Show sunday services religious services were held in tiie the tabernacle Sunday on july 28 president angus M cannon presiding elder john morgan was tas the speaker he treated by lyof ay of introduction upon the religious nature of man and held heldi that as ae a rule the expressions of that sentiment in the human breast were sincere notwithstanding that they might be crude and unpolished it was wae exceedingly difficult for the people of the world generally genei ally to believe that the mormons cormons Mor mons are sin cebelin ce cere Bein in their religious faith this WW arose largely from a misunderstanding of the character of their religion there phere were large numbers who understood der stood that the saints do not believe in jesus christ buthod but had accepted it as a fact that they look to joseph smith as standing in the same relation to them as the savior to t the balance of christians I 1 these errors grounded in the minds of ef the people at large were very vary discouraging to the elders who SM re sent out as missionaries they were compelled to labor to uproot these false conceptions that had bad gaped gained ground and grown up before mom boom could be found on which to alg plant pt the seed of the G gospel I 1 the speaker had heard dewar a stranger who had paid a three days visit to this tele city remark ou on a railroad train foolish nem in building so costly a structure as the ach e temple the means thus expended could in his view have been used for more practical P tac bicsi purposes he expressed the opinion in j on that the government govern men t would some time seize the structure a and put it to some public use he did not explain by what right or authority this could be done this did da not seem to occur to him on asked if he knew the purposes 1 of a temple he confessed hia ri ls ignorance gnor ance upon that point on it being explained to him that ordinances for the benefit of the dead that their spirits might be liberated through the far reaching power of the gospel were performed there arel it modified bodill his views and feeling on the subject ct it was as already said difficult to make the general public believe that th n t the cormons mormons Mor mons are sincere in ZE tofta they profess yet their entire I 1 ajr vouched couched vou ched for their sincerity as 9 a people ople so in reference to their 10 fafty t to the government of the T united ta A states they had shown throughout a checkered and trying career that their loyalty to american institutions s was second to that oreb of no other people elder bider morgan then elucidated the AM arinel principles kith es of the mormon religion faith in the eternal father and in his son jesus chr christ f 94 repentance of sin baptism ay W immersion 1 ion in water at the ban hands of one holding divine author my for the remission of sins sin and the dayi laying ng on of hands for imparting the koly holy ghost host he characterized as a fallacy the popular idea were held in ahral dom by a tyrannical decess admin adain k n by a few men holding the priesthood that all things shall be done by common consent is a law of the church and the holders of the priesthood comprise almost the entire male portion of the church it would be through its power and the wisdom displayed through it that the saints would be delivered from the trials and difficulties that would soon seon overtake them that deliverance would not come by the wisdom and power of man but by the power of god box elder stake the quarterly conference of the box elder stake was held in brigham city tabernacle on sunday and monday july and president rudger clawson presiding the speakers on sunday forenoon were elder samuel smith and apostle lorenzo sno snow whose good counsel and instructions were listened to with marked attention by all present in the afternoon councilor charles kelly presented the general authorities of the church also the officers of the various wards in box elder stake all of whom were unanimously sustained president rudger clawson spoke of the power of the priesthood which is the power of godf also of the impossibility ability of separating spiritual and temporal things on monday afternoon the first speaker was barnard white who referred to the power of god which was with this people as the prophets hail bait predicted should be the case cage apostle lorenzo snow quoted the saying of the savior except ye are one ye are not mine he dwelt upon on the necessity of unity and said we should be united in temporal as well as in spiritual things listen to the counsel of the priesthood for it is not the man who holds the priesthood that we honor but the priesthood is the priesthood and power of god do unto others as you wish others to do unto you an and dou love god above all things let us be united and be one as jesus and his father are one also let us be as humble and obedient as he was in the afternoon president clawson presented samuel smith to be a patriarch in the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and john D peters and jeppa jeppson to be members of the high council of box elder stake they were all sustained by the unanimous vote of the people councilors councillors Counci lors john kelly and A madson and elder C dunn advised the saints to be united and keep the commandments ot of god apostle lorenzo snow related some of his experiences when he first embraced the gospel gopel and how he obtained a knowledge of the truth of this work all latter day saints should have a knowledge for themselves that this is the work of god the meetings were well attended and a good spirit prevailed during the conference 0 PETERSEN clerk pro tern tem brigham city utah july 1889 |