Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-06
LAST SESSION
OF CONFERENCE
~ 49, =
With Today's Services, Seventy
Ninth semi-AnnuaI Gath
ering Ends.
URGE ADHERENCE TO LAWS
Speakers Dwell Upon Necessity
of All People TO Lead
Good Lives.
Principles of the Gospel Arc Brought
ForccfnlIS Before Gathering and
Renewed Effort Encouraged.

It was 1915 O'Clock when the first
meeting of the last day of conference
was called to order by President Joseph
F. Smith. At that hour the lower part
Of the auditorium was filled. and but
few vacant seats We're seen in the gal
lery. The attendance, however. was
less than at any session of the confer
ence.
'Radeemer OF Israel was the opening
hymn. sung by the choir and congrega-
ton. Prayer was offered by Elder
German e. Ellsworth. president Of the
Northern States mission. The hymn
For the strength Of the hills" was
then rendered by the choir and congre
cation.
ELDER JOHN G. sMcQUARRIE.
To frequently take bearings along the
pathway Of life is very necessary, said
Elder John G. McQuarrie. the first
speaker of the forenoon. A short time
ago. the saints We're standing upon the
summit, surveying the accomplish
mailts of a century, as the results OF
the advent to earth of the prophet, seer
and revelator, Joseph Smith. The
century closed but few years ago was
a. most momentuous one. and by far the
greatest event of that most important
epoch was the appearance to man In
the flesh of the Father and the Son.
The principles of truth received by
the Latter-day Saints fit into all other
principles of truth, never running con-
tl'ary thereto. Through the Prophet
Joseph Smith was revealed the great
principle that there is no space in
which there is not a kingdom, and there
is no Kingdom which is not governed by
law. Another great truth revealed to
the prophet was that life is eternal
and the great principle thereof was
never created. A correct understand
: ing of these truths would have been
a blessing to the scientists of the world
and would have obylated many scienti-,
fic errors.
sIhe Latter day Saints should obey
the commandments of the Lord from
a love Of the principles of righteous
sress and not because they are cont com
The speaker said that frequently he
had been called upon for reference by
corporations to whom application had
been made for employment by young
men of the Church, and invariably the
question was asked whether he knew
the applicant to be free from the use
of tobacco and intoXicants.
ELDER BEN T. RICH.
Elder Ben E. Rich was the next
speaker. He referred to the fact that
he had been called to preside over the
eastern States mission. TO him the
locality was sacred. There it was that
the Prophet Joseph Smith and the
Patriarch Hyrum Smith We're born.
There the past history of the religious
and civil history Of a people inhabiting
half the world was revealed. There
the witnesses OF the Book of Mormon
were raised up. There the goreru-
ment of tho United States was institut~
ed and set up. No religious people
have such great reverence for that
great and glorious government as have
the Latter-day Saints. The coming
forth OF the men who made possible the
formation of this nation was shown
nforetime to a prophet of old upon this
soil The story is told in the Book
of Mormon, and the establishment OF
this government was part OF GODS
work OF latter times. The Mormon
people could not but be true and loyal
10 the government OF the United States,
for God had a hand in its formation.
People who are baptized in all parts
of the world are taught that the gov
eminent of the United States Is OF d.
vine origin.
1t Is too late in the day for party
to organize and say that the Latter
y day Saints are disloyal. The speaker
81 said he had never heard q word from
leader Of the Church that was not
righteous and good advice. AS long as
4 we remain true to the faith we will
vote to sustain the leaders of this
Church. The enemies of these men
are enemies to the people, and what
they would do to them they would do
\ to you. know what the devil is after.
1T is the priesthood of Almighty God
that he and his aides are after.
have seen men who once urged young
missionaries in the field to stand firm
for the leaders of the Church. and l
II have seen those same men turn around
and assail those same leaders.
800 1T is the right and privilege of every
I man and women in this Church to.
yknow that the work is true. and know
ing its truth. it is the duty OF every
member of the Church to stand firm
lysin support of all that pertains to.
the Church.
Man is more than a dual being: there