| Show SUNDAY SERVICES The services J in the Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon lass were begun by the choir singing the hymn commencing com-mencing Glorious things of thea we spoken Zion city of our God He whose word cannot ba broken Choose thee for his own abode Prayer by El Jer Jesse W Cro by of Pangnitch i The choir sang the hjmn com mencing Arise mv eoul arise Shake off thy guilty fears The bleeding sacrifice In my behalf appears Before the throne my surety stand My cane is written ou liis hands JLLDEB PAXMAN Pro la = bf h Juab Stake ji t fl tion be o > c sto O 4 o 5 5 J 1 0 J g > t4 I rt t d r re > j I 34 > t j S > > YoJ o c < oI rnonisttt ix1 > bad seen the t C b S S the words given by the stJtvanTisfof God He had never been taught any principles or been required to I do anything by the authorities ot1 the Church that was not for his own I nnnd and fn msfco him a better man The uospel naa helped him to over come many weaknesses of the flesh and to know more of God and our Savior Jesus Christ be had been abled to understand the calamities which were coming upon the world according to prediction As far as the Latterday Saints were living the principles of righteousness they would righteous men and women The Saints were or should be preparing pre-paring themselves for the future state for the exaltation for the principalities and for the powers which all expected to receive Hn rejoiced in tbe restitution of the gospel and the holy priesthood and that he was permitted to live In a day when prophets and apostles adunnistexpd the ordinances of the gorpd this same as did Christ and His apostres HI knew for hlmsef that the gopsl was true and aha knew that the testimonies received bv the Saints had enabled them to anemic the privation uarusnics ana persecutions of the past If they had depended upon the testimonies of others they would not have had the courage or faith to bid farewell to their homes aad relations All had received the Holy Gos pel which gave them un m is lota bio nviJenon cC the dl vlnity of the mission of Joseph Smith Gd > in his mercy had given this gift to ell in every age Elder Paxman said it seemed to the world a marvel that the Saints had en dured and undergone what they had for their religions sake but he bore his testimony that God the creator of heaven find earth the God of Abraham Isaac ana Jacob the father of Jesus Christ God of the tha universe had required of them obedience to fie principles he had revealeJ from heaven that God was the author of the gospel of salvation sal-vation and that all who yielded obedience to its requirements would be saved and flxaIted in his presence Strong testimonies were being given to the nrnvlrl tlinf II world that the ruw nt dnri a J vengeance is at band in the pesti ences diseases and plagues which were being visited upon them Speaking to the Latterday Saints he said they should rejoice in the privilege of meeting together to par take of the sacrament and to bear testimony to each other that they were dtslroua of living pnre and upright lives of shunning evil and living a3 become Saints of the moat High that they were willing to forgive for-give their brethren of trespass even is they hoped for forgiveness from I God their father if they did not do this they were eating and drinking their own condemnation If they lived faithful to the gopel and abided by the celestial principles hey would attain to celestial glory It not they must le satisfied with terrestrial glory Jhera were many degrees of glory and it be hooved the Saints to be on the watch tower in order to obtain exaltation ex-altation The Lord had been and still was merciful to the Latter day Saints He had peserved and pros tooted them in peace in the tops of the mountains according to the pre diction of Isaiah He had bestowed be-stowed blessings on them tempo rnrilv and Rnirituall e end had fed uinni wun the ore n of life throlgh His servants In conclusion he prayed that all might Jive iccodng t to the principles ot the 103 pel that none might gve way The iffiecis I of wrongdoing of gratifying false nppptiC8 and of showing bad ex < amplss to children were to be seen every day and hoped all would profit by the experience of the past ana reform and orlng up their chil dren to be worthy sons and daughters daugh-ters of Israel Ho exhorteJ all to educate their children in the principles princi-ples of the gospel so that the rising generation could not eccue them in years to coma of not having taught them as they should urged upon all to read the revelations bearing upon this subject and wished that all would realize the responsibilities re-sponsibilities resting upon them and endeavor to be better Saints APOSTLE HIlliER J GRANT said that he had never before with one exception spoken to the SaInts in the Tabernacle and did not know whether he could make himself heard He had no other desire than to say something which would ben flUhe Saints but he would rather sit and listen than be in ns piesent position He wondered why the Saints should be considered fanatics by the world and looked upon as the reverse of what Saints ought to ba Men came here he said spent a term of months and left without being impresed with the S lnLd sincerity and some come and return to their eastern homes and lie about and vilhfy the of Utah people and know they are lying too What appaareJI strange to him was that a people who sac fisod tneir homes kindred andap ilie i were beins robbe ir f lble lights and privilege c1t e citizens and W tt cook contemptj l o 0 