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Authorities sustained

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1917 April General Conference·Second Day Afternoon Session·1917-04-07

The Counselors in the First Presidency, the Twelve Apostles and Patriarch, as Prophets, Seers and Revelators.

First Seven Presidents of Seventy: Seymour B. Young, Brigham H. Roberts, Jonathan G. Kimball, Rulon S. Wells, Joseph W. McMurrin, Charles H. Hart, and Levi Edgar Young.

Charles W. Nibley, as Presiding Bishop, with Orrin P. Miller and David A. Smith, as his First and Second Counselors.

Joseph F. Smith, as Trustee-inTrust for the body of religious worshipers known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Anthon H. Lund, as Church Historian and General Church Recorder.

Andrew Jenson, Brigham H. Roberts, Joseph F. Smith, Jr., and August William Lund, Assistant Historians.

As Members of the General Board of Education : Joseph F. Smith'Willard Young, Anthon H. Lund, George H. Brimhall, Rudger Clawson, Charles W. Penrose, Horace H. Cummings, and Orson F. Whitney.

Arthur Winter, as Secretary and Treasurer to the General Church' Board of Education.

Horace H. Cummings, General Superintendent of Church Schools.

Board of Examiners for Church Schools : Horace H. Cummings, Chairman ; George H. Brimhall, C. N. Jensen, and Guy C. Wilson.

Auditing Committee : William W. Riter, Henry H. Rolapp, John C. Cutler, Heber Scowcroft, and Peter G. Johnston.

Authorities Sustained

Tabernacle Choir : Anthony C. Lund, Conductor; Horace S. Ensign and B. Cecil Gates, Assistant Conductors ; John J. McClellan, Organist; Edward P. Kimball and Tracy Y. Cannon, Assistant Organists ; George C. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer ; and all the Members.

Edward H. Anderson, Clerk of the Conference.

Each and all of those named were sustained in the positions designated, by unanimous vote of the people.

The choir sang: "Hail bright abode."

Benediction was pronounced by Elder Seymour B. Young.

Conference adjourned for six months.

Prof. Anthon C. Lund conducted the singing of the choir and congregation at the conference meetings in the Tabernacle. Prof. John J. McClellan played the accompaniments, interludes, etc., on the great organ, assisted by Edward P. Kimball and Tracy Y. Cannon. The stenographic reports of the discourses were taken in the Tabernacle by Elder Franklin W. Otterstrom, and in the Assembly Hall and at the Bureau of Information, by Elders Frederick E. Barker and Fred G. Barker. Edward H. Anderson, Clerk of Conference.

Cite this talkConference record, "Authorities sustained," 1917 April General Conference, Second Day Afternoon Session (1917-04-07). Pulpit Vault, 1917-04-56-of-the-church-remarks-56. Fragmentary text from archive.org.Pulpit Vault, edition of 23 September 2026 (commit 4bdc6ac627).