First Day-Morning Meeting

The first session of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Wednesday morning at 10 a. m. with President David O. McKay presiding and President Hugh B. Brown, First Counselor in the First Presidency, conducting the service.

The Primary Children's Chorus, with Mary Ellen Smith conducting, and Alexander Schreiner at the organ furnished the musical numbers for this session.

As a preliminary number the chorus sang "Reverently and Quietly."