et fl rSCP consld c I leall f t J II 0 J J o t ir j P I OltiJ rf fl0 etn r 4 o t e V t 7 y no ll 1 l1 I I e < lJ < < > lJto te t d c > b qt C > lot IJ i > I tl r1 o 1c 1 Q0OL P d i 0 < > c s II l1 ttfp r > > 0 o e < 7 o 4 c q Jj b 41 O I bt < oVdJ Ie d 11 J o0 4 3etdhg < tttb b irwrtisknow jon as well as that they live that what they are sending out are lies He had been told to be careful of what ae proclaimed in this respect but eait1 lie cued not if a man roil tuny ana maliciously lied about him or the peope with whom he was associated he would inform them of the fact la plain terms no matter whom He was thankful that he could testify he was serving God and trying to live a life of purity If the saints lived as the world lived the world would be friendly He spoke in terms of praise cf those who had lived here and Informed their friends that they had never lived among a more law abiding reaceable good people In conclusion he exhorted all to live up to the principles of their religion saying they would be under greater condemnation if they aid n > tand hoped all would endure faithful ness to the end i APOSTLE BRIGHAM YOUNG foU lowed lie was pleased with the privilege of saying ft few words and desired the attention of the conere gaUon a it was fllmtmit t MIo < Joud CLoagh to be heard He could lJv say be was thankful was a Lat terday Shut or trying to be one So far as his recollection expended and he remembered the days of Nauvoo the Mormons had had 110 sympathy nor assistance finm the outside world in their distress and peril thty had always paddled their own canoe He remembered when the people were poorer and less numerous whsn they scarcely had broad to eat and hsd never been assisted except by their Father In Heaven Their trials and trIbu lations had taught them to rely on Him and not on the arm of flesh At the time when the locusts de voured all the growing crops if they had depended upon outside aid their hopes would have been faint they were then insolated 1000 miles from the confine of civilization and the paopio were not disposed to assist them But ha had seen when what was termed the grasshopper war was raging in Kansas and Ne bra ka train after trainpaded with provisions food and clothing cointr I iu iuo leiioi ui the auudreru au muse States while here in Utah where he had many times seen clouds of locusts so dense as to obscure thesun at midday the people bad received no help from outside source > > Yet did any perish No They were preserved by tne hand of God He had known his mother In those days to give the last pound of flour in thobioi those who were hungiv but had never missed a meal himself in consequence He had uften witnessed this Who fed this people Gad the Eternal Father Who preserved them when plans were concocted for their do fructim Rod the Eternal FathAr He had been familiar wKh the lead ers of the church all his life and knew them to ba virtuou honest and truthful in their live It at the present time they were preserved pre-served it would not be because of their numbers As had beensald there were 40000000 people who had raised their voice against them and condemned them without trial but he individ ally had not been in > jured or affected by their actions His father although he lived to be 76 years of age never had the privi lege of ca9tinl his votg fnt n PrI dent of the United State he was I deprived of his franchise and could not vote for the commonest official ia I the Territory because of hs honorable marriage relation His eons and daughters could vote and the list of voters were not ma terially depleted notwithstanding 12000 Ox 15000 had been disfranchised disfran-chised If it had been intended to injure him he could say he had not been hurt at all SId this was a cri terion to all the acts of the enemies of the Saints God was their pro tector and safeguard he was at the helm guiding and overruling for good Not by numbers will the Saints be saved they should be up right and pure in order to gain Enl vation If the United States de pended on numbers they could sweep the Saints from the earth He rehearsed some experience with the army under Johnston when the soldiers were told to go so far and no farther or they would be treated as a mob and of his being accused the of taking up arms against government and afterwards being pardoned for so doing Al I talk of the government taking up arms against the people of Utah was vain but legislation would be increased in-creased to harrasa and trouble them In speaking of the resent test oath and the interpolation of the words in the marriage relation he said it was gotten up for him and just such men as he hut that the seal swag could subcribe it unhesitat ingly It wai intended for those who be ved in the Bible bJt the t ItlpIwL > uld come when the CwtJana of the present day 81 eft tel become Latter Safn ts or deny the lIe I lald no malice toward go Ternm ent or bad men but tffe sure 1 a all good mens BO 1li r said the people were ins > in-s nd < < ex tendIng and would 4c oeo He had been told Wn IDR W1111r1 OVA TIM 4 Ult 041 I ZJtat > might become a 1 > of a Bnmber of evil 5sezL a 3 officials ana I tI t onld not tlitak b ¼ tf Gc t Ij had revealed S t mtinue in a fl I C U tnan snr i I S bi tl l estla1 mar xe Je tare ntee the t vt bo lived I i ajJl lad and 1 K tr xl l rEl ment9 6 an I Dtn1 as at 5L ta o and I Il i lID 1 II tip hal I to ome t < I JJU3 JUJt ireJc 7lTierxcBWt6angx1ho anthem Haiken unto me3 sad E der George Reynolds pronounced the benediction when the conerence 1739 adjourned until 7 pm |
