Closing Remarks

TESTIMONY OF MILANDO PRATT ¶

"President Heber J. Grant, Beloved President: My bosom has swelled with exceeding joy in listening to the most interesting conference services over the radio, from my bedroom, where I have spent most of the time for the past nearly ten years, through a severe operation, followed by a prolonged, painful illness. I have heard distinctly all the tabernacle services, about three miles distant from my home. I am quite sure all the speakers were greatly inspired. Your brother in the gospel, ¶

"MILANDO PRATT." ¶

Milando Pratt is a cousin of our last speaker, and a son of Orson Pratt who was one of the greatest writers and defenders of the truth that the Church has ever had. ¶

Brother Roberts reminds me that way in the 50's the grandfather of Brother Rey L. Pratt, namely, Parley P. Pratt, first carried the gospel to the land of Chile, in South America. ¶

ELDER JOSEPH BARLOW DEAD ¶

I overlooked announcing that Brother Joseph Barlow, counselor to the President of the Raft River stake, has passed away since our last conference. We extend to the family our sympathy. ¶

MISSIONS ESTABLISHED SINCE LAST CONFERENCE ¶

There have been established since our last conference the North Central States mission, with John G. Allred as President; ¶

and the German-Austrian mission, with Elder Fred Tadje as President, formerly president of the Swiss and German mission. ¶

NEW PRESIDENTS OF MISSIONS ¶

Six presidents of missions have been appointed as follows since last conference: J. Howard Jenkins as president of the New Zealand mission; Herbert B. Foulger, acting president of the Tahitian mission; John H. Anderson, president of the Swedish mission; Hugh J. Cannon, president of the Swiss and German mission; and Ernest C. Rossiter, president of the French mission. ¶

MISSION PRESIDENTS RELEASED ¶

Mission presidents released since our last conference: Angus T. Wright, New Zealand mission; Ole B. Peterson, Tahitian mission; Hugo D. E. Peterson, Swedish mission; Russell H. Blood, French mission. All of these released mission presidents have our love and blessing and full confidence, and also those who have been appointed. ¶

ABSENT ¶

There have been absent from this conference, as you know, Elder Reed Smoot, of the Council of the Twelve, in Washington, and Elder James E. Talmage, of the Council of the Twelve, who is presiding over the European mission. The reports from Brother Talmage are very encouraging and very satisfactory, and he is thoroughly enjoying his labors. The newspapers keep us well posted on the very wonderful and magnificent labors that Senator Reed Smoot is performing in Washington. These brethren have our love and confidence and constant prayers for their success. ¶

APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE EXPRESSED ¶

I feel to say on behalf of the Presidency of the Church that we are very grateful for the wonderful outpouring of the people during this conference. We are grateful for the light and inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord accompanying those who have spoken to us, and we give to the Saints the love and blessing of all of the General Authorities of the Church, and we echo the sentiment that has been uttered here, time and again during this conference, in the opening and closing prayers and in some of the remarks, that, the inspiration and spirit of this conference may be carried by the people who have been here to the various stakes of Zion. ¶

May God bless you one and all. May each and every one of us who have a testimony of the divinity of the work in which we are engaged, so order our lives that those who know not the truth, seeing our diligence, our faith, our humility, and our desire to serve God, may be led to investigate the truth that we have to bear to them. This is my prayer and desire, and I ask it in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. ¶

Conference was adjourned for six months. ¶

Professor Anthony C. Lund conducted the singing, assisted by B. Cecil Gates. Accompaniments and interludes on the great organ were played by Edward P. Kimball, Tracy Y. Cannon, Alexander Schreiner and Frank W. Asper. ¶

Stenographic reports were made in the Tabernacle by Frank W. Otterstrom, assisted by Joseph Anderson; in the Assembly Hall by Frederick G. Barker. Owing to no previous notification being made of the overflow meetings in Barratt Hall, no provision was made for reporters for those meetings, each speaker furnishing his own synopsis. ¶

EDWARD H. ANDERSON ¶

Clerk of the General Conference ¶