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• Conference clashes result in 2 arrests

  Two men were arrested Sunday afternoon after they clashed with street preachers near the LDS Conference Center as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints marked its 173rd Semiannual General Conference.

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• Stand firm, LDS urged

  LDS Church leaders urged their members to seek spiritual safety by keeping the covenants they have made with God, standing firm in their testimonies of truth and being peaceable followers of Christ.

• 6 full-time general authorities released

  Six general authorities were released from full-time service and other changes among Area Authority Seventies and the general Young Men presidency were also announced Saturday during the 173rd Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Three members...

• LDS are warned of moral decline

  Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered by the thousands in the Conference Center and by the hundreds of thousands across the world via radio, television and Internet for the first two general sessions of the church's 173rd Semiannual General Conference on Saturday....

Advance Articles

• 'Conference rain effect'? Not today, forecaster says

  Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be meeting this weekend, but the heavens will likely not be weeping. The moisture phenomenon popularly known as the "LDS general conference effect" is mainly a factor for April conferences. In fact, while it rains or snows...

• 4 sessions to air on TV, radio

  The 173rd Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Saturday, Oct. 4, and Sunday, Oct. 5, in the Conference Center, north of Temple Square. General session times will be 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on both days. The priesthood session will be Saturday...

• Church organist, Darley, 85, dies

  Long-time LDS Tabernacle organist Roy Maughan Darley died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003. Mr. Darley, 85, served as Tabernacle organist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 37 years before his retirement in 1984. Mr. Darley also served one year as organist at the Hyde Park...

• Pair reflect LDS Nigerians' faith

  With an underlying peace and dignity that ground them to the gospel of Christ, Elder Christopher N. Chukwurah and his wife, Florence, are literally as far from home as they can get, yet the embrace of fellow believers has provided a home for them in Salt Lake City. Busy this week with...

• Quest for mental health

  As they do twice a year at general conference, top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this weekend will speak publicly to offer spiritual succor to the faith's 11 million members. While the discussion of spiritual health has been a constant over time, what has...

• 'Glory' coming to big screen

  Up to now, LDS filmmaking has been taking baby steps, according to writer-director Russ Holt. But he hopes his big-screen adaptation of Gerald Lund's "The Work and the Glory" will step it up a notch. "We feel it is time to go beyond that to another level, because the genre has come of...

• LDS women are praised

  General Relief Society Meeting, September 27, 2003

• 'The World Report' is digest of news in Church

  Viewers of general conference over the Church satellite system might have become aware of an innovative, but hitherto unheralded, feature. "The World Report," a half-hour digest of news and information about the Church, has been shown between conference sessions since April 2000. Produced...

• Conference Center earns award

  The American Society of Landscape Architects has recognized the Conference Center with a Design Merit Award for excellence in landscape architecture. It was one of 33 award-winning projects selected from 436 entries. The awards are presented according to quality of design, functionality,...

• Open houses planned

  In conjunction with October general conference, a series of workshops and presentations for Church auxiliaries will be held Sept. 23-25 and Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in the Relief Society Building and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City. Included among the workshops are messages from...

• Conference to convene Oct. 4

  The 173rd Semiannual General Conference of the Church, to which all members are invited, will convene in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday and Sunday, October 4 and 5, 2003, with the general sessions each day at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. The...

• Relief Society to meet

  The General Relief Society Meeting will be held Sept. 27 in the Church's Conference Center. The theme of the program is "One Thing Is Needful: Choose That Good Part." The program will include addresses by a member of the First Presidency and by the General Relief Society Presidency....

Summaries of Talks

Saturday Morning

• 'We are moving forward'
• Dirty linen of sin not to be washed in public
• Saturday morning session speakers, music
• Sunday morning session speakers, music
• Wait patiently with faith for blessings yet received
• A sure foundation
• Elder Lynn A. Mickelsen
• Elder M. Russell Ballard
• Elder Sheldon F. Child
• LDS are warned of moral decline
• Let our voices be heard
• Lord, I believe; Help Thou mine unbelief
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President James E. Faust
• Seeing the promises afar off
• Sister Anne C. Pingree
• The Atonement, repentance, and dirty linen
• The state of the Church

Saturday Afternoon

• 'Ye are in the hands of God'
• Intelligent obedience characterizes members of Church
• Prophets still offer guiding clarion call
• Saturday afternoon session speakers, music
• Sunday afternoon session speakers, music
• Testimony vital to loved ones' salvation
• 'The standard of truth has been erected'
• Elder Dallin H. Oaks
• Elder Richard G. Scott
• Elder Robert D. Hales
• Elder Shirley D. Christensen
• Elder W. Craig Zwick
• LDS are warned of moral decline
• President Boyd K. Packer
• Realize your full potential
• Receiving a testimony of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ
• Repentance and change
• The clarion call of prophets
• The Lord Thy God will hold Thy hand

Priesthood

• Get to know your family lineage
• Priesthood session speakers, music
• Reach out to those who have strayed
• Strengthening faith is a personal quest
• To the bishops, 'shepherds of Israel'
• Young priesthood holders: 'Rise to the challenge'
• Bring him home
• Elder Merrill J. Bateman
• Elder Monte J. Brough
• Elder Russell M. Nelson
• Personal priesthood responsibility
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President James E. Faust
• President Thomas S. Monson
• Priesthood, keys, and the power to bless
• The phenomenon that is you
• The shepherds of Israel
• Young men — holders of keys
• Life's greatest decisions

Sunday Morning

• Elder Charles Didier
• Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
• Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
• Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin: Three choices
• He knows us; He loves us
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President Gordon B. Hinckley: An ensign to the nations, a light to the world
• President Thomas S. Monson
• President Thomas S. Monson: The bridge builder
• Sister Sydney S. Reynolds
• The grandeur of God
• The message of the Restoration

Sunday Afternoon

• 'Come, Follow Me'
• An enduring testimony of the mission of the prophet Joseph
• Are you a Saint?
• Bishop Richard C. Edgley
• Elder Henry B. Eyring
• Elder L. Tom Perry
• Elder L. Tom Perry: We believe all that God has revealed
• Elder Neal A. Maxwell
• Elder Neal A. Maxwell: How choice a seer!
• Elder Quentin L. Cook
• Elder William W. Parmley
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President Gordon B. Hinckley: Let us live the Gospel more fully
• The empowerment of humility