Show SUNDAY SERVICES TL 1 1 0 ie of christianity ELD tiie arne of jebus always exists ab a whole from mondays I 1 alio usual sabbath services of alio church of jesus christ of latter day were bield at the meetinghouse meeting house list sunday singing by alio choir prayer was pronounced by elder jos B keeler tho choir sang we meet the boand ot our lord alio sacrament was administered by tha bishopric of alie first ward elder win H king trusted eliat alic speakers might hae alie spirit of god our mission as latter day saints a I 1 look upon it is to call upon men to acknowledge god alie world consider that it is arrogance on our part to preach alie gospel to them they sav have we not preached and taught alie gospel of christ for 1800 ears when our elders go borth to the gospel alie hands of men are up in persecution against them if alio world is right then i 0 are wrong and as wo do not ant I 1 cling to anor but to stand out n alio mountain of truth let us examine into ti lings the world gayy that alie savior camo to and those principles eliat w ill lead us back into alie presence of our god the world assumes that the system by jesus christ i in existence among llie christian world undoubtedly aliey leavo some likenesses of alie gospel but to alio searcher after there s a palpable ible vu bay that 11 w gospel of christ exists as a whole and cannot be separated thoy do not see eliat the church of christ cannot exist in theory alone alie principles of chri chrit t do not exist merely in the abstract but they are ical men seem to have forgotten that is a living and not a dead abstract alic church of christ wherever it is found possesses all alio o characteristics fayfar ng in in though a fool need not err herein I 1 think we can inako this a causation cusa tion against the world to day aliat liat they have forgotten alie real feitli ill their meaningless abstracts I 1 think that we can accuse christianity today to day of misrepresenting alie truth and ahing wrong conceptions of alie gospel as taught by our lord and master jesus christ I 1 believe alie teachings of ho called ministers of christianity leavo tended to demoralize and make infidels alio true feitli of jesus clorist as taught by him will enable the world to put down their nebs and live in aliat way eliat will bring bliem back to god does a knowledge of god mean eliat a man w ill diner from c ery kotlier man in a knowledge of bilings pertaining to lite if a hundred knowledge of a democratic go eminent elioso hundred men will pursue the same if a corps of teachers ha c the same ideas of teaching aou will lind them all instructing in a liko manner true knowledge creates unanimity if the world have a know 1 edgo of alic true and god they will IQ united in serving that god where there is disunion where am it may be safely averted eliat alio people have not a true and correct know ledge of their god ancy say 0 human nature is ahaas alie same there are of opinion as are different types of men I 1 dont belice any principle of permia of any difference of Oiin lon tho scriptures are not for every mans interpretation when the people will enjoy the same spirit they will all know alike and will all see alike alie christiana horld of today to day remarks ab did llie people of old these men are with new wine we may I 1 throw away the doctrine of the christian world there ara many ways t alie city of boston but they all arrive at alio same place there is but one wy into the kingdom of heaven and that is alie straight and narrow path that leads to eternal life alio world say aliis is not a charitable view it is dilliber a have all alie prophets in golden of glory sung unto us of god if they have they have sung that MC must be one the harp of alie gospel does not ghe discordant sounds the teaching of mini stera hae done good but we ask to po further we dont want it repeated merely eliat god lives and that jesus died for the world dont want 10 believe eliat there is a beautiful heaven aliat we will reach it wu are not drowned wo are out upon alie broad ocean of life and we want alic guiding compass of god eliat i we may stir clear of alie rocks and the and arriva safely at eliat haven of rest it strikes me that alic world arc like alic marinora marin cra of old they have no guiding compass and they arc afraid to venture far away from alie shores alio scale to alic top of the highest mountains and look out upon the vast expanse of truth must frequently do so with of friends alic rocks below will be marked by alio prints of bleeding feet there are many today to day alio want ta know the true way to god but there are many of them who become confused one man beckons here and another beckons and as a result they frequently say 1 I will go neither way and so become infidels Is this not a arre picture of the world but our ciders are going and warning the world and inviting them to enter into alie folds of christ the earth is to be baptized baptised sed by lire and wo are alic precursors of eliat second baptism already we can see the rays of alie sun of righteousness rising in the alie world today to day proclaim we have our churches and cathedrals we are increasing in numbers and power they say wo dont want your faith the canon of scripture is full Is there not a wonderful similarity between the events of today to day and the events at the time of the savior and again will there n ot be a similarity between the first and alie second coming of christ than they wera buying and and giving in marriage Is it not the bame today to day I 1 say the parallel is almost complete I 1 will tell you my brethren and sisters that mormonism of today to day is a duplicate of the gospel as taught in alio days of christ napoleon with all of his could not give harmony to france bia marck with his statesmanship cannot unite all the people of germany blaino cannot unite diio different poetical poi parties of this country this principle is left to religion alone alie latter day saints are laboring for the dissemination of truth we have a verv great responsibility before us we relar to alio schoolmaster as shaping alio minda of alie bouth we have this to perform with the whole world we can do it if god will give us his faith let us doit let us stand shoulder to shoulder in our great battle of life the choir sang an anthem and benediction was pronounced by elder K G maeser |