Session notes: First Day Afternoon Session opens

AFTERNOON SESSION. ¶

Conference was resumed at 2 p. m. ¶

President Joseph F. Smith called the meeting to order. ¶

The choir and congregation sang the hymn : ¶

O ye mountains high, where the clear blue sky Arches over the vales of the free, Where the pure breezes blow and the clear streamlets flow, How I've longed to your bosom to flee. ¶

Prayer was offered by Elder Melvin J. Ballard. ¶

The choir and congregation sang the hymn : ¶

Now let us rejoice in the day of salvation ; ¶

No longer as strangers on earth need we roam, ¶

Good tidings are sounding to us and each nation, And shortly the hour of redemption will come. ¶

I desire that you will give me the benefit of your faith and prayers., that the time which I occupy may be profitable to you as well as to myself. T rejoice in the fact that there are present upon this occasion all of the First Presidency of the Church, that there are present all of the Council of Apostles except Brother Clawson, who is engaged earnestly and fully in his duty of helping to proclaim the Gospel among .the nations of the world. I am pleased that the Seven Presidents of Sev- ¶