Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-07
OPENING or CONFERENCE.

i.
Tho eighty-frst scmi-annual general
conference OF the Church opened Win
n very large attendance Of officers ana
members.
e Tho FIRST Presidency, ten Of the Apos-
Ties. FIVE OF the, First Presidents u
seventies, the Patriarch, the Presid,hs
Bishopric, werc present, and the vast
,rabernacle was filed In the lower part
and thousands were seated in tho gal
lery.
The presence OF President joseph y.
Smith was, a special cause for reJoic-
ing and gratitude. because during ms
illness, many ~ prayer was oftereo up
Nat the people might have the priVi-
lego OF seeing him and hearing ms voice
Mt this gathering, and his attendance
,,,,s accented as an answer to these
prayers.
The opening addresses were lhstruc-
two and full of announcement. Presl-
dent Joseph F. Smith spoke OF the ne
cessIty of being true--of keeping what
+ ever pledges are made, In Righteousness
Sneaking for himself he said IN MS
early DAYS he had made a pledge with
the Lord and with his people. that nc
would he true. and he had never feit
ike irving up this pledge. He had en-
deayored to be true in whatever posi-
ton he had been called to serve. he
had been true to his people. and also 10
the world in any pledges he had made
4 tl,tp
known President Joseph F. smith
doubts for minute. He is descended
from, ancestors who have been true to
tho country In times OF revolution ana
battles, and true to God when faith
fubcss was rewarded with nmrtyrdom
md this Characteristic is his lnheri-
lance through a noble lineage of
which no amount of vliflcation can de-
privc him.
President Anthem II. Lund spoke In
terestingly of the work abroad. The ex-
pulsion of the Elders from Prussia. ne
said seems to have beer the means
OF awakening an interest in our work,
we have received since then, he said.
many letters from prominent men In
K Germany, asking for our literature.
They could not believe. they wrote, that
such thing could happen in the twen-
tieth century. In other places through
ont the world the same prospects are
manifest. In France. Holland and
Belgium this Is true. In Norway It
looked for a while as IL laws would
he passed against the Church. But the
H department Of justice to which the mat
ter was referred, decided that there was
no need for any legislation against the
Mormon people.
@ President John Henry Smith adj
vised the Saints not to wander away
from the fold. Some lie said had a
tendency to wander. After wandering
about restless,y from place to place,
beggurinS themselves, they finally re-
turn to their mountain home. We are
I entlcavorng. he said. to discourage
this. "1'ho United states IS good enough
for me- he continued. "Anywhcrc I'M
dcrithc flag Of our Union Is good enough
for, me. Though we have endured OPP
preston from some Of the IntOerant
g in our nation tho. Is none of our pco-
pic who would have that flag taken
down from It's place, We have "A place
among men. each of us And that
should be Il place of honor If we do
not have It, let ustnot attribute our
failure to get that place to any delin-
quency of the flag of our natlon."
Then, speaking about homes he snld
Our sons and our daughters should
be trained up in homes where they will
imbibe a loveo OF truth, the iovc'of hon
or. the love Of right. Let ua-rot forget
our obligations to raise the morality
OF the world. by recurring tho same
moral standard Of our young men that
the world has required OF the woman.
md higher standard of women than
tho world has done. Let us teach by
our example the wrongfulncss OF won-
on dcpriving themselves Of the duty Of
motherhood. The command to multi
ply and reolcnish the earth has not
been repealed. And let us do the same
lin every other virtue. No man Of wom-
an among the Saints can say truth
fully that the apostles have co,inseled
ii him to do wrong. On the contrary, the
X apostles have. in season md out, dl-
y rected that It is wrong to steal, wrong
to lie; they have demanded that hon
esty, integrity and virtue shall char
H aCterlze every member OF the Church