Show E ILI I 1 G IOU S sunday services religious services were held in the tabernacle salt bait like lake city junt june 19 1892 com commend g at 2 p in president angus M cannon presiding the choir song the hymn beginning hark I 1 listen to the trumpeters tram trum peters I 1 they sound for volunteers prayer was offered by elder W wm in 0 dunbar the choir saing eang the anthem glorious god eternal father the priesthood of the seventeenth ward administered in the ordinance of the sacrament ELDER DAVID F DAVIS first addressed the congregation he said aid that what little experience he had bad b bad ad in the ministry had bad taught him that without t the aid and assistance of the spirit of the lord it was folly for foran an elder to a attempt to address the latter day saint sal DB s he had for many known that what the world called ye years a ro mormonism 9 was nothing more por nor less than the gospel goepel of jesus jesua christ which was waa the power of god unto salvation to all those who be lieveld and obeyed the speaker quoted from the hotst section of the doctrine and covenants verily I 1 say unto you ya concerning your brethren who have been afflicted and persecuted and cast out from the land of their inheritance 1 I the lord have suffered the affliction to come upon them wherewith the they ot have been afflicted in conte consequence quence of their yet I 1 will own them and they shall be raine mine iu in that day when I 1 shall come to make up ray my jewels there were he said not only sins nine of commission but sins of omission if we called upon the lord for light and knowledge and then failed to live according to that knowledge we were transgressors iu in the first year of the organization of inis church it was revealed unto the prophet joseph smith that this was the dispensation when god would build his city the ner zion of the latter days and in the fall of 1830 missionaries were sent to the western country from new york to preach to the L Lama sma in the instructions given gitell to those missionaries it was said that somei somewhere here in the west went was the locality ot of this city and it was in this city that the great temple of which most ot of the ancient prophets spoke the temple upon which the lord would rest as a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by eight was to be built buelt in june 1881 1831 another revelation was given instructing others to go on a mission to the wast enose who went in the fall of 1880 1830 traveled as far as the western boundary of missouri which at that time was the frontier of the united states they remained in independence jackson co or in that neighborhood until those who were called previously joined them among those who took part A in the latter mission was the V prophet pophet joseph he held a conference in jackson co and there it was th t the lord revealed unto him the exact spot upon which a temple should be built a little west of the court house in independence on the 2nd and of august the land was dedicated by sidney rigdon bigdon for the gathering of the saint and the following day the ground upon which the temple now stands was dedicated by the prophet joseph revelations were agven concerning the celestial law on temporal matters as well as spiritual speaking of the persecutions which the saints encountered he said these became so severe th that st in the fall of 1832 the mob drove the people en maws masse trum the county their houses were burned and many of the brethren and sisters were slain while many died from exposure to the inclement weather at this time the prophet was in ohio when he received the news it filled his bis soul with sorrow borrow and be was greatly surprised for it had not the speaker supposed been then opened to his bis mind that the saints would oom come from that region eventually reach the these mountains build u up p cities here and become a great people as ag he afterwards prophesied would be the case not knowing why this eala calamity wity these had come upon the saints he be luqui inquired rei of the lord and received a revelation in answer to his prayer the truth would meet and always had met with opposition so long as satan batan had power and it could be maintained only on the principles of righteous ness if our righteousness did not conform with the truth we bad re from god we would surely be beaten with many stripes having the higher the celestial law the saints were not judged as the world and therefore what would condemn them would not condemn the world after exhorting his hearers bearers to abandon all feeling of covetousness covetous pride and self will wil and build up the king dom of god according to the celestial law elder davis referred to the organ leation of zions camp and the march to missouri accompanied by the prophet joseph and dwelt upon the driving of the saints from missouri and their journeying eying to illinois where another temple was built unto the lord he pictured urtO the subsequent afflictions of the people the martyrdom of the prophet and the arrival eventually of the saints in these se mountain valleys here they had been a great many years and had become a prosperous community but he be asked how much more were we prepared for zions redemption now than when the latter day saints first entered these vallean