Show SUNDAY SERVICES = I Tfaeservicea in the Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon Issi were begun by ths choir y singing the hymn commencing com-mencing II AH praise to our redeeming Lord Prayer by Elder Seymour B J Young The services were further con inuea by the choir singing the hymn beginning II know that my Redeemer lives BISHOP O P WHITNEY arose to speak to the congregation and in doing eo said he yielded more to the request of those having the right to ail him than to his own feelings he would prefer to sit and listen but since the request was made he did not feel like shIrking and hoped his words would be dictated by the proper spirit God who called together to-gether the Saints to partake of the emblems of the broken body and blood of Jesus Christ knew the desires sires and intentions of all who arose to speak and gave the necessary in Lructione through the speakers for all to go on and progress in the truths of heaven If those instructs instruc-ts were followed they would lead all back to the presence of Our Father in heaven He ttuated that all his hearers had an aim to attain to the presence of Our Father and Sod the was no other object for humanity Everybody was placed on the earth to work and develop the faith that was in them It was the intention of Gui Almighty Al-mighty to have all prepare themselves them-selves for the society ot heavenly belng8J with whom all were supposed sup-posed to hope to associate This i should be the aim of all and all other objects in life would sink into Insignificance if this aim were maintained The Savior told his followers to seek firetthe kingdom ot God and all else would be added unto them He instructed them to follow the straight path neither turning to the right hand nor to the left and the tlders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints did the same In coming togetner Sabbath after Sabbath they refreshed reshed their minds with the prn cipies of the plan of Salvation In theIr efforts to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ thy had one end in view the working out of their own salvation and teaching those of the world to work out theirs He he ieved the Lord had revealed His will fr jm heaven and had sent an angel even as he had said he would to precede the judgments of God and to preach toe everlasting gospel gos-pel This angel seen by John the Revelator while on the Me of Pat mo foretold the gosael which shoo d be restored to the earth in the latter days John saw the history of the world from the beginning to the time in which he lived while ho lived and dpwn to the mllienium when Jesus should come to reign asKing as-King of Kings and Lord of Lords The promise made by Jesus in the case of John the RevElator that his life should be perpetuated was shown to the prophet Joseph to have been verified that he did not taste of death John saw the coming com-ing of Christ and restoration of the gospel which should precede the coming of the end He said And I saw another angel fly In the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people saying with a loud voice Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come Tnie the speaker said referred to the gospel which should be preached preceding the Judgment Day The Latterday Saints testified that the angel had brought back the gospel to the earth and tue words of Jesue that the gospel should be preached to all the world before the end ehould come were being fulfilled by them Tne mercy and Joying kindness kind-ness of Jesus to humanity was shown by his prediction that the gospel should be preached to allj thus giving all a chance to embrace it Those who rejected it of course would suffer the consequences And this mercy of Jesus Christ was patterned pat-terned after by the Latterday Saints who were willing to leave home and family father and mother sister and brother and sax crifi e their all to go and proclaim the gospel Tney are desirous of standing clear of the blood of all men before the judgment seat of Gcd This is the testimony of the saints in thesetbe la terdays They claim to be the descendants of Abraham Isaiah said The mountain moun-tain of the Lords houso shall be established es-tablished in the top of the mountain moun-tain and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it And many many reonle go and say Come ye and Jtt us go up to to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths J This was to be in the last days Who are these people established in the tops of mountains composed of one and two of a family coming from four quarters of the earth QoJ had set up hia kingdom in these latter days and the house of the Lord was established in the tops of the mountains The speaker then spoke of the prophet in the days of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel and the dream of the monarch told and interpreted in-terpreted the latter The dream and its interpretation are included in the 2d chapter of Daniel from the 31st and 45th vetoes inclusive Inclu-sive From a glance at history It could ba seen that this had been literally fulfilled The several portions por-tions of the body of the image had typified by kingdoms which had risen and fallen The Christian commentators endeavor to show that the kingdom which belong4 to the i latter nays wa estabhfaed in the days of Terms and referred to the dream spoken of to substantiate their position In the day of Christ the Roman Empire was at Its zenith audit was not for huudeds of years after that that It was divided di-vided and lesembled the two Itgs of the image Christ came before this and did not Sot up his kingJim never more to be thrown down He came as B Savior and not aa a king or conqueror he made his advent ad-vent aa a meek and lowly