not redeemed by blood." He explained that in the Thursday meetings with the General Authorities in the Salt Lake Temple, President Lorenzo Snow continually emphasized this principle. Elder Rudger Clawson related the following story in the December 1904 conference; "on one occasion a young man after being baptized and the authority of the Holy Priesthood conferred upon him, he received the gift of healing and was commanded by the Spirit of God at three different times to heal a child that was afflicted, he hesitated each time refusing to obey the voice of the Spirit when the Lord said to him, Thou fool the gift has departed from thee.' This young man in afteryears told me he plead with the Lord time and time again for that Spirit, but never received it again." In the September 1906 conference Elder George A Smith warned the Saints to get out of debt. He prophesied that hard times would soon come and admonished the people to remember what he had told them. At the June 1907 conference Elder Heber J. Grant sang a solo, "Who Is on the Lord's Side Who" and "I Know It Is the Promised Land." Whenever Elder MelvinJ. Ballard visited the Morgan Stake conference, he would also sing for the Saints, thrilling them with his beautiful voice. When President Joseph F. Smith visited Morgan in September 1907, he told the story of his mother exercising her faith to find their oxen that had gotten lost during the night. His uncle and a hired man had hunted all morning and couldn't find them. Mary Fielding Smith knelt in prayer and then proceeded to where the oxen were. President Smith concluded by encouraging the youth to always be prayerful. In 1910 Elder Grant again visited Morgan, this time in February and again in December. He asked the Saints if they would not be excited to receive and be able to read a letter from the president of the United States. He then explained that the members of the Church had received many letters from the Savior in the Doctrine and Covenants. He then asked how many had read the Dextrine and Covenants or even the first section. In the December conference Elder Grant sang the hymn, "O My Father," and then spoke on the history of the Improvement Era. He explained that every Latter-day Saint home should take the Era. He challenged the stake to have ninety subscribers, which would be five percent and an increase over the past.6 Fouryears later Elder Grant again visited Morgan and spoke on a theme for which he is still remembered: "That which we persist in doing becomes easy for us to do, not because the nature of the thing has changed, but because our power to do it has increased." In 1904 a pea canning company was constructed in the Valley, which became famous for its peas. An eastern magazine wrote of the Morgan Cannery, "out in this great broad western country, in a crack in the mountains, I find the largest, best equipped, and most modem pea canning plant in the world. Nine complete lines have a daily capacity of over 20,000 cases."7 The pea cannery brought an economic boost to the county, but its operation on the Sabbath caused concern. Elder David O. McKay, in a visit to