Session notes: Third Day opens

THIRD DAY. ¶

In the Tabernacle, Sunday, Oct. 8th, 10 a. m. ¶

Conference was called to order by President Joseph F. Smith, and he announced that an overflow meeting will convene this morning, in the Assembly Hall, for the benefit of the many who can not be accommodated in the overcrowded Tabernacle. ¶

An angel from on high ¶

The long, long silence broke ; ¶

Descending from the sky, These gracious words he spoke : ¶

Lo ! in Cumorah's lonely hill, ¶

A sacred record lies concealed. ¶

Prayer was offered by Elder Charles A. Callis. ¶

Lizzie T. Edward, Pearl K. Davis, Fred Graham, and Moroni J. Thomas rendered a quartette, entitled, "As the dew from heaven distilling." ¶

President Joseph F. Smith announced that part of the morning service will be devoted to an address by Elder Orson F. Whitney, in honor of the memory of a great man of God, the late Apostle Orson Pratt. By request of President Smith, the family and relatives of Apostle Pratt arose in the congregation, and it was observed that they numbered about four hundred persons. ¶