Improvement Era, 1910 by Unknown

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Language: eng
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Tags: Religion

Footnotes

1. Remarks at the General Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, April 6, 1910.

2. From The Crown of Individuality. Copyright, 1909, by Fleming H. Revell Company.

Vol. XIII. July, 1910. No 9.

Development of Home Interests-Temporal and Spiritual. By President Joseph F. Smith.

[This opening address of President Joseph F. Smith at the eightieth annual conference of the Church. April, 1910, is so laden with good counsel relating to the temporal and spiritual salvation of the people, that readers of the ERA, young and old, will find it worthy of careful consideration. It embodies his wise counsel to the people to colonize only in localities approved by authorities of the Church; and to stay at home, thus avoiding so much purposeless roaming from place to place. It breathes the spirit of his advice to the people to cultivate, intensely and intelligently, their lands, and to develop unitedly the bounteous resources around them, by the encouragement and establishment of home industries. It has reference to his counsels to parents to teach their children the gospel in the home by precept and example; and contains exhortations to the Saints otherwise to comply with the practical precepts of our religion.-EDWARD H. ANDERSON.]

I must confess that I do not feel adequate to the task of speaking to you this morning, but I hope the good Spirit from the Lord may rest upon us, not only during the time I may occupy, but throughout the entire meeting, and, indeed, throughout the sessions of this conference. I feel in my heart to say to this vast congregation, God bless you and pour out his Holy Spirit upon you. May he reward you, by its rich outpouring, for your presence here, which indicates your faith and your desire to be present at the general conference of the Church to take part in the services and exercises thereof, and show that unity, that interest, that love and devotion to the work of the Lord, which should characterize the lives and acts of every member of the Church. It is almost marvelous, considering the condition of the weather, to see such a vast congregation as is assembled here today at the opening session of our conference; and, again, from my heart I thank you for your attendance, and for the interest you feel in the work of the Lord in which we are all engaged. I feel, in my soul, that those who have come, sparing the time and the means necessary, to attend the conference here, will not go away at the conclusion of our meetings either barren or unfruitful, for I believe the Lord will bless you and pour out his Spirit upon you in abundance.

I take it for granted that the vast majority of those assembled here today are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in good standing, and I would that this might be said of every soul that is present; for it is my

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