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Show Tttberaacltt Meeting. A large congregation asve rubied in the tabernacle last Sunday afternoon. Elder John Taylor addressed the assemblage, Baying the saints met from timo to timo to worship God and to draw in their minds from the temporal and groaoer things of earth towards those things which were more real, tangible and endurable. endur-able. God had revealed to his people principles that wero as high as the heavens and oa coaiprohensive as eternity. Tho Apostle John, while wrapt in prophetic vision on the Isle of Palmos, had seen "an angol fly through the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to pi each unto them that dwell on earth, and lo every nation aud kindred and tongue and people, saying with a loud voice, fear god and give glory unto him, for ImiirnliM.I-monl .,... " Tlw.ro the hour of judgment is come." There w;:s a theory advanced by preachers of the piet-ent day that in the patri-archial patri-archial age but little spiritaul light existed, and that, at the pi'Cocut time, the nations weru living liv-ing in the blaze of gospel light. This theory, although it had hoen ad-: vanced with great elocutionary , ability, watt not ti tt". Tnere wore some things wherein tho present ago was in advance ot former generation, such as tlie discovery ef certain principles prin-ciples and properties which, how-" ever, had existed from time everlasting. ever-lasting. Rut there were other matters mat-ters in which the ancients were in advance of the present geuora'ion. Man was a dual, being composed of a epirit and a body, the spirit having Ije.n organized some time previous to the forming of tho body, and would exist alter tbo worms had destroyed the human tabernacle. tie, the speaker, believed that there would be a resurrection of tho dead. And was it not of more importance to consider the matters which pertained to the spiritual future of man than- to confine con-fine the attention solely lo those earthly things which all men must shortly leave? Good men in ancient days had possessed nioro knowledge concerning these great and glorinus truths than the world pat-sessrd to-day. Gol had spoken to the ancients, and angels had communicate 1 with them, giving them the powpr to draw aside the dark veil of futurity; futu-rity; and emm through the vista of ages lo come, and they hid thus been enabled to leave ou record some great . aud valuable truths for the enlightenment enlighten-ment ot tuture generations; "they spake and wrote us tiny were moved upon by the Holy Ghost." concerning those generations who should follow them. Jesus had said, "search tho scriptures lor in thorn ye think yo have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me." Fromevidenc.es which ha I been brought to the speaker's observation, he was of the opinion that fattier Abraham possessed greater knowledge concerning concern-ing the heavenly bodies, than that obtained by scientific men of the present ace. The ancients also pos sessed the gOBpel, as evinced by the I language of the apostle when he declared that "God foreseeing that ha I would justify the heathen by faith had j preached before the gospsl to Abraham." Abra-ham." ' It was also written that the gospel I was given to Moses and the Israelites and to Enoch in his (lay. Ttieie was a power and intelligence connected with tho gospel of Christ, which gave men a knowledge of themselves and their future, endued them with a hope within the veil whither Christ the forerunner had gone, and imbued them with ft spirit that would lead them into all truth and show them things to come. Aud when this gospel gos-pel was preached, all were called upon to repent and be baptized, then through obedience to these commands the holy spirit was poured out upon the obedient, in accordance with the promise of the elders of the church who laid their hands on them in the name of tho Lord. Tho same Bpirit waa enjoyed to-day as that poured out when the ancient servants of God administered ou the ordinances ot the gospel. If this wero not tho case the elders and preachers of tho Latter-day work would bo impostors, for the man who promised what could not be realized was a liar and not i servant of God ; that ho, ' the speaker, would say lo the saints, like one of old, "Ye are our witnesses of these things."- Tho epeaksr then dilated to some extent, and in a very lucid mauner, on the necessity and object of now and continued revelation, aud the inconsistency of denouncing further revelation when the scriptures declared that "God had placed in the church apostles and prophets," whose dulies were to instruct and prophecy as God should give them utterance, and whose instructions aud prophecies, given by inspiration, would, as ft natural result, constitute! new revelation, and further volumes of scripture, if those instructions and prophecies should, bo written and preserved. The gospel reached back into eternity and forward into eternity, eter-nity, and showed man his relationship relation-ship to bis maker. Ono of old had said: "le havo an unction from the holy one, and ye know ail things, and va need not that any man should teach you, save the anointing which is within you, and which is the truth and no lie." K all shuld. listen to the voice of iu-spinition iu-spinition there would bo no different parties in existence, but one Lord, ono faith and one baptism would prevail, and those differences that existed in tho christian world showvd that God did nut lead And guide them cr they would become uuiud. All tho rrt!tiinhip9 in the cpel were eternal, and through the sealing power and the resurrectiiin of the dead, th faithful would afi.-rthis life I again Unite with their wives and they , would dwell together thmughoui : eternity cm this earth, which would in due limn he ctdetialized and be-como be-como the eternal residence of th( i righteous. |
