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Show Taberracla Meeting. A large congregation cunveucil in tho above tdilico on Sunday hist. Eider Wilford Woinlrnfl was the rirst (eaker. lie fi.id a lew questions ques-tions might be Hfkitl the rt"i'inli!y, and thu same questions miht lui pro pounded to all tho world: Firot. Is there a god who exists, a net dwells in the heaven, aud bus that same being created this world and (he children of men? and i f no, has ho at any time communicated his mind and will to them? It so, is he a changuvblo being? When tlie speaker was a hoy he attended Sunday school, and was then catechised who mudo you? and he w.:s taught to reply, God. Wtu redeemed re-deemed you? JeMis Curint. - The Lord had revealed his gos-pel, and it was not lor men to ask wny ho had done so, hut it sufficed to know that alt die need of Adam were mlt'eim-d from the fa'l through tho atonement of tho Savior, and when men broke die law of Hod, there was an opportunity oppor-tunity fur forgiveness and reJeinpUun through tiiis atonement and obedb-nre to tho gope! of repentance Thai gospel was the same yesterday, to day and forever; it always was tho same, and always would be; it had never lieved to-day that they posse ssed tlie same gospel as that preached in the days ol Adam, Noah, Ma-ec, Enoeli,, Je.-us ai:d the A post lis. It cnuU h -received by the poor as well u.h tlie rich; it was without money and with- j unt price, aud was for all classes of the honest in heart. Those who had received the gospel in ancient days, as recorded in the scriptures, ha I enjoyed power to cast out devils, Ileal the sick aud pei form many mighty works, nnd ho had hoped, when young, in reading about their acts, to live to aee a man who would be. able, to tench this name gospel. He Lad lived tn kp that d-iv nd t.hn fhnvch was the same to-day na in time of the ancient apcstles. Jesus Christ wa-t very unpopular in Judua and Jorusa Ism in his day, and was despised and persecuted by the outside world Irum ihfl time that ho stepped forth to do his father's will. The reason that the church oJ Christ .bad not existed with its power, apostles and prophet i fnr eighteen centuries, was became it had fallen away in fulfilment .of S'. Paul's prophecy. There would never come a time in the future, even to tho period when tho eartli should be celestialized and becomo as a sia of glass, when God would organize organ-ize a church, without the same yilts, blessings and officers as existed in tlie church of Christ in tho days of the aucient apostles. It never had been in any previous dispensation anil never would be in the future. Tho church must consist of apostles, prophets pro-phets and the various powerful gifts of the spirit. A man had been raised up in this generation as a prophet, seer and revelator; this man was Jos. Smith, who was an illiterate youth, hut was taught by angels and inspiration inspira-tion to organize the church; he received re-ceived the Aaronic priesthood under the hands of John the Baptist, ar.d iho apostleship Imm Peter, James and John. These things might appear ap-pear strange to the outside world but tiiey were nevertheless true. The church was organized by him under the inspiration of heaven, with all the gilts, blessings and authorities that had characterized the ancient church. Tlie. servants of the Lord had gone forth to the European aud other nations ana maue a prociama- tion to the people concerning this j work, and had not the Lord endorsed their testimony, and pDured out his j noly spirit on believers, the people would have remained in their native lands and never have gathered oul to these valleys. This territory would have remained as barren a wilderness as it waa when the pioneers first trod us soil. No man was the author of this work, but God had revealed it and nurtured it from the beginning, and unless he had sustained h s church in all ages it would have bjen overthrown by the powers of evil. The words of the prophets would be fulfilled to the letter, and not oiv; jm ur titllo would fall to the ground unfulfilled. un-fulfilled. Many things of an earthly , nature were deceptive, but the holy u'host would never deceive any man. The speaker then quoted largely trom the scripture to &how that .ho Latter day work would finally triumph, tri-umph, and that no weapon formed against it should prosper. Jesus bad iaid to his disciples: "I have chun you out of tiie world, therefore thu world will hale you." Consequently the saints must expect persecution. The fact that the world did not be lieve the testimony of the servants of God would not defer the dostruction of the nicked or the coming of Jesm the Sodom.tes delayed their destruction, destruc-tion, or the unbeliefof the disobedient Jews prevented the downfall of the temple and the disDersion of that people as prophesied by the Savior. These thiiiL'S came to pass and over two millions of them had been mas sacred, notwithstanding their mook-ing mook-ing ar.d scoliing at the warnings warn-ings uttered by the servants of God concerning these things. The saints should spend their time to the best advantage, and pro-pare pro-pare themselves wnile they sojourn on the earth for the great glory and reward re-ward which tho faithful would receive iu the father's kingdom. Elder John Nicholson then addressed ad-dressed the congregation..- Strangers who ca.ne to this country and witnessed wit-nessed the spectacle presented before them, ol a people gathered from all parts of Ihe earth, very justly came to the conclusion th.it the saints were a peculiar people, and this was the case; not tuat they differed in their nature from tho rest of mankind, but in their be'iefof the gospel, the principles prin-ciples of which had deen enunciated by the previous speaker. It wis remarkable re-markable that so few people seemed interested in these principles, which pertained to a life beyond the present. God had made a great many ell'orts in times past, that good will and i heavenly blessings might exist among . the children ol men, aud if they do not possess these things it was not owing to h'13 unwillingness, but to their unbelief and rejection of the mes sage of lite; and this had caused the present state of confusion and ignorance ignor-ance in the world on religious matters. Tint spectacle beheld U-day in these valleys of a people gathered iroui all parts of the world, was the turning point iu the history of thU creation, there was more of the essence of brotherhood existing anions tlie Latter day saints, although not as much as there should be, than existed to his knowledge among any other people in the known world. Those who gathered to this territory h id come tiy the free volition of their own will, through the spirit they had recHved in obedience to the gospel, and n U because commanded by any one man. The gospel was susceptible suscepti-ble of proof. When a person received thne testimonies which, were promised prom-ised through obedience to certain principles, waa not lh.it sufficient pro U to them tint tiie truth had been l ck.Mi? 1'he sneaker had taken the I , imiii.h- marked out by the servants ot ti..;l and he received the holy ghost, and now he not only believed in a God, hut positively knew that he existed and that Jesus Christ was the Savior of the world. |