Show I SUNDAY SERVICES S The opening hyrari in the services in the Assembly Hall on Sunday afternoon was the one beginning Jesus mighty Kingand Sir ote Prayer by Elder Joseph Home The choir sang the hymn beginning begin-ning How great the wisdom and the love ote ELDER JOHN NICHOLSON addressed I the congregation He eaid a special comounJment had been given t the elders of the church by Ihe Jjrd through Joseph Smith it was to tbo effect that thet should preach the gospel bat should not teach unless they bad the spirit Sometimes times the greatest difficulty presented t the mind of the elder was in regard re-gard to the topic upon which ha should speak the subjects were to numerous But one subject was always of great importance to the taints namely that in regard t tbe work to be perfoimed upon this earth for the salvation of mankind In pursuance of this work tbe saicts were building temples In 1836 certain cer-tain pereonegea appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Condery in the Kirtlsnd Temple One of those personages per-sonages was the eon of God Another was the Prophet Elijh who holds the keys of the eternal world for turning the hearts of the children to the fathers and tbe hearts of the fathers t the children His coming bad been predicted by Malncbi who foretold that the keys would be restored re-stored to tbe earth in order that a j cureti houfd not fall upon men Joseph Smith claims to being a prophet pro-phet of God were proven beyond a possibility of doubt t the mind of the speaker One proof wa that Ihe elders go lorth I to the world preaching preach-ing the gospel of the kingdom as bad been predicted by Msltchi They are clothed with a portion of that Drieethcod which was first bestowed upon J seph Smith Tbcir preaching Id acknowledged by the heavenly Father Ia obedience to the call hundreds and thousands repent 01 their sins and turn away from the beliefs in which they had been reared they are baptized in order that they may receive the ordinances and spirit whioh had been promised Who was to judge if one received the Holy Gnost Tho individual himself was I the best judge as 10 whether h3 bad received the blessings that had ben promised Those who repented were baptized and accepted of the doctrines doc-trines of the church were witnesses that they had been blessed aa had been oromised One who baa not complied with the doctrines of the gospel cannot say that this is not the wore of Gjd In addition those who believe are prompted by the spirit that Elijah brought when he conferred tbe keys upon Smith and Cowdery Those who comprehend this work come for the purpose of being like Saviors on Mount Z1on to performa perform-a work for those who have gone before be-fore The beasts of the children are thus turned t the father that they may do something for their salvation Wheu the elders go into the world those who are opposed to the wore endeavor to find something to controvert contro-vert the assertions of those who preach the gospel They accused the elders of being narrow because tho latter claim to be members of the only true church The world > ay if it be true that the saints have the only church and there has been an interval of darkness what is to become be-come of those who livei during that dark period The reason of this objection ob-jection is because of the blindness of the people which prevents the wcrld from comprehending the gospel The gospel is saving those people who have not had the opportunity for hearing it proclaimed in tbe flesh The same gospel is being preached to those who have not beard it here but are now listening to i in the spirit world It bad been foretold by one of the apostles that tbe dead should hear tbe voica of the son of man and they shall come forth they who have done good in the resurrection of the just and they who have done wrong ti the resurrection of the damned Christ after death had preached to the saints in prison He delivered to them a message of salvation just aa we hear it in this life He did this that they might be judged according to the light they received just as men to day are to be judged I we escape condemnation con-demnation we must walk in accordance accord-ance with the instructions of God and so also must those who hear the gospel in the spirit The law of God goept be obeyed in its fullness No part of it may be broken with impunity im-punity AH must believe repent of their sins be baptized and have hands laid upon them for the recap tion of the Holy Ghost otherwise they could not be raved Cr < rist himself had been baptized and all who entered the kingdom of God must follow in the footsteps of him who had led the way to salvation Christ was without sin hence be did not require baptism for the remission of sin but be was born of the wat r in order to conform to the strict letter of the gospel law A man must be born ni the water and of the spirit to be saved in the presence of the Father We say a spirit cannot be baptzed but by the law of substitution substitu-tion or one pereon performing an act for another the work could be done and the object accomplished In ancient times the saints understood under-stood well that in order to have the approval of God their hearts must be turned to the fathers In the days of Christs sojourn upon the earth there were various sects and religious denominations de-nominations as there are tcday Then as now the saints brought into the church many sectarian ideas As a consequence schisms arose us they have done in this age Formerly there were disciples who preached that there was no resurrection of the dead but Christ was resurrected and the Apostle Paul had asked i the dead do not riie why was there baptizing bap-tizing for the dead There was a law that the living might be baptized for the dead in order that all might have an opportunity to be saved That law had been restored to tbis earth through Joseph Smith upon whom tbe keys had been bestowed in the Rutland Temple as above stated when Emah the nronbet aDDeired asit bad been predicted 0 Elijah I I came to prevent th Lord from smiting smit-ing the earth with a cure Tbe world denied that he had come i but the saints claimed that ho had come aod that these were tbo later days when it A promised that the prophet pro-phet would appear Elder Nicholson Nichol-son while abroad on his late mission reflected upon the position ol f the nations of the earth and to him it was clear that the time spoken of in the Bible when the nations should be devastated and pas away was near at hand Thrones were tottering and empireawere shaken to their centres There were secret combinations for overturning kingdoms as Joseph Smith said there would be God had a controversy with the nations and for tbe he was preparing the way destruction WI ol the wicked that righteousness right-eousness might become universal and the knowledge of him cover the face of the eartn as the waters cover the great deep God had spoken and his words would certainly be fulfilled I ful-filled Ho had said the nations would be brcken in piece The way niwt bj prepare fg 1 tb reigq Qf peace and righteousness and the saints were the germ of that righteous be kingdom to come They might progressing slowly but they were nevertheless advancing This iq i tue greatest of all dispensations there occasfon were men equal to the great There need be no fear The world could not intorfereTvith the progress of Gods work i the eainta were faithful faith-ful Elder Nicholson concluded by proclaiming his testimony to his knowledge of the truth of the gopel and by exhorting the saints to be faithful to the doctrines which they bad espoused when no power on earth could prevail against them or the work in which they were engaged At the conclusion of Elder Niohol eons discourse the oboir sang an anthem and the congregation wo t diemiase Elder John Pack pronouncing pronoun-cing the benediction a |