Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-29
SALT lake STAKE
\ CONFERENCE
Combined Sunday Schools Rem
der Al Excellent Program
At Forenoon Session.
JOSEPH SMITH MEMORIAL.
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ing Tribute to Martsred
Prophet.

r.,,o stake was held yesterday there
-, as usual. three sessions. the
,vened in the tabernacle at 10
80, and was the conference of tho
ohools The stand. was de-
aratea with potted plants and with
,rh,tn and pale blue bunting A large
,or,can Dag hung from the ceiling
=, tront of the organ was a picture
- the prophet Joseph Smith, below
',.,.n IN letters made by incandescent
,.n,ns we're the words "The Gospel"
rrbe subject of the program was the
-,tsnsnsation of the Fullness of Times,
=, Song and Story" The choir seats
and the main floor, except that part
under the gallery, were hlled Win
sunday school children The remainder
az the building was occupied by tue
general public. Every year since lsu4'
s,hen the present stake was organized,
the Sunday schools have had MD
summer festival in the tabernacle, ana
each one has been a pronounced sue
cess. owing to the energetic and intelll-
aent work of Stake Supt. Charles Is
Telt. his assistants, the stake board,
and the local officers and members.
INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS.
The following program was rendered:
Song, Beautiful Zion by the COM
bined schools, under the leadership OF
Stake Sunday School Chorister sam
uel ID. Winter.
Prayer was offered by Elder Harold
G. Reynolds.
Song. GLORIOUS things of thee are
spoken" by the assembly.
Nine little girls and chorus from
the Twenty third ward Sunday school
sang a selection entitled Bright An
GELS" this piece having nine verses,
the number of letters in the words,
'The Gospel each child singing one
verse.
A concert recitation by the Sixteenth
ward Sunday school of Isaiah 20, 1914.
Address, "A Marvellous Work and a
Wonder" by Supt. Edwin f. Parry,
Ir, of the Sixteenth ward.
Address by Elder Isaac Langton, Jr.,
superintendent of the Twenty eighth
ward Sunday school, "A Land Choice
Above All Other Lands
Song, columbia. the Gem of the
Ocean" by the Twenty-eight ward
Sunday school. At the words, Three
cheers for the red, white, and blue"
the singers waved the Stars and
Stripes.
"A Land of Liberty" was the sub
L.
Nystrom of the Fourteenth ward.
A portion of the American Declara-
ton OF independence was repeated in
concert by the members of the Four
tenth ward Sunday school.
With the singing OF America" by the
combined schools, the distinctively pa
triotic part of the program was con-
Guided. The remainder of the time was
devoted to the results of the mission
an nj vh, voI
lowing musical numbers and addresses
we're given:
Elder Peter A. Anderson, superinten-
dent of the Twenty-third ward Sunday
school, spoke on the subject, "The Boy
Prophet
Concert recitation, IF any of you
lack wisdom" etc, from James 1. s, by
the Twenty-third ward Sunday schooi.
Song, by the combined schools,
"Joseph Smiths First Prayer"
Gods Messengers" an address. by
Supt. +. a. Wilcox of the Twenty
fourth ward school.
Song AN angel from on high" by
trio and chorus from the Twenty
fourth ward Sunday school.
The superintendent of the Center
ward Sunday school, Elder Walter w.
Kiddlo. spoke on the subject, THE
Priesthood Restored"
eth this honor unto himself" etc, from
Hebrews iii 4, by the Center ward
school.
Address, Church Organization by
supt. Daniel j. Lang of the Nineteenth
ward Sunday school.
Solo, Daughters OF Zion" to the mu-
sic OF Kathleen Mavoumoon." by
Stella Poulton of the Nineteenth ward
Sunday school.
Sunt JJaprxy "a ITI1at nF che III ftnanfl,
ward school spoke on Temples"
Anthem, Song of the Redeemed"
by chorus from the Fifteenth ward
Sunday school.
Address, THE Flight To the Noun
tains,' by Supt George S. McAlllster
OF the Seventeenth ward sunday
school.
Tho choir from the Seventeenth ward
Sunday school rendered the anthem,
me Mountain Of the Lords House.
concert recitation, the tenth article
OF faith, by the members of the Sum
DAY school of the Twenty-second ward.
Supt G. W. Forsberg of the Twan-
sy-second ward spoke on Zion and the
Millennium"
summary of the foregoing adj
dresses dresses was presented by Supt. j. e,
Thomas OF the Twenty-ninth ward
school
i'tiidtlpil, ana III came W
pass that Enoch saw the day of The
coming of the Son of Man In the las.
nays, ETC., by the Twenty-ninth ward
sunday school.
Elder James H. Talmage, In behalf
OF the general Sunday school board
commended the Sunday schools fol
lneir excellent program and thanked
al these who had taken part.
singing, by the combined schools
True to the Faith"
benedlction by Elder James W. IRE
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The second session of the conference,
convened In the tabernacle at o'cloci
IN the afternoon, President Nephi l.
Morris presiding.
Singing by the tabernacle choir aic
the congregation, praise TO the mar
who communed with jehovah"
Prayer was offered by Bishop Robert
II, Bradford, of Center ward.
An anthem, TN our Redeemers
Name" was sung by the choir.
4alaer Oison r. Whitney, the speaker
OF the occasion, spoke In part as fol-
lows; This is almost the anniversary
=. great and sorrowful event In thu
history OF the Latter-day aints. Six
ty-four years ago yesterday the Prophet
Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrun
smith, the patriarch Of the Church
We're murdered In Carthage jail, I'LL
hols, on the 27th day of June 1874 The
prophet WAS then IN his thirty ninth
year, having been born at Sharon
Windsor oounty, Vermont. on the 23rd
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