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Conference Reports of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints OnsL dimdhsd. Jowdsstdk. ANNUAL COHDCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Held in the Tabernacle Salt Lake City, Utah OfvdL 6, 7and, 9, 19M With Report of Discourses Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Salt Lake City, Utah PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION WE PRESENT JhsL (Book ofc QfloimotL The latest edition cornea to you In four different bindings. Of course the tea* remains the same. Missionary Edition 50c—by mail 60c Cloth Binding, Embossed JS1.50 Full Morocco $3.50 J>JwjfL (plowboif to (pJwph&L AND OTZoihsJL SfoiieA, piom, Uisl Book of* OTlotmofu By WILLIAM A. MORTON This delightful voluma republished as a reiteration of the stories that children lore to hear and to read. Price in Cloth .$1.25 JOu^ to Jhsioloqi^ By PARLEY P. PRATT (Reprint warranted by demand) "Alms to embody In a concise and somewhat original manner and style, a general view of the Science of Theology as gathered from revelation, history, prophecy, reason and analogy." Price _ Sim 9ti&t&u^ ofc JhsL tfhwuJv Presented in two important sets and recommended to you as a vital record. DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE CHURCH By Prophet loseph Smith Presented in 7 volumes COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH Presented in 6 volumes For prices and other Information we urge you to write to us. DESER.ET BOOK COMPANY SALT LAKE CITY 10. UTAH : The One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the great Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, April 6, 7, and 9, 1944. Sessions of the Conference were held as follows : Thursday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Friday at 10 a.m. and 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Through the courtesy of Radio Station KSL of Salt Lake City, the proceedings of the Conference, with the exception of the Friday evening meeting, were broadcast for the benefit of the general public. President Hebar J. Grant was present and presided at all sessions of the Conference except the Friday evening meeting. President J. Reu- ben Clark, Jr., First Counselor in the First Presidency, presided at th it meeting, and, at the request of President Grant, President Clark con- ducted the services at all of the sessions of the Conference. Owing to conditions incident to the War emergency, the general public were not invited to attend the Conference. Those present con- sisted of the following General Authorities of the Church Present The First Presidency: Heber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark, Jr., and David O. McKay. The Council of the Twelve Apostles : George Albert Smith, George F. Richards, Joseph Fielding Smith, Stephen L. Richards, * A. , John Widtsoe, Joseph F. Merrill, Charles A. Callis, A. E. Bowen, Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra T. Benson, and Mark E. Petersen.** Patriarch to the Church : Joseph F. Smith. Assistants/ to the Council of the Twelve Apostles : Marion G. Rom- ney, Thomas E. McKay, Clifford E. Young, Alma Sonne, and Nicholas G. Smith. Of the First Council of the Seventy : Levi Edgar Young, Antoine R. Ivins, Samuel O. Bennion, John H. Taylor, ***, Richard L. Evans, and Oscar A. Kirkham. The Presiding Bishopric: LeGrand Richards, Marvin O. Ashton, and Joseph L. Wirthlin. * Richard R. Lyman excommunicated from the Church November 12, 1943. **Mark E. Petersen was sustained at this Conference as a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles. ***Rufus K. Hardy excused because of illness. 2 GENERAL CONFERENCE Thunday, April 6 First Day Other Authorities and Officers Present Church Historian and Recorder : Joseph Fielding Smith, and A. Wil- liam Lund, assistant. Members of the General Committee, Church Welfare Program. Superintendency and Priesthood members of Deseret Sunday School Union Board. Superintendency and members of General Board of the Y. M.M.I.A. Commissioner, Seminary Supervisors and members of the Church Board of Education. Temple Presidencies. Presidencies of Stakes, former Presidencies of Stakes, Stake Clerks, former Presidents of Missions, Patriarchs, High Councilmen, Presi- dencies of High Priests Quorums, Group leaders of High Priests, Presi- dencies of Seventies quorums, Presidencies of Elders quorums, Bishop- rics of Wards, Presidencies of Independent Branches, and Presidents of Dependent Branches in organized Stakes. Mission Presidents: David A. Smith, Temple Square; Gustave A. Iverson, Eastern States ; William H. Reeder, Jr., New England; David I. Stoddard, Northern States; William L. Killpack, North Central States ; Thomas C. Romney, Central States ; Heber