Show SABBATH SERVICES S a On Sunday afternoon service were hold in the Salt Like Atsembly Hells I which Wa cooifortsby filed Tbe ning opening hymn was the one begin 0 God oar help in age pal etc Prayer by EiJer Royal B Young The choir tang the hymn beginning begin-ning Ye children of our God et APOSTLE OasoK PRATt eaid that a he understood it the object of preach ing W8 t do good both to the bearers bear-ers and the speaker To bring forth anything that was new would require the spirit of revelation Without that spirit it would be difficult to bring forth anything new Toe Lord had said sneaking of this Lr blessed are they tint icok to bring forth his Zon The LUer Saints 1 uaa proven the truth of the Lords promise They bad been blesaed by tbe gift and power of the HaIr Ghost I A person might have the gift of the Holy Ghost to cheer np tbe heart t comfort etc and if be has faith in God i will mantfeat itself in power when it was needful The Latter day Saints could not be in darkness concerning con-cerning the operation of this power I imputed to pome the power of revelation UB well of the put at of the future I was the gill of seeing constituting lbs recipient a seer it was also the gift of prophecy A person might ba a projbet and yet b not be a seer The Holy Ghost did not make all person foer nor pro pro phets but it operated unon many tn make them eee and interpret things of the past and to foretell things to come He bal often thought IS tbe promise as given by the Lord and also uf it A < voted to the president of the church and others by tbe people peo-ple Do they realize tbe importance p6o of tbe git He bad sometimes thought did they not They had rea bleed in the gift but the speaker would to God that be bad more faith and confidence to approach God that be could look into tbe past and the future He feared that some were not so faithful as they should be that they were obstinate of hpart nr I they would have in a fuller degree I the power and gift of prophecy I did not always require the Trim and Tbummim ia order to be a seer ort or-t prophecy Enoch was a seer and prophet and saw and prophesied witnout those Though Enoch WA the first seer mentioned a i such but the speaker did not believe he was tbe first seer He believed that Adam Abel Euos and others of the patriarchs were seers holding tbe keys of the everlasting priesthood and pOEietsing poner administer in tbe church of God to lEe things that had past and to prophecy as to tbe future There wee many before the flood who were caught up a Enoch was They postered the priesthood obtained through the gilt of the Holy Ghost It did Ghos not require re-quire ib the cue of Enoch the Urioi and Tbummim his natural eyes being able to see all The Urim and Thummim were two crystal stones set in the rims of a bow They were material thing and the stones might be the same as the crystals found in these mountain but they had the power of God which the crystals found hereabouts do not poetess poses8 They gave tbe power to see things that ordinarily thenatural eye did not possess It was not necetary for the Lord to use crystals I he thought proper be could use wood or any other substance to shine with his light ae tho crystals bad done I was cot within the power of all to use the Urim and Tbummim for the reason that some would misuse them Tbe Lord only permitted those to use them who knew bow when And why to use them and not abuse t gift The gilt was one ot the greatest civen to man in the state of mortality Tbe gift of eternal life was the greatest to man but that was in the atsle ol immortality The i speaker had no idea that the Lord I would bestow tbeUrim and Thummim upon all upon whom the people bad I voted to bestow the seership but bo f did think that i they lived as they I should live the Lord would eo sanctify jlheir eyes that they could see the gnat things of the past and of the future Inasmuch a tbe people bad voted that the apostles have tbe gift of aeership jf they did not obtain it he thought the fault must be with the apostles theUMAJves who did notfl reach out to God and get it Elder Pratt had not yet tid faith to tee the past Joseph Smith jras a seer He obtained the gift gradually He at first bad to ese tbe Uilm Aad Tbum mim but after be had obtained knowledge of the gift he could see without the instruments After translating the Book of Mormon be surrendered tbe plates and also the Uritn ani Thummim but the gift of teeing remained with him The speaker had heard him speak by the inspiiation 01 God He bad alto translated a portion of the Ecriptures without tho aid of the Urim and Tbummim There were some in the church who did understand the difference between those who were seers without the use o the Unto and Thnmmimand those who needed those things Tbe speaker thought it was the privilege of tha first presidency presi-dency and the apostles t be seers I without having the Urim and Tnum > mim They had the right to tbe gift and could obtain it i they would live in the way that it was necessary for the to live Tbe Lord had cease for C time giving further revelation through the bead of the church for the guidance of tbe people but the president apostles and all had the privilege of obtaining revelation for tbemseLyea After the eaints had been tried with the revelations that hare already been iiea and if they proved faithful then would they be given other portions of Gods word The greater thing of the Lord would b made manifest The same Urim andThummim that had been used by use tbe ancient Xephites would come forth and be given t some one probably the president of the church who would translate the ancient prophecies i pro-phecies and will of God into the English Eng-lish language for the benefit of the church of God When that time should come the speaker could notes not-es exactly but i would be in the day of the righteousness of the people when sin and wickedness were done away If one could ray when those things would be accomplished then b could tell when tbe great revelations revela-tions that have been promised would be given to the vcrld Elder Pratt referred re-ferred briefly to some ancient instances in-stances of which there is record of Bancea rcr the use of the Urim and Tbnmmim and the power of the instrument and in closing said there was nothing that tbe Lord would withhold from his aainU jf they live uprightly before him himThe choir sang 60 anlbtm and benediction Elder 0 W Penrose pronounced a |