Show SABBATH SERVICES eiders kins pud finlayson exhort the saints IDOLS WE TODAY they should be battered by HIB true at the sunday serviced ser vicea in albert jones presided after the asua usua opening exercises the sacrament was administered to by the bishopric of the third ward elder J Findlay sou the first speaker said in substance that though beeline timid in standing before a congregation lie felt always to yield obedience to such a call we all do not see alike many have received a testimony of the work we are engaged in others have not it is paid that at one time a man fume to jesus who told him if lie would do his will lie would know if the gospel jesua taught was of the lord or whether it was of man this promise is a arrand one and it is extended to us we dont know when this testimony tes may come I 1 once had a young lady asked me alien she came to be baptized how it would be before shi would receive a testimony I 1 told her I 1 did not know I 1 think none of us know and we receive our testimony in various ways god is the same today to day as lie vas in former and lie will be the same forever if he has revealed himself in former ages ho can also do so now and he will give us a testimony if we to him I 1 notice that the greater portion of the congregation today to day is made up of chales cm ales of course we have our own agency there is every thin in the gospel that we can ask for this be sufficient for us to perform every duty E LDER W II 11 KING recci red tu third chapter of daniel where it id related that had erected an idol into which all should bow the knee at a given signal but certain of alie chaldean children refused to do BO for I 1 which they were cast into a nerv furnace it appeals tome bretherd ethern br and sisters that wo may learn from this an important lesson wo leavo idols erected today to day in our midst tle idols of political power alie idols of social love and alie sophistry of alie power is given ua to resist these temptations if we livo our religion I 1 do not that a man should pray that temptations bo removed from his path but I 1 think lie should pray to have feitli to overcome temptation when it is thrown ic his path temptation aives the boblo attributes of man strength when lie resists them some men forget eliat religion is practical if you rob religion of it practicability it ceases to be a religion ke ligion should enter into the every day walks of life the speaker sli owed by incidents of history that men have only been considered great as they leave led the difficulties in choir way la there one here who would say take the fu cnance of opposition away from me let me revel in the beautiful hilver streams of pleasure plea suie that are found along the pathway of life I 1 think none of us would desire aliis state of au air it is only when we climb the tops of the mountains w e see the rough chasms and uneven surface beneath us there are chasms of vicissitude in this veil of tears that wo see and understand better when wi rise to the summit they then lay stretched out 1 afore on the plain ot life we all have conr trials we all have our idols we must all overcome cheso by the of religion thia will bring us to the state when we shall have but one idol that of alio living god and sisters god lias riven us the true religion through revelation better down the t ilse idols eliat we may have erected in our mind through this religion we can say we will not bow downto the idols of alie world we are the forerunners of the second coming of christ and we should have strength to overcome our temptations for that glorious event it seems to ni br ethern and sisters that we have A work more magnificent than alie world has ever before seen and it sometimes seems to me eliat god has a weak people with which to his purposes let us alien dedicate all we have unto the lord and live more after his lawa that in alie end we may receive eternal life in the celestial kingdom the choir sang a lovela anthem prayer bv J duff |