Show SUNDAY SERVICES u The opening hymn at the Assem bv Hall on Sunday afternoon was the one on page 117 All praise to our redeiiiing Lnd Who joins us by his grwo And bids da eucn to each resioud Together seek his face Prayer by Elder A H Raleigh Tne choir sang the hymn on page 431 431o my Father thou that dwellest In tr e high and glorious place When shall I regain thy pre ° occe And alain behold thy lace In thy holy habitation Did my spirit once reside In my first primeval childhood Was I nurtured near thy aide APOSTLE HEBER J GRANT addressed dressed the congregation He said the desire of his heart was to know and obey the will of the Eatherand to work for the advancement of the kingdom Whenever he was diligent dili-gent in performing his duties as an elder he experienced great pleasure and joy The enemies of the saints were trying to overthrow the kingdom king-dom of God and deprive the people of their civil and political rights For this reason the young people should be more prompt and faithful in protecting the rights of themselves and their parents He was pleased to note that at the late delegate election notwith standing the disfranchisements over 4000 more votes were cast than at the last previous election He hoped there would be a continuance continu-ance of this marked interest on the patt of the people to protect themselves them-selves Elder Grant specially advised ad-vised the young men to study and I become conversant with the principles princi-ples of the gospel that the > might combat the assaults made against the doctrines of the Lord He also exhorted them to pray for a testimony testi-mony which would be given them and thct testimony would continue with them so long as they kept themselves irom sin PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR next addressed the congregation He said the object of the saints in meeting meet-ing from time to time was that they might be instructed iu regard to the things of God and to their duties on this earth It was proper that the people should understand the position they occupy their relations to Godand to the people with whom they live should comprehend why they live the object of their existence and what are the duties devolving upon them These were things in which they are individually concerned It was natural for one to ask who and what he was whence he came where he was to go etc There had been various statements in relationto God the Father of men In the doctrine doc-trine and Covenants were accounts of men who had communication with God who gave them certain instructions regarding the guidance guid-ance of the people The saints were taught that the Doctrine and Covenants Bible and Book of Mormon Mor-mon were true and believing them they have tested by them the truth of the rules laid down for their guidance Men had certain ways of testing things in this world There were unchangeable laws that were always true When an elder first taught him the gospel he the speaker asked what the saints believed in and the reply was in prophets apostles the gIfts of tongues and prophecy in faith in God in repentance of sins and baptism for remission of sins in the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost etc as did the saints in the Saviors time The doctrines taught were the same as those contained in the Scrip tures and the results following belief be-lief and practice were promised to be the same as they had been formerly for-merly The result was the accep tance of the gospel by the speaker who went and taught the same things There is a difference between be-tween the gospel and the beliefs of the world You cannot find any body who would dare stand up and say that if one would obey the gospel gos-pel and have hands laid on him he would receive the spirit of the Holy Ghost and the gift of prophecy The saints proclaimed this and thy knew it to be true They had had commission given them to make the prclamation to all the world They had been for fifty years obeying the commands in con y ing the seeds ot eternal life to the children of men The thousands of saints ware here because they had heard and obeyed the osJel of God They come to Zion casting their lots together just as had been predicted pre-dicted would be the case They cared little for the ideas and opinions opin-ions of men for they were certain the Lord would be their supporter Their religion suits them and they were happy in it The world charged the saints with wickedness wicked-ness so also was it said the Savior and his apostles were wicked The saints today were not much worse than those anclentlyand they would dolwell if they could associate with the formerday saints who had been declared wicked There need be no uneasiness concerning what the world said or did concerning the saints The latter should go along In their own course feeding the gospel to the world and doing good to all men even to their enemies ene-mies By and by God would lay hands ou the wicked and treat them harsher than the saints would like to see them handled He felt sorry when he saw men take a wrong course for he knew the punishment pun-ishment would certainly come and be severe He felt that he had done his duty to this nation and to the world and the rest was with Got If the nations did wrong they would suffer for it They were suffering today for wrongdoing Here at home there was little for the people I to complain of as saints they might complain about the loss of their Political rights but there was such a thing as retributive justice If the nation could afford to deprive them of their political rights they could afford to accept the deprivation depriva-tion until such time as God saw proper to apply the principle of retributive tributive justice It was for the saints to simply obey the Lord do right and live their religion to inure in-ure nobody and be just to all as God was just and righteous The saints should have family prayers seek unto God for wisdom to guide and direct them to enlighten their minds to see things as He sees them be honest promote the welfare wel-fare of others as well as them selves love God and their neighbors neigh-bors pray with and for each other and for their enemies avoid deception decep-tion and hypocrisy for God cannot > decived live in peace together ducaugth the children by sending them to schools by Latterday Saints teach their sons and daughters the principles of purity i chastety If they will only do right and keep the commandmonts ot God they need have no fear of all the world The choir sing an anthem and counselar D H Wells pronounced the benediction |