val leyn leyb in our prosperity and blessings did we ave ve any nearer to god bod than we did forty years aga age were we fulfilling arwe as we should the celestial law jaw the speaker strongly urged the necessity necess iti of keeping strictly holy the sabbath day and of discharging steadfastly all the duties and obligations which the lord had placed upon his chosen people PRESIDENT JOSEPH F SMITH was the next speaker he should depend on the guidance of the spirit of the lord for what he be would say that afternoon while brother brothe davis was speaking his bis own mind reverted to a revelation given to the prophet joseph smith in september 1831 which no he dt d sired now to read as it might bring it to the recollection of those who had not read it fr for some time if any one present was under the impression that the presidency of the church had nothing else to do but real the scriptures and ponder upon the doctrines ot of the church and the precepts of the gospel he or she did not understand the nature of the r bili ties and labors which devolved upon them day af or er day from morning until evening they were beset with business with cares and responsibilities not of their own but 0 of f the people at large thus the greater creator portion of their time was occupied so that they had bad no doubt even less at command than very many of the saints in which to read the scriptures and ponder upon those great ana glorious principles of the gospel which had bad been revealed to us in this consequently he himself did not read the bible book of mormon and doctrine and covenants anything like as much as aa he ought and as he would like to do but when he had the opportunity to look into the scriptures or read the rivela eions they oame came so to speak new to him though be had bad studied them in bygone days no matter how frequently we read the he word of the lord as often as we did so in the spirit odthe of tb lord in the spirit ot meekness and with a desire to learn some new thought would become impressed ow on our mind and it would open to us something perhaps in a now new light not long ago in a stake conference be read a certain revelation and then called upon all in the congregation who bad read it within the previous mouth month to rise to their feet but out of the hundreds assembled he believed seventeen persons only re spouted it would be unnecessary probably to ask the congregation now before him auw many among the number had read the passage which he was about to read within the last few days or weeks president smith then turned to the section page of the book of of doctrine and covenants anil and recited verses versee 28 23 and 24 from the rI revelation given to the prophet joseph in kirtland september alth 1831 behold now it is called today until the coming of the son of man and verily it in a day of sacrifice and a day for the tithing of my peaple for he that i is tithed shall not be burned at his coming for after today cometh the burning this is speaking after the manner of the lord for verily I 1 say tomorrow all the proud and the they that do wickedly shall be as stubble and and awill I 1 will burn bur them up for I 1 am the lord of hosts and I 1 will not spare any that remain in babylon we had the gospel of repentance for sins preached unto us of faith in jesus jesu christ and of baptism for the remis remission slow of sins sing alpo aho the dispensation of the gathering of the people the dispensation of the times in which all things shall be gathered in one in the due time of the loxa As a beginning he had required his people to gather together that they might be taught in his laws to walk in his bis ways that they might not partake of the sins of the world and receive of her plagues we had bad been called to gether by the voice of god that we might be one taught in the law of god that we might be thoroughly furnished in every good work and every good word that edeth from the mouth of god that we might build houses of worship in which to assemble an I 1 lu in spirit and in truth draw near unto him with our hearts and not with our lips only we were called together that we might live in pence peace with each other that we might be honest toward our neighbor and be brethren as of one common household that we might learn to do good and profit by the ex ample of those who were inspired by god to walk in the paths of truth and righteousness the lord designed that we should come together also in order that we might build temples unto his name and be blessed peculiarly of him not only in our spiritual labors and in our faith in the knowledge of the truth but that we might be placed in a position in which he could pour out his blessing upon our farms our orchards and our flocks and herds that he might bestow it upon his people according to their merit and worthiness before him we had come together thit that we might send the gospel to the nations of the earth by our combined effort go where we would in the world today and we need not go far from zion either for this the name of god was blasphemed we would hear men uttering in a contemptuous way the name of him who is the father of our spirit the maker of all things he who held the destiny of men and nations in his hands from whom all blessings flowed from whom all good emanated from whom we