The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-08
Apostle Joseph +. Smith, Jr.,
Says MaIigning His Father
Is Inviting Trouble.
APOSTLE RICHARDS HAS
PLENTY HONEY TO SPREAD
Declares Few, Indeed, Are For
tunate Enough TO Live So
Purely as President.


surprising that some of the elders in
| The Mormon church should back up
President Joseph +, Smith in declaring
that his life has been pure, holy, lily
white and entirely above rcproach since
early. childhood. IL was altogether fit
ting and proper that his son, Joseph
+, Smith, sJr.. the Juvenile apostle In the
| quorum of the twelve, should have
come to the support of his father in
making his life even more vrtuous
than he himself made it, Josie would
have been an undutifuI son. indeed. had
he not done this. and he would have
deserved n right good spanking had he
neglected to come 10 the scratch with
a good linc of Endorsement.
| There WAS reason why the bow apos-
tic should have stood up for his pure
and holy father, but there appears, on
the surface. at least. no very good
reason whv Apostle George +. Rich
prophet and seer, Ike horse with
distempcr. Yet Apostle Richards piled
it on so thick that even an old salt
would have grown sea sick from nausea
with listening to IT. Apostle Richards
no doubt is due for his reward for the
MANY fuc things he said about the
snowlikc existence of the president of
the church.
Aside from the great gobs Of addi-
tional purity which were nailed onto
the virtuous hide of President Joseph
| F., the talk at the conference was eX
ciusivcly along doctrinal lines, and the
speakers bore their testimony with
right good earnestness,
There will Ire no sessions of the con
1 al 1,..rA
meetings being held Sunday. Doubt
less the visitors will take advantage
of the recess TO attend the state fair
and put in some tall licks at shopping.
Large Attendance Expected
There will Be a special organ recital
at Doou today. This has been arranged
III compliance with mauy requests re-
ceivcd by the first presidency. Pro-
fcssor J. J. Mcclellan will be at the
organ and Professor Willard Weihe will
give Russian airs upon the violin.
| The attendance MT the conference
| Friday was estimated at 1900 at the
forenoon session and nearly 5000 at the
afternoon session. Doubtless, the at.
tendance Sunday Will be so great that
overflow meetings will be necessary.
At the sessions Yesterday these
hymns were sung by the choir and con
grcgation: '.How Firm a Founda::
.'Now Let Us Rejoice" " 'Praise to
the Man" and "Lord, Dismiss Us
With Thy Blessing" Miss Hester Da-
Wis sang Il beautiful solo. PRAYER was
offered BY Elders Ellsworth. Osmond
and W. A. Moody.
j. Golden Talks.
| President Anthou ii, Iund am
nounced that rs there were number
of speakers from whom the conference
would like to hear, he would request
that the speakers limit their remarks
to twenty minutes. This was bad
thing for J. Golden Kimball, and also u
bad thing for the people who like TO
hear j, Golden let out q few links The
consequence of the request on the part
OF President Lund was that j. Golden
did not say very much but What had
been said before.
Elder Kimball said that he felt TO
bear testimony of tine truth Of this
work; that Jesus was the Christ and
that Joseph Smith was the prophet of
God Elder Kimbal said he had II
simple faith. yet an abiding faith IN
God the Father and Jesus Christ, his
SON He said he loved the Lord for
many things. not tbe least among which
was for his patience iii creating tho
world and for his patience with Elder
Kimb ball Elder Kimball thanked tho
ance 1t kept him pretty busy repent
| ing, he said but if he did not have the
spirit of repentance he would be woe
fully discouraged.
Elder Kimball paid tribute to the
priesthood, and said that he would
rather place his hand OBJ the head of a
seventy for ordination than 10 preach
the greatest discourse IN the world. FL.
der Kimbnll told about group or
Christian Scientists bearing testimony
once. but, he said. elders of the Nor
mon church. who were present at the
| time. could put the Christian Scientists
, 10 shame along this line. Elder Kun
ball, referring to the enemies oT the
church. said that they could knock the
church down and keep knocking u
down, but thev could never knock 1t
down To keep il down. In conclusion,
Elder Kimball said he would like TO
sec the color of the man s hair who
questioned his loyalty to his church,
Time-Limit Sprung.
The timelimit was also u bad thing
for Brigham H. Roberts. who was tho
next president Of the seventies 70
speak. The people like to hear this
orator. and they always anticipate his
appcarancc with pleasure. hut the TWEEN
" minutes allotted him rendered it I'M
possible for Mr.. Roberts to exercise
his powers to their fullest extent. FL
der Roberts retold the story of the
revelation and now Joseph. Smith cnme
to be. the prophet Of the Mormon
church Elder Roberts declared that
there was ample proof of the visitation
OF the angels and tho matter Of the
golden plates was well authenticated,
he said. Elder Roberts said that if u
papyrus containing only fifty words
written by Jesus were found In the
pyramids of Egypt, that would be more
convincing than all the books that have