The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-11
LIBERTY STAKE
MAKES CHANGES
Vacancies in High Council Are
Filled at the Quarterly
Conference.
SERVICES IN TABERNACLE
VETERAN BISHOP OF THE FIRST
WARD MADE A PATRIARCH.

The quarterly conference of Liberty
stake held Yesterday at the tabernacle
was largely attended. The forenoon ses-
sion partOok of the nature of busl-
ness meeting, at which the first presl-
dency of the stake was sustained ana
several appointments were made to Ill
vacancies in the high council Al the
afternoon session sermons on doctilhal
points were given 1900
With the exception of several additional
appointments, the list of AUTHORITIES IN
the stake remains the same. hugh :.
Cannon was sustained as president OF the
stake, and Arnold II. Schulthess as tlrst
counselor and b. S. Hinckley as second
counselor. Three new members OF the
high council were appointed by Ihe du-
thorities and sustained by the Saints 10
- fill the positions made vacant Dy tile
transfer of three former members 10 oLh-
er fields. These were Leonard u 1s.I3-
John T. ThOrup and William II. LoVesy.
John c. Duncan, formerly OF the hlgh
council, was sustained at the meeting
last night as bishop of the First ward
John Vetterli resigned from the high cOun-
ell some time ago to become bishop OF the
new Emigration ward. Nepm Anderson
the third to leave the high council, mas
gone TO Independence, Mo, where ne VIII
edit the mission paper.
Joseph WarburtOn, for 40 years Dlshop
of the First ward, was sustained as d
patriarch of the church and at the meet
ing last night was released from tne
strenuous duties of the bishoprlc- john
c. Duncan was sustained as bishop in his
place.
reports OF an encouraging nature at the
forenoon session. Affairs of the stake are
i'll good shape and the membership in the
various wards shows a WONDERFUL IN
crease during the past three months.
The afternoon session, cOnVehlnS at =
o'clock, was opened by invocation by
Bishop Merrill, followed by an anthem by
the choir, Come, Dearest LORD
E. C. Ashton Speaks.
Elias Conway Ashton, the first speaker,
devoted a considerable portion OF MS ser
mon to q discussion of the new religion
for which DR.. Charles w. Eliot, formerly
president of Harvard. stands sponsor
AS a preface to his remarks Mr. ASH
ton quoted from Matthew, 16, in which
Jesus makes use of the words. w nat
shall it profit man if he shall gam
the whole world and lose his soui?' The
speaker stated that if the proposition was
placed before the average man OF having
worldly things placed in one side OF the
scale and his soul in the other, that the
balance would be found to be in favor
of saving his soul
''IatteT-iay Saints have felt intensely
on the questions of eternal Ife,' SAID
the speaker. "They have always stood
for good citizenship, good morals, good
government and everything that VIII tend
to make mankind better.
People of the world are so mundane
in their lives, so much inclined to run
that they yield and lose the principles
of spiritual growth. They yield up Tor
the transitOry pleasures Of this life all
of the blessings that the prophets have
promised in eternity.
I'm this age of commercial hysteTia We
would barter away our religion for the
things of earth President Eliot of Har-
ward has projected into our age new
religion. That religion, however. is free
Of everything that would make obligatory
obedience to its principles. In the new
religion, DIR. Eliot says, there is no splr-
itual element in all its theory; ana IN
all its principles il is completely natural;
II places no reliance on magic or miracle,
or other violation of the laws OF ma
ture.
with one sweep of his hand DR.. Eliot
would wipe away all the tenets and the
faith of entire ChTistendom. To US, if
we accept his theory, there would be no
Hill Cumorah. and there would be no
temples of the living God, There would
be no sacred places which have endeared
themselves to US because Of the things
which have occurred in those places.
Nothing is more inherently fixed in
our faith than the thought that God has
revealed Himself; that God does now re-
veal Himself and that He Will yet re-
veal Himself to His children as the con-
in our religious life, The faith OF the
Latter-day Saints is vital faith, be
cause il requires Of each a firm, fixed
faith in God. No other faith has shown
such vitality as the Mormon faith. II
Mormonism there is no laity; there is NJ
clergy as in other religions, and every
member yields allegiance only TO his Coo
and to those TO whom authority has beer
delegated
George r. Richards.
Joseph Poll then sang in pleasing voice
a tenor solo, Dear Promised Land, fol
lowing which George f. Richards deliv-
cred a sermon, taking as his text Psalm
xiii, The Lord is my shepherd; l shall