Show SUNDAY serviced pres L A snow presided at the at the services regular afternoon tabernacle last sunday the meeting began by the choir singing the hymn come 0 thou king ot of kings prayer was offered b by v elder joseph IL LIly lillywhite white and the choir sang the hymn 0 happy r souls who pray the sacrament was administered by the bis bishopric of the 3rd ard ward during the passing ot of which patriarch W L watkins read the ath chapter ot of matthew hansera rendered a solo in a very pleasing manner the first speaker was elder denmark jensen in referring to the recent visit ot of the camp wagon mission aries to our city elder jensen quoted a remark made by oneff one of their number at a street meeting in which he stated that those who endeavored to wo work rk out their own salvation or teach were insulting the savior because of the fact that chrit christ died for or the sins ot of the world the I 1 speaker then proceeded to point out from the scriptures the cassity of works along with faith in order to gain a place in the kingdom of god lie he pointed out the inconsistency sis tency of a farmer sitting down and exercising his faith but putting forth no effort to raise a crop yet expect ing to reap a bounteous harvest these villages and cities and beautiful fields would never have had an existence it if the pioneers had remained in missouri and iowa and exercised their faith they had to accompany the faith they had of a place of refuge in the west with most strenuous works and endured untold hardships to make that faith a reality be ye not alone hearers bearers of the word but doers also was the injunction ot of the saviour and faith without works is absolutely dead the choir sang the hymn now is the voice etc and elder N L hansen occupied the remainder of the time he followed the subject spoken on by the previous speaker talking on the negative side of the question and showing how bow inactivity in any line brings death thus corroborating the statement of paul in james wherein he says that as the body without the th spirit is dead so also is faith without works dead the speaker read extracts from a book written by drummand brummand Drum mand the great scotch thinker who classed all ministers who do all the preaching pi leaching toi to congregations and ud leave nothing tor ahe the members themselves to do as parasites such congregations become absolutely dead because of the fact that they make no effort for themselves simply satisfied sats fled to have their minister perform all al the work tor for them and the ministers themselves become like unto parasites which are generated in dead matter and live on their fellow beings the gospel of the lord teaches that every man must work out his own salvation living by his own light a principle which Is the living feature of the church of jesus christ because every member has something to do for himself not depending upon the preachers to do it for him the choir sang the anthem 1 I will lift up mine eyes benediction was pronounced by elder joseph 1 M I reeder |