Show PEST JACOB GAIES discourses ON WAYS CM pull WITH GOU WAYS the fircak importance of partaking use worthily tho usual sabbath services of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints were held in the meetinghouse meeting house on sunday afternoon at 2 president A 0 smoot presiding the choir sang father how wide thy glories shine 1 H nv aih thy wonders rise prayer was offered by elder D graves tho sang behold the great redeemer die A broken law to satisfy the sacrament was administered by tho bishopric of the first ward PRESIDENT JACOB GATES said we are reminded every athin partaking of the sacrament of the obligations we have entered into and that we havo become by adoption part of the family of god we celebrate in partaking of these emblems a very important circumstance that was once enacted upon the face of the earth n circumstance that was preordained pre ordained in tho eternities a circumstance that involved the salvation of the whole human family no matter whether they were bom before or after the flood and although this ceremony the sacrament may seem to be common on account of its being performed every sabbath yet we should belleci upon its great importance when we put our hand forth to tar tako of the bread or receive the cup to drina of the water that we might drink of tha spirit of god and not be continually walking in darkness at noonday as do the nations of the earth if we partake of this sacrament worthily we will be able to give a reason for the hope that is within us we have or should have greater reasons for rejoicing than any other people upon the face of the earth or that over did live upon the lorefa footstool for this dispensation not only embraces the grandeur of other dispensations but also embraces the winding up of all things it not only embraces the initiatory principles of the gospel but also the advanced principles principles that extend behind the vaila wo have to us in thib dispensation the keys ot conveying salvation to our dead relatives and friends we have built temples in which we can enter as saviors bursting the bonds of bondage and causing the light of redemption to dawn in upon those who have died without hearing the glad tidings of salvation this also is a dispensation that embraces the principles of gathering the lord has decreed that in this day his people shall gather not only from the north and from tho south and the east and the west but also from all corners of the earth whither they have been scat derod and god will scourge from our midst the rebel and all who will not abide the principles of salvation it seems strange in an ago like the present hat men and women should bo thrust into prison foi the gospels Gosp elb sake and for the principles that god has revealed ivr iv r the exaltation of the human family the world scoff ai the revelations of godana accuse man of concocting concoct ing doctrines for selfish ends doctrines which we know to have come from god but this bip nothing strange you will find by reading bible history that man ever atia treated lightly those things that god has revealed to the human family how was it in the days 01 the antediluvians did they believe what god said through noah th talo of their awful destruction tells differently consequently it is no criterion to go by that because man decries a principle that it is not divier we know that tho revelation foi obeying which our brethren are now cither in prison under bonds or in exile is of god and that it is for a pure principle the lord has allowed our enemies to drive us out from ion in order that we might be gathered into these moun tinn fastnesses fast nesses whore we can bo so cured while the judgments of god are sweeping over the nation chuu war shall destroy the inhabitants ol 01 tho earth here we behold ano mercies of god aid a id his mysterious providence an the wisdom in the world combined cannot fathom the ways ol 01 tho lorn some of us are apt tc think thuoc the lord dela yeth hit coming but I 1 tell you ray bareth ren and sisters that the day of godt judgment is at hand and that unless wo bo on tho watchtowers watch towers oi zion wo will be like the five foolish virgins who debarres debarred de from partaking of the blessings of the supper oi the lamb the system of religion that we have embraced is from god men hav as paul says a form ot godliness but deny the power there of it is those of this class who S call the book of mormon the work oi man were such to read its condei ful predictions and its historical facts they would see the error of their dav and be constrained to acknowledge the hand of god in it wo must not stand hesitating there is no time to loe we roust shake the dust from our feet i come out boldly and fearlessly for jhb truth being living examples of the principles of the gospel and magnifying our positions in the priesthood when I 1 see our young men running at loose ends I 1 cannot help but think that their fathers will to a certain extent bo held responsible before the lord lot the parents seo to these things and lio continually in the light of jehovah the choir sang the anthem tee and hout shout s for joy T benediction was pronounced by x president A 0 smoot r |