Show tabernacle sunday morning rooming m elder orson pratt read a portion of the be book of malachi Malac bi and spoke of I 1 the present generation as being hi high Z I 1 h y favored I 1 by living in the dispensation of the falness ful fui nega nebb I 1 ness nesa of i times alluded to the revelation of the book of I 1 mormon which contains a history of the first settlements ever made on the american conti I 1 nent said that the history it contains is clear plain and easy to be understood while the history of the eastern hemisphere ig is buried in obscurity afterpe after we go back six or eight ries before the cb christian ristian era with the exception 1 of the jewish record but in regard to this con he be remarked we have the testimony of prophets and apostles that wrote their revelations ve that all future 9 generations ene rations might be berie bene fitted by the things which they were commanded to write therefore we have something to be depended upon bro pratt then took up the subject of the coming forth ol 01 the blick slick of ofa ephraim its object deegan design and what will ulti alti 1 be accomplished through its instrumentality for prophetic evidence upon the ques lion tion be he referred the audience to 0 o chapter af of isaiah of ezekiel 48 and chap lers of genesis and the of deuteronomy afternoon elder john taylor spoke of the systems that have been got up by philosophers and philanthropists philanthropist to ameliorate the condition of mankind noticed also of the system attempted to be established in nauvoo and how signally they bad all failed compared their success with that of the latter day saints under greater difficulties and with less encouragement and far less means in proof of which he cited the attention of the congregation to the travels of the saints from missouri to illinois and thence to this territory and notwithstanding all their difficulties they had succeeded in carry carrying ng out their system of emigration and in place of sending to france or some other country connary for aid they sent out thousands of dollars to gather in the poor from the various nations of europe bore testimony to the truth of the work of god revealed in these latter times reporter REPORTER MORE MOKE showers several showers passed over this valley on tuesday afternoon but none over the city till evening when there was a fine one though not of long duration |