C. Meeks, Southern States; William L. Warner, Texas; Graham H. Doxey, East Central States ; Elbert R. Curtis, Western States Elijah Allen, ; ; California Ger- man E. Ellsworth, Northern California; Desla S. Bennion, Northwestern ; States Octave W. Ursenbach, Canada ; Walter Miller, Western Canada ; Arwell L. Pierce, Mexico; Lorin F. Jones, Spanish-American ; Ralph William Evans, Navajo-Zuni. FIRST DAY MORNING MEETING The opening session of the Conference was held in the Tabernacle, Thursday, April 6, and convened promptly at 10 o'clock a.m. PRESIDENT J. REUBEN CLARK, JR. First Counselor in the First Presidency This is the opening session of the 114th Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Church was organized under the direction of the Lord 1 14 years ago today, with six members. Its membership today is approaching 1,000,000. k There is on the stand this morning our honored, our revered, and beloved President Heber J. Grant, who is presiding at this Conference. — PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT 3 We thank our Heavenly Father that He has so blessed President Grant that he is able to be with us today. On the stand also are all the other General Authorities of the Church, except President Rufus K. Hardy of the First Council of Seventy, who is detained from the Conference on orders of his physician by an illness from which he has not yet fully re- covered. We send our love and greetings to him and our prayers for his early and complete recovery. Elder Joseph Anderson is the Clerk of the Conference. President Grant has requested his First Counselor, President Clark, who is speaking, to conduct the Conference services. This full service will be broadcast over Station K.S.L., Salt Lake City, as will also the service this afternoon beginning at 2 p.m. The services tomorrow, Friday, at 10 :00 a.m. and 2 :00 p.m. will likewise be broadcast over K.S.L., and also the two services on Sunday at the same hours. There will be no sessions of the General Conference on Saturday. The singing will be by the congregation, composed of several thou- sand members of the Priesthood leadership of the Church. Conductor : Elder J. Spencer Cornwall. Organist : Elder Frank W. Asper. The first song will be "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet." Song Folder No. 8, L.D.S. Hymn Book 288 Hymn Book No. 152 Words by William Fowler Music by Mrs. Norton We suggest that our audience of the air join in the singing of the Conference. The opening prayer will be offered by President George A. Christen- sen of the Emigration Stake. The congregation sang the hymn "We Thank Thee, O God, For A Prophet." Elder George A. Christensen, President of the Emigration Stake, offered the invocation. Singing by the congregation, "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" Words from a Medley, Music by Lewis D. Edwards (L.D.S. Hymns No. 290). President Clark : President Heber J. Grant, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has prepared a message for the people, which will now be read by the Clerk of the Conference, Elder Joseph Anderson. PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT I am grateful that the Lord has lengthened my life and increased my strength so that I may have the privilege and the joy of meeting with you at another general conference of the Church. I am grateful I can say that I feel I am better now than I was at the 4 GENERAL CONFERENCE Thursday, April 6 ' First Day conference six months ago. I am able to work nearly half of each day at my office, and sometimes more, with the counsel and consent of my doc- tor. It is his recommendation, however, that I do not speak at this time, and so I shall ask your forbearance while that which I have to say shall be read. If I were on my feet, speaking under the momentary prompt- ings of the Spirit, perhaps it would be given to me to say more things in addition to those which are here written—and I ask the Lord that he may direct all who speak during this conference, that they may speak under the guiding influence of his holy spirit, and that those things which are now read, and those things which shall yet be spoken, will further bear witness of the truthfulness of the cause in which we are met, and give comfort and counsel to all who shall hear or read them. As I sit in this tabernacle my mind goes back over the many years that have passed since we first began holding meetings here. I see the leaders of this people who have come and gone—from Brigham Young on down—and I can see generations of the Priesthood of Israel who have gathered here to learn their duty, to renew their faith, and to go forth to labor for the furtherance of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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