Show AT THE TABERNACLE TH USUAL SERVICES HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON Addresses By President Joseph P Smith Bishop Orson PWnitney and Elder John G Peart I At the tabernacle services yesterday I afternoon President Joseph F Smith I Bishop Orson F Whitney and Elder John G IJeart delivered the sermons Elder Peart who has been laboring as a missionary in the southern states spoke of the results of his evangelical work He referred to the better facili ties for obtaining the use of schoolhouses school-houses and the great lessening apparent appar-ent in the prejudice which formerly prevailed against the Saints The elders el-ders he said were now traveling without purse or scrip and he had frequently fre-quently been given money and entertainment i ainment without asking for it I Bishop Whitney then addressed the audience He began by quoting from the Old Testament referring to the I gathering of Israel and applied the prophetic saying to the gathering together to-gether of the Saints The fulfillment of this he believed was apparent on I all sides Messengers were out In all pars of the world gathering Israeli into one place j I Gods promise to Abraham was that in his < seed all the nations of the world I I should be blessed That was partially I fulfilled when Christ came bnt not I entirely so There was a dispersion of I Israel and consequently there was to be a bringing together This sign of the Israelites said God to his prophet I will be a greater sign than the delivery deliv-ery of Israel from Egypt The dispersion of the ten tribes occurred oc-curred 700 years before Christ They went to the north country and i is I predicted that some day they will come forth This Is one of the facts which Morironism disseminates I through the world The gathering of Israel is the significance of Mormons and explains why elders of the church I are sent into all lands President Joseph F Smith preached I the final sermon He spoke in terms I of denunciation of the habit among Latterday Saints ot going to pleasure I resorts instead of attending the Sabbath Sab-bath services When his children failed to attend to their duties the speaker considered that they were no longer his The closing portion ot his address was devoted to the doctrine of reincarnation reincar-nation which he described as a delusion delu-sion and a snare |