First Day-Morning Session

The Eighty-ninth Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, at 10 o'clock a. m., Sunday, June 1, 1919, the conference having been postponed from April 6, 1919, owing to the health conditions of the communities. President Heber J. Grant presided.

Authorities Present:

Of the First Presidency: Heber J. Grant, Anthon H. Lurid, and Charles W. Penrose; of the Council of the Twelve Apostles: Rudger Clawson, George Albert Smith, Orson F. Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph Fielding Smith, James E. Talmage, Stephen L. Richards, Richard R. Lyman and Melvin J. Ballard. Presiding Patriarch Hyrum G. Smith; of the First Council of Seventy, Seymour B. Young, Brigham H. Roberts, J. Golden Kimball. Rulon S. Wells, Joseph W. McMurrin, Charles H. Hart, Levi Edgar Young; of the Presiding Bishopric, Charles W. Nibley, David A. Smith and John Wells; Assistant Historians, Andrew Jenson and A. William Lund19*. There were also a large number of presidents of stakes, with their counselors, Patriarchs, Bishops of wards, and numerous other prominent men and women representing the various quorums and organizations of the Church.

The following presidents of missions, and their successors, where appointed. were in attendance Walter P. Monson and his newly appointed successor, George W. McCune, Eastern States; Samuel O. Bennion, Central States; German E. Ellsworth, and his successor Winslow Farr Smith, Northern States; John L. Herrick, and his successor, John M. Knight, Western States; Joseph E. Robinson, and his successor Joseph W. McMurrin, California; Charles A. Callis, Southern States; Heber C. Iverson, Northwestern States; Ray L. Pratt, Mexican; E. Wesley Smith, Hawaiian; Nephi Jensen, Canadian; Theodore Tobiason, Swedish; Benj. Goddard, Bureau of Information Temple Block; and President George Albert Smith, of the British Mission, who is to release Elder George F. Richards.

President Heber J. Grant called the great congregation to order.

The choir and congregation sang: "We thank thee, O God, for a prophet."

Prayer was offered by Elder Hyrum G. Smith, presiding Patriarch of the Church.

The choir and congregation sang: "Come, come, ye Saints."