meetings under the new move
ment 1886: number retained, 63S. Books
an libraries. 29,423.
Maud May Babcock read. "Oh MY
Father and she was followed by the
Ensign stake schools in the rendition
Of The number with organ accompani-
ment.
PRESIDENT SMITH SPEAKS.
President Joseph F. Smith was the
first speaker of the evening. The sub
"''NNNNN A'hi W illN WdSs
The Attendance of Sunday School
Teachers at Sacrament and Priesthood
Meetings" The speaker, in preface to
nus remarks upon the subject. express
ed some surprise that there existed Il
necessity for such n theme. He declar-
cd that he had believed that there
was no need of eXhorting Sunday school
workers to be faithful in their various
uuhes and oallings, the requirements
81 which seemed to him so apparent.
ne declared that the teachers and Of
nceIs OF the Sunday schools are
among the most faithful workers in
me Church, giving their time. thought
1 r earnest effort to promote the work
resident Smith said that 1t was hard
" supposable that the male members
" we sunday school roster We're lax
IN the observance of these require.