Show V IRA tRA OF WORLD r f I PEACE AT HAND HANDI Brigham H Roberts Shows Re He Relationship Relationship of Mormonism to Progress of Nations RELIGIOUS THOUGHT ALIVE GOLDEN GO DEN AGE OF CIVILIZATION IN SIGHT SIGHTS t S In an eloquent address at the thc tab tabernacle yesterday afternoon Brigham H ii Roberts declared that the era of world peace pea e Is at hand when wilen all con conflicts conI I 8 among men will cease and the kingdom m of God will be universal Mr fr Roberts R berts subject was the relationship of or orI I to the last pro progress progress gress During his remarks ho lie referred In a specific manner to the differences between n labor and capital extolling both for their patriotism and industry and aid deprecating all conflicts which grow out of the antagonism between bet en them S The discussion was based on the fact that the scriptures hold out a hope for forthe forthe forthe the coming era of ot peace and good will the when truth and right righteousness ss shall shaIl reign and wherein veil reli religious and political organizations shall continue but shall owe a spiritual alle glance gi nce to Christ ChristI ChristS S I Herald of Peace I i The Mormon ot belief said the speak steak speaker er C r holds itself to be at least one ono of ot the heralds of or the coming kingdom and it il itcan can cnn be shown that it has a special re relationship relationship to that promised era of peace and good will The history of ot Mormon MormonIsm Ism runs parallel to the modern worlds awakening and all phases of our pres present present present ent magnificent civilization since the year 1830 isio when the Book of Mormon wab Wl va issued and the church organized The Tho modern awakening wakening a began with the Hirst revelation of God to Joseph Smith J J Up p to that time the iho world had been taught to believe bellevo that revelations had hati nd ended and that the volume of scrip scriptures tures had been heen completed and closed clo ed It Itras was ras the announcement of this tills modern modem prophets revelations that first seemed to 10 awaken religious thought to the pos possibility possibility of pf modern people enjoying some of the privileges of or communion with that the ancients experienced The Th speaker then sketched sl d the devel dovel development development of modern modem progress as exhibit exhibited ed fd In the advancement of arts science methods of or transportation and mechanics ics and in Cn n the higher standard of living among the mosses masses He called especial attention to the improved conditions of the th laborer saying Toiler Has Word to Say This has been due largely to organ organized through which agency it has become be omo possible for the toiler to have a avord word vord to say not only in relation to the wages he is willing to accept but also ns its to the conditions under which his service shall be rendered A reference was made to the history of labor unions In England and amI their struggle against the prejudice which so long regarded them as unlawful and a menace monce to society and nd also to the his history history history tory of unionism in this country The speaker then took up combinations combinations of and the good which has been heen wrought by such enterprises in carrying out large undertakings which would be impossible without them The abuses buse of Pt f wealth and organized labor Jabor were rere denounced the speaker declaring himself as entirely out of sympathy I with greed lawlessness and violence and as favoring a just but firm execution tion of O f the law against t the crime which I might exist eist In connection with the struggle between these two mighty forces of modern civilization civilIzationS S Golden Age in jr Sight The progress of the peace move movement movement ment said Mr Ir Roberts is js one of the most significant tokens that the per dieted golden age of the world is soon sOn sOnto to become a lL reality It Is a movement which began at the close of the British American merican war of 1812 and which from froman an obscure gathering of ot peace fanatics swelled to the proportion of ot a world movement that in ln 1899 had established permanent international court of ot o ar arS S j i before which ch world dlf dif e might be adjudicated without I resorting to the dreadful of war Associated As with the tho Incoming era tia of the Masters lasters kingdom was the gathering of Israel and the fulfillment of or Gods promise unto his chosen peo people vIe ile The first publication of ot the Book Bok of Mormon the old American scripture was vas the signal for the commencement of Gods work among the nations of ot the world for the thc bringing to pass for the purposes of God the gathering of or his chosen people and the tho establishment in inthe inthe Inthe the world of ot his universal empire When Peace Shall Reign The speaker closed by declaring that Mormonism is no sectarian movement but lUt a world movement having in view a world worldwIde wide and universal peace among men when the kingdom of God Godshall Godshall shall be supreme and when the nations of the earth shall dwell together in har harmony harmony mony with Christ |