Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-05
VISITORS GATHER
FOR CONFERENCE.
Second Days Session in Tabernacle Attended by Great
Number-Presdent Joseph F. Smith Presides-Elder
Reed Smoot Urges Prayer-Elder John Henry Smith
Endorses Temperance Sentiment-Elder Rudger Claw
son Speaks Of Temple Building.

in confOrnlance with the law of God.
recommend to this people that they
pray to God for assistance, especially
With q view TO being given influence to
direct others, that they who have over
come the evil of intemperance may be
given power to continue ssuccessfully#in
the struggle against 1t. thank God
l had q mother who taught me tho
principle of Temperance. We, lived the
law by loving it; and lean assure
you it has not been Il hard thing to
live according to the Word Of Wisdom.
~ have. prayed for power to overcome
all temptation iii this vital matter Of
temperance. and have managed to keep
to the Word Of Wisdom.
Here the speaker read the hymn be-
ginning, Prayer is the Souls Sincere
Z Desire" Then he said: II trust Latter
day Saints will adhere to prayer, and
regret that In SO many houses OF
Latter-day Saints prayer is almost
forgotten. COG Will bless the people if
they will pray to him. Christ taught
the people how to pray; and lavish
that this prayer would be more III
the hearts and mouths of this peo-
pie. | remember In the United States
senate that the chaplain never offered
PRAYER without closing with the Lords
prayer. Prayer Is communion with
God; 1t brings peace TO q nuns soul.
As sure as God lives, his peace will
be in the hetrt or home of those who
pray to Him. And where this is not
done. decay begins. Teach your child
rem to pray, and to pray without ceas-
ing. But, If prayer is for ANYTHING
but Righteousness, 1t is only a prayer
from nlHmmon that can not justly be
& expected to be answered.
The speakerhere Illustrated pointedly
the power Of prayer operating
in so many spheres of human activity
;fne.
have been made; through prayer God
and his plan of salvation have been re-
vealad to this people, and Latter-day
Saints led through the wilderness into
this land of promise. But no man
STEPPED in. sin can receive blessings
from the Eternal Father We must
believe He exists: that He is. Then
can l1atter-day Saints say from their
inward experience and realization Of
the truth, that God lives that Jesus is
the Christ; that Their. faith is founded
n#Nirtue. BY prayer. they can testify
to the mercies of God toward them.
Through prayer YOU shall know this
is Gods Church. and that He lives,
The Prophet Joseph Smith told John
TAYLOR If he would pray and pray earn
aesty. he would never apostatize from
this Church. So if you will attend to
Your prayers in all sincerity and with
Z out ceasing. and hold family prayers.
swell as praying IN secret,sf promise
you will never apostatize from this
Church.
s When president of Utah stake j re-
kceived many complaints from husbands
against wives. and wives against hus-
bands. But not in one instance but
what IAfoupd there had been no prayer
in that family from which the COM
plants came. Darkness had settled in
there, in the place of light. and life;
The power OF love had been removed:
they We're drifting along without the
Spirit of God. IL any and every family
VIII attend to prayer, God will bless
them for so doing. Prayer is privi-
lego to every Ilatter-day Saint. The
extension OF the Church of Latter-day
Saints, eradication of vice, come from
prayer. Let 1t be from the heart All
z the people Of this world, the president
of this Church, the president of the
United States need our prayers; so
does Salt Lake City. These prayers
will be answered If they come from the
hearts of an honest people. / pray the 4
blessings of God may be with you; take
them to your homes: let the people of
the Church OF Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints be known all over the world
as people OF prayer. that the world
may take notice of us as a God fear
ing upright and honest people. Elder
Smoot closed by relating how he had
met prominent people in various parts
OF the country, who readily testified to
their appreciation of the sincerity and
honesty of heart of Latter-dayl Saints.
as evidenced in tlleir meetings and in
the uprightness Of their lives
ELDER HYRUM NJ. SMITH.
Elder Hyrum NJ. Smith said he was
pleased that the. president Of the
Church had offered a word of rebuke
to the people who were guilty of violat