The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-04
OVERFLOW MEETING
IN ASSEMBLY HALL
Services Held for Over 5000
Persons Who Could Not
Get Into Tabernacle.

More tnan 5000 men, women and chill
dren who are among the Mormon church
semi-annual conference visitors who could
not De seated in the Tabernacle at the
meeting yesterday afternoon and who
cOuld not Ilnd convenient standing room,
turned to the Assembly hall, where prep
araUons mad been made for the large
overflow service, over which Apostle Or
son +. Whitney presided
Whlle less impressive than the Tab
ernacle, with its mammoth pipe organ
and its wonderfully trained choir the
services in the Assembly han we're edi-
Tying and appropriate. A mixed choir of
Iofty voices rendered a number of an
mems ana there were solos by Miss Wini-
fred Black and Miss Gordon.
apostle Whitney introduced President
David II. Cannon of the St George tenn
pie lie said that he was convinced that
the gospel OF Jesus Christ was true and
that Joseph Smith, founder of Mormon
ism, was an apostle of God. He touched
generally on the truth of MormoDis1n and
reviewed the high character of the men
VINO nave carried on the affairs OF the
church since it was established.
Keep Boys at Home.
Frank Y. Taylor followed with a talk
along temporal lines, in which he admOn-
lshed fathers and mothers to paw more
need TO their boys and girls, and to ex-
ert their efforts In keeping them at their
own fireside instead of permitting them
to drift to the four winds of the world
he said that he believed that the Nor
mon boys should be taught to till the
soil; that they should be sent to the
agricultural colleges and trained in the
successful line of industry of their fore
fathers. He urged the fathers TO keep
the boys at home by cutting up their
farms and teaching the younger genera
ton to till the soil diligently and accord
ing TO improved scientific methods
President Joseph +. Smith had spoken
along this line in the Tabernacle at the
morning session Of the conference, and
Mr.. Taylor said he heartily agreed with
President Smiths views
I remember" said Rodney c. Badger,
when it would not have been difficult
to have covered all the people IN Salt
Lake under this roof, and the day does
not seem so far distant either" He spoke
of the marvellous growth of the church.
He said he knew Of no other people who
took such wide view of the gospel.
Defines Revelations.
President J. G. Kimbah of the first
council of the seventies delivered an in
teresting and impressive address upon
revelations. He defined reVelat tons as
described by the Bible and as they Oc-
CURED to Joseph Smith, founder of the
Mormon church. In the course of his re-
marks he cOntended that no man should
receive an appointment in the affairs OF
the church merely by impression, but that
he should be called to the post by di-
vinity and fitness.
The afternoon overflow meeting was
closed by Apostle Orson F. Whitney with
an eloquent discourse in which he COW
cred in q general way much of the church
history. He told how he received his
Inspiration and testimony of the glowing
truth of the gospel and of the revela-
tons vouchsafed to Joseph Smith, while
he was a missionary. He said that the
whole scriptural truth from the time OF
Adam TO the way of the salvation of
souls through the Mormon church was
fully revealed.
The overflow meeting in the morning at
Assembly hall was presided over by Apos-
lie Anthony ". WINS. Music was fur
lished by students from l.. D. 5. uni
rersity. Remarks along general religious
ines were made by Apostle WINS, Sey-
pour B. Young, first president Of the
council of seventies; Rulon S. Wells and
Charles Hart.