Show TALKED OF PERSECUTION PRESIDENT CANNONS PREDICTIONS PREDIC-TIONS AT TABERNACLE Says World is Growing Worse and Scourges and Destruction will Follow Fol-low Wickedness Unless Stopped Yesterdays services at the Tabernacle Taberna-cle were given i UI to addresses by two returned missionaries followed by a short talk by President George Q Cannon Can-non President Cannon depleted the forces arrayed against the church and predicted that scourges and destruction destruc-tion would follow In the wake of the worlds wickedness unless itS was it-S The first speaker wan William T Jack recently it missionary to the Southwestern States He said that the cldero went forth and toot their Bibles with them to show that the Mormon church waT the same a church In the daya of the apostles of old and that tho same powers as were evidenced then are in operation now I have seen the sick healed myself Mr Jack bald Were il not for our religion we would be on the same plane aa the other peoples of the earth Tho great noise bellS made in Congress and the agitation throughout t the country against tho Latterday Saints will ro suit In opening the minds II of religious relgIou people to the principles of our faith Our elders go forth literally without purse and without scrip but God raises up help for them and I would not change this condition for It Increases their faith and strengthens them In every way J M Knight also a returned missionary mis-sionary from the Southwestern States hpoke extendedly on the general work of the cldera In preaching the gospel I and the need of strength of character In standing up to the requirements of the work He prayed that none might falter or fall llu wild 1 two of the apostles of I old wore hero now they would tel the piino kind of a tale as these two el dcrs find then ho compared the persecutions per-secutions of the first rentury Christians Chris-tians with those of tho Lntierday SaInts In Christs day nocalled ministers min-isters l of religion arrayed themselves against the faith and IH It not the same spirit that animates thr nlhnat lH persecutions persecu-tions of the Saints today rhls whole Nation Is stirred to Its foundations with a sentiment against the people of these mountains What have we done to cause all this The speaker claimed the Latterday Saints were living a lving higher standard of virtue than any other oth-er people ho knew of and he deprecated the forces arrayed against them The world Is growing worne and sand s-and national destruction will follow In the track of all this wickedness unless It Is stopped I Is the province of the Latterday Saints to stem the tide and out they can do it If their faith only holds outThe The musical features of the service were the Mendelssohn anthem by the choir and one by the Harmony club both of which were pleasingly given M number > hrlstophcrson leading the club A lady In the audience was overcome during the servlceu and had to be au c slated out where she soon revived |