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Show Tabwnaole Maetlng. A largn 'uiigregntiou atsombli'tl ul tho tabi-rti.tcle on Sunday luat. Elder M tf'O'ii Fratt was tho firsl speaker, lie s'atcd that ho had been away from homo about ten months, performing a mission, and had been ' much blessed therein. Ho had experienced ex-perienced more joy during tho time he had been thus oaiplsyed than during any other period of his life. Tho Latter-day SamU bnliovt-d that they woro hslping to fulfil the pro-pheiy pro-pheiy of tho Prophet Daniel, in which he declared "that the Uod of heaven would, in the latter days, set i up a kingdom which should never be j thrown down, nor given to another people; but should bo given to tluj saints of the Most High, and thuy should possess it forever and ever " ; Ho urged all who had obeyed tl: iTitsnu) tii continue faithful, and ex-1 borted thoso who had not receivtd the truth as revealed from heaven, to j repent of their sins and Btrive toi comprehend the gospel that the spirit '. ol God might give them a testimony! of its trull). I Eldor Orson Trait said that the j speaker who had preceded him was a j young man who was horn in the; midst of the saints. His mind was j carried hack to the days of his youth, J and the time when ha was eallod tu ( preach the gospel. Ho was tlieu but; uineteen years of ag, and bad not j boen accustomed to public speaking but God prepared him for his duties, ; mill llio ho e snirit brnutrht to his mind many passages of scripture, as vividly as though he had committed them to memory. It had been given him "in the very hour" when needed what he should say to the people. Hi the quoted from the book of Doctrine and Covenants, to show that the missionaries mis-sionaries of God's work were required to go forth without purse and scrip, and were promised that inasmuch as they were faithful to the commandments command-ments of heaven they should not by-weary by-weary in mind, body, limb or joint, nor sufier hunger or thirst. Tin: speaker related some of his own experience ex-perience in fulfilment of this prophesy Toe Lord hud also made another promise, unto the missionaries : "Ho that receiveth you reeuiveth me, and whoever recei veto me recei vet 1 1 my father's kingdom," and whosoever rejected tho servants of God should be visited with judgments at the last; day. He asserted that the latter-day work would have come to nought if the gift oi the tioly ghost had not followed fol-lowed the ministrations of the elders sent among the people. Believers would not have been satisfied had they failed to realiza their proniiiea, and none could have been induced to remain in the church thirty and forty years, as so many had done. A knowledge bad been imparted to the saints by the shedding forth of the holy ghost upon them through the laying on of the bauds of the servant of God, in accordance with tho promise prom-ise of the Savior. He then rot'-jrml to the manner in which some preachers preach-ers prevaricated concerning doctrine taught in tho scriptures, discarding such passages as did not suit their purposes, and in consideration of t;iis inconsistency it was astonishing that more infidels did not exist among the nations of the earth. The Latter-day Latter-day Saints had been gathered from many parts ol the world and haa received re-ceived the knowledge and testimony of the gospel before they came to this country, or they would never have come. They had provLil, by the realization of the promises made them, the divine authenticity of the work which they had embraced If Joseph Smith bad been an im poster, he would not have dared to promise signs and spiritual gifts to his followers, follow-ers, becauso his fraudulent scheme would have been immediately discovered dis-covered by the non-fulfilment of bis promises, but he would in that , case bav been as careiui about makiug such promises as were the ministers of other denominations. The gifts .vero necessary, according to St. Paul, " for the perfecting of the saints," and would always, accom pany the true church; God had sent anaugel in this dispensation to ro-veal ro-veal aud restore these things to earth, the missionaries were called upon to preach them, and those who rejected them would be judged at the last day by the words .of the Saviour contained in the scriptures, which they professed to . believe. The preaching of this gospel was' a work preparatory for tho coming of the son of God, aud thoie things which had been foretold by the savior would be fulfilled, and the indignation of the Lord poured out upon the ungodly. |