| Show WEAK IN FAITH GET HOT SHOT I Apostle Orson F Whitney Pays His Respects to Mormon I Backsliders I II I 1 believe there is a woeful lack of interest among amons Saints In this t is city eit I hAve seen se n people In southern Utah crowd about the speakers after a meeting and say they the could list listen listen listen en all night You have but a of time for the th truths of eternity ion 1011 cat three meals a day ilav and lie tie for eight hours in bed bd to refresh the body bOd ana aLlah starve stane to death the immortal spirit with without wIthout without out which the body would bo be a cold and lifeless lump of or clay In these thle plain and vigorous terms at atthe I the tho Tabernacle yesterday e r erda afternoon Apos Apes tie tic Orson F J Whitney upbraided the dc do i for shirking what he termed their theil spiritual responsibilities Men Ien and women who called themselves th Saints died spiritually when the tIme prophet Joseph Smith died said Apostle Whitney They could not ac accept accept accept Brigham Young And when Brig ham Young died other men and women died spiritually They accept the changed conditions they were unequal to the test of the times I 1 once knew a man high in the coun councils councils ella of the church who settled up his affairs hero here hO and went wont to California That was the time last the church ever saw of him Some time afterward an elder saw him himin himIn himIn in California and asked him why he had left the tile church hureh 1 I have no grievance he replied rel but butI I grew tired Url of or exercising faith 1 was weary weal of the constant demands made up upon upon upOn on nie me requiring fresh expressions of faith I I He lie tired of exercising the tile faith buthe buthe but buthe he tire of drinking whisky whIsk Xo No Noman man saturated with alcohol or tobacco can keep keen pace with the time progress of the work Many Ian say ay they have outgrown Mormonism They Timey The can do this In ln only on one cue way wayby by growing too small for Cor it A besotted or criminal life neglect of the duties intended to keep keel us spiritually alive will wilt invariably result In a spiritual death David outgrew out Mormonism He was one of three men to see the golden pat pates f after the Apostle Apo Smith translated then theu They The declared that an angel angll of heaven turned over ocr the leaves kayes I David hit mer never neer repudiated repudiate this th statement gut But his spiritual strength was wao unequal to keeping pace with the work He fell behind and the tue great procession swept on without him Ve must conform to the evolution and andI progress of or the church Mormonism is but another name for the gospel of Je Jesus Jesus Jemis I sus mis day days Christ restored to earth in these later |