received the light of heaven and the intelligence which we possessed all the benel benefits lits that we e joyed in the world the gospel which we had embraced taught us to honor the being who created us and gave us this beautiful world in which to dwell was it a small email thing then to acknowledge the 8 so 0 u ace of all good god what would we be and what would be our condition were it not that god poured out the rains upon the just and the unjust and caused the sun to shine upon the evil and the god had not gifts been bestowed upon the latter day saints which were not commonly enjoyed by the world not that the world outstay was excluded from all the gifts blessings and privileges in which the saints shared all the children of men might enjoy them if they would only hearken to the voice of god and obey zis his law it if we obeyed the law upon which the blessing was predicated upon which the promise was based we were entitled to that blessin blessing gand and vice versa vena let juet us said the speaker look at our condition a little it to is a day of sacrifice and a day for the tithing of my geiple people for he be that is tithed shall not be e burned at his bis coming by their tithing and aid offerings the latter day saints had built temples in this lain land d they were building one in this city and hastens hastening ng now to complete it in order that it might be dedicated next april it was by the sacrifices which the people had made that these temples were erected and for what in the first place they were built unto the name of the lord for the perform ance of certain ordinances of the aos pel of jesus christ which ought not to be performed anywhere else it was not a new idea or gospel which had been revealed to us in this dispensation dis leation nea tion for in the days of the ardren children ch of bersel israel in their wanderings in the wilderness and in their journeying Journey inge they carried their tabernacle with them the speaker referred to the temple of solomon and asked should not the latter day saints who had received the instructions of the almighty and a smattering of the knowl knowledge efte of the gospel of jesus christ know to some extent the objects for which that house was built and the nature of the ordinances performed therein etwas it was not known however to the world and today there was not a sectarian minister on gods earth who could give an intelligent account of it because the ordinances of the gospel were not proclaimed broadcast to the he world they were for the children of the kingdom to be administered unto those who re the truth who were born again and became heirs of gd and heirs of jesus christ there were special privileges which belonged to the righteous and the int initiated who were gu entitled titled to receive the gifts of heaven heavelin that the would knew not of we spoke of them now to the world in general terms we to mankind there you rudot knuist go to receive your washing and anointing there you must ga to be baptized for your deal to be confirmed fort for them bem to be endowed for them to be ordained for them and to be sealed for them for time and for eternity for there was but one gospel and that applied to th the dead as well at the living the one eternal goepel the one perfect jan an of redemption and salvation for the human family adapted to men in the flesh and to the spirits in the spirit world to the youth to the aged and to all the children of god throughout the world but he be could tell his hearers of men who had bad preached the gospel to the nations of the earth for years who had trave traveled lell hundreds of thousands of miles and yet all told perhaps they bad not baptized more than twenty thirty or may be a hundred sou leand ie and brought them into the fold of christ perhaps one or two men in this church had bad been so successful and so blessed of god as to have been instrumental in baptizing a thousand individuals after all their preaching and labors abroad but he tell them of many a one who had gone into the temples and there been baptized for thousands upon thousands of the dead for the remission of their sins and who had bad received the farst ordinances of the gospel in their behalf so that the work done outside was a mere trifle in comparison with the great work which we might do for those who had died without a knowledge of the gospel their hearts were turna unto us and the hearts of the children must be turned unto them if it were not so god had said that the earth would be utterly wasted at his coming quoting the first verse previously read the speaker said that no power on earth could take away a mans manis crown his reward or make him destitute he was laying a foundation that would reach into eternity because he was engaged in the work which god had revealed for the redemption and salvation salvat salva loR tiou of the dead all the ordinances ordinance i applicable to us were applicable to the dead also there was but one law for all and that must be obeyed simple as it might seem to us and non essential as it might appear to many there was not a principle in the gospel that could be ignored with impunity the savior when on the earth had to obey the same law that we were required to obey he was wag olar exemplar and the works that he did we must do the course |