Show SUNDAY SERVICES The opening hymn at the services in Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon after-noon was the one beginning Sweet l the work my tied my King To praise thy name give thanks and ting To show thy love by morning light And talk of all thy truths at night lace Prayer by Elder George B Wallace Wal-lace The choir sang the hymn beginning begin-ning Spirit of faith come down Reveal the thing of God And make to ua the Godhead known And witness with the blood ELDEU HENRY W NAISBITT addressed ad-dressed the congregation He sad < the services of the congregation the saints were a delight because of his experience and the feelings which they had aroused within him and the strengthening spiritual fool which they gave TIe droppirgs from the sanctuary fitted the people I lor me enuuuug mem ID suiuu The experiences of mankind were vast and varied Every one pos sessee his own history To him it possessed intense interest prophesy ng of the future giving him ability to cope with the present by rellec tion on the past The congregations of the saints varied from all other congregations in the matters of experience ex-perience and history of the people le had often felt interest in listen lug to the personal experience of those who make up the 1eople of the church However unwilling a man may b to parade his experience there were times when the recital could take place without placing the person > under the charge of egotism In such recitals were found the reasons for the hope that was in them The speakers first impres sions of religion belonged to the Sabbath relgon era of his life When he was between four and five years old he was a pupil in a Wesleyan Wes-leyan Sabbath school in England He was taught to believe and did believe that the Old and New Testaments Testa-ments were of divine origin giving an account among other things ol the introduction of the cosnel of Jesus Christ Elder Naisbitt here gave an account of his childhoods impressions and teachings in religious relig-ious matters He was of a very religious temperament and at the age of 13 went out as an exhorter Shortly afterwards be was apprenticed appren-ticed and his master being a member mem-ber of the Established Churchhe had to attend that church He became an earnest religious student and noticed the differences between the Wesleyan and Episcopal churches His next employer was a Baptist who showed him that the other two churches were not in accordance with the church established by Christ The Baptist faith seemed to harmonize with his sentiment and feelings and it was suggested that he be trained for the ministry but a division among the church members as to beliefs prevented him from going into the ministry Next he became somewhat affected by Swedenborgianism but through inability to accept the form of infant in-fant baptism he did not unite with the new church Next he was interested in-terested in studying the Roman Catholic faith and was struck byte by-te claim to authority from Christ which the church was able to present pre-sent Unltariaiiism next took stronghold strong-hold upon his mind and soon afterwards after-wards he found himself associated with the infidels While enjoying himself as a skeptic he attended some lectures by Orson Pratt on the principles of tho Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints He concluded that Pratt was a thorough bigot but hit diacorcrctl that Xlic congregation seemed friendly and brotherly their associations The singing was good and he continued his attendance at the hal and it suddenly struck him that the principles prin-ciples taught were the same as the Bible contained He investigated the gospelbutdid not want to believe it one reason being his objection to leaving England gathering with the saints He obtained all the books against Mormonism that he could find and attended antiMor mon lectures but despite all ho had into the waters to vield and go down of baptism After a year or two in England he came to Utah then in the early days of its settlement encountering en-countering many hardships etc but never from the first had he faltered in his belief in the divinity of the gospel He had traveled and preached much but the more he had seen the more he had learned the firmer va his belief in the gospel and his conviction that the Christian Chris-tian world had apostatised from the ancient order of the gospel lie knew that God was with the saints leading and directing them There were evidences and testimonies of this as well a of the fict that God established this church for accomplishing accom-plishing his purposes on the earth After singing by the choir Elder John Nicholson pronounced the benediction |