The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-08
Feature of Second Day of
Conference Is Protest
Against Too Ad-
vanced Thought.
PENROSE TALKS ON
MARRIAGE QUESTION
Presiding Bishop Nibley At
tacks the Tendency
Of Belief in Evo-
luton.

Apostle Charles w. Penrose
strongly urges that all marriages
Of Latter-day Saints be solemnizd
il tho temples
southern states mission, decrie9
this as an age Of unbelie5 and skep-
ttcisn.
Apostle George z. Richards says
there are some within the church
who could not gain admission if
they Were outside.
Apostle Orson T. Whitney deliv-
ers doctrinal discourse upon the ne
cesslty OF faith in accepting tho
spiritual as IN element in reaching
conclusions.
Charles W. Nibley, presiding
bishop OF the church, deplores ten
dency Of modern education TO trace
mans origin from apes instead Of
angels.
Brigham H. Roberts, assistant
church historian, defends Mormon
ism as fully answering the require
ments of both emotion and reason.
Doctrinal discourses. dealing primar-
lly with the various phases of the Nor
mon Faith and only incidentally direct
ed towards local conditions or present
day issues were the feature of the sec
ond day of the eighty first conference
of the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints.
While the attendance was not quite
SO large as on the opening day, rhe
great tabernacle was yet nearly filled,
and the large gathering was closely at
tentive to every sentence uttered. Pres
ident Joseph F. Smith presided at both
No t.I 81. 80,
Mcclellan and numerous soloists fur
nished music between the addresses
If there could be said to be dis
tinctive feature of the days addresses
1t was to be found in the utterances
of several speakers to the effect that
the modern tendency toward unbelief
was to be depIored; that man s divine
origin rather than the theory of evolu
tion should be clung to and that true be-
levers should accept without question
the revelations as given by those In
and power.
No Session Today.
At the conclusion of Friday after
noon S session the conference adjourned
to meet again Sunday morning at 10
o'clock, Saturday being granted to the
visitors for business and pleasure.
At the afternoon session of Sunday
it is planned that the general officers
of the church will be formally sustained.
So far as can be learned, there are no
intimations that any changes whatever
will be made.
session yesterday morning few min
utes past 10 clock, the choir and con-
Cregasion sang Redeemer of Israeli
and Elder Ben E. Rich, president OF
the eastern states mission, offered the
opening prayer. In his invocation he
made specific mention of the "ene
mics of the church and asked that if
their eyes could not be opened they
might be confounded and their work
brought to naught.
The choir sang "God Moves in
Mysterious Way and Apostle Charles
W. Penrose delivered the opening ad.
lress.
Deals With Marriage Question.
Temporal and celestial marriage was
he theme with which Apostle Penrose
lealt almost exclusively in his speech.
He greatly regretted that during the
year 1910 about 100 church members
lad contracted marriage by civil cere-
nony, and emphasized the fact that
While such contract was binding IN
} civil sense, it was for time only and
rot for eternity. He insisted that it
vas the duty of every Saint undertak
nc the Obligations Of matrimony to
ave the ordinances performed In one
# the temples. SO that they might hold
or eternity, 40 that after the resurrec.
ION the relationship of man and wife
ght continue forever, which he held
vas not possible under civil cero-
nony. He declared that persons mar
led outside the temples could never
Understand the affection that ought to
lake sacred the marriage bond and
ed that while it might appear that
ono mistakes had been made, God
fould make everything right for those
rho were worthy Of exaltaton.
''The husband and wife who are tru-
' united in the faith he said, twill
o on through all the ages of eternity
, the family relation The speaker
,ok one rap at evolution by declaring:
We have not sprung from the lower
1rms of creation, but are sons and
aughters of the living God. -
New Song Heard.
Horace S. Ensign, well-known Salt
al1c baritone, sang for the first time
public ''School Thy Feelings, 0 Ny
rother.'' words by Charles Penrose,
usic by George Careless.
c. A. Calls, president of the south.
n stntes mission. took occasion to
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