man haying hay-ing not where to lay his head Therefore the prophecy eonli not refer to him or his days The prophecies pro-phecies of the ancient prophets spoke of Christ coming in a 1 his glory in the Iater days and therefore there-fore his comIng eighteen hundred years ago was not meant for then he did not come in all his gloryelse why should the men of G lilee who stood gazing up into heaven ha told that this same Jesus which is taken up from you shall so come in like manner na ye have seen him go into heaven He then spoke of the glorious manner in which Chris would come as the Messiah to show that prophecies of the ancien prophets referred to the ee ond arid not his first coming The little btone cut out of the mountains without hands which should roll until it filled the whole earth was the church Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints which was breaking in pieces the false doctrines and notions of the world and working a great reformation re-formation in the earth The Saints were preparing for tha coning of the Lord when they would crown Him King of Kings and L rd of Lords ELDER JOHN NICHOLSON next occupied the stand He asked for ho sympathy and faith of his hearers hear-ers that he might speak with the right spirit Elder Whitney had referred to the revelations of John and had spoken particularly of the one contained in the XIV chaptei of Revelations o and 7 verses The character of this prediction was that when this angel should come there would no kindred or tongue nor people possessed of the gospel llhe variou claims of the sects of the day were contrary to the teach nga of the New Teatament By most of them it was promulgated that the atonpmeit was enough and the cry weut forth Bli vein ve-in the Lord Je us Christ and you shall bo saved Th Savior eaid AnJ why call ye me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say Elder N cholson then went on to explain the piincijla of faith the first in the order of the gospel and quoted freely from the New Testa mont to cstabl sh his theory of faith The Auortle James said Faith if it bath nov works is dead being > alone and in order to make his point sjrouger the Apostle ad ded thou hath faith and I have works show me thy faith without thy wort s ani wall show thee my faith by my works and further went on ana saW For aa the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also Ho did not wish to argue or reason on this proposition as it wag so plain and unmistakable He next spoke of the principles of baptism and said the Christian world had done away with the ordinances and principles prin-ciples of the Church of Christ and this one in particular They had adopted various modes and meanings of baptism some administering it by sprinkling sprink-ling others by pouring on of water and some by immersion Many eaid that baptism was not necessary for the remission of sins The Scriptural mode of baptism was immersion it could only be administered ad-ministered to adults and was for the remission of sins because it followed lowed faith and repentance An infant had no faith had no sins to repent of Christ said Suffer little lit-tle children to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven Nothing impure could enter heaven therefore the children were pure and needed no bptism Paul says in the VI chapter of Romans Therefore we are buried with him by baptism onto death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so wo also should walk in newness of life For if we leave planted together to-gether in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness ef his resurrection How is it possible pos-sible to reconcile or compare sprinkling sprink-ling or pouring on of water with this How apply this simile to burying The authority he took for baptism was that given on the day of Pentecost Pen-tecost when the question was What shall we do to be saved 1 The answer then given was plain enough It was slED important that those who were baptized should receive re-ceive the holy ghost for an explanation explana-tion of which principle his listeners were referred to the VII chapter of The Acts The laying on of hands for tl e gift of the gilt of the I j holy ghost was spoken of and the 6th Terse of the SIX chapter of the I Acts was referred to In support of the principle He did not wonder that the Christians did not believe be-lieve in conferring the holy ghost it would not come in response to their request they had not the authority or power to invoke it The i evidences of the gospel contained in the Bible had been transmitted through centuries and were the recalls re-calls of a few mens work The evidences of the latterday work were to be seen in a cloud of Jiving witnesses throughout the Territory i Terri-tory in the congregation and wherever a branch of the church was organized The testimony of Latterday Saints was that the promises made to them before going down into the water baptism had all been realized and they had received re-ceived the Holy Ghost He invited an investigation of the doctrines and principles Mormonism and prom isjd that thoe who wonlj do so honestly would be atisried He ref re-f erreil briefly to his own experience of over half his lifetime during which he had realized the truth of Hormuni m it mvi ie origin and it was the neuclus of that kngdom I the glory of wnich it is not in the i power of man to de cribe that kIngdom so p ainly described oy E > Ir Whitne hat ki pdom seen by Daniel which should be g ven to the s n of the most high G d and which should break in pieces all other kingdoms He concluded by praying for he establishment of truth purity and righteousness upon the earth The choir sans the anthem Nas Ii ns Bow and Apostle Brigham Young onnounT fi < en dict m |