Show AT THE TABERNACLE Elder George G Bjwater the Speaker AN INTERESTING DISCOURSE The Subject Upon Which Ho Spolio One Faith One Lord and One Baptism Divine services were held in the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle on Sundav afternoon The choir sang Arise my soul arise Shake off thy guilty fears Elder Jesse West offered prayer The choir then sang Earth is the place where Christ shall reign With all his Saints a thousand years Hell end their sorrows and their pains Dismiss thou woes and dry their tears ELDER GEORGE G BYWATER who was then called upon to address tne congregation urged upon the Saints the necessity of concentrating their minds for the purpose of drawing forth from the treasury of divine truth suoh principles and such instruction as were deemed proper to ba meted out to them He desired that the prayer which had been offered up would be answered in his own and in their behalf In this enlightened age which is preeminently superior to any other age of the worlds history modern Christians are willing to admit tbat in the earlier dispensations dispensa-tions God revealed his will to mankind through His holy prophets ad apostles It is clearly set forth in the writings of the Old and New Testaments that i God has revealed but one plan for the redemption of the human family This fact is declared by a constant and harmonious har-monious line of argument the elements of which are deducible from the sacred writings There is but one faithone Lord and one baptism From the sacred record may be learned the origin and destiny of man and many things respecting re-specting this condition of mortality Itt It-t that we derive our existence from God in whose image an likeness we are created This is a dignified and exalted origin for us to claimto know that we are the sons and daughters of God It is understood by the Latterday Saints that the infinite wisdom of the Creator is abundantly adequate in comprehending com-prehending what means are necessary for the salvatisn of human creatures The discussions debates and con troversita which are increasing so much in the religous world are the outgrowth of a misunderstanding misunder-standing of the fundamental principles of the gospel as set forth in i the Holy Scriptures The Latterday Saints believe that in order to avoid the dilemma in which many religionisis throughout Christendom are placed they should bring their views to one common standpoint Among other things the speaker proceeded to show how rational were the principles of faith repentance baptism and the laying lay-ing on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost as the firat and fundamental funda-mental principles on which man should build his hopes jeniencg obedience to more advanced principles in order to attain to perfection Salvation is not secured by simply rendering oedieuc I to the first four principles the gospel These merely form a foundation Salvation I Sal-vation is promised to those who will continue faithful unto the end In his closing remarks Elder Bywater I dvelt upon the cffices and organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints asking what is the matter I with the Uhiistiaas of the world when they are divided into factions Why are I they not coming to a unity of the faith I Because they do not belong to an or I ganization havini apostles prophets and other authorities spoken of by I Paul I The speaker desired that God might let His holy the I spirit rest upon honest in heart amongst all people that they might be inspired to seek diligemly for the truth He also desired that the Saints might find an inheritance amongst the redeemed in the presence of God S < J3aints have you seen oer yon mountains moun-tains proud height was then sung after which Elder A M Musser pronounced the